Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-12-17
General News.

This il : cold world-especially just now.
The Moody meetings in San Francisco are
crowded. and the sermons are all reported
Even temperance men may wear red noses
this weather.
The Frsnco-PrussIan war cost o, Co.,
600 for less than years fighting
Boston boasts of having seventeen Euro
pean steamers lying at her whsrves at one
time.
Even bread is becoming deadly. A knead-
ing machine exploded in Boston, the otnei
day, and killed q man.
A New York hotel waiter, it is said, was
formerly a Paris journalist. and can speak
four languages fluently.
A Justice at Glen Cove, L. L.. has decided
that girl has right to marry at the age OF
fourteen
Don't give the merchan; or printer a
chance to dun you; prompt payment makes
Independent men.
A woman in Chester. Nd. dreamed that
under a certain moss covered rock gold was
buried She went to the place and on Dig
ging under the rock found $4,000 in coin-
Cards are out for a wedding at Grace
church. New York. at which the bridesmaids
are to depart fIom the usual style by wearing
blue velvet walking suits and white bonnets.
1t is a little startling 10 read that Christians
are still prosecuted in Macedonia, which
called upon Paul for help more than eighteen
hundred years ago.
The foreign mails sent from the New York
postoffice, last Saturday. comprised 100, l69
letters, and ia bags of newspapers and mer-
chandise; greater amount than ever before
left the Office in one day.
The principal of young ladies' seminary
in Syracuse has SO exhaustingly inflicted her
pupils with ''deportment' that, when left
alone, her girls of sixteen act like sixty =
Puck.
lions Advocate reports the safe arrival OF
Rev DIR. s. +. Smith and wife and Rev. F.
ii. Eveleth, en- route for Burmah, at Port
Said, Egypt, Nov. .. all in good health.
A. registered letter containing Sl25, in
greenbacks was recently found in a lot OF
was tepaper received at paper mill in Stock
ton, Cal. The money was returned to the
owner for whom it was lucky find.
Fashionable young ladies wear small me-
nageries at the end of their chatelaines now
pig. a sheep, an elephant and a lizard make
a neat group and the addition of silver
mouse and golden-calf causes the wearer It
be the envy of her sex.
A murder case near New York city is likly
10 be solved in a CHASTITY fashion. A woman
was found choked to death, and the hand
grip on her throat lacked one finger. A fel
low is now being tried for the murder, from
whose hand one finger is lacking.
The promoters Of mining enterprises car
learn thing or two from NJ. de Lesseps, wht
is now putting the Panama Canal project up
on the market in Paris. A commemorative
medal. struck in gold. silver and bronze. vii
be presented to the subscribers of stock, til,
different grades to be given according to thu
amount invested
A new addition is being built to the Asto
Library in New York. When it is done. til,
building, although it will appear as a com
pleted whole, will be in three sections, tn,
first of which was built by the founder o
the Library, John Jacob Astor, the secon,
section was built by William B. Aston, AM
the present uncompleted section by the pre-
sent head of the Aston family.