Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-02
General News.

rumOr comes from Parls tnat Dohnets ac
to be worn on the head hereafter.
New gold discoveries have been made IN
Queens county, n. s., and the excitement
continues.
Among the colored refugees in Kansas is
Baptist Church Of 800 persons from Delta,
La, led by their pastor and deacons.
1t is known that man named Webster
committed the murderous assault on Chester
Goodale at South Egremont few days
since.
The new United States ship Nipsic, now
nearly completed at the Navy Yard, has been
nut in commission and will be ordered to the
European squadron.
Charles Bunker was accidentally killed
while going to his wedding at Bellefontaine,
Ohio, and was subsequently buried in his
bridegroom clothes.
"Your son, madam, persists in doing moth
ing says the director. "Then," replies the
woman, by no means Disconnected, ''you
should give him the prize for perseverance
A little boy, whose sisters stroll in the
woods for the bright-hued leaves of autumn
time, saw them coming home the other day
with a red-w hiskered gentleman, whom he
greeted with the remark: "My! you got au-
tumn.leave whiskers, amt you?'-H'fadsi-
phia Bulletin.
A man named VIM. Dean, living on top OF
the Blue Ridge. above Roadside, Virginia, is
the father of tw enty children, all Of one
mother. His mountain home overlooks the
beautiful valley at his feet and he and his
family rejoice in good health. His fields
can be readily discerned in the valley for
miles away.
In a list Of English charitable donations
are some curious specimens. Among them
these: 1.-TWO girls and a little boy send Is,
the production of going without sugar in tea
and biscuits for week" Five shillings,
which had for rearing kitten" Some
pound from poor widow, aged So, in an
A miner at Wellingtons station, Nevada,
recently found, at depth Of 50 feet, skull
in every particular that of a mans,
with the exception that horn, inches long,
grew out of either side of the head. The
skull is well formed, measures q inches
with high, broad forehead.
Tobacco has some distinguished female
devotees in Europe. Emily Faithful, it is
declared, smokes like q Michigan tugboat
the Duchess Of Edinburgh takes quiet puff
now and then, and the Princess of Wales
keeps little cigarette case which she hides
profoundly from the smoke-abhorring nose of
her royal mother-in-law, while the list might
be extended by naming Elizabeth Thompson,
the artist, Madame Ratazzo of Italy and
others.
young French girl, who was terribly
burned 1t the destruction Of the French Cath
Ollie Church at Holyoke few years ago had
= new scalp engrafted over the top Of her
head, the skin for the purpose being taken in
small bits from the arms of her parents. The
girl has now a good head of hair, which ap-
peared to root and spread over the new sur
face from the part Of the scalp that was not
burned The ENGRAVING process was COM
plete success.
Henry Boyce, of Mabbettsville, lost a val
liable gold watch last week in avery peculiar
way. Besides owning this watch, which had
cost him sl75, he unfortunately was the own
er Of hog which he went out that day to
feed. While bending over the pen the watch
fell out Of his pocket into the trough. and the
hog, taking it for vegetable, seized it at
once and to all appearances swallowed it.
Mr.. Boyce returned to the house and no
doubt told the story of his loss with sad and
heavy heart. Finally he went to bed unde-
cided whether or not to kill the hog and get
his time.piece. In the morning he went
again to the pen, and there in the empty
trough he found his watch, battered, begrimed
and almost ruined. The hog could not keep
that turnip down.