Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-03-17
to one-third Of the product of the United


States.
An extensive oil.cloth mandatory at Eliza
beth, New Jersey, is soon to be closed, the
proprietors claiming that the business is not
paving one.
around the Corner" handkerchiefs have
appeared. They are finely embroidered and
rounded at the ends
The sugar crop in Jamaica this year will be
unusually large, and is estimated at 40, 900
hogsheads. Last year it was but 81 900.
News comes. from Connecticut that the
fashy trout is leaving his muddy Information,
and his diamond cluster CLEANS in the dark
cavities of the brooks"
The total value of the New Bedford harbor
fisheries in s25 900 year. During the pres
ent winter $4,000 worth of scallops have
been taken through holes cut in the ice.
The saloon keepers of Scranton, Pa, held
meeting the other day, and announced that
they were opposed to hypocrisy and priest
craft and temperance in every form"
Winnie Ream is about to sculpt a marble
bust OF Colonel Fisk. She thinks, according
to one authority, she will be compelled to go
abroad to find piece pure enough for the
Colonel.
An exchange noted the fact that Louisville,
Ky, received in one day 255 barrels of -four
and 308 of whiskey, and then wonders what
they did with SO much flour.
Ten mills of the largest class are projected
to increase the manufacturing Importance of
Fall River, and fresh operatives will soon be
added to her population.
The lumbermen of Wisconsin have been
unsuccessful this season, and are coming out
of the woods in large numbers, all hopes Of
retrieving the winters misfortunes being at
an end.
They have a steam shovel ON the Mississippi
Central Railroad which takes from the solid
bank of earth and loads a train of eighteen
dump cars in thirty-nine minutes, carrying
out about seventy five cubic yards of dirt.
The New Orleans ice factory runs six ma
chimes, each costing $4,000 in gold, and
is pumped from the Mississippi, purified, and
frozen in blocks three inches thick and twelve
by twenty flour inches in area.
The city of New York devours nearly one
thousand barrels of eggs day. Each barrel
contains eighty dozen or more-so that the
actual daily consumption is not far from
a million eggs, and the cost to the consumers
about ten million dollars year,
A Richmond lady lately interviewed Gov.
Walker on railroad question. He asked her
which side she was on, when she replied that
she was on the fence. The Governor gallant
ly responded: 'Then madam, l wish no more
side"
The State Entomologist of Missouri says
that the washing of fruit trees with soap, or
the application of any alkaline solution, is an
infallible protection against borers; and this
is confirmed by the experience of some of the
most extensive fruit-growers in that section
The New York Sun says that in the Ursu-
line convent in Morrisania resides nun of
the order who has not for the past eight
cen months eaten food of any description.
A few spoonfuls of weakened wine are daily
administered, but the greater portion of this
the stomach rejects. She must be dreadfully
hungry.
In the early stages of the ministry the cele-
brated DIR. Strong of Hartford, preached some
time in neighboring village. One day a
committee called upon MIN to settle with him
for his service, and, after stammering awhile,
signifed to him that his further services were
not desired "What does this mean, gentle
mem" asked the Doctor. ''Why," replied
the spokesman with some hesitation, ''the
people have got the impression that you are
incining to universal salvation" ''Gentle-
men," answered the Doctor, 81 never have
preached that doctrine; but if ever should,
l promise to make the people of this town an
exception"