Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-10-02
GENERAL NEWS.

A minister recently lost $50 in game of
three cards monte in Omaha, and did not dis
cover until the game was over that the BROTH
er he was playing with was Canada Bill.
Sunday was memorable day with the Ply
mouth church in Brooklyn and its pastor
1t was Mr.. Beecher's first appearance in his
pulpit since the beginning of summer, and he
received greeting that a sovereign might
envy. During his vacation evidently he has
been studying human character very closely,
so he had something to say about its develop
ment and its relation to the destiny of man.
His text was very significant one for the occa-
sion, and his statement that 'the time will
come when all lives will have their golden
threads running through them must have
aroused the longings of many hearts in his
congregation for that 'happy time" The flu
ture of man, as a son and companion of God
and an equal with him, as portrayed by Mr..
Beecher, is certainly sublime enough to make
careless natures pause and think what they
are and whittier tending.
Telegraph offices all over the country are
being filled with female operators, and good
ones they make.
There is widow in England, twenty -four
years of age, who enjoys an income of S22,-
600 year. She has no other incumbrance.
We see an account of romantic marriage
Of Geographic operators. A telegraph clerk
in London, who was engaged on wire to
Berlin, formed an acquaintance with, an at
tachment for-mark the official style of the
language-a female clerk who worked on the
same wire in Berlin; he made proposal of
marriage to her, and she accepted him with
out having seen him. They were married,
and the marriage resulting from the electric
aftinties is supposed to have turned out as
well as those in which the senses are more
reader run away with the idea that these
young persons were very rash or that they
married without due acquaintance. For 1t is
fact that a clerk at one end Of wire can
readily tell, by the way in which the clerk at
the other end does his work, whether he is
passionate or sulky, cheerful or dull, sanguine
or phlegmatic, ill-natured or good natured.
The oil men have resolved to suspend all
pumping of wells, and all further drilling,
for thirty days. A rise in the price is expec
ted immediately
The republicans Of Nashville, Tenn, have
triumphed in the election of their Mayor.
1t is hard to respect old age when one gets
sold on venerable pair of chickens.
The tabulation of statistics Of the manufac-
lures of the United States for the year end
ing June /, 1870, has just been given the
| public. 1t shows that the number of estab-
| ishments is 252, l4S; the average number of
| hands employed during the year, 2,053, 9sS,
| of whom l,Gl5 1914 were males above l6 years
of age, 1923, 7G9 females above Is and ia, 626
children and youth; the amount of capital
invested, 81, IFS, PAT ,O69, and of wages paid,
$775 ,G2l ,593; the value of materials con-
sumed, So, Asa, 29l 1852, and ofproducts, ST.
1872 ,625. 1872.
Boston is to have a new weekly CONNER
cial paper called the Boston Journal Of Com
meIce.
This is the worst year that has ever been
known in Kansas for pulling guns out of wag-
ons muzzle first. A woman in Jewell county
has just pulled one, and now has to part her
hair on the side that her only arm is on.
A young man at Ergisch, Switzerland, re-
Gently stabbed his father in drunken rage.
The parent, feeling the wound to be mortal,
called his son to him, forgave him, pointed
out the best means of escape, gave him some
money and expired.
| The bureau of statistics has just published
| its fourth annual list of American vessels,
| which shows an increase of over twenty mine
| hundred craft of all classes during the fiscal
year ending last June.
News comes of great destruction of cattle
in Siberia by the cattle disease.
They continue to pick up the body of one
or two ''unknown persons" daily, floating in
the New York city docks.