Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-10-04
General News.

The ex queen Isabella Of spain will pass tn
winter in Paris.
A Kentuckian has lain in Jail three weeks undo
refusal to pay his dog tax. oWgaer
The Belgian census, just taken, shows the pop
uation of the country to be 5,336.lS5
About 700 buildings are going up in the burned
district of st. John, 300 of them being OF brick
One of the election scandals in California is the
alleged freeing of criminals from the jail thai
they might vote.
Lower Florida is going largely into banana cul
ture, and lower Mississippi and Louisiana grow
large quantities of oranges.
A Louisiana paper urges John II. Reagan Of
Texas, for the Speakership. He was Postmaster
General Of the Confederacy. We are moving fast
A Troy On. W policeman swore - follows
1.-The prisoner sat on me, calling me ass and an
idiot-all Of which certify to be true"
A Chinese woman is under arrest in San Fran
cisco, charged with terribly manning her little
girls feet to cripple them to fashionable standard
There are now 100 survivors of the famou.
Balaclava charge. The number that answered
the call was COZ; return after the charge, 1893
showing the terrible loss of 400.
Mr.. J.W. DeForest, the novelist, is described
as . dignifed, dark and handsome man of middle
ago. Heis we'll bred, not egothtic, and, while h,
is of reserved and retiring nature, is genia
and charming companion to those who know him
we'll. T. rr..r
Asubscription has been opened in New Orleans
for the benefit of the partly paralyzed and wholly
destitute widow Of Capt. John Wilson, of the brig
Maria Scheefer who rescued in mid ocean COZ
persons from the sinking steamer Connaught.
Where are the grateful 600i
1t is pointed ont that in some of the battles in
the Franco-German war the loss of life was fsl
more considerable than in any of the combats OIL
the present war. At Resonville, between sunrise
and sunset, $1,000 men were killed or wounded
the casualties at Graveotte were over 20, OOO ant
at Sedan alone the Prussian loss was over 10, 900
The soil Of the land in the vicinity of Puge
Sound is found to be surprisingly fertile rivallin,
that Of California in its ability to present the farm
er with enormous vegetables. A cabbage was re
Gently Dissolved which weighed l0S pounds, and
turnip feet IL inches in circumference, which
pulled down the scales to liz pounds.
A large order has been received by a mica con
Germ In New York for plates of mica to 90 +
China. The Chinese use these plates, which ar
about seven inches square, for idolatIous purposes
They paint upon them the likeness of their divini
ties, and reverently adore the same. The paric
u.sr ones are to be used for household decoration
and devotion. They are considered quite stylis
among the better class of Chinese.
u Gen. r. Z. Lee wrote in 81 kindly letter @
farewell to friend in Texas, few days after tina
State had voted herself out of the Union. Its mo.
/ pertinent sentence is th,s And now, hsvin
closed my business, will say how sad felt to
day, under the circumstances, at leaving San Ar
tonic, especially as | am unable to see singl
good that will result from the step taken by tn
State; but, as it has been permitted by kin
Providence, hope it will eventuate in her ult
mate benefit" 1t is written in bold and scrawl lin
hand.