Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-10-19

Louisville was invaded by a swarm Of large
brown grasshoppers the other day.
Dubuque, IA, has a beet-sugar mannfacto-
~, and 100 tons OF be.ts on hand to begin
business with.
Frost on Monday night killed vegetation in
n"rttw western Georpia. The weather IS *
crllent tor cotton picking.
George Macdonald was welcomed by the
culture of Boston on his first appearance at
Music Hail Thursday evening.
About two millions ba skets Of peaches were
Slipped from Delaware this season.
A new railroad is projected in Michigan, to
run from Grand Haven through Ottawa, Mus.
k,9an, Kent, Mrntcalm, Gratiot, and Sagi-
nav ,ounti,s to East Saginaw.
James Anthony Froude delivered his frs,
lecture in Am, rica in Association Hall, New
Ioik, Thursday evening TO IA large audience
A Mrs. Stanley Of West Virginia, who has
seen nlnen -tight years, has figured up three
hundr and thirty six descendants, and there
are two States Yet to hear from.
The physicians called in the trial of Laura
Fair az " itlesSes have submitted bills for the
approval of Judge Ri rdun To the tune of 500
Per day, or from 500 10 5000 each.
A canal 10 connec the Tennessee river with
the Atlantic ocean at Savannah, G D., is pro.
posed, in iurtheraIlcc ut which the pfoprie-
tors d, sire governmental aid to the extent vi
SIT 100000
No credence il given in New York to the
assertion OF one ST. CLAIR, an alle4 ed newspa-
per REPORTER, that he saw Fisk wi pistol IN
Iii, hand al The time Stokes murdered the lat
ter.
a father living in Titusville, who has two
or ,hr,e Nety t0urtablr Rnis. placed IA noiict
on his front door one night, which read
"Shut du~n for thirty days. No stove in III,
parlor ana but one lamp.'
! California has a milkman who in 1856 SOLD
| the tactical fluid from two cans lie carrir'
| about the streets suspen'l' d from his shout
| ders. He now owns loo Devon and Al
derney cows. and his property is assessed al
| $500, 600.
A profane journalist is good enough 10 say
that a someu hat illiterate gentleman up town
has named his dog Michael Angelo, On the
supposilion that NJ. A was one OF the oil.
| mastiffs.
Judge Marsh of lIinesburg is the oldes
| mt mber of tie Vermont House OF Represei t
atives, being in his seventy-lhird Year. lii
| was member forty one years ago, ana on'
of his colleagues then was Governor Con
| verse.
| The sadly stricken village of Pesthigo, Wis
| cousin, ha, been rebuilt better than before
| and its mills, schools stores and churches
are agian in operation, promoting the com
fort and happiness of thrifty population.
Hon. James II. IIoyt general superintend
| ent of the New York 4 New Haven railroad
who resigned on the LIST INST, had held ths
position for nineteen years, and during hi
| long administration not n single pass,nge
lost his life by collision Of trains or mismar
| agenent.
Mr.. George VILLAIN Curtis, after person
al examination of the different boards OF eN
aminers lately sitting in the custom hous'
und the new civil service rules, says tia
he is well satisfied with them and their Work
A, entirely white li1n has been capture
ard is rAhI ind In lSuenos Ayres, where slO
000 was offer, d for il by AN English nerehai
| ivr the geological gardens in London.