Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-11
GENERAL NEWS.
Quite crop of lemons has been raised in
Florida this season.

Florida this season.
The Boston and Mediterranean fruit trade
is said to be in a languishing condition.
The Boston Advertiser says "Garyey is
the plasterer of the Ring and A. Oakley Hall
is the whitewasher."
Miss Lydia Nye walked thirty miles in eight
hours the other day, on the mountain roads of
Vermont.
Babbage, the banker-farmer in Butler coun-
ty, Iowa, is harvesting POO acres of wheat
with seven reapers and fifty men.
Ex-Gov. Holden of North Carolina is about
to start, it is said, a new daily paper in Wash
ington, ID. c.
The Montreal papers say there has been
great deal of smoke about the Cuban affair
for very little fire.
Vessels for Richmond can now pass through
the Dutch Gap Canal to James river, shorten
ing the voyage somewhat.
At Vienna a society for popular education
and improvement of the lot of women was
lately organized.
The people of Dublin denounce the conduct
of the police at Phoenix Park on Sunday as
brutal. An investigation is called for.
The thirty first annual cattle show aud fair
of the New York Agricultural Society will
open in Albany on Monday, October 2, and
continue until the following Saturday.
Lemon juice used plentifuly as gargle,
and swallowed moderately, to reach the more
deep-seated parts, is pronounced by a French
academician cure for diphtheria.
The Prussian occupation in France bears
heavily upon the defeated, chagrined peasant
ry of the latter nation, and riots with the Ger
man soldiery are of almost daily occurrence.
A young man who inquired as to what bust
ness would enable him to occupy high posi-
ton in society, was advised to try the roofing
business.
Victorias daughter, the Crown Princess of
Prussia is growing fat, like her mother. She
ir thirty one years old and has given birth to
six children.
Manchester, N. H., has voted to secure a
supply of water from without the city limits.
Lake Massabesic, five miles out, will probably
| be the source. The cost is now called $780,
| 900.
On June PC, in the town of Tachau, Bohe-
mia, by rain spout fifteen persons lost their
lives, a number of houses were destroyed,
and considerable other damage was done.
| The rainstorm lasted about four hours.
| A letter from the Magnetic Springs to a
| Columbus paper says: ''They who have
known Mr.. Chase in Columbus would scarce
ly recognize him now The once powerful
man has melted away to mere shadow"
A charcoal man and his wife, who belonged
| to the Commune, escaped the vigilance of the
| police by the happy device of thorough
washing. The disguise was too perfect I'M
luckily, for they have been looking for each
| other ever since.
Bishop Mcfarland of Hartford, has been
presented $4,000 residence by his congre-
| CATION and has been assigned by the Pope to
| the new diocese of Connecticut, erected from
division of the See of Connecticut and
| huOue
The San Francisco Bulletin cautions people
| in the Atlantic States against being swindled
| by irresponsible companies who advertise in
the eastern cities extensive tracts of land in
| California for sale without owning a foot of
! them
A gentleman of Slatersville states that an
| old lady, farmers widow, recently sent him
''ten cents" saying it was "overpay taken
for produce thirty mine years ago." The old
lady had kept this trifing sum for more than
a third of century: but conscience finally
| prompted her to make restitution, as above
stated.
OF the present prospect of the fruit crop
the Rochester Democrat thus speaks cal
though the peach crop in this locality will be
| light, this fruit will be abundant in Orleans
and Niagara counties. The trees are loaded
and the peaches of large size. Apples last
year gave too large a yield to be so good this
season, still the crop will be fair, and in the
counties named above, large"