Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-07
General News.

Senator Sargent of California has been i'll of
malarsl fever in Washington, but is now recover
ing.
The tenth anniversary of the Freedmen's Aid
Society was observed in New York Monday even
ing.
1t is proposed to maintain the Paris Exposition
building 10 the Camp de Mars as a place of public
entertainment.
Postmaster Gene al Key gained twenty-six
pounds during his Western trip. lie Gays the Pa
cifc slope is wonderful country for good food
and cool water.
Mrs. Gen. Sherman is quoted as saying that her
husband first aroused her admiration at the early
age of ten years, because he caught rabbits better
than any of the other boys
Miss Lavinia Goodell, the Wisconsin lawyer, is
mentioned as slender woman whose hair is gray,
but not with years. and whose toilet is without &C.
centrlcity, as her manner is without boldness.
An English bee raiser having occasion to sell
his hives quickly gained the attention of buyers
by inserting the following advertisement: "Ex.
tensve sale Of live stock, comprising no less than
900 head, with Unlimited right of pasturage.'
Rev. Joseph Cook delivered his first lecture for
the season IN fremont Temple at noon Monday
in the presence of large audience. He discussed
the political question, and said that man ought
to vote to put into public office candidate that u.
directly jusufes incendiary appeals to the preju.
does OF the poor against the rich.
| Gen. Longstreet's grandfather, William Long.
street, who resided at Augusta, Ga. in 1890, i,
said to have been the first man TO supply steam
power to working steamboats,. 10 the latter part
OF the last century, it is claimed he coursed the
Savannah river with a steamboat of his own con-
struction, twelve or fifteen years before Fulton
| went up the Hudson.
Florida fishing smacks report stream of fresh
or poisonous water along the bay coast from two
to ten fathoms out that kills oil the fsh IN its
range. They report sailing for 200 miles through
dead fish, covering the sea as far the eve could
reach with all the varieties. Immediately on the
shore the water is salt and natural while less than
mile off it appears of a red brick color.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that few DAYS
ago midde-aged lady living in the suburbs Of
Springfield, Ohio, died from some mysterious is.
ease located in the head. The symptoms had 10 ng
been manifested, but no treatment seemed TO have
permanent effect. After death there was an ex
ANIMATION maue, IN WHICH CINCINNATI physlclans
took part, and which resulted in the unanimous
decision that death was caused, primarily, by the
use, for long period, of chemical compounds for
dyeing the hair. There is said to have been a
coating formed owes the brain, causing something
like paralysis OF that organ.
The King and Queen of Denmark, with their
daughter, the Princess Thyrs, had a narrow es-
cape from death the other evening. They were
driving from their country residence in Copenha
gen to attend the opera. The road crosses rail-
way line, and is guarded by gate, which the
keeper happened, upon that evening, to have care.
lessly left open. As the carriage crossed a train
suddenly turned curve, and the hind wheels oil
the carriage were actually touched by the buife
Of the engine. The Queen was so much affected
by the thought of the death so near to her tina
she was obliged to leave the theatre before the
opera was over. The railway company dismissed
the gate keeper, but the King said that "the mar
had had such lesson that he would be sure to b,
careful in future" and he asked that he should b,
reinstated.