Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-08
GENERAL NEWS.

Minnesota has ten railways in process of
construction.
As late as 1870, girls were not permitted to
attend public schools in Boston.
The industrial employment of soldiers is
strongly advocated by many in England.
| The sliding-scale system of wages has been
adopted in the iron districts of North Eng
land.
The Italian government intends to fortify
the Alpine passes at cost of some 50 O0O,-
600.
freight train ran over and killed deer
the other day about mile east of Springfield,
Mass.
The Queen of the Bel gians has picked a
quarrel with her milliner for sending her in a
bill for g. 900 francs.
Frisco bootblack announced that he
would give one days work to Chicago, and
he did. The contribution was S25.
Amherst College will hereafter Withhold all
aid from college students who smoke tobacco
or drink ardent spirits.
A seventeen-pound trout, over three feet in
LENGTH was found in the river at Haverhill,
Mass, few days ago.
The Oregon Railroad is completed to Eu-
gene City, and trains are now making daily
trips between that place and Portland.
The difference between the leader of the
flock and fog signal is, that one is bell
wether and the other is weather-bell
A young woman at Green Bay Wis, drew
a Bible at a lottery, and traded off her prize
for pair of shoes.
A single shoe-manufactory at Epping, n.
H., has turned out 10000 pairs of slippers
in the past six months, of thirty-five different
styles.
A North Providence OR. L. jury have rem
dered verdict that their subject died of suf-
location, and that she came to his death by
misfortune
DIR. King, of the United States Navy, ac-
cused of the murder of Chief Engineer KEEL
logg, Of the Navy at Key West, last winter,
has been tried and acquitted.
The Rev. Robert Collyer, says the men
who have been thanking God for the burning
of Chicago were ''not men who had been
burnt cut, you know"
Louise Holden, a lady lecturer, is pro-
nounced by daringly original exchange ga
calcium light among the gas, kerosene, and
'tallow dip lights which are seeking to il
illuminate the lecture stage"
The fishing schooner d. f. Woodbury., of
Gloucester, was seized October %, by the
United States revenue cutter Dobbin, for
smuggling gin into Castine, Me-, from Hall
fax, N. S.
The Registration in New York this year
exceeds that of last year by 1925 names.
The total registration in 1870 was l42, 500
and is this year l52,592
Judge Barnard of New York, in Oyer and
Terminer, heard thirty debtors from Lud-
low-street Jail, and their creditors, Four
were detained, five decisions reserved. and
the rest discharged.
An enterprising Yankee has just opened
store on one of the principal streets in Paris,
and announces on the sign in front of the
door that pumpkin and mince pies, and pork
and beans, a la Americaine," will always be
on hand and to order at the shortest notice.
The French army is soon to be uniformed
anew as follows: Dark blue cap with red tur-
ban, ornamented with a tr-color and a cocks
feather, a blue tunic, with two rows of brass
buttons and red trimmings; and gray trous-
ers with red stripe.
John Bright is as well as he ever was and
will remain so as long as he is content to
wholly abstain from any mental exertion
whatever. If he should once break that con-
dition, his mind would be gone in week.
There is no prospect that he will ever reap
pear in public life-his career is over. His
physicians have told him that he could not
recover from a third mental attack.
The Chinese in California have not been so
long away from the Flowery Klndom without
learning somewhat of Mclean mans ways.
The Chinese companies in San Franciso have
| commenced suits against the city Of Los An
gelos for the damages sustained by their
| countrymen in the late riots.