Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-10
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Moosehead Lake was never visited by so
many summer travellers as TINS season.
1t is said that Father Hyacinthe intends to
marry.
There are more than hundred piano fortes
in the public schoolrooms of Boston.
Thomas H. Dudley, who has been consul at
Liverpool for nine years, has resigned.
Mackerel, averaging three pounds in weight
are being taken off Block Island.
-Four ladies caught over one thousand
speckled trout in California creek, one day
last week.
1t is stated that the prices of improved
farms in California have declined within the
last three years.
There is a fresh excitement about the Ma
than murderer. The report was that he has
been traced to Scotland.
The French decimal system of weights ard
measures goes into operation throughout all
Germany on the lst of January next
Many English tourists are in America this
season, and titled representatives gather in
quite crowd at Newport, Saratoga and else
where.
a one-horse open wagon is commended to
tourists who have means and leisure, by an
experienced traveller throughout rural New
England
There is hope for Virginia Its best papers
are ridculing the tournaments, and telling
the young men to stop fooling and go to work.
1t is not the most demonstrative of our
friends who care most about us. Scores of
people wish us well who do not feel mpelled
to stop us in the street and say so.
Paine Aldrich well known among railroad
men for his improved time tables, died at his
home in Worcester, Thursday, aged SO.
The case of Glover, accused of completely
in the Boylston bank robbery, went to the
jury, and the jury disagreed, eight for con-
viction to four for acquittal
There is man living in Hopkinton, nearly
eighty years old, who has cut and secured in
good order, the present season, about ten tons
of hay, without any team except wheelbar-
row.
When man dies, says Mahomet, the peo-
pie ask, ''What property has he left behind
him?" But the angels, as they bend over his
grave, inquire, ''What good deeds hast thou
sent before thec?"
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on Saturday, that no commissions can be al
lowed upon disbursements by Collectors of
Customs on account of the Revenue Marine
Service.
An escaped lunatic afforded some merri-
ment in Bridgeport, recently. He carried a
set of handouts and letters, and claimed that
he had been commits stoned to catch and chain
the devil and had come to Bridgeport for
that purpose.
High judicial authority has decided that the
cody trade is virtually the slave trade, and
the vessels engaged in it are pirates in the
eye of the law. This righteous decision JUS
titles the coolies in taking life to regain their
liberty.
General Sherman was sercnaded at ST. AL
bans, VT, few evenings ago, and in the
course of a little speech to the crowd, said
''We find it delightful to be with you here in
summer how it is in winter l don't know,
and don't mean to try"
Reports from the Rio coffee fields indicate
a very unfavorable crop for this year-short
and not of the standard quality; but the ac-
counts so far received are not as full and re-
liable as will probably be obtained in a few
weeks.
A rustic couple presented themselves before
a Detroit justice the other day as candidates
for matrimony. Each was duly ''sworn in"
but before entering upon their duties they
purchased quart of peanuts and huge GIN
gerbread, and seating themselves on the curb
stone, devoured the whole before they stirred
Bismarck recently told story concerning
his enjoyment of a cigar which he did not
smoke. 1t was at the battle of Koniggratz
and he had but one cigar in his pocket. This
he determined to reserve until after the VIC
tory over the Austrians, which he saw rapid
ly approaching. AS he rode over the battle
field, however, he observed, lying upon the
ground, wounded dragoon, murmuring
for something wherewith to refresh him. He
bethought himself of his solitary cigar, light
ed 1t, and held it between the wounded mans
teeth while he smoked. Relating this anec-
dote, the German Chancellor concluded with
these words: 81 never enjoyed cigar so
much as that one did not smoke"
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