Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-08

GENERAL NE VS..

There are 700 Japanese students in various
schools and colleges in America.
Nearly one hundred dead Cinnamon we're
sent home by one ship from San Francisco
lately.
A Stonington woman speaks of her hus-
band as her $1,000 darling. that being the
amount Of his life policy.
A St. Paul COW, in ate mpting TO open
gate, lifted it of the hinges and carried it
seven miles on a frantic run. when she fell
exhausted.
Forty farmers form the Sank eoun-
ty, Wis, Beet Sugar Company, which ex-
poets to use 1000 tons Of bee,s this winter
The people of vineland, Nj, contemplate
introducing Chinese labor into the settlement
for the culture of grapes and cranberries.
A bar of pig iron, stamped with the date
1879, was found near the site of an old char
coal furnace, Bethlehem, Penn, lately.
Lucius Gilbert, George Dooer, and truck
man whose name is unknown, were sufioca-
ted by gas on Monday in the new mineral
well opened at Avon, n. Y.
A Waterman on the New Yo.A Central
Railroad says that once a year 3 phantom
train passes over the track bearing the body
of Abraham Lincoln.
The Baltimore and Ohio ka.lroad Conpa
ny is about to commence the construction OF
new line which will give continuous rail
from Baltimore to Chicago
At the Fort Pitt Iron and Steel Works
they saw cold cast steel with saw made of
soft wrought iron. The saw remains cool
while csst.steel is melted at the point OF con-
tact
Spinks says that after all, the horses are
been Obliged to read the puns made on their
disease.
Mormons to the number Of 1895 have sailed
from Liverpool to this country since the 18th
of June. Their nationalites are: 632 En-
glish, 80 Scotch. lSl Welsh. Il Irish. ~
Continental.
Young America impressed an English wri
ter after this fashion: "Put an American ba-
by six months old, on its feet. and it will i'm.
mediately say, 'Mr. Chairman, and call the
next cradle to ORDER
Thanksgiving is at hand, after which all
poor bachelors who have invitations to dine
with their friends will look with disgust on
their boarding house tables for three or four
days.
The tidal phenomenon on Lake Ontario,
which was noticed last June, has again ap-
peared. The greatest change in the depth
OF the water observed is twenty-five inches.
The lake is very luet, and there is nothing
visible in the surroundings to create the IN
usual phenomenon.
There is a German girl begging in Boston,
who has no hands, but carries little tin box
strapped about her neck for the reception of
COIN She is said to be ''the possessor of a
fine house in New York, and to be now build
ing row of tenement houses in BROOKLYN
from the funds gathered in her peculiar call
ing"
Danbury boy, whose ina ginaton had be-
come diseased by too close devotion to dime
novels, started off to seek fame as slayer of
bears and Indians. He took all his toys, in
Guiding hand-sled and snare drum, babe
his little brothers and sisters an affectionate
farewell, and was gone nearly two hours.
vigorous effort is to be made to secure
aid from Congress for the purpose of uniting
the navigable waters Of Tennessee and Geor-
gia, by means of The Atlantic and Great Wes-
tern canal, which enterprise is now before
the House in bill asking for subsidy in the
form of guaranteed interest on bonds. Gov
ernor Smith of Georgia has invited the Gov
ernors of several Southern States to meet at
Atlanta on the 10Th inst, for the discussion
and preparation of a memorial on the sub
ject.
The North Carolina rice fields, comprising
the richest lands of the State, and capable of
producing 100000 to 100000 bushels of
grain year, are all covered with reeds and
bushes, their bitches filed with mud, their
dykes rotted away, and rice is no longer a
staple product or an article of export. Thir-
ty years ago the rice fields of the Cape Fear
river produced a crop of 200, 900 bushels, the
most of which was shipped to Northern cities
where it was cleaned and prepared for mar
kct. Fifteen years later, just before the
breaking out of the war, the yield of the
same region had increased to 500 900 bushels
and at the same time there were several mills
in Wilmington in which the rice was cleaned
before it was sent coastwise to New York.
The Boston papers report the arrival of
schooner at that place from Pennington,
Maine. Since Pennington has no water com
munication with the ocean, and is many miles
inland, this craft must have loated out to tn,
Atlantic on the recent tidal wave.
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