Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-06-20
General News,


ago t, make 81, 100000. lie has got the fourteen
bat the cphers bother him.
Grape growers give the preference to super
phosphate over animal manures for grape calturc;
potash OF ashes may be added.
Mr.. Bryant owned one-half of the Evening Post,
the house o. SiNtet nth street where he died and
the summer house aui farm at Roslyn; but co
seems able t. estimate the money value of the
whole estate.
The Society Tor Promoting Legislation for the
Care of lIab itual Drlnkaids held its first annual
meeting in London, receutv, Lord Shaftesbury
presiding. Ii is eudeaSouug to procure the pas
SAGE of laws proyid d for the treatment of drunk
enness a disease
TIE Pumas (CaD National says Cricket-, in
large numbers. are taking possession OF Alturas.
Modoc county and eating up"eyery green thing"
They have Clipped off the editor of the lndepena
emit until he looks like smallpox patient il the
last stages, but he has some hopes yet.
An English paper published the following adj
veiiisement: wanted, a place of solitary retire
ment by person 80 years of age, who wishe. to
exclude herself from all society and live as a her
init, for any period not exceeding seven years, on
suitable terms" lie should be referred to the
shop of the man "Nho don't advertise"
Queen l,abella's Sels viii be sold in Paris in
July Among them the emerald necklace ia
mons for its value and its beauty Thirty-one
emeralds set with diamonds form two rows, united
by an emerald surrounded with many diamonds
and hung with three pendants of pear..haped en-
erads
A very beautiful bird has made it, apre trance
this spring along the Connecticut shore and lately
about DAnbury. II Is little smaller than a robin,
has a tlscA head, gray breast. little lighter than
the sparrow, bone-white bill, brown and white
feathers on the back, and a very bright cardinal
red mark on the breast 1t has pretty song.
something like the bohoink, and begins to sing
early in the morning.
A death bed marriage took place in Brooklyn
last week. DR.. Alexander D. Dreamer, a young
man % years of age, was dying Of consumption,
and on Monday night, finding that his end was
drawing near, expressed wish to be married to
young lady named Alice McTesgue to whom
he had been engaged for two years, and who had
been in constant attendance at his bedside. Ac-
cordingiy priest was called, aud the ceremony
was performed half hour after midnight The
bride was deeply affected. Ia less than four hours
the bridegroom was corpse.
A strange scene witnessed at Wimantc,
Conn. on saturday, when the Willimantic Thread
Company paid off is help in gold coin. The
force Of employees numbers 1000, and most of
them had never seen any gold coin, the company
never having paid its help in this currency before
There great excitement among the poor peo-
pie, and many Of them, suspicious of the "stuff >"
requested to have it exchanged for greenbacks.
One woman, after receiving her pay, nineteen
dollars, and counting it over, came back to the
over,eer with i've brought back the money.
There's dollar, halfdolar and some cents"
The scents" were five dollar and two and a half.
dollar goll pieces. When she had received
roll ofbilIs in exchange for the Gents she went
swav happy.
Since the hnanc al reaction and depression of
1873, some Of the methods ioped by our coun-
trymen to make little money have been remark
able and pecu liar. An entelprising genius in
Rochester has hit upon the plan of watching the
death notices in the newspapers and sending cir
cular to the "nearest relatives" of the deceased.
His circular runs thus "My friend: Learning
that death has recently removed one whom Won
wish to remember, take this method of inform
ing you that | am publishing a memorial which
makes very appropriate ornament for bereaved
home" The memorial is then deliberately de-
scribed with the assurance that it cannot fail to
give entire satisfaction. la order that the be.
reaved may run no risk IN sending the money, the
Rochesterite makes what he st, les this "unparal-
eled Offer (misspeling the adjectve) that he
will forward the memorial on receipt Of 10 cents,
condition that ITS full price, 80 cents be prompt
ly mailed, if it be approved; an hypothesis which
he can SC rcely entertain even for moment The
total cost of the memorial must be at the most
from to cents, so that the sympathetic genius
IS sure to make something without the second re-
mttance, of which, If course he has no expecta-
ton.