Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-12
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Sam. Houston, Jr., is district school su-
peryisor in Texas.
Only sixteen persons intend to lecture on
the Yo Semitic next winter.
Miss Clara Bartonis living quietly at Paris,
An Irishman who was recently run over by
whole train of cars got up and asked for his
cap, and said he ''would not run another such
risk as that for tin dollars
| About year ago New England was suffer
ing from drouth. This year Illinois its SIM
| ilarly afflicted, and to such an extent that
blowing is impossible. These dry seasons
are, for the most part. attributable to the de-
struction of timber
| The ex-Rebel Gen. Gano, who was some
what noted as fellow horse stealer with
John Morgan, is now clergyman in Tenne-
see. He is said to be a better preacher than
he was soldier.
l25,0l5. OF this number l15,s79 were born
in the United States (93,l01 whites and 49,
77S colored) and 9,136 were born in foreign
countries (9,l20 whites and 16 colored.)
A San Francisco orator having made the
statement that Starr King was a barefoot
school.boy, an old school-boy companion
writes to the San Francisco papers denying
that the great preacher ever went to school
unshod.
James Polk, one of Gen. Jackson's count
less colored servants, died recently in New
Orleans, age 80. He was the Generals valet
as long ago as 1914. The number of domes-
tics our prominent Americans have had is al
most beyond enumeration.
Lieut.. Col. William Caine, late Lieutenant
Governor of Hong-Kong, who, more than so
years ago, took part in an East Indian cam
paign, died, recently, in England.
T. d. Boardman, of Hartford, Conn, who
discovered the process of making Britannia
ware, is still workman in the same shop
where he made the discovery, sixty-seven
years ago.
Major Junius B. Wheeler, of the Engi-
neer Corps, has been appointed Professor of
Engineering at the Military Academy, vice
Professor Mahan, deceased.
Afellow who was recently caught with bag
full of burglarious implements, in answer to
the question as to what he intended to do with
those things responded that he was only 60
ing to "make proposals for some government
bonds"
Bridgeport boys construct an efigy, set it
up against door, pull the bell and run. The
domestic answers the call, and is frightened
into Mysteries, when the man falls down and
is dragged around the corner.
} steam yacht is sailing on the Sea of
r Galilee; and its beautiful scenery, with its
? hallowing associations, will soon be as famil-
! lar to tourists as that Of the Rhine is now.
An refractory in Jackson, Mississippi,
turns out three thousand pounds day. Life
is still not worth having there without cooling
i drinks.
Though ropes, pistols, razons, and poison
sometimes disappoint anxious suicides, the
Louisville Courier reminds them that in the
bright lexicon of Explosive coal oils, there
is no such word as fail.
Deadman, the convict, who risked his life
to defend the Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
during the recent outbreak at Carson, has
been pardoned.
William Voelz, a private-of the Tenth Wis
I consin volunteers, recently wrote as follows
to the United States Pension Agent: 81
would like to have my name dropped off the
pension roll. My injury has improved $50
much that can attend to my business with
out much trouble. do not want to be a
burden to the government any longer"
| The track-layers of the Northern Pacific
Railway are rapidly approaching the Red
. River. Workmen will begin Immediately on
the Dakota division, two hundred miles of
which is under contract
: There are now no less than six Democratic
; factions in New York city, all brought into
existence by the rupture in the ring. First
! of all, there is the German Democratic party
} who claim that they can poll thirty thousand
4 votes. The Democratic Union is the second
organization. 1t polled $4,000 votes some
time ago, and has fought Tammany for the
e last seven years. The Ledwith party stands
a next on the list, and numbers about 10000.
- The young Democracy is the fourth, and last
e of all, the Mozart party under the leadership
= of Ben. Wood Tammany is the sixth, and
t even the strongest party of them all.