Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-18
General News.

the platform of the railroad car AT Galesburg,
III, last week, were supposed to he democrats
temporarily insane, but prove to have been
three vulgar street urchins. age thirteen
fourteen and fifteen years, who have been ar
rested. Being asked if they ''were instigacd
to the act by anybody one of the boys said
they were not, hut there was man standing
there who looked real mad, as if he was 60
ing to instigate US, and we ran away" SO
the egg will not be feature Of the cam
paign.
When James Buchanan was United States
Minister to England he came very near buy
ing the London DALI Telegraph. Col.
Sleigh was then editor. but il was doing poor
lv in a business way, and Buchanans atten-
ton attracted bv one or two able editorials on
American politics. He and his friends thought
il would be nice to have democratic organ
in London, and they offered Sleigh S20.Ooo
for it. Sleigh wanted S2l 900, and soon at
terward wrote an article rdiculing the class
Of American Ministers delegated to the Euro
pean Courts. Buchanan withdrew his pro-
posal. and the present owners bought the Tel
cgraph for about 5000. The proprietor.
Lawson. who recently died, left 3i.j00,0o0
principally derived from the profits on his
900 purchase.
Capt. Count Monts the unlucky Command
or who lost the Grosser Kurfurst, has been
finally acquitted by the court-martial Some
subordinate officers have been less lcniently
dealt with. To prevent the recurrence of
any such misunderstanding caused the loss
of the Kurfurst. an ingenious machinery for
the transmission of commands on board ship
ha. been invented by an engineering firm at
Bicefrl1. The machinery, which imparts
the commands given and reports the execu-
ton of the same. thus establishing direct
communication between the commanding Of
fcer and the man at the helm, is said to be
perfect success. In consequence of the sat
sfaetory results on board one of the Imperial
vessels, all German ships of war will be pro-
vided with the new ceslrivance.
The investigation of the House of Correc-
ton in Milwaukee is going on before the
State Board of Charities. One witness who
had been an inmate, testified WAS put in
the steam lighthouse and made To handle lum
her until he tainted. Saw several other men
faint Was made to 90 without his breakfast
for not combing his hair. An appeal TO Ken
nedv brought him no breakfast. Was in the
dark cell once only. Saw Kennedy one day
strike an old man on the neck with chair
round because he fell out of the ranks. Then
the guards kicked the old man as they passed.
The food was so bad that witness could not
eat any Of It for three or four days. The hash
wasn't fit for anybody to eat. The soup was
the only thing that kept witness alive. Used
70 shut his eyes and eat il. This and other
such testimony locks bad for the management
but old grudges may possibly account for
some Of il. Meanwhile the Milwaukee Senti-
mel Is calm but attentive
The olcsn Times records a most singular
case--something entirely new in all our read
ing. II is in short. the turning of child,
hair from a beautiful auburn color To white
as the result of fright. The girl j. daugh
ter of Orrin Crandell of Barden Brook. and
she is nine years of age. Several weeks ago
two or three drunken men came along, and by
their hideous actions and dreadful appearance
frightened the little girl terribly. She broke
into proxysm Of grief, and cried three hours
without cessation, though her parents and
friends used every means in their power to
quiet her. Shortly after this terrible fright
the girls pretty golden locks began to turn
gray, the change continuing until now a large
portion is as white as that of old age. She is
! in good health, and has no physical ailments
which might cause this wonderful change,
and beyond doubt it can be attributed only to
the serious fright described above.
A new system of cremation has been prom
ulgated by NJ. Lissagarry, a Frenchman, who
thinks he will be able 10 do away with the
very intense temperatures necessary to re-
duce the body to ashes. The difficulty in
cremation is to decompose and reduce to
ashes tissues containing seventy five per cent.
Of water but NJ. Lissagarry overcomes this
by exposing the body, first of all, to the ac-
ton OF superheated steam, which chars the
tissues, and enables them to burn easily in an
ordinary simple furnace at IA very much less
cost of fuel, and without the least unpleasant
ness
The latest investigations show that what
we see of the sun, and the part that gives us
light, is only the outer envelope of vaporous
matter, and that the true working body of the
sun lies tens of thousands of miles below this
vaporous surface. The vast dimensions of
the sun, the enormous numbers that express
his bulk, more than 100000 times greater
than that of the earth, do not however i'm
press Us so deeply as the fact that this body.
which at the distance of nearly %, DOC, 900 of
miles seems to us SO quiet and so still, is a
scene Of turmoil and uproar in comparison
with which all that we know of tremendous
forces and noise is tame and weak. Prot
| Proctor.
! Previous to his marriage with Baroness
] luttkamuc Ifince bismarck, on whom his
father-in-law was rather loath to bestow his
/ daughter hand, as he had become acquant-
! ed with his future son-in-law's reckless
/ pranks. was known for his wild life which
/ gained for him the sobriquet eccentric Bis
marck." Many stories were afloat of his love
affairs, some of which did great honor to him.
showing as they did his chivalrous regard for
/ pure wOmanhood. One of these accounts
was lately recalled to my mind by the news
of the Chancellor having bestowed hand
some present on the daughter of Tyrolese
peasant girl whose acquaintance he had made
in his youthful rambles through the noun
tains. This country maiden. whose father
a bigoted Catholic, was wealthy peasant
had so enchanted young Otto Won Bismarck,
then probably not dreaming Of the greatness
IN store for him. that he seriously proposed
for her hand, an offer which was categorical
~ refused by the parent on account of his
Protestant, faith. He was sorely disappointed
at the rebuff, but tore himself away from the
object of his affection, who few years after
ward, was. against her wish forced to marry