Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-10-21
GENERAL NEWS,

At last account 800 vessels weIe building a
Glasgow ON the Clyde, half of which will b.
| steamers.
The courts have decided that a man car
! pick all the fruit from his trees, though il
hangs over a neighbours land.
Ardverikie castle, formerly the residence O
| the Duke of Abercorn, has been destroyed by
| fire. Many works of art, including numer-
Gus etchngs by Landscer, were lost.
Ex.Queen Isabella of Spain has left Pari.
for while, but her whereabouts are known
by detectives who have been put upon hel
track by trades people who have little ac
counts against her.
Congressman Morey of the committee or
| levees, after inspecting the European system
concludes that ours is the most effective.
| The Rev. Father Paolo Grassi, late incum
bent of the Basilica Ssnto Maria Maggiore
| in Rome, recently recanted his former faith
and was bap.ised as Baptist.
Wild ponies have been discovered on the
eastern coast of Maryland, being the progeny
of pair of horses which escaped from the
wreck Of an English ship there some 200 years
ago.
Major Deschamp, who was famed as the
most rabid and implacable of the Partisan
Communist, is now marine in the United
States service, and is stationed at the Brook
Ign Navy Yard
The Troy Press says that by the action of
the iron works in that city in suspending work
3605 men will be thrown out of employment,
who are paid sl74, 900 per month.
Mark Twain is building a new house at
Hartford, the style of which is Undesirable,
being sort of cross between Mexican adobe
hut and Swiss cottage. 1t is built of brick
and will cost about $40, 900.
An editor in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was
asked by stranger if it was possible that lit
tie town kept up four newspapers, and the re-
ply was. mo, it takes four newspapers, to
keep up the town."
lobster supposed to be more than nun.
dred years old was brought up in net in
Plymouth Sound, England, last June. 1t was
more than three feet in length, weighed fifteen
pounds, and was covered with barnacles.
painful story comes from Nebraska,
where prairie fire swep: over large extent
of territory, and encircling ten school child
rem, fatally burned six, while one mother per-
ished in efforts to succor her child.
1t is reported that costly goods are being re-
shipped to Europe, because there is no mar
ket for them in this country at present. Silks,
satins, velvets, laces and ribbons are chief
among these re- shipments.
woman recently called on Lawrence
dentist, and after producing a set of teeth,
which she said once belonged to deceased
aunt, wanted to know if they couldn't be made
over for her. The dentist gave the plate
gentle twist and handed it back to the woman,
who departed smiling and satisfied.
Guam is now declared to be the result of
the accumulation of FOSSIL marine plants and
animals whose organic. matter has been trans
formed into heterogeneous substance, leaving
the mineral part behind. 1t was originally
deposited on the sea-bottom, being brought to
the surface by the upheaval of the islands
upon which it is found.
touching incident is reported from Chat
tanooga. An utter stranger called on re-
spectacle farmer, recently, and asked him if
his house had not been robbed during the war
The farmer replied that it had. 81" said the
stranger, was one of the marauding party that
did it. took little locket." "That locket,"
said the farmer, bursting into tears, chad
been worn by my dear, dear child" "IIere
it is" replied the stranger. ysibly affected
81 am rich; let me make restitution. Here
is $50 for your little son." He gave the
farmer a $50 bill, and received $50 in change.
lie then wrung the farmers hand warmly and
left. The farmer has since dried his tears
and loaded his shot-g The $50 bill was
bad.
At the Michigan horse fair, held ut Grand
Rapids recently, there were entries of 23S