Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-05
GENERAL Ne VS..

There are some 1904 national banks in the
United States.
In many sections of North Carolina and
Virginia the apple trees have failed to bios
| som.
A large plantation near New Orleans has
been devoted to the cultivation of ramie, in
stead of cotton. this year.
An Irish potato tree is Thomasvlle, Ga,
sensation. Potatoes grow on its branches as
we'll as on its roots.
| The carrier pigeons carry $4,000 photo
graphed messages attached to the middle
feather of their tails at a trip.
They record of John Bishop of Arizona,
| that he had killed eleven men, and no one
had thought much about it, but, recently,
when he stole horse, he was seized and
hanged without delay.
Celebrated physicians say the reason so few
Germans die with consumption is because
they sing from their earliest childhood and
keep it up till old age prevents them.
The Indianapolis '.Journal" wants Mr.. Val
landigham to persevere in his attempt to lead
the democrats, because he has succeeded SO
well heretofore in helping to elect republican
| candidates.
| A rogue was once begging charity, on pre-
tence Of being dumb. A lady having asked
him with equal simplicity, how long he had
been dumb, he was thrown off his guard, and
replied: "From BIRTH m adam" Poor fell
low," said the lady, and gave him a shilling.
NJ. j. Carter writes the Rural New Yorker
that if those who have crib-biting horses will
nail a sheep skin, wool side up, wherever there
is chance for the horse to bite, he will not
do very much cribbing in the stable. His
flther has tried it successfully.
Rice is considered the surest and most
profitable grain crop grown in Louisiana. 1t
1t requires no machinery to fit it for sale.
The grower takes it in its rough state to the
mill, where he receives 100 pounds Of the
hulled grain for each l60 pounds in the hull
| One Ohio democratic editor makes new
departure" which political parties could adopt
with benefit. Speaking Of Vallandigham's
platform, he says: -Four yards Of platform
is too much to stand on. Boil it down, make
| it four inches, and then we are for it.
| The Yerger case is again occupying the atten-
ton of the Mississippi courts, and it is thought
| it will be tried once more upon its merits.
The general impression appears to be that
another trial will result in the acquital of the
prisoner.
clergyman of Cairo, H., expressed late
ly his contempt of nickels in his Sunday col
lection, and positively forbade any of his con
gregation from contributing anything under
the denomination of five cents. ''Save your
cents" said the good man, ''until you have
five before you put your hands in this box
The widows mite business is played out here"
In Wisconsin. at locality called Plum City,
lives Swede, who, having this spring but
one OK, persuaded his wife to carry one end
of the yoke in ploughing, while he held the
; plough, and their boy drove. The woman
labored at this extraordinary employment for
two days, and was then compelled to cult it,
5 and take to her bed, on account of having rup.
tured an internal organ in her efforts TO keep
, her end of the yoke even. In two days after
she died.