Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-22
GENERAL NEWS.

May, for the signing Of the treaty.
GENERAL NEWS.
An iron bar used in Chinese fight was
classed as "sedative" by San Francisco
paper.
Chesapeake bay gathers % 900 bushels
of oyster annually from 5000 acres of oyster
beds.
The Improvement of Italy under its new
government was marked by the printing of
two thousand books last year.
1t is said the Pennsylvania Central has Sc
cured the control of all the lines with the
Central Pacific Railroad beyond Ogden.
The Texas Legislature has provided for an
election in November, 1872, to confirm the
regularity of a doubtful previous law.
Striped snakes are protected by Michigan
farmers ''as the only critters that will eat po-
tatoes with a relish"
Twenty-one and half pages of the Boston
Bulletin are occupied by list of books
placed in the public library for the quarter
ending last March.
Caleb Gushing has purchased summer res
idsnce three miles from Aqueduct Bridge,
Va, formerly owned by Gen. j. p Van Ness.
| A well-known South Boston man is verv
| fond of frogs. He came home with bag full
the other day, and, after eating Dozen found
out they were toadss
| A daily paper recently contained an adver-
tisement for lost "large black silk umbrella.
belonging to gentleman with curiously
carved wooden head"
DIR. Gwin, member of Congress from Mis-
sissippi, and again Senator from California, is
striving to succeed Senator Cole from the lat
ter State, whose term expires in 1873.
The teacher of an infant class in a Port
land Sunday School is 80 years old His son
is superintendent of the school and his grand
son secretary, making the school considerably
sin the family"
The Bangor Wing says that a gentleman
who has been in trade there for long time,
says that he knows of but three firms who,
with the same partners, have been in business
| for ten years.
The Atlantic Base Ball club, of Bangor,
Me-, have received a challange from the Lone
Star club Of New Orleans, who intend visit
ing Bangor while on their trip through the
North the coming Summer.
An Iowa man was divorced some years ago
and went to.California. His ex-wife has since
been remarked and widowed. Her first hus-
band returning home a few days ago, they
met and married again.
Western Louisiana succeeds well with Chi
nese on sugar estates. In Lafourche parish
several experienced sugar planters speak
highly of their docility, intelligence and in
dustry. As consequence, many adjacent
plantations have forwarded orders for the
same labor.
Palm leaf bread is manufactured only in
hve Massachusetts towns, in this country
The material is brought from Cuba, and about
one-third is sold as waste for paper stock. The
split leaves are braided and woven by farmers
families. The pay is small, but compensates
otherwise idle hours
The pickpockets are reaping rich harvest
by following Barnum's show, and so far they
do not seem to have been at all molested by
detective officers. In New Haven, it is said
that at least fifty persons had their pockets
rif1ed. One gentleman lost $500 and LADY
lost $50. In Meriden another haul was made
The Portland Press says the store of r. X.
Hunt, No. BIG Congress street, was entered
by thieves Tuesday night and $500 worth
stolen. The entrance was effected nv the
back door, and it is probable the door had
not been fastened, as the bolt was found
drawn yesterday morning, and there were no
marks of violence and no aperture discovered
through which man could put his arm to
draw the bolt. The property stolen consists
of twenty three watches of various descrip-
tons, ten of which were second hand Infor-
nation has been lodged at the police office.
but no clue to the scamps has yet been OBJ
tanned.
On Thursday last, as Mrs Ebenezer Frye
and Miss Cove of Vassalboro', were riding