Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-16
GENERAL NE VS..

Milwaukee girls have abandoned leap frog
and taken to croquet.
1t is estimated that in Minnesota alone there
are 5000 sufferers from the grasshopper
plague.
"Unmanned by the loss of her husband" is
the newest style of Indicating widows grief.
gun standing in the corner of room in
house at Monravia Ind, was fired off by
electricity during thunderstorm a few days
ago.
on Sunday killed her husband and seriously
wounded her two little children.
Kate Stoddard, alias Lizzie King, was be-
fore the Court Sessions of Brooklyn Monday
and behaved in a most giraffe manner.
Only So a week for board at the Bay of
Fundy, Nova Scotia. One needn't be very
tundy to stop there for while.
A post-mortem examination of the remains
of the late General Cowdin showed that his
death was caused by cancer in the stomach.
In the South, says the Chicago Tribune, a
colored mans fancies lightly turn to thoughts
of the Legislature, aristocratic family rela-
tons and blue blood.
Advices from Cuba state that Dockray, the
American prisoner, has been tried, convicted
and sentenced to death.
The Jail at Mankato is undergoing repairs
and in the meantime the troublesome prison
ors contemplate the beauties of nature while
chained to telegraph poles
The anniversary of the Battle of Boyne was
celebrated by parades in Boston, Philadelphia
and Montreal. Tie only disturbance was in
the latter city, where the badges were torn
from their coats.
"Sad thing to lose your wife," said friend
to a Vermonter, who stood at the grave of his
wife. "Well, tolerahly sad,' replied the
mourner. "but then, her clothes just fit my
Oldest girl
A very sad shooting accident occurred in
Boston Monday afternoon. Mrs. Margaret
w. Smith of the Charlestown District, while
in an auction room on fremont street was
and a half years of age.
Chicago has had searching analysis of its
household groceries, and one Of the city pa
pers now learnedly discourses of wood for
tea, peas for coffee, plaster for baking pow
der, lard for batter, and chemicals for syrup.
A mathematical professor, in Sacramento
high school, calculates that if each mosquito
and gnat in that city should in one night OBJ.
tain one tenth of drop of human blood for
supper, every person in the town would be
dead in the morning.
California paper says that twenty years
ago Senator of the Commonwealth re-
marked: 81 would not give six bits for all
tine agricultural land in California" This
year the State will harvest wheat enough to
load a thousand ships, each of a thousand
tons burden, and have enough left for home
consumption.
1t is reported that large numbers of dead
fish are found floating in the waters or lying
on the shores Of Lake Champlain, in the vi
cinity of the railroad operations on the west
side. These fish were undoubtedly killed by
the conclusions produced by the tremendous
blasts that are occasionally exploded in the
rock work on the margin of the lake.
A farmer in Assyria Mich, while blowing
through mound recently, took Off in one
furrow the heads of seven buried skeletons.
On excayating, theremains of twenty in
viduals were found buried in a sitting posture
with numerous silver ornaments bearing in
scriptions in unknown characters.