Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-07
General News.

1t is estimated that 20, 900 persons were re-
ceivcd into the Wesleyan Methodist Church,
South during last summer.
young girl, Miss Miller, daughter of a
prominent citizen at Waxahachie, Texas,
choroforIned all her fathers dogs then eloped
with a young man and was married.
There was recently taken out of Pennsyl-
vania oil WELL at depth of over 1000 feet a
piece of rock thickly studded with sea shells
and bearing the impressions of curious
fishes
The Tuscaloosa ala Gazette tells of a
negro who came out of the war with Sll4,
and now owns a farm, stock, crop etc, worth
$40, o00-all made by legitimate farming.
A young woman in Hamilton county, Ohio,
won prize by preparing good dinner in
sixty-fve minutes. One girl cooked dinner
in sxty-five minutes, but it was not good.
A double-headed steel rail was recently ex-
hbted by the Western Railway Company of
France which is certified to have been in use
for eighteen years, during which time 256,-
600 trains have passed over it.
Board of Health has used 10, lO5 pounds of
copperas, 5000 barrels of lime, 40 barrels of
sulphur l2l5 pounds of sulphatc of zinc, 10
barrels of carbolic acid and 200 gallons of
zinc iron.
Two preachers at Bird Island, Mimi, went
out goose-hunting. One of the geese took a
turn directly over and but a few feet above
the reverend sportsmen. One of them raised
the gun to shoot his gooseship, and pulled
upon the trigger two or three times, but it
range they examined the gun, when they
found both hammers down.
foreign gentleman said to an cmploye Of
one of our railroads what is the next
train to so-and-so?" ''No. f. but she is late,
because No. Is, which is just behind IL, is
not going out before II backs up before 6.
Then 90 will get out before your train gets
in, to let II come up on the track where S
is"
The latest aged African female died in
Jefferson county, Tenn. a few weeks ago.
Her calendar footed up l20 years. She was
not the nurse of George Washington but she
carried the flowers for her mistress to decor
ate the bridge at Georgetown which the Faith
er of his Country marched over with his ar
my during the Revolutionary war.
English papers are rejoicing over tobacco
experiments made in India, where it is said
as good tobacco can be raised as in Virginia.
Virginia planter was imported by Lord
Lytton's government, along with the tobacco
plant, and set to superintend the cultivation.
Eight hundred acres on the Gauges were Civ
en- up to him, and the result is that he has
produced leaf which he regards as superior
to the same in his own State, and he has sold
his stock at the rate of Zoo or $500 per
acre.
The following notice is posted up in a Mis-
souri, school house Each pupil is required
to make bow on entering the School-IIouse
of a morning also leaving of Evening the
School Room. there shall be no profane Ian
guase used in School or on the playground
nor there shall be no pin stickin pinchn,
scratching, nor taggin, nor no filing, nor no
uneasy whispering in school. No uneasy
moving from seat to seat. No filing on the
road from or to school, nor no nick-naming
Evey pupil over eight years is subject to
those rules, and the teacher is to make the
allowance for all pupils under eight years
and enforce the rules according. if any schol-
ar brakes these rules they shall be punished
by switchen."