Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-03
GENERAL NEKS.

GENERAL NEWS.
The value of the wheat crop of California,
for the year 1872 was, in round numbers,
twenty-four millions of dollars. There are
yet millions of acres Of good wheat land In
that State, which have never been touched
by the plough.
The number of miles Of railroad in opera.
ton in this country is something like sixty
thousand.
The late Lord Lytton left written ipjunc.
ton that after death, or presumed death, his
body should be allowed for three days to lie
untouched upon his bed, and then should be
examined by medical men, who should cert.
fly that life was extinct. This was obeyed.
john Sill, the newly-elected burgess Of
Warren, Pennsylvania, got off an elaborate
poem as an inaugural address, which conclu-
ded with the direful threat that at future day
The muse will tune his song again,
And all will feel we labored not In vain.
The Tippecanoe battle-ground, in Indiana,
is to be surrounded with $4,000 fence.
Out in Illinois married woman can now
be sued for debt. The ladies look upon the
idea as detrimental to their happiness.
Prof. Dimond Of Dartmouth college has
had an apoplectic fit at Washington, while
lobbying for the agricultural college bill. 1t
is hoped the moral will be found and needed
Rev. George H. Hepworth has lost his
health since he changed his religion, and has
gore up among the SHOWS and cold of New
Hampshire to get it back.
Simon Brown, for many years editor of the
New England Farmer, in 1855 lieutenant
governor, and since, the occupant of various
small state and local Offices, died at his home
in Concord on Wednesday, at the age of GO.
Indiana has greatly improved her divorce
laws recently, and the serious apprehension
felt some time ago that there soon wouldn',
be half dozen married men and women left
in the State is said to be rapidly subsiding."
Louisville Courier Journal.
The only autographs that Tyndall left were
attached to checks for the benefit of public
institutions and societies.
Mr.. Hear, of Massachusetts, deprecates
the prohibition Of Government publication of
works and documents for free distribution,
on the ground that In such an event 'the
country would be delivered over to the con.
troll of the newspapers"
A Sheriff in Florida, who was called upon
to resign, wrote back: "Your communica.
ton received, stating that my resignation
will meet the approval of the Governor. 1t
does not meet NINE"
Out in Savona, a village in Steuben coun.
ty, N. r., twenty-five ladies attempted to
break up a billiard saloon by taking their
knittieg there. The result was bigger run
of custom than ever. 1t 10 fair to presume
there were a great many kiss-shots made.
The Bank Of England covers Eve acres of
ground. and employs nine hundred clerks.
There are no windows on the street. Light
is admitted through open courts; no mob
could take the bank, therefore, without can
non to batter the immense walls. The clock
in the centre Of the bank has fifty dials at
tached'to it. Large cisterns are sunk in the
court, and engines, in perfect order, are al
ways in readiness In case of fire. This bank
was incorporated in 1894. Capital, 800, ooO,-
600.
In March, 1868, an American Express
Company messenger was robbed near Cincin-
natl ofnearly twenty thousand dollars BY Lew
Dolman. Subsequently Dolman went to St.
Louis, and, while attempting to rob a house
in the suburbs, was shot and killed by q de.
tective. Dolman left considerable property,
and the express company brought suit against
the Public Administrator to recover. The
suit was decided on Monday by Judge Prim
giving judgment in favor Of the plaintiffs for
$4,000.
An inventory taken of the late Edward
Forests personal estate shows tina. he had
property valued at $3.50, 1856; over slOo, 900
ia securities, on deposit, stocks, etc. jewel
ry, S4,07l: paintings, $4,000; and $7,S57
for books.
Rev. Thomas Guthrie 10 dead. He was
Scottish clergyman and author.
The jameson 0uasds hare jsst dsdiesssd
thsir new asnory.