Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-11-06
cents barrel, and in Georgia they 90 for twenty

cents barrel, and in Georgia they go for twenty
five cents bushel, with the bag thrown in.
Gen. Sheridan will soon start for buffa 10 hunt
on the plains in company with several Austrians
of high rank who are visiting the United States.
! Chinaman, arrested in San Francisco the
other day, was found to have on a coat Of mail
made of cloth, cotton batting and paper, thick
enough to turn a knife or bullet. 1t also had
pockets for knives and hachets and rings to hang
an iron bar on.
According to the New York Bulletin, Tuesday
will be a business holiday in that city, and notes
due on that day cannot be dshonored until We'd
nesday, the sth inst. In Boston the day will be a
business day, the banks keeping open during the
usual hours.
Springfield youth who was married the other
day gave the officiating clergyman $50 for his
Job, spent fortnight on wedding tour, and then
came home to enjoy the comforts of so cham
Der set, the only furniture be owned, on which he
had paid but $40, and when he Il pay the rest no.
body knows.
Along the Virginia river, in Nevada, are some
of the most remarkable salt formations in the
world. They are mountains Of crystal salt, ex-
tending for more than thirty miles. The salt lies
under shallow covering of earth, and is raised
by blasting Most of it is perfectly pure, and is
so clear that fine letters can be read through
pieces Of it foot in thickness.
| Judge w. X. McAllster's rulings in the Sulli-
van murder trial at Chicago have excited consid-
cradle feeling against that gentleman, and over
1900 citizens have signed petition demanding his
resignation. The papers are publishing mum
har la.t. hna thN lido oil nt
which show an amount Of heated temper which
makes il unsafe to form opinion on the matter
at this distance
An American woman, Mrs Susan Ellis Laura
Smith, believing "that it is the duty of every
member of the human family to devote their
bodies after death to scientific examination until
the principles Of physiological science are thoroug-
ly established has willed her body to the Royal
College of Surgeons of England, to be dissected
Immediately after death. She winds up her tesla
ment with the following clumsy but cheerful per
mission 81 should also wish that if any of my
friends should desire to have remnant of my
said body, they should be at liberty to do So"
/ The government works undertaken for the pro-
lection of the Falls of st. Anthony will be com
pleted about the middle of this month. The i'm
mense wall of solid concrete, which is to prevent
the water from percoating the sand rock aud I'M
dermining the limestone ledge, is nearly finished.
This wall i. ,S15 feet long, extending across the
river and running underneath the bank on each
side. 1t is 20 feet high, seven feet thick at the
base, and four feet nick at the TOP, where it
meets with the ledge over which the waters Of the
Mississippi plunge.
China has its big trees as well as California
About 30 miles from Mike, an avenue of slgi, oil
cedar trees, begins, and, with occa sional bieab
where there is village, it reaches the whole dis
tance to the shrine of Lycyas-the longest avenue
of shade in the world. These great trees are
from five to seven feet in diameter at the base
and tower without branch for so or so feet, and
then lift their heads 40 or so feet higher. They
resemble the giants Of the Yosemite. The trunks
are faultlessly straight and the bark is deeply
veined. There are about 10000 trees on this ave-
nue., and all of them were planted after the foun-
dation of the shrine, about $50 years ago.