Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-10-29
GENERAL NEWS.

A Minnesota jury has decided Sunday shaw
ing to be necessity.
Rhode Island has more ealth in proportion
to her population than any other State in the
Union.
1t is said that A. T. Stewart, who recently
embarked at Liverpool in the Scotia, for home,
is dangerously ill.
The National Board of Trade Convention
at Chicago closed it's sessions Saturday, ad-
journing to Baltimore January 2, 1874.
A sweet potato six feet and two inches long
graces the sanctum of the Selma (Ala.) Times,
and the editor has no fear of famine.
The production of anthracite has been great
er this year than last, the increase being about
787, 300 tons.
The total number of miles of railroad upon
which the postal service was established dur
ing the last fiscal year is 1898.
A Chicago druggist asked woman what
she wanted of arsenic, and she replied, II
want it for rats and my old man." Her frank
ness stopped the sale.
Efforts are being made to secure a new trial
for William A. Glover, convicted in January,
1879, for being accessory before the fact of
the Boylston Bank robbery.
In letter to friend, Springfield young
lady states that she is not engaged, but she
sees cloud above the horizon about as large
as mans hand.
There is reason to believe that the statement
that the United States Governme mt has leased
an Island near SANTANA Bay, San Domingo,
for naval station, has some foundation.
Augusta, Ga, is clamoring for a public
laundry because the colored washer women
charge exorbitant prices and wear and lend
to their relatives, for Sunday outings, the
clothes of their customers.
All the assistants in the offices of the United
States Circuit and District Courts of Memphis
have died with yellow fever. The principals
all being out of the city, it is presumed their
Offices are now closed.
The Indiana Quakers have yielded to very
sensible change in their discipline All re-
strictions in relation to marrying out of the
Society have been swept away, and Friends
in Indiana are not now liable to discipline for
doing SO.
The consumption of alcoholic beverages
used to average ten gallons per head of the
population in Sweden, but under judicious
excise laws have reduced to exactly that of
Scotland, which is two gallons each for every
man, woman and child.
The owner Of a new moustache was on the
train down yesterday morning. He gave up
all his attention to his lip. First he would
push the contents upward, and then stroke
them downward. Again he would pull out
the ends, and go through motions calculated
to make it part in the middle. Finally
bushy- bearded man in a seat opposite leaned
across the aisle, and observed in a friendly
whisper, yet loud enough to be heard through
the car: "DOn't you want to get one or two
good hairs to breed from2"
In one of the public schools of South Boston
the head master has for several weeks been
confined to his house by typhoid fever, and
during that time his salary, as was right, has
been allowed to 60 on, his duties being &C
ceptably performed by two female teachers.
Owing largely to their increased labors, the
two female teachers have been taken ill and
are now confined to their beds. Their sala-
ry, like the m aster's, goes on, but unlike him
they are each obliged to pay So day for
substitute. The South Boston Inquirer asks,
"How is this for justice ?"-Herald