Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-11-06
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Anna Dickinsons price i0x--lccturing this
season is $500 per lecture.
A recent fire at Valparaiso destroyed $780,.
900 worth of property.
In Nashua there is general reduction o.
help being made throughout the mills ant
shops.
The composition of ink has not changed ir
the las, nine hundred years.
Gen. Sam Houston always had on his man.
tel in his parlor written notice that Seen
Houston retires at nine o'clock every even
ing"
One of the offices of the Eastern Railroad
depot in Boston, Mass, was robbed Sunday
of 1920 worth of way station tickets.
An Illinois eucbre-player left church in a
huff, because the choir sung hymn beginning
"Where are Thy bowers?"
Coffee from persimmon seeds is the article
for the manufacture of which company is to
be formed in Georgia.
The International Bridge, at Fort Erie,
Canada, was formally opened for traffic Mon
day. Several passenger and freight trains
crossed.
The Pacific Mail steamship Ariel, running
between Yokohama and HAkodadi, has been
wrecked; the passengers were saved.
The creditors of Claain & Co. have agreed
to gire tina, firm Al extension Of four months
and h.lf, and no assistance will be asked OF
the banks.
Prof Lays. balloon ,ha, went up With its
passengers in San Francisco on Saturday.
vas found Monday in San Pablo Bay, near
Vallejo.
AT Savannah, Ga, buyers complain of the
sharp practice which increases the cost but
no, the value of bale of cotton by soaking
portions of il in water.
Jay Cooke & Co. have offered to make set
Elements With a number Of their creditors st
par for their deposits, payments to be made
in Northern Pacific bonds at eighty-f five cents.
The Duke of Cambridge vents his spite on
army officers who write for newspapers by or
iering as many of them as possible to join
the Ashantee expedition.
1t is proposed to establish q bank in New
in the grain business, with capital of $780,
300.
Irving. who processes to know all about the
Nathan murder, is said to have recently made
a confession, many points of which have been
verified.
A crazy woman in Georgia recently mount
I'd a locomotive which was standing unattend-
ed, and ran it until the steam gave out-ffty-
FIVE miles.
The North Bridgewater Press says the shoe
report brighter prospects gem
orally, and some fair orders coming in.
Dayton, Ohio, is unhappy because it spends
annually one million of dollars for whiskey
alone in bar-rooms, and only four hundred
and sixty-two thousand dollars for -four. 1t
is evident that bread is not the staff Of life in
that city.
A Texas ne wspaper heads an account of an
opening mass meeting of the campaign in that
State in this way; "Tracy cuts out the work
of the campaign-be arraigns everybody
Mr.. Tracys impartiality ought to insure a
lively canvass.
The brick chimneys of the new San Fran
cisco Mint are turning beautiful green.
This peculiar color is occasioned by using
saltwater brick, or brick made of clay taken
from salt marshes, which the acids used in the
laboratory thus discolor.
The Postmaster-G General has decided that
postal cards may not be rendered in payment
of unpaid or short-paid mail matter, and that
to afix printed matter, as a slip from a news
paper, to postal card, whether with or with
out writing on the same, is to make the card
liable to letter postage.
Mr.. Meacham, Peace Commissioner to the
Indians, declared in a lecture recently de-
livered at San Francisco, that devout Modoc
firmly believes that where man is born he
must also die if he would prevent his soul and
body from wandering disconsolated in the
happy hunting grounds. On this ground he
accounts for the determination of these In
dams not to leave the Lost River country.
The largest cargo of wheat ever foated was
that lately shipped from San Francisco to
Liverpool on the Three Brothers. This ship
is the old steamer Vanderbilt, lately of the
United States Navy, made into sailing yes
sci. She has on board 4,396A tons of grain.
Before this historic ship took her cargo, that
once carried by the Baltic-34 900 tons--was
the largest ever taken from an American
port.