Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-04-19
General News.

John Best. of New Concord. O.. Free
Mason, has just died at the ripe age OF ioo
years.
Chicago papers are predicting that l'ooo'-
900 strangers will visit that city this summer.
All the laborers engaged on the ST. Gothard
Tunnel received a commemorative medal on
its completion
A Colorado girl only eighteen years Old, on
the death of her father took charge OF MS
family and farm, and now manages her
mother and her brothers, and also her sisters,
her cousins and her ranch.
Gen. Buffers friends have urged, in plead
ing for his retention as one of the managers OF
the National Soldiers Homes, that the Irish
Catholics of the country were anxious to have
him there; but il is said that petition Is on
file with the Military Committee against Gen.
Buffers re-appointment, signed by every
Irish Catholic inmate of the homes.
California contains about 100, 900. 600 acres
of land, of which about 5000, 900 acres are
unsurveved. The San Francisco Bulletin
saws that there is not much exceeding ,OOO,-
900 acres under cultivation, although some
thing more than 1000, 600 acres are inclosed
with fences, and that there are in the State
5000. 900 or 6.OOO, 600 acres, more or less,
which can be bought from sl.25 an acre up
to 81.
A fatal university duel was fought fort
night ago near Gottingen between student
of law. Herr Krieger, and referendary,
Herr Leizmann. The weapons were sabres.
In the course of the fight Herr Lehman re-
ceived an impaired cut in the breast which
penetrated through the breast bone and at
once killed him. On hearing of his death
his antagonist at once gave himself up to the
police. but was released on bail.
Mrs Julia Thayer, who died at Attleboro,
Mass, on Monday. at the age of 90 years,
had had very strange and distressing ill
ness. About three years ago she was strick-
en- with partial paralysis. Ten months
since, peculiar insanity was developed, I'M
constantly, day and night. until the night Of
the 9th inst, when she was attackeda second
time with paralysis. Her daughter says that
the 10 months she was walking, she never
once slept or rested in bed, and did not aver
age more than a nap of an hour in each "a,
which she caught while lying on a lounge.
While walking to and fro, from room to room,
she talked necessarily, and begged and cried
and power of endurance were almost super
human, and the constant care she. required
was a severe task upon her friends.
1t is estimated that there are 200, 900 wolves
in European Russia. and the havoc they
make every year is immense. Statistics
show that in 1873 the damage caused by them
amounted in value to about fl,250 900, and
this is believed to be much under the real
loss. In one district it is known that over
5000 head of reindeer belonging to the no.
MAIDS were destroyed by the wolves in sim
gle night. In some instances there is de-
sire Oh the part of the peasants to conceal
the facts. Besides the destruction of domes-
tic animals, the annual loss of human lite by
wolves is about one hundred and fifty souls
A New Bedford man invented a fish-pole
cane which worked with spring, and on the
out ard form pole, and it was man who
didn't understand the nature Of the cane who
was carrying it, and while carelessly pointing
at a gentleman some eight feet away acct
dentally touched the spring and the pole flew
out and took the victim square on the nose
And when the latter got up he had to be re-
strained by four men while the facts were ex-
planned to him, and even then he wasn't salts
fed.
Washington correspondent of the New
York Evening Post writes: was surprised
to find that Frederick Douglass is hardly re-
garded as representative man among the
tain ineradicable extent with the proud Write
blood of his father. He is a true man, but
constitutionally unlike his mothers race in
many essential particulars. His wife, how
ever. is full-blooded negress, and am told
that she has never learned to read or write
He engaged himself to her when in bondage,
she being free negress in the same neigh
boahood; and after his escape sentiment of
honor led him back to marry her. He seems
greatly attached to her. 1t is always inter-
esting to meet and to talk with Mr.. Douglass
His grand head is now thickly covered with
snow-whte hair, and the years begin to tell
upon him in other ways. But he is ma
jestic-looking figure in a pageant as l saw
him at the White House on New Years dav.
Once called upon him with Will Carleton
the poet, by request of the latter; and during
the interview l saw Mr.. Douglass hand. Mr.
Carleton SIS bill for the relief of Sojourner
Truth.
From Hon. Andrew Cornwall.
ExMember of Legislature, New York State
ALEXANDRIA BAY, Jan. 3. 1880
II. II. WARNER & Co.,-Gents Il have
been troubled with kidney difficulty for the
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