Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-16
GENERAL NEWS.

Florida papers report an almost total failure OF
the sponge crop.
| Wild duck are very numerous in Lake Cham
plain, and deer are abundant in the Adirondack
| The strike of the coal miners in Hooking Val
| ley, Ohio, has terminated in victory for the
miners.
An old man says "Were it not for pretty dar-
tiers, Cupid would have no darts"
A Kansas wife with the help of three daughters
has made more money this year raising silk than
her husband with three boys in raising good
wheat crop.
| Forty-.wo dead bodies have already been taken
out of the colliery at Seraing, Belgium, where q
fearful explosion of fire damp occurred on Thur.
day.
| Capt Cook Of the Yale navy has already begun
to train his crew for next years regatta by giving
them an informal row of about five miles every
afternoon.
The tomb of cx-President Zachary Taylor, near
Louisville Ky, has been thoroughly repaired az
ter having been entirely neglected for years.
Anthony Comstock of New York has achieved
triumph; through his fundamentally nineteen
indictments have been found against dealers in
obscene literature.
Egypt will probably soon become an importan,
exporter Of salt to India. Since the first of May
last six thousand tons of that article, produced by
the new salt pans at Suez, have been exported to
Calcutta.
The New York Commercial announces the fail
ure Of S. NJ Beard, Sons & Co. formerly Beard
$500, 007-assets undetermined. The house for
IL l,,A
tension.
The Rev. Mr.. Mobiles, Free Methodist of Port
age, Wisconsin, has bought steamer, and runs
her up and down the Wisconsin river, holding re-
vival meetings at every landing.
Mrs. Williams, formerly the wife Of the late
Stephen A. Douglas, has ordered the pictures
which her first husband collected in Europe to be
sold. They are now being arranged and cata-
logued.
The invitations to a ball to be given in subter-
rsnean chamber in Leavcnworth Co., Col, stated
that "thc dancing would be continued until ten
boxes of wax candles had been consumed"
A romantic story is told Of Cuban woman,
who with her son of "A years, commands u de-
tachment of the rebel army. She leads the insur-
gents in person, dressed in q riding habit, and
mounted on fine horse, and is as brave as lion.
"Was the crowd tumultuous = inquired one
man Of another who had just come from a mass
meeting. TOO multuous," replied the other.
Oh no, just about multuous enough TO comforta-
bly, fill the hall
A boy was sent for doctor, his mother being
very i'll, when, looking down the street, he saw q
great crowd. Then came struggle between duty
and curiosity; but he finally started for the crowd
saying 1.-THE old lady's pretty badly off, but
know she wouldn't want me TO miss that fight"
Mr.. Geo. Harris graduate Of the Yale Divinity
School last May, died in New Haven on Monday
week. He was remarkable student. Totally
blind, he had acquired an education which placed
him in advance Of nearly all of his fellow-stc-
dents. lie was thoroughly interested in all kinds
Of ngclical and charitable work as If he could
see the world he worked in.
Englshmen generally doubt the propriety Of a
gift of statue Of Stonewall Jackson to the