Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-12-09
General News,

A monument is to be erected At Nice, in honor
Of Gstboldi, her illusirious son.
Three hundred men and women met in a hall
In Indianapolis, Tuesday night, and orssniz ID the
Indiana Cremation Society.
Senator Chsffee, Of Colorado, is the fortunate
| owner Of half q newly developed silver mine
which is yielding $1,000 worth of silver daily.
Mr.. Charles II. Holmes, of Massachusetts,, is
represented TO be the tallest man in New England.
Height, feet s inches.
In Paris the galleries of tie Exhibition are being
rapidly emptied of their contents and in very
few days only the mere skeleton of the World $
Fair of 1873 will remain on the Champs de Mars.
One of the privileges of wife is to coax SIS
from her husband and then make him Christmas
present of pair of ten shilling slippers Detroit
Free Press.
The number Of cases of boots and shoes shipped
from Lynn for the week ending December 9th
was l757, against 1927 for the corresponding be-
rod Of last year, showing an increase Of 1886
cases.
The second largest diamond ever found in South
Africa has lately been discovered in the Dutos.
pan fields. The stone weighs 94i csrats. The
oP1uiuihs uiauouut Which WAS luunu some
since, weighs 2SS IL carats.
Sir Edward Thornton's daughters combine
health and amusement by PLAYING lawn. tennis ON
pleasant afternoons on the ground. of the British
Legation in Washington. They brought the par
aphernslia of the game from England
The Buffalo Commercial says of the grain sh n.
ment this year by canal; 1.-The shipments of grain
tn the o. ~ nv hava kaa
season now closing than in any previous year.
The movement began early and has been steady.
The result is that the aggregates for the season
are unprecedently large, standing at So 1856. 5o4
bushels this year TO 1853, 1854 last season, and
q ,773 977 bushels in 1876"
An old man in Hanover, Penn. lost his well.
filed pocket book month ago and dilligent search
er, bis dog was found barking at the door, and on
its being opened the pocketbook was found living
upon the step where he bad placed it, The sugpe..
ton is made that the man dropped it, and his dog
which is always with him, carried it away aud hid
it, and afterward brought it back to make the Law
as pleasant as possible.
A Newfoundland dog at Worcester, Mass. per.
sisted in inviting some gentlemen to follow him
towards pond. till at last they did so and found
another dog Of the same breed in the water with
his head and paws on the stone coping of the ba.
sin, almost exhausted and unable to get out. The
gentlemen rescued the animal, which, with its
companion, evinced the lveliest gratitude, shak
ing water over the preservers' new overcoats. &c
While the western part of the Indian Empire
is the scene of war; famine of an unprecedented
rigor exists in the east. One-half of the whole
population are either dead or wandering about the
country in frightful state Of emaciation. Large
villages are perfectly deserted. Enormous tracts
OF country-once celebrated for their verdure-
are as brown and barren as the African Desert.
The Hooks and herds have persisted by tbou sand,
Even the wild animals that live among the soil.
tudes Of the mountains have been swept awav by
this awful season Of hunger. One traveller re.
counted that be saw no less than fifty skeletons of
lo'x IN one OF the passes; independent of this
De met with dead bears and panthers in other
places. Many years will it take for tbi, potor.
ousy roor but beautiful part Of India to recover.
Another snecdote illustrating President Lin
coin : quaint and ready humor is pow told for the
FIRST time by an Iowa gentleman. 1t run, ,bus 4.
there was travelling lecturer before the war
known as Green, the Reformed Gambler who
was quite character in his wsy, ard a, the ooen
Ing Of hostilities he joined the Union army. He
was so very badly wounded a, to be q cripple for
hfe and one day repaired to the White House 10
Ask Mr. Lincoln for 40 appointment 10 the Com.