Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-04
GENERAL NEWS.

is the latest sensation in Saratoga.
A company has been formed at Quebec to
supply the American market with halibut.
The young lady. whose feelings were 'all
worked up" has ordered a fresh supply.
The University of Berlin numbers one hum
dred and seventy three professors and other
teachers at present.
Learning is wealth to the poor, an honor to
the rich, an aid to the young, and support
and comfort to the aged.
Capt. David II. Todd, formerly of Lexing-
ton, and step-brother of Mrs. Lincoln, died
at huntsville, Ala, on Sunday.
Gold mines have been discovered in Siberia,
in the valley OF the Seja river, which is
branch of the Amoor river.
'Pa, what can do, unless you get me
riding habit up here in the country ''Get
into the habit of walking, my dear
The total number of Chinese arriving at
San Francisco during the quarter ending on
the 30th of June was 2,SC9, of whom only &c
were females.
Henry Ward Beechcr is to take part in the
anniversary exercises of the battle OF Benning
ton on the 10Th of this month, when most
imposing demonstration is to be held.
Ex-Gov. Oglesby of Illinois has addressed a
note to the Chicago Evening Journal per-
emptorily declining to accept a nomination
for Congressman-a Large if offered.
A pin, carelessly dropped in the loom by
the female operative, spoiled seven hundred
yards of cloth in one of the mills in Lawrence
few days ago.
An experienced dark nurse says sIt isn't
much trouble to take care O. sick pussens,
most on 'em don't want any thing, and if they
do, they don't get it,"
A Baltic Conn Irishman earned barrel
of floor the other day by carrying it on his
back from the store to his shanty, distance
of one mile, taking but one rest of ten min
utes, on the way.
In speaking about tine increase of the pop
ulaton of England, the Spectator says: "We
| cannot fall into raptures because another mil
| lion of Philistines is added to mankind"
Prof. Hitchcock and his exploring party
came upon hitherto unknown lake in the
White Mountains the other day, which is as
pure as cry stall, and has an altitude of 3,7S7
feet above the level of the sea.
Elections will be held the coming fall in the
following named States; New York, Pennsyl-
1 X pEy
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Yer
mont, New Jersey, Maine, Maryland and
Illinois.
There are bad reports of the State Reform
son, several years connected with the institu-
ton, charges, in The Worcester Spy, that
the boys are brutality ill-trcated and badly
beaten. 8s.sF
A venerable farmer, living near the Hoosac
Tunnel, was called upon to give an opinion
on the great enterprise. Shaking his head,
he said 81 have lived hereabouts, off and
on, for about forty years, and my opinion is
that eff was the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts, and hadn't gone into't and got as fur
es you hev, my opinion is that didn't know
what should do about it,"
DIR. J. w. Morton, of Nashville, and the
Rev. Fountain +. Fits of the same neigh
borhood, have been engaged for several years
in the cultivation of opium in Tennessee, and
have succeeded this season in raising fifty to
seventy-fve pounds per acre. They obtain
ed their poppy seeds from Calcutta and