Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-10-23
GENERAL .tE,j.S.

The oil report for September shows a H.
crease i, the production Of petroleum over
the montI, previous of 225 barrels per day.
The Celestial ,hoematers Of North Adams
have proved a success. Forty eight still re-
main at work and conduct themselves in the
most proper manner.
One bundled girls OF Rev. Dl. Halls
thousand dollars toward builing house Of
worship at Netevaka, Kan.
J. c. Cutting, large California wool
grower has sued the Pacific railroad for $50
900 on account of being put off for having
stopped over on a through ticket. and thereby
losing a sale.
New patterns Of Cheviot shirlings have
been imported for next summers wear, Blue
tints, with narrow stripes and brown orange
tints, are much in vogue.
Elizabeth Erwin, of Lansinburg \. y,
wants 81 800 from James X. Stevens, of the
same place, because he has neglected to make
good a certain promise relating to matrimony.
In 1850, Mrs. Franklin Bennett lowered a
pail of butter into her well at Union City.
Mich, and the string breaking. it remained
there until the well was cleaned out few
days ago, when it came ont fresh and sweet,
twenty-five years old.
Judge Humphreys Saturday. in Washing
ton, overruled the motion for Il new trial of
Barney Wood, convicted on the charge of
the numbering of Samuel Cheeseman of this
State last summer, and sentenced him to be
hung the 9th.
A Washington despatch says that recently,
while the President was ont driving, one of
his colts, unaccustomed to rapid driving,
suddenly bolted, and steering, broke the car
riage pole. The President leaped from the
vehicle just as the younger of the two colts
kicked in the dash board. Assistance then
arrived to the relief of the President.
A barber in Titusvlle, while cutting the
hair Of rural customer, ran his shears
against some hard substance, which proved
to be milestone. The old farmer said he
'had missed that milestone ever since hay
ing time last July, and had looked all ever
n-acre lot for it, but now remembered stick
ing it up over his ear
The Treasury Department received on Sat
urday the Cuban flag taken from the priva-
teer Pioneer, and forwarded by the captain
of the Moccasin, which captured her. The
flag is composed of five alternate bars of
white and dark blue bunting, with white
star in red, triangular shaped ground of
like material.
In the National Board of Trade at New
York Saturday, resolution was carried that
Congress pass laws leaving to each State the
right to establish standard rate OF interest
\ resolution asking Congress for further
reduction of duties on imports was also
passed. The resolution of the Boston Board
of Trade, with regard to the resumption Of
specie payment, was discussed at considerable
length, and the proposition of S. B. Chtten-
den of New York, asking that steps be taken
by Congress looking to the resumption of spe-
Gle payment by the Government and National
Banks, was agreed to by 81 10 .. Hon. S.
b. Ruggles of New York, addressed the
Board on international coinage, and proposed
resolution, which was passed by acclama-
ton, asking Congress to make the dollar the
exact equivalent of the principal silver coins
of the world