Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-08-28
GENERAL Ne us.

jean Ingelow says the "g" in her name is soft
The Bank of England has reduced its rate o.
discount TO per cent, and cannot get any busi-
ness even at that figure.
America is ahead of the world in the manuiac-
turc of axes, and the American shape 10 being
adopted everywhere.
A Mr. Houghton of Crawford county. Ind.'
who took part in q lynchng year ago and lately
turned States evidence, was severely punished on
Sunday night by masked men.
There is general rejoicing in New England
over the recent change in the weather Such a
long term OF hot, sultry weather as marked the
first three weeks in August is rarely experienced.
Mr.. Thomas Taylor, head of the microscopic
bureau of the Agricultural Department at Wash
ington, has discovered animal starch in the human
blood. The discovery is considered an important
one by medical gentlemen, as revealing the cause
of fermentation of the blood.
The death of Mrs. Magoon, which occurred at
Raymond, n. H., some little time ago, and con-
corning which there has been some suspicion,
proves to have been a case of poisoning. Mr..
Magoon ard a woman named Gardner are under
arrest.
The cultivation of fruits and vegetables for the
Northern market is becoming an important indus
try at the South. In the past three weeks a thou
sand barrels of apples have been shipped every
day to the West and East from Memphis. The
average price is So per barrel.
The monthly agricultural report indicates that,
notwithstanding the very exceptional weather of
the year and the ravages of numerous pests, the
yield in cereals will be good and the potato pro-
duct extraordinary.
Captain Webb has succeeded in swimming from
Dover to Calais; and this is certainly great feat
and exhibits the wonders of which human endur-
ance and strength are capable. h is, perhaps, not
so useful an achievement as Boyton's, for Webb
cannot communicate his faculty to others for the
price OF an India rubber suit but it is far supe-
rior as an evidence of human capabilty to wrestle
with adverse circumstances Every one must re-
joice in one aspect Of the case. 1t seems to hold
out the promise that we have at last got rid of
Leander and Lord Byron as the typical great
swimmers. Who will dare to mention the swim
ming over the Hellespont now that man has
swum across the English Channels
A. p. Rogers of Anoka, MIMI, writes to the
Pioneer Press in regard to the history of William
Morgan. lie states that his father was mission
about 1880, onward and visited all the settlements
in that district; that one day he came upon a
cabin in the woods inhabited by solitary man
he subsequently often saw this man, whom he
thought he knew, and whom he eventually recog-
nized as Morgan. He had known Morgan earlier
in life. Morgan finding himself recognized left
the neighborhood secretly.
Mr.. Joseph Hahn, who lives near Marine City
Michigan, had got down about l25 feet with his
artesian well when he struck geyser In the
twinkling of an eye, upon the removal of the au-
ger, the wooden tubing shot out Of the well like
stone driven from a catapult, followed by a vol.
ume of gas, water, gravel and mud that rose full
| 200 feet into the air, while the trembling earth
| the roaring torrent and the descending debris
made Mr.. Hahn and his CO laborers think they
had struck the regions internal Stones weighing
from ten to twenty pounds were projected into the
air, and some Of them fell crashing through the
roof OF MIR. llahn's house, near by; in fact, the
family were obliged to seek shelter at neighbours,
| for human life was not safe moment in the farm
house. In the neighborhood of MIR. Hahn's farm
a stone large or small, was rarely found but now
they can be taken away by the carload.