Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-11-07


Potatoes IN large quntites coming from the
British Provinces.
Commodore Vanderbilt continues TO improve
His physicians say he is gaining strength.
Gen. Sheridan is going buffalo hunting on the
plains with divers Austrians of most mounla noas
rank.
George II. Pendleton of Ohio has bought a lot
at Newport, Il L. and will erect summer cottage
there.
An srmorp plate twenty -four inches thick has
been rolled by John Brown & Co. of Sheffield.
1t is the thickest in the world and believed to be
artillery proof
An old gentleman who is getting chin at the
top says: always pick out bald headed bar
Der to shave you, because he can't consistently
ask you to buy any hair restorative.
Importation of potatoes from Great Britain,
Portugal and Greece, as well as the United States
has been forbidden by the Swedish government,
in order to guard against the Colorado beetle.
Dom Pedro is writing a book in regard to his
travels. The first volume will soon be published.
Portuguese is the language in whica he writes
but English and other translations will doubtless
be made.
u
got mixed up with the coal, astonished Balti-
more cook the other day by blowing up the range
tearing through the ceiling, and causing rumpus
generally.
The eccentricty of the late Mr.. Lick wa, once
the cause Of very serious discussion between his
son John and himself which resulted in fierce
quarrel The whole began by the rotting of
some fruit which John had picked for the old gen.
teman but failed to sell.
strange story is told of a horseman on white
charger, who, in the thick of battle between the
Turks and Servians rode in front of a Servian
regiment, and shouted to them to retire. as the
Turks W ere in the rear. The apparition was not
seen again, and proved to have been Turk who
had r,ked his life in the ruse.
Gen. Martinez Campos, who arrived Friday in
Cuba, is deemed the sblest and most energetic
commander in the Spanish army. lie has been
sent out with large requirements in the hope
that he may finally crush the rebellion; but he
will find the Cubans more obstinate and resolute
than the dispirited Csrlists.
At the Grand Opera House in Cincinnati last
week, one of the attendants at a menagerie played
trick upon the elephant. He offered the animal
a quid OF tobacco, which was thankfully received.
Within a quarter of an hour the young gentleman
fell victim to retributive justice. While he was
standing in the center of small group the ele-
plants trunk wound about him and tossed him in
to the air.
Mr.. Bayard Taylor says be entertains high
regard for the successful paragraphist but cannot
find language sufficiently harsh to condemn the
would-be funny writers whose "fun" consists in
making light of the sufferings of others. The
practice of rdcnling mothers-in.law he condemns
as bad one. And that people agree with him
was shown by the applause that met this sentence
in Boston the other night.
Mr.. Moody wears we'll He speaks every night
to thousands, and yet he is listened to as eagerly
now as weeks ago. Every sermon he has preach
ed has been reported, and yet he is driving ahead
into new fields. This preaching a new sermon
every night, week after week, with the privilege
of recurring to familiar illustrations once used, or
to strong sentences and arguments once employed
denied him, is severer test than the masses i'm.
agine. But Mr.. Moody stands the test, and never
fails to interest his large Chicago
Inter Ocean.