Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-10-01
General News.

Indiana has q large crop Of sugar cane this sea-
| son.
"Blue Jeans w iams is to speak for Bishop
in Ohio.
Eight thousand two hundred and thirty one
dogs fell victims to the dog law during the sum
mer in New York city.
The democrats of Holmes county, Miss, which
gave Mr. Tilden $50 majority last November,
have nominated colored man for the Legislature.
A family residing near the Lebanon Valley
Railroad Pennsylvania, is composed of three blind
old ladies and the son of one Of them who has
been an invalid over 80 years.
A Baltimore lawyer sued his m mister for fee
of $50 for legal sergi ices, and the jury found that
he was worthy of his hire. The clergyman tes-
titled that he consulted him as friend and q
member of his congregation, and that he did not
expect to be charged for it.
The war correspondent of the London News
says that at the battle near Kazelvo, where the
Russians were defeated, "a Russian officer, who
was observed gallantly endeavoring to rally the
men, was killed, and the body, when subsequent.
ly discovered, proved 10 be that of a woman She
was buried where she fell"
Forty years ago G. NJ. Gllispie, now of Kansas
courted Miss Ann Wilson, of Bourbon, Ky. She
refused him, and he went West married and
raised large family. His wife died aud he came
back few days ago and married his still waiting
first sweetheart. He Is now scventy-two and she
sixty.six.
The GOTTA of Mgr de Laval de Montmorency,
the first Catholic Bishop of Quebec, and indeed of
North America, was discovered by some workmen
recently who were cxcavating the basement OF
the Bssilica Of that city. He was born in Maine,
France, in 1923 and died in 1908.
s. Giovanni Mussida, an Italian philosopher
and writer, recently put the finishing touch to the
last volume OF work he has been writing. and
exclaimed 81 have concluded; now may die -
Soon after he expired from paralysis OF the heart
la accordance with his desire, as member OF the
Cremation Society, his body was burned.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spotford, it is noted by a
writer in Wide Awake relentlessiy refuses to have
taken any sort of pictured scmbance of herself.
No entreatcs prevail upon her to be photo
graphed 1t is only by words that her readers
can ever get any idea Of the beautiful eyes, the
soft brown hair, the dainty, delicate grace and
charm of this reserved little New England wo-
man.
Captain Julius d. Rhodes, who is to dive from
the Suspension Bridge at Niagara, height
of 1914 feet, is a native Of Sprngville, a medium
sized sinewy man with Burnside whiskers. He
has made sixty-nine high leaps of all sort., dives
for glory and Hnds no trouble in initiating and
emptying his lungs speaking during the trip in
the air, and can guide himself with his legs. The
sensation when falling is, he says, ndescribable.
Walter Chaplin, Jeiseyman, sixty five years
Of age, is at Ticonderoga engaged in his fifth at
tempt to find a box containing SsS5 900 in specie,
which he claims was hidden at Osmand's Bay in
l759 by the French paymasters who had to desert
the Montcam He settled the precise spot by use
of old charts and divining-ro and at depth of
fifteen feet struck upon something of wood and
iron which he believes to be the box He has
/ mortgaged his farm and put the proceeds into his
search, so that it is Of life and death with
him.