Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-04
General News.

The Atlantic cable is being ''duplexed" a
process which will increase its working ca
pacity 10 per cent.
1t is stated that eighty persons were killed
or wounded in the recent encounter between
the militia and students at Kieff.
The gauge of the Erie Railway has been
reconstructed, and it now corresponds to that
of other roads throughout the country.
An Idaho editor proposes to nail another
editors Vulnerable hide to the wall, and
make it look like a woodchuck-skin on a
country barn door in bean-time''
| Hon. Buffalo Bill has made Sl35, 900 on the
stage. Beware thou simple child of nature.
First thing you know you'll be bloated bond
holder.
The death of the Princess Alice has caused
such a consumption of black silk in England
for mourning purposes that an appreciate i'm
provement in the trade in the South of France
is felt.
District Attorney Leonard has gone to Cad
do Parish, La, to get married. and the feel
ing against him there is so strong that it Is
regarded as rather a dangerous trip.
Connecticut gives vent to its sociabilty
this season in a sort of entertainment which
may. perhaps, not unfittingly be called ket-
tledrum bean bake. High dresses and wool
en- mittens are allowed
boy at Cincinnati who nearly choked to
death by reason of swallowing a piece of
hickory nut shell, was relieved by having the
offending substance removed through an in
cision across the throat.
Rinderpest has made its way over the Rus
sian frontier to the ncighborhood of Berlin
The disease never dies out in Russia and Po-
land. and the indemnity paid to the propritors
of infected herds officially slaughtered by
government butchers is so very insufficient IN
those countries that the moment single OK
is found to be diseased there arises the temp
tation to smuggle the whole herd across the
Prussian frontier.
1t is stated that the Incorporate habits
which caused the death of Beverly Douglas
the Virginia Congressman, were the result of
his war experiences. Douglas was a Major
in the Confederate army, and on one occa-
sion, in fit OF passion, shot one of his own
soldiers Remorse at the thought that he had
killed one of his own men without sufficient
reason preyed upon his mind and ultimately
brought him into a morbid condition, which
drove him to the excessive and almost con-
slant use of the strongest liquors.
Edison's sister tells good story of Edi-
sons boyhood. 'He tried to set on eggs"
she said. Whats that? How? What do YOU
mean?" inquired the listener. "why, he was
about six. should think and he found out
how the goose was setting, and then saw
what the surprising result was One day we
missed him. called, sent messengers. couldn't
find him anywhere. BY and by, don't you
he had made in the barn and filed with goose
eggs-actually sitting on the eggs and try
ing to hatch them ~
At the New Year observances in WASHING
ton there was noticeable absence of intox;-
eating beverages at many of the open houses.
The friends and admirers Of The late Paw
ard Taylor Will hold memorial gathering at
fremont Temple, Boston, on the Il h inst.
The sudden .haw in England and Scotland
has caused disastrous ireshets, the country in
some districts being flooded for miles. and
considerable property ruined.
During Methodist revival at Dunlap. Ia.
last week, milkman was converted, and in
his enthusiasm confessed that he had Cor
long time past been selling watered milk
Three singular cases of defective vision are
reported from Ocracoke Island, N. c.
Three children Of James Howard become
totally blind each day Immediately af.er the