Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-07
GENERAL NEWS.


| ways been conservative.
Mrs. Lydia Sexton, who is about seventy
| years old, is the chaplain of the Kansas State
| prison.
The Greek Catholics of Russia allow no
priest to perform any spiritual function until
he has a wife.
There are eight pin factories in the United
States, whose annual production is 6, 72S, 0OO,-
900 pins.
Twelve millions of pounds of wool have
been exported from California during the past
nine months.
London journals announce that lions and
tigers may be bought at wholesale and retail
in that city.
sample of tin ore received from Utah,
was found, on analysis at the Land Office,
not to possess any trace of tin.
Appletons American Cyclopedia is to be
condensed and abridged into single volume
of the dimensions of Webster's Unabridged.
Senator Carl Schurz once taught school in
Reading, Pa, and Mr.. Bayard Taylor was
once clerk in grocery store in the same
place.
Tennessee girl broke an arm on the eve
of her wedding day, but pluckily went through
the ceremony with her arm in a sling at the
appointed hour.
For the Alexis reception, 'white satin bills
Of fare, with frayed edges" The bills are to
ho h,, JoF- bx,x
committee.
The duty of the hour for the charitably dis
posed is to send contributions for the West to
some well-known and responsible parties, and
pay no attention to tinerant solicitors.
Never were such exquisite carpets seen in
Broadway New York; show windows as are
now displayed therein. Many of the designs
have evidently been the worthy work of true
artists.
The decision of the United States Supreme
Court on the legal-tender question will be an
nounced about the last week in the present
session, which will expire in December.
A Michigan doctor who was arrested because
his patient died, has been acquitted ON the
ground that he did the best he could, giving
all the medicine he knew the names of.
A pig, with one eye in the centre of its
forehead and trunk similar in shape to an
elephants growing out directly over its eye,
is the boast of California town.
The attention of bachelors is respectfully
invited to a Greek colony between the PENN
sula of Acte and the main land, where for
seven hundred years no woman has been al
lowed to come.
George Bancroft congratulated King Will
liam on the victorious conclusion of his war
with France, for which act of animosity to
France, Victor Hugo is determined that the
historian "shall hang on an eternal gallows."
ThesIndianapolis Journal describes General
Frank Blair as a sort of cheap Jack who
howls out his penny wares over the foot-board
of his cart and is ready to raise a laugh or a
quarrel with any one SO that he can sell his
wares"
Railroads in England have been paying
we'll of late, and the reason, according to the
London Times, is that, instead of devoting all
their energies to competing with rival lines,
and building branches to steal the traffic of
others, they have kept to their own field, and
managed their affairs in the most careful and
economical manner.
Sunday morning an intoxicated man went
into one of the New Haven churches and lis
tened intently while the soprano was singing
solo. After she had finished he got on the
seat and waving his hat, shouted, "Bully for
you!" The CONSERVATION of the audience
can be imagined. The fellow was elected by
the sexton.
Most absurd is Mr.. Ruskin's complaint that
there are "no castles in America" when
Nine. Parepa-Rosa brought back from Eng
land a firss-class Castle, and when Castle Will
liam (not to mention Castle Garden) is kept
in the best of repair for the especial benefit of
foreigners.
Wall street will observe to-day as a close
holiday, the several boards of the Stock Ex-
cha n ue nd tho Gold Roard ha WING daci.lad IN