Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-09
General News.

Jean Ingelow says that tears are the
showers that fertilize the world.
A newly married couple were sitting in a
palace car wher she said, 'Georgie. amt you
glad? We're relatives now
The first death of a man among the 200
Swedes of Lowell, Mass, during the SO
years since they first arrived there occurred
last week.
Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, is a martyr
to rheumatism, for which he is now trying
the waters of the artesian well of South Pue-
bio.
1t is stated that the editor of the Cinema
ii Commercial, who has farming ideas.
thought that, in order to have buttermilk, he
must buy goat.
The Boston lumber dealers have offered a
hension of the incendiaries who are at work
in that city.
Japan is about to contract foreign loan
of SIC, zoe, 900, owing to the depreciation of
the paper cnrrencey. A large portion of the
paper will then be retired.
People in Portsmouth were astonshed
Thursday by what seemed to be a sea mon
ster swimming in the Piscataqua river, but
which turned out to be an OK that had got
its head into barrel, and, unable to get it
out, had fallen into the river.
Nathaniel White, who died at Concord,
Saturday, worth about million of dollars,
had just a shilling in hi. pocket when he left
his native place, Lancaster, to begin life for
himself. Mr.. Whites death causes vacancy
on the republican electoral ticket, as he was
one of the candidates for electors at large.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Ameri-
can reports that just before leaving this
country for Europe, Edwin Booth was cured
of what had been supposed to be a cancer of
the tongue. The belief of the fatal charac-
ter of this malady had a marked effect
upon his acting. He had lost much of his
fire and all spontaneity.
The export business in apples continues to
be unusually extensive. 1t is estimated that
between $4,000 and 100000 barrels will
leave this port by steamer for Liverpool dur
ing the current month, besides which a
great many are being shipped from the
northern part of the State via Montreal, and
n great many more are going on sailing YES
sells via Boston. Apples are also being ex-
ported to TIE West Indies and South Amer
ica.- Trdrsiier.
Garibaldi landed at Genoa on Monday, and
was received with the greatest enthusiasm.
He was escorted through the principal streets
by the trade societies, with bands and BAN
ners. There was an immense crowd. The
banner of the Thousand of MARSHA was
hoisted at Garibaldis house. The General
was wheeled from the steamer to his carriage
in perambulator. The College of Rome
petitioned Garibaldi not to resign
The will of the late Hon. Lafayette s.
Foster has been entered for probate at Nor
witch. CT He leaves $1,000 to Brown Uni
versity at Providence, r. L., as prize fund.
the income from which is to be given to the
best scholar in Greek, the examination to be
in Home.s Iliad or Demosthenes on the
Crown. He leaves his homestead in Norwich
and $50. 900 for the support of Mrs. Foster
during her life. and at her decease the for
mer is bequeathed to the Norwich Free
Academy and the latter to Yale College at
New Haven for the establishment of a Pro-
fessorship of Law. He also made several
requests.