Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-14
GENERAL Ne US.

President Hayes owns tract Of several thou
sand acres Of mineral lands on the Tug river in
Virginia.
The falling off of coal traffic on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad has required the discharge of
one thousand employees.
The price of flour is getting so high that several
Dsnbury people of an economical turn are giving
money instead of bread to tramps.- Danbury
News.
Only few days ago a young Chicago actress
announced with glee to a group Of admring
friends that she had been cast for one of the "ss
piratons" in Macbeth"
On account of the Turco- Russian war and the
failure Of the American cabbage crop last year,
nearly all the genuine imported Turkish tobacco
used in this country this summer will have to be
made out Of plantain weed.-Burlington HawL-
eye.
Burns is to have statue erected to his memory
at X marnock, Scotland. The Earl of Eglinton
was asked for subscription and refused, saying
that che had the bad taste to neither apprec late
Burns character nor poems"
Cunning horse thieves out West build hollow
hsystscks. provided with hidden door, into
which the stolen animal is driven, and where he
comfortably subssts. upon the walls Of his own
prison. Nearly every Ohio paper has one or more
rewards for horse thieves offered in its adverts-
ing columns every day.
Strange discoveries of petlifactions are reported
from near Pueblo, Colorado. Perfectly formed
eocoanuts but much larger than ordinary fruit
and with the inside of the shell lined with white
quartz crystals, have been found imbedded in
loose mounds Of sand and shells, while there have
also been found several huge petrfed sea turtles,
such as now frequent the Pacific.
Gen. Leslie Combs, who resides at Lexington
KY, in conversation with a correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer said: II am a regular old
line Henry Clay Wing in politics and St. John
in-the wilderness, milk and-honey ironsides Bap-
list in religion; none of your sprinkled fellows,
but regular dipped n-the- ater- of ordan -Bap-
tst."
An interesting case from Cincinnati has recent
ly been decided in the Supreme Court at Wash
ington The principle involved was one which
has never before been directly decided in this
country, namely, whether q divorced woman has
any right to the insurance the life Of her hus-
band, which was obtained prior to the date of sepa-
ration. The case was decided in Cincinnati in IA
vor Of the woman, on the ground that the COM
paoy made no stipulation against divorce, and
the Court at Washington has sustained this de-
cision.
Apropos of Sir George Grey, who used to be
the quickest speaker in the House Of Commons,
Truth observes that "all orators speak too fast.
To be effective they can hardly speak too slowly
They should not drawl, but they should pronounce
distinctly every syllable and punctuate their SEN
tences Mr.. Bright i, the greatest orator in the
House Of Commons and he Is one of the Stoves
speakers for he doe. not average above lis words
per minute. Daniel Webster WIS the greatest or
ator IN America of the present century. and so
slowly did he express himself that his sentences
were called minute guns"