Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-10-18
General News.

An English soldier has christened his de-
fenseless child "Cetewayo."
A man at Norwich Ct, has run mad be-
cause he could not make an Eolian harp out
Of a herring box and two oyster cans.
Schooner Ellen NJ. Adams, of Gloucester,
has landed 5000 barrels of mackerel this sea
son, stocking $4,000, and claims to be high
line of the feet.
A Wisconsin city, in order to avoid scan
dals in its girls schools, has decided that the
leading teachers shall be women. They want
principles not men.
An eccentric English gentleman, candi-
date for Parliament, at a recent meeting of
his constituents, was asked by a man in the
crowd, "What about the Liquor bill ?"
"Well," said the candidate, 'mine was un-
commonly high last year. How was yours?"
An interesting discovery has been made at
Nassenfuss in Styria. Under the soil of a
field attached to an ancient farm boy found
a vase, in and around which were 5000 gold,
silver and copper coins, bearing the effigies
of Severus, Gallienus. Flavius, Claudius,
Marcus, Annius, Aurelius and Probus.
Although this is the ''off-year" for apples,
the crop in Southern New Hampshire is
very good one, and the farmers are better sat
sfed than they were last year with the crop
that was so abundant that it hardly paid for
the gathering. Taken altogether, the crops
have been better than usual this year. The
fall feed is seriously affected by the drouth.
Brazil consumes large quantities of North
American timber because she has very few
saw w-mils. The streams wash away many
trees which mill-owners at their mouths
would have simply to capture and land. 4
Portuguese who built mill a few years ago
at the mouth OF the MADEIRA river has re.
Gently retired with large fortune, although
he had employed only the rudest machinery
and unskilled workmen. The cedar logs
floated down supplied him in five months in
every year with sufficient timber for the en-
tire years work.
This is the lurd manner in which some in
dividual lets his fancy loose on autumn. and
all the mellow color connected herewith
To sleep the sun sinks slowly in the hills,
And all the western stony winter skies,
A flashing food Of fitting color fills.
Full fair enough for skies of Paradise.
Like some great dome of iridescent gems,
Lit by a thousand lurid, fickering fires;
Like Natures lustrOusest of diadems;
Like-like-ah, , the poverty of language
Like, say, the pictures on circus wagon.
The melancholy suicide of Frank Heyward
in this city on Tuesday last is one of the
strongest sermons against youthful excess
and folly which could possibly be preached
Here was young man with what are usually
considered extraordinary advantages. He
was the inheritor of large fortune, he was
of good family, and he was of pleasing per-
SON The manner of his death has made it a
matter of notoriety that, not yet thirty years
old, he had tried every form of dissipation.
Hard drinking had, in the usual way, changed
him from rather amiable youth into dis
agreeable and uncomfortable person, and any
measures taken by his family to rescue him
from utter ruin only made him more irrita-
bile. 1t is only charitable to believe that at
last he had become at least semi-insane, and
that he was not directly responsible for the
deed which finished his wasted life. 1t is
hard to understand why such a tragedy as this
should not make greater and more endur-
ing impression upon those in danger of a
similar fate.-NeW FORK Tribune.