Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-01
GENERAL MEMS.

GENERAL NEWS.
St Louis transfers correct their mules with
| pick-axes.
At Paris during the rule of the Commune
about 500 persons became insane.
The Hollywood ghost has been sentenced
to three months imprisonment in the Rich
mond Jail.
Prof. Peters, of Hamilton College, at Gin
tom N. Y. has discovered another asteroid-
the l4th
"My inkstand is stationary, as the school
master said when he found it nailed to his
desk
Mrs. Judith Rust, who died recently at New
Ipswich, N. H., was married in 1899, and
slept on the same bedstead from the night of
her marriage to the day of her death.
One lady kept an account and found that
muslin dress for which she had paid thirty
cents yard had at the end of the season cost
her in the washing and iron of it, the sum of
sixty three dollars.
An audacious rascal ordered a wedding
banquet at Dubuque hotel, which he and
lot of his cronies ate up and then decamped
without paying for. The bride" didn't APP
pear. and the hotel man is trying to find the
groom" and put him in bridewell.
The Sycamore Ill.) cheese-factory now
uses over seventeen thousand pounds of milk
daily the Belydere factory uses eleven
thousand pounds; the Garden Prairie-factory
seven thousand FIVE hundred pounds, and the
DeKalb-factory three thousand pounds.
farmer named Watt Carr, residing near
Hamilton, Ohio, while conversing with some
friends on the s.oop of his house concerning
the manner in which Mr.. Vallandigham shot
himself, attempted to illustrate it with load
Mr.. vallandham did. He feN instantly and
died in few hours.
1t is not often that a man finds advantage
in having been a convict, but fellow named
Scott, who was recently arrested in Philadel-
phia and taken to Ohio as murderer, proved
one of the most effective alibis, by making it
clear to his accusers that at the time of the
murder he was serving out a term of impris
onment in the penitentiary.
member of the Arkansas Legislature, in
speaking on an extravaganza appropriation, in
dignantly exclaimed; Gentlemen, talk about
adequate compensation of public servants,
why, sir, during the late war l was in thirty
seven battles, was wounded thirteen times in
the cause of the South, and the entire pay l
received was $50 in Confederate money, every
cent of which gave for one glass of old rye
whiskey."
The editor of the Elmira Advertiser has
poor luck buying medicine. He says: 81
went to drug store early one morning for q
dose of morphine for sick friend. The
night clerk objected to giving it to me without
prescription, evidently fearing that might
| destroy myself. 'Pshaw,' said Il, do look
like man who would kill myself?' Gazing
| at me steadily for half moment, he replied
| 4 don't know. Seems to me, if 1 looked
like you, should be greatly tempted to kill
| myself"
The claim that the maize or Indian corn
| plant is indigenous to the soil of the new
| world, has lately been contested, and recent
investigations of certain Chinese records are
cited to prove that it was cultivated in China
| prior to the discovery of America. Chinese
authors maintain that it came originally from
the countries of west China, and that it was
introduced into that country long before the
first arrival of the Portuguese, in 1917.
The St. Louis Democrat has the following
We understand that complaints from eastern
buyers of grain in this market, concerning
short weights, begin to arrive thick and fast
We are inclined to believe that grain will ulti.
mately desert the railway for the safer water
path, on account of the culpable carelessness
manifested by railroad companies for the safe
conduct of this kind of property. They per
init it to be received in slovenly condition
| profier miserable cars for its reception, allow
them to be opened on the way and flched from
at every convenient station, knowing that they
cannot be held responsible unless the stealing
should be- Unprecedented. We have been
shown letters from eastern points, declaring
that sixty bushels per thousand had been
stolen, and yet no redress was obtainable, and
directing parties here to ship by the river and
ocean hereafter.
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