Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-14
GENERAL Ne VS..

A flowing gas-well supplies Titusviic.
Penn, with light and fuel.
California out.does all other Statea in the
culture CT pears.
Arkansas j, about to enter extensively into
the cultivation Of peanuts.
The amount of capital invested in the man
ufacyure Of wooden goods in Pennsylvania IS !
Sl4.239, 400.
A Kansas physician lately swallowed a dose
IT eblorsl 10 show patient that il was pea
SHE &c 90 SO. and died of the dose.
Wool is selling in Colorado at eighteen
l.n,s per pound.
The junior crew won the Harvard College
race On the Charles river on Saturday. Time,
fourteen minutes ,hirty-nine seconds.
About fifty citizens OF Alsace and Lorraine
declared allegiance to the French Republic
on Saturday, in ST: Louis, Mo, and received
certificates of citizenship from the deputy
French consul.
The Chicago post-ofiice employs l,o clerks
and Ill letter carriers, and ranks next to
New York in amount of general business
transacted, and first IS a distributing office.
At Newton, Kan, Friday last, Justice Elol-
iday was shot dead by desperate named Mi
chae Fitzpatrick. Marshall johnson attempt
ed 10 arrest Fitzpatrick, when the Latter drew
revolver and defed him. Johnson shot the
outlaw dead
Leavitt Alley was arraigne1 in tie Manei-
pal Court. His case was postpon until the
2lst inst. for examination in the Municipal
Court. lie summoned Us counsel Mr.. John
NJ. Way. He logks hags RI, and anxious
and his arrest has told upon him. He was
committed 10 Jail until the 2lst.
President Grant has sent magnificent
gold chronometer 10 Captain Leehre, for hav-
ing saved, on December !, 1870, the crew OF
the American ship'Wymsn, struck by light.
ming on the Atlantic. The presentation took
place at Antwerp on the 2lst ut.
The Duluth Tribune, wishing TO compli-
ment the grocery wares Of resilient Of that
little town, does it in this style: ''iie has a
splendid article of cracked wheat, or ''gritz, ="
which RS az article Of dirt, can't be beaten. .
The grocery man at once countermanded
the order to send sack TO the editors house.
A statement of the gross earnings Of the
the leading railroads during the past
month shows the large sum OF 50 o5l,-
9G0 against s7,G23,2s6 compared with
those of the same month last year. The
earnings Of the same roads for the first the
months Of the calender year amount to S12,;
087.G9i against S62,75e, POI compared with
| the same time in 1871.
A cable dispatch announces the failure Of
Messrs Bowies, Brothers & Co, American
bankers in London. The suspension is con-
fined to the branch Of the house located in
that city. 1t arose from the great rush Of
homeward bound travellers at this time TO
whom letters of credit had been given, and
the financial resources of the house in London
not being adequate for the unusual demand,
the suspension followed. The house in Bos-
ton is more than able to meet its liabilities.
A son of Isaac Henderson of Cuba, now
aged abont IL years has been suffering ap-
parcntiy from consumption for about three
years, and has been in very bad condition,
no one hoping for his recovery. About eight
days ago in fit of coughing he threw up a
cockiehur that had been in his lungs three
| years. He remembers the incident Of getting
it down his throat, and once, during his ILL
ness, mentioned the fact that he believed he
had the bur in his lungs, but it was regarded
as impossible. AT er expelling the bur LAST
week his voice was so radically changed as
to be unacceptable. lie is now expected
/ 70 recover.