Daily Kennebec journal., 1875-11-04
GENER1L NETS.

field, Illinois, walks ont occasionally, anu appears
10 have improved in health.
A Kentucky justice has decided that ii Is Eot ie-
"a, for farmer to hitch his wife up with mule,
no matter how anxious he is to plough
"My onthankful hearers said backwoods
preacher, 'you air like onto hogs eatin' acorns.
They never look up to see where tSe acorns come
from
\ lazy mau's chUrn has been invented in |eI
mont. /. is adjusted to a wagon, and all man
ha. to DO is 10 drive down for the mail and when
he gets back toe butte: has come.
Ms Rapp. convicted in s.. Paul Of paiteip1-
ton in a mHtdcf. has been sentenced to imrf-on'
ment Tor life, twelve days in each year to be spent
in dak cell
Somebody write, TO IN, london Telegraph that
Millions house Is rev occupied by i*hm9pger
who ras placed over his shop front tl'e words
",rhc Noted Fried Fish shop
\ cable despatch from Cairo states that the
Egyptian arnly has entered Abyssinia, and that
the Abys.inans show no iigat, bat are retreahn@
before the invading enemy.
There Is great distress in the ron trade in Eng
land, and the large iron producers, Bockow,
Vaughn x c o., who employ nearly ten thousand
titled thcir employees that their engagements
must ten inmate on November Is. The depression
in the trade cblgcs these large producers to close
no their works They can make more money 10y
remaining idle than by continuing their business
at the present time.
Thr recently discovered coal deposits n Arhan-
.sas ard Utah promise 70 be OF great utility In
Arkansas. the coal is excellent and well adapted
t. thc making of coke The veins are from four
to seven feet in thickness, and the coal sem-bitum-
inous. and improves ia quality the deeper II Is
mined. For manufacturing purposes 1t Is intsflcr
to none. anl for the making Of ga i, is Of about
the same value rs Pttshurg coal. The deposits
in I tab yield coal which has already made the
manufacture of coke a successful inJastry IN that
region.
The unfortunate Nngiuii Cty is salt 10 be MS
ing rapidly from is ashes Battling is sad to he
going on in al! directions and temporary shant'os
are sprinsipg up over the burned district. Relief
i arriving freely, the spirits CT the people are re-
vvng, the insurance companies are paying taet
lo>se. ia cash prom lily, there is plenty OF work a
good pay, and as the mines have so fortunately
escaped the city i'll soon rally from the terrible
blow il received
Moody and sanhey wan; the l2th of November
for a fast day.
. Western Virgn is said to possess nearly one
half Of the sulI u hard woods to be found in this
country.
An extensive vein OF magnetic iron ole, over
nine feet in thickness has been discovered in BerAs
county, Pennsy lvania.
Victor Hugo has in his dining room an old char
which belonged to his father and in which he al
lows no person to sit.
The King Of Greece decorated all tie members
Of the Prince Of Wales party On the occasion Of
their recent brief visit at Athens en- route to In
dia
Miss Elo.e1ce Nightingale regrets that ii IS in
possible ioi her to attend the Bslaaaya banquet
s!e has been fcI years II,sercr 10 her room
from lEess and oyerwok.
Between lSQc and 1900 buildings have been put
up in Chicago since the great fire, Tie estimated
COS, of which aggregates between sixteen and
eighteen millions Of dollars.
Florida has the largest crcp Of olaaces this year
that Lareyer teen Known there, and the, growers
propose to g,t them to market without the aid o.
middlcmcn. That means cheap oranges
Mr. Plimsoll, tie sailors Friend" is at pres
ent going the round of the Black Sea ports to see
how the recent enactment against the loading Of
grain cargoes in bulk is enforced.
A London letter .ays Compliments are rife
in Berlin tlat there is no money 10 be Lent, that
bank notes are scarce, ard is not only the duty
but the interest of the Government TO prevent a
massacre of ade for the wait of currency.
| At St. Helena, Nevada, the other day, cata-
mount made a leap for young child playing in
J the yard of its fathers house, near Sugar Loaf
Mountain, when faithful bull dog interftred,
and after short fight the caamount gladly took
to a tree where he was afterwards shot.
| John Arnold Lilly, an undergraduate of Cam
/ bridge University, England, and the son of a cler
CONAN, has been sentenced to six months hard
labor for having stolen gold nugget, silver
coin and other articles, from the Albeit Memo
rial Museum in Exeter.
The Rev. John c. Foster of New London
Conn, while driving the other day was stopped by
a man who rushed screaming before his horse, ev'
idently to lighten him. Mr.. Foster leared out
/ knocked the fellow down, and then shook him ur
! in way to make his teeth chatter. Theroverend
gentleman then quietly drove on.
| A large bear that is kept exhibition AT one
Of the parks in Sacramento, Cal. escaped from hi:
pen the other evening, and set out in the direc-
| ton Of an cnclc sure where number Of tame deel
were feeding. Seeing him coming the deei
leapcd their fence and ran at full speed down one
of the city streets, but were afterward caught The
bear, when weary of roaming about, crawled vol
unfairly INTO his pen again ard let his keeper,
la.ten him in.
Among the various projects connected with oui
great centennial celebration Of American Inde
pendencc, is one originating in France, for the
commcmoration Of the ancient friendship between
the two nations. 1t is proposed TO erect q
! small island in New FORK harbor a colossal statute
of "Liberty enlightening the World" the statue
to be presented by citizens of France, and the pc
destal to be furnished by Americans Not only
will this be monument of the friendship long ex
isting between ;he countries Of Lafayette anC
Washington, but it will also serve as beacon t.
the mariners Of every nation who come to thi
continent
II. A. 3. CHANDLER