Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-27
General News.

Gamblers lnfest the cars gong overland 10
San Francisco, and the innocent tourist is
taken in and financially done for every day
Mrs. Josepha Duttlinger of Memphis was
bitten on the neck b, black spider on Fri
day. Her neck became swollen and she died
in few hours.
There is much excitement in New York
over the death of one person, and the severe
sickness of several others, caused by eating
lemon pie.
"Revolutionists, said Dumas, care good
deal like the street-sprinklers-they can make
it muddy in sunshine, but they can't make it
sunshine when it is muddy"
Bayard Taylor's library has been sold by
auction, and went at very low prices. the vol
umes, with a few noteworthy exceptions, TAX
ing their chief value from their distinguished
ownership.
Peru may well mourn the loss of Admiral
Grau and his ironclad the Huascar. With
these out of the combat, there appears no Sc
rious obstacle to the onward march of Chilli s
confident forces.
A stage-driver in the White Mountains
when asked what he thought of the Notch,
replied, ''Well, was born around here, you
know, and don't mind it SO much. But if I
should go down to New York | reckon likely
I'd gawk around considerably myself"
Monday. dabbled in future operations:
Tuesday, owned millions by ali calculations;
Wednesday, my avenue palace began;
Thursday, drove out spanking bay span;
Friday, gave magnificent ball;
And Saturday busted with nothing at all.
-New Orleans Times.
A body found in the North River, Sunday
has been identified as that of f. F. Curtis,
son of Saul Allen Curtis, the eminent retired
merchant. Young Curtis was 81, and was
driven to suicide and want by his appetite for
liquor. Mr.. Curtis, ST., is 80 years old, and
the news of his sons fate, it is 4 AIRED, may
cause his death.
gentleman went into San Francisco res
taurant and ordered some chops, the bones OF
which he quietly handed to his hunting dog
concealed under the table. The waiter told
the proprietor that he was sure the customer
was either the devil or an editor, as he was
so hungry he ate all the bones.
Vesuvious is not as it used to be, and pre-
sents a very striking aspect at present.
Around the great cone three craters launch
steam and incandescent lava, which loses it.
self in the deep valley between Vesuvius and
Mount Somma. At the end of October two
small craters opened, blowing off portions OF
the mountain which INSTRUCTED the issue OF
the lava. This flowing slowly in northeast
eTly ulTectloH, as Is visible W tHs ndkeu eye
from Naples. In spite Of the smoke, showers
of pumice stone, scOria, and red ashes, curl
Gus visitors do not hesitate to approach the
edge of the crater. The heat is bearable
there at a distance Of 25 to 80 metres.
The Duke of Cleveland has lately evicted
from their homes on his Devonshire estates
in England about one hundred and sixty fam.
lilies. They and their ancestors have occu-
pied their houses since the Norman conquest
Successive dukes have refused to repair them
until they became rickety, and the present
duke has conceived his own method of re.
form. He ordered the families to leave and
began burning down their tenements. The
poor people had nowhere to 20 and were ir
great distress. Some gentlemen in the nigh
borhood demonstrated, but all they could gel
from the duke was permission that the evict
ed might have month or two of grace to fint
other shelter.
As Christmas Day comes this year upor
Thursday we desire to be early in the field
with the following quotation from an ancien,
MS. in the British Museum:
If Xmas day on Thursday be,
A windy winter We shall see;
Windy weather In each week,
And hard tempests, strong and thick;
The summer shall be good and dry,
Corn and beasts shall multiply;
That year Is good for lands to till,
Kings and princes shall die by skill;
If a child born that day shall be,
II shall happen right well for he;
OF deeds he shall be good and stable,
Wise of speech and reasonable.
Whose that day goes thieving about,
He shall be punished without doubt;
And IL sickness that day betide,
II shall quickly from thee glide.