Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-05
GENERAL NEWS.

Twenty dollars in greenbacks is the stand
ing price in Savannah for $1,000 in Confeder-
ate notes.
The mills of the Great Falls On. H. Man
ufacturipg Company began running on full
time Monday.
The communion service in Baptist church
at Cambridge was omitted last Sabbath be-
cause some irreverent thief had stolen the
communion silver.
Nearly $1,000, 900 is employed in the man;
ufacture of oil and oil cake from cotton SEED
at New Orleans.
1t is estimated that Cambridge, Vt, has
sent to market during the past seasons 100, :
900 pounds of butter, valued at $4,000.
The attempt to kill Mr.. Coms,ock, the
| agent of the New York Society for the Sup
preston OF Vice, creates great indignation in
New York.
The last seven days of October, 1874, av-
eraged warmer in Boston than the last seven
days of any October--save that Of 1851
within fifty years.
S48, 900 insurance on his life, $4,000 of which
is bequeathed to the New Haven Orphan Asy-
Jun.
Ned Stokes, Fsks murderer, has been in
terviewed, and complains of the asthma. His
hair is perfectly white. He still proclans his
innocence of the murder of Fisk.
peculiar disease having broken out
among the small children in a section q
Wheeling, Va, the people thought they were
bewitched, and resorted to wtchcraft for a
cure.
1t must indeed be dry in Kansas, if it be
true. as local paper says, that "the suffer
ing catfish lies stranded on the olistering bot,
tom of his late happy home, waving his tail
in the crisp breezes as signal of distress"
Carl Schnrz steps upon the platform, for
the first time this season to day. He is en-
gagged for several weeks in the middle States.
Chicago vagrant was about to be con
demned to imprisonment for that he had nc
visible means Of support" INVISIBLE J" cried
the astonshed defendant, as he pulled from
IL
hard, crust of bread; 'Wisible, Judge! ain'l
them wisible?"
! 1t transpires that another English adven-
turer has been "doing" San Francisco. This
time i; is a Lord" and the ladies of Occi-
dental and Lick made much of him. The
| next time Lord comes along, they will
probably wait until the better class of English
gentlemen and ladies receive him.
A San Francisco man has inveRted the toy
| of the period. 1t is called flying top, AID
consists of a little wheel like windmill, fas-
tened on an axle made to revole rapidly by
pulling string. The turning of the wheel
serves to propel the machine. and will carry
it considerable distance, even 200 feet up in
the air.
A party of about twenty men, mostly me-
chanics of this city, sailed on the 24;h of April
for the gold fields of Cayenne. Eight gave
up the project and returned to Boston, two
remained in Cayenne, one party of six started
for the mines through the forest and have not
since been heard from, and the rema ming four
reached the mines, accumulated $500 in gold
dust, were taken sick, started down the river
in boat, which upset, drow ming one Of them
named Bell, and lost all the gold dust. The
survivors, after wandering in the forest fol
three days, were rescued by some French
miners, sent to the hospital in Cayenne and
thence home Boston Globe.