Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-12-06
GENERAL We VS..
Vice President Wilson's life was insured 70
.

Vice President Wilson's life was insured for
$500
The total value Of William B. Astor's estate is
probably not above Si5,000,0 00
The Hon. Ira Harris died at Albany and Il. W
Stroud, canal commissioner, at Syracuse, Thurs
day morning.
Men with property complain most Of poverty
The man unable to collect rent thinks himself
poorer than he who cannot pay it.
Francis Scott Keys admirers in Frederick
Mary land, are making another vigorous effort to
raise funds for a monument to his memory.
1t is rumored that Prof. Goodwin Smith will
purchase the Toronto Mail and make il an advo-
cate of Canadian independence.
Rice stubblc is to be utilized in Louisiana
marketable product. 1t is said to have no equal
as fodder for CATTLE containing more nutriment
than oats Nearly all kinds of cattle cat it with
avdhy.
1t is reported that several well-krown men O.
New York have determined to send an expedition
to the Arctic regions carly next spring in search
Of the records hidden by Sir John Franklin.
A bachelor returning from ball, in a crowded
coach, declared with groan that he had not the
slightest objection to "rings lis fingers but
he had most unequivocal aversion to "becs on
his toes"
A lost child in New York when asked by Il
policeman what his fathers business was, replied
that he kept store where be gave tickets to peo-
pie who told him their dreams. This description
led to the breaking up of o policy shop i'll the
seventeenth ward.
| This from Boston, She came out Of Music
Hall last Sunday, her intellectual countenance
beaming with unusual excitement, and, as she
took the proffered arm of her escort we heard
her exclam in an ecstatic tone, "Oh! Henry.
wasn't that the boss praysrf'
In New York, Wednesday night, monster
named Patrick Toolcy baptized his wife with kerr
osene and then, in spite of her pleadings, deliber-
ately set her on fire. The poor woman suffered
inexpressibie torture until she expired
The Centennial Committee on the Opening Ger
emonies have selected as orator William NJ.
Evarts, II. W. I.ongfelow as poet, and a grandson
of Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, as reader Of
the American Declaration Of Independence.
The result of the late fall in Louisiana i, that for
the first time in many years the bolls on the Sec
ond growth Of cotton give certain promise Of
opening. In some cases this viii enable planters
to exc out their small crops, but the river planters
have all they can take care of without the second
growth.
Henry Wilson's property, it is said. will not ex-
coed $4,000 in amount, and he bequeathed it all
IN trust for his mother-in- and adopted daugh-
ter He laid up but small treasure in this life,
and there was nothing of outward magpifcence or
grandeur about his way of living. His library is
but small and many of the books were given to
him.
CLUSTERS" prevail, but the name is rather too
much for the comprehension of all. Where did
you get that Ulcer oveicoat :" asked an old gen.
teman of his son. Coax Hall: fifteen dollars y
was the reply The object Of this relation is, not
to notice Oak Hall, but to announce that, although
they may be called "Ulcers,' there is nothing the
matter with them, the garments themselves de-
serving their popularity. That i. the Ulste,io,
| object