Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-14

this cave. a gentleman discovered a small ap-
erture about six inches in width. Having a
pick he broke into this opening, and To his
establishment he soon discovered large and
airy apartment. Entering this, he found
what appeared to be a stone table beautifully
carved. Several stone chairs stood in one
corner of the room. He continued his search
and ut last in a dark corner. he found the
skeleton of man. He attempted to raise it
from the floor, but, though he exerted his ut
most strength, he could not raise 1t. lie
saws that il appeared to be solid stone. Ii Is
impossible to conjecture who was the hermit
or how long the skeleton has remained hidden
away in that silent cave.
A babe Is held for debt at Baltimore. The
wife OF Lewis F. Allen was so badly injured
by the explosion of a kerosene lamp one
evening that she died the next day. In the
meantime her infant child was taken to the
house of John Brooks, Il ncighbor. After the
funeral Allen went for his child but Brooks
refused to deliver it up until a previously
contracted debt for SIS was paid. The mat
ter has been taken to the Courts for settle
ment.
When the notes of the triangle gave warn
ing of the hour for closing. Brother Gardiner
said "Mv frens, de man in disguise am de
chap who doan' take comfort BE what you
am, and nobody else. Doan' pucker your
moufs to make 'em look small, nor pinch yer
feet to lessen de bulge. Irwin to pull on a
No. kid glove ober No 10 hand am on II
par wild spendin' all yer money for bacon an
den jawin' de old woman cause We havn't got
'taters OATS all iist now, an we will git
under our hats an impeach de meetin' fur a
n week. "-Detron Free Press.
Mexico has mining excitement which ri
walls the Leadville (COl. craze. The bonan-
IN is at Parras 720 miles west of Matamoras,
and so close to the boundary line between
Durango. Coahula and chihuahua that all
those States are cOntending for the prize.
The general government has taken possession
of it until it can be decided by actual survey
in which State it is The mines are called
Majado, and yield both gold and silver in
such profusion that laborers are deserving the
crops to dig for them, and the fever has ex-
tended as far as Matamoras.
A singular cure of bad case of hiccups
was lately effected in Paris. During a thunder
storm lightning struck close by girl twelve
wears old For moment she seemed to be
suffocating. but this sensation soon passed Oft
into a fit of hiccups These became so dis
tressing that after three days the mother took
her to the hospital for advice. The surgeon
ordered her to be taken to the operating thea
ire where, on seeing the medical man stand
ing at table covered with some awful look
ing instruments, and surrounded by number
of assistants in white aprons, the child be-
came so terrified that she forgot her hiccups,
which did not recommence, and she was thus
cured.
A handsome youth of % years, named John
Laefarr, whose perfectly white hair recently
attracted attention at Helena, Montana, stat
ed that he owed it to Clusters fight with the
Indians. lie was attached to Clusters force
on the morning of the massacre happened with
several companions to be three miles from
the command, when a band of Sioux sprang
from the grass within few feet of them.
Springing upon a horse Laefarr started in
rapid flight. As he Rugged his horse he saw
his six companions go down, one after the
other. One bullet out of the hundred that
followed him tore through his neck, another
cut deep furrow across his check, a third i'm.
bedded itself in his thigh and fourth killed
his horse The desperate boy shot an ap
preaching Indian and ran for belt of timber
a half mile distant, where he hid for three
DAYS, when he was found by some friendly
Crow Indians and taken to Foit Lincoln.
Then he discovered that his hair which had
been as black as a ravens wing, had changed
to white.