Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-09-24

were 4O,s72; since that date there has been
All increase of 372 Offices.
A Calcutta despatch says that the govern
ment is not satisfied regarding the Ameer's
conduct. The Ameer caused the execution
of the commander of the mutineers. Public
opinion among all classes is strong against
the Ameer for not protecting the lives of the
members Of the British Embassy, and he has
forfeited forever the respect of his subjects.
That unerring barometer of natural pros
perity the marriage rate, is at very low ebb
in England. The rate during the current
year, ll.6 per 1000, is 1s per cent. lower than
the average rate for the corresponding period
of the past forty years. So low rate has
not prev allied since the statistics were first
gathered.
Rev. w. II. II. Murray has been declared
insolvent by Judge Landon, of Guilford. and
the parsons affairs at the once noted stock
farm are in a very mixed up condition. At
tachments have been laid on everything pos
sble, and there is ST.. 900 mortgage on the
farm. The creditors will probably receive
very small dividends when the estate is set
tied.
A father in Jacksonville has purchased a
lovers alarm clock that works like charm
At 10 o'clock it strikes loudly, two little
doors open and man with a dressing gown
and cap on glides out holding in his hand u
card inscribed Goodnight" As he bows
and smilingly retires back into the clock the
young man takes the hint, says "Good-night'
to the fair daughters and departs.
Prof. Baird is said to be of the opinion that
there will be full supply of large mackerel
next season, on the Massachusetts, coast. 1t
takes from four to five years for mackerel to
mature last year there was an abundance of
small fish, Of presumably two or three years
ko, sod In ntrh
of medium fish, with scarcity of small grades |;
next year, good catcl, of large fish may pos
sibly be accompanied by scarcity Of medium
grades.
In a Connecticut district school a little boy,
six years old, was seen to whisper, but denied
doing so when reprOved by the teacher. He
was told to remain after school, when the
teacher, trying to impress upon his youthful
mind the sinfulness of not speaking the truth,
asked him if they did not tell him in the
Sunday school where bad boys went who told
falsehOods. Choking with sobs, he said i:
ayes marin, its place where there is a fire,
but don't just remember the name of the
town."
The mystery of Mr.. Cuttings disappear
ance has not yet been solved. From the 9th
to the llth he was at the Narragansett House
Providence, and while there was in his Gus
tomary good spirits. He had attended strict
ly to business and sent on his collections
promptly, and he could have had no money
of his employers to speak of with him. He
left Providence on the 18th for New York,
which city he visited expressly for the pur-
pose of collecting money that was due him
there, amounting to about $500. As yet a
certain mystery seems to surround the pay
ment of this money, for it is not known who
did pay him the money and no parties have
come forward to inform as to having paid
him on that day (the l2th) money. 1t is,
however, now known that he took the steamer
| of the Fall River line on the 18th.