Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-20
GENERAL NE MS.

The Milwaukee River was frozen over on
Saturday night for the first time this season.
The New York fire department consists Of
six hundred and twenty.three men, including
thirty-seven engineers.
The dropsy among the horses in New York
il increasing, although little inconvenience is
being caused to city travel and traffic.
Arizona diamonds are so plenty in Salt
Lake City that they hold them cheap as pearls.
The wife of an Oregon Representative in
the Legislature has trapped and shot sos
squirrels this year.
Two hundred freedmen. mostly from Geor-
ga and South Carolina, will sail for Liberia,
as colonists, to-day.
Veterinary surgeons smoke fifteen cent
cigars and wear beautiful snuff colored plush
overcoats since the epizootic came to help
them.
Kent county, Mich, man has for the last
six months furnished Detroit with bass rood
| honey, made from the juices of the wood
mixed with sugar.
An Adams couple went to the post Office to
get married the other day. The clerk told
| them they didn't do that business at any of
Uncle Sans parsonages.
Thirty vessels are at San Francisco to load
with wheat. An inward bound feet of ls5
vessels is due before April l. The sailing of
the China steamer is postponed until the ar.
rival Of the Arizona.
The Methodist church has appropriated for
foreign missions $343 1925, being slo2, 1888 in
excess Of last year. The total amount appro-
priated for mission purposes, foreign and do.
nestle is $s59,425.
The schooner Ida Morton, Capt. Melon
aid, from Rockland, with $50 barrels lime on
board was destroyed by Gre on Friday night
while lying of Simpsons Dock, East Boston.
The vessel is complete wreck. The lime
in the vessels hold had been on FIRE for the
past two weeks.
The Baltimore American suggests that the
murderess, Laura Fair, should be made to
share her wealth with Mrs Crit,enden, tho
widow OF the man she murdered. Mrs. Crit
tenden is poor, but not likely to take any
steps in that direction although an action for
damages by law is proposed by her friends.
tits believed that square dances will be
more in favor the coming winter than they
have been for years. Young married ladies
are said to have been instrumental in bringing
about the change.
A thoughtful writer suggests that every
firm of architects should contain, at least, one
lady partner to plan pantries, closets, shelves,
hooks and places to tuck away things in
clearinghouse, an evident necessity which
architects of the male persuasion have hith.
erto failed to comprehend or provide for.
The gauge on the Grand Trunk Railway
between Sarnia and Fort Erie, was changed
Sunday from wide to a narrow measure.
Western paper states that a Terre Haute
boy of tender years and heart has drowned
seventeen kittens, tied pans to the tails of
nine dogs, brushed his fathers new silk hat
against the grain and blown up pet canary
with tirecracker in the last month, and still
his fond mother intends him for the pulpit.
Along the line of the Hudson River ter
rible disease has broken out among the poul :.
try. Chickens are dying by hundreds, and
turkeys, geese and ducks in the marke, show
signs Of the malady. The disease appears to
be assuming form of destructive pestilence.
A despatch from Phi!lipsburg, Pa. states
there is considerable excitement in the min.
ing regions, consequent upon general strike
OF the miners for an advance of ten cents per
ton. The operators refuse to give the ad.
vance, and 1t is doubtful how long the strike
will last. Sixteen mines are now idle, all
the miners in them having quit work
Snow storms prevailed Friday and Satur.
day in several localities, some of a serious
character AT Buffalo, Saturday morning,
the snow was two feet deep on the level. All
passenger trains were ten or twelve hours be.
hind time. Snow fell at Philadelphia, Wash.
ington and at Richmond, Va, Saturday. In
Boston early Sabbath morning appearance,
indicated a heavy fall of snow, but compare.
lively little fell, which melted almost a. soon
| as IL struck the pavements The dav w.s