Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-29
GENERAL MEMS.

| GENEhAL NE HS.
Duels are fought in New Orleans with mus
tard seed cartridges.
A recent breach of promise suit led to the
production Of 763 love-letters by the lady.
Out in Illinois they tar and feather widow
ers who play croquet before the funeral.
There are three hair pin factories in New
Haven county, Connecticut, and one pro-
duces fifty tons a month.
Montana has secured seed of the Chinese
cucumber, that grows from five to eight feet
long and six to nine inches in diameter.
While excavating near the old fort in Say
brook, CT, recently, the laborers exhumed
two bushels of ounce balls in one heap.
Buffalo lady has given SO to the cause of
foreign Missions during the past year as the
proceeds of her missionary hen."
The Pennsylvania capitalists who have
bought iron lands in Alabama, expect to fur
nish the South Pacific rails at $40 less per
ton than any competitors can.
Ole Bull has invented piano, having more
power than the grand, and uniting sweetness
with sound. He is introducing it at his con-
certs.
Of the l76 towns and cities in Massachu
sets which have voted on the question of Ii
censing the sale of ale and beer, only seven
teen voted in favor of license.
| Jacksonville, Kentucky, has disinterred
another gigantic fossil mummy. The shin
bone was three feet long; two grinders were
each half an inch long, and the remains in
dictated man twelve feet high.
CT is strange" muttered young man, as
he staggered home from supper party, chow
evil communications corrupt good mannerse
I've been surrounded by tumblers all the eve
ming, and now I'm tumbler myself"
J Ida Lewis, the Grace Darling of New Eng
, land, has feminine cousin, sixteen years old
who recently ploughed one hundred acres Of
land at her fathers rancho, in California. So
that it seems to run in the family.
The Empress Eugene has presented to
Lady Burgoyne, in whose husbands yacht sh e
escaped from France, costly gold locket,
Set WIFI uNhiuOHuS, Will lHc iuOet eA4ulSsC
likeness of her Majesty enclosed, as a souv-
enir Of that memorable voyage to England.
The Rev. VIM. Robertson, of Eldora, Iowa,
hearing that there was a young lady in Du-
buque who visited the sick, gave to the hun
CRY and needy, and actually sawed wood to
raise money for missionary purposes, sought
an interview with the divine damsel, and sue
ceeded in taking her back as his wife.
| A vein of coal has been found on tine Un-
iontown and West Virginia Railroad near the
, State line, over 100 miles in length and so
, miles in width, with depth of from fifteen
to twenty-feet. The coal is of superior
quality and well adapted to locomotive and
other purposes. An adjoining farm containing
a rich vein of silver, has been sold to the
company for 500, 900, and they are preparing
to work it.
: A Pennsylvania woman advertises her hus
, band as leaving her bed and board. She says
he ''has considerable money and high fore
! head, long face and lantern awed. bad man
with fist like giant, and has often beat me,
and want him to end his days in peni-
, tertiary where he belongs; and he wears =
gray coat, with very large mouth and one
blue eye and one blind blue eye, and a hide
ous-looking man, and want him brought
slap up in the law with blue pants.'
Several Worcester, Mass, manufacturing
firms are said to make specially of mining
= boots. A longlegged boot made for the Penn
II sylvania coal mines is the most durable piece
furniture ever constructed of leather and iron
The soles are about three quarters of an inch
> thick, projecting like the guards of the Mis-
sissippi steamers. The heel also projects
= nearly . quarter OF an inch forming quite g
shelf near the counter, and are fiared at the
bottom. Nails with fiat top, size smalle,
than silver three cent piece, are driven in
as closely as they can set all over the sole
shank and heel forming, as it were, a solid
iron bottom These boots weigh six and q
half pounds, and the iron nails make one-hali
the weight. Long nails of Swedish iron are
driven through heel and shank, clinched on
the inner sole; three to the heel and six to
the shank. The sides are closed by hand with
a six stranded thread that would hold two
= hundred pounds weight.