Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-17
General News.

night-gown is nothing but nap sack.
X. \. Osmer, supreme treasurer OF the
knights of Honor is dead.
Visitors to White mountain region report
heavy fall of snow in the vicinity and that
winter has begun in earnest.
Gov Foster of Ohio has declared that he
would not accept position in Garheld's Cab
met.
Three young children at Wilmington, Del,
were killed eating sweet potatoes on which
Paris green had been sprinkled.
Edward Hsggerty of Brooklyn, a wealthy
glass manufacturer, died on Sunday from the
effects of pistol shot wound received while
examining pistol.
The Evangelical Synod of North America,
which represents the United or State Church
of Prussia, has $50 pastors, $40 congrega-
tons, and s0.6l0 communicates.
General Sherman declares that he has no
intention of going on the retired list at pres
ent. He will not be 62 years of age for two
years yet.
Russell Dart of New York, who recently
shot Emil Seifert, music teacher, was admit
ted to bail Saturday. in the sum $4,000.
Seifert's prospects for recovery are considered
fair.
James d. White of Island Pond, VT.
hotel proprietor, while attempting to cross
the track in front of passing engine on the
afternoon of Nov. -, slipped and fell and
was instantly killed.
a. -
tons paid a dividend this month. The Bos-
ton and Maine railroad pays dividend of
$3.50. 900; and all the railroads have been do
ing good business.
Lieut.. Thackara, United States Navy, of
Philadelphia, who married Miss Sherman,
daughter of Gen. Sherman, has been ordered
to Boston. and, with his wife, will pass the
winter in that city.
Twenty-one thousand barrels of apples
were shipped from Montreal to England dur
ing the week ending Nov. IA. Total amount
shipped this season 10000 barrels. against
10000 barrels last SESSION.
The committe on Sites for the worlds Fair
of 1888 have decided upon recommending to
the Executive committee of the International
Commission, Manhattan-square and portion
of Central Park adjoining it, as the proper
place for locating the exhibition.
Saturday last five boys boarded the
Montreal Express at Fort Henry, n. Y, and
the conductor, owing to their suspicious con-
duct, questioned them, and found that they
had stolen about $500, from their parents and
run away, they were given in charge of an
officer and returned to Fort Henry.
z. X. Barger, of Scranton, Penn, for many
coal operator, was Saturday, sentenced to
eight years and four months in the penterl-
tiary for embezzling $4,000 by a system of
false entries.
Vice President Wheeler in an interview
with Boston Journal reporter last week, ex-
pressed the belief that the democratic party
would not dare depart from the long-estab-
lished precedents. in the matter of ascertain
ing and declaring the result of the electoral
vote.
A few days ago George Field of Dix Hills,
l.. l., an octogenarian, felt a pricking sensa-
ton in one of his toes, and on examination
he found the point of needle protruding
through the skin. He pulled the needle out
with a pair of nippers. He remembered
swallowing it forty years ago. 1t was as
bright as when it was new.
A valuable heifer belonging to a farmer
near Northallerton, in England, recently
broke its leg, and it had to be amputated.
| The animal has since been fitted with a wood
| en- leg. on which it moves about with the ut
most case, which proves the absurdity OF
hastily ordering the destruction of animals
that meet with such accidents
A special postal arrangement has been
executed with France, beginning next Janu-
airy, increasing the limits of weight and
dimensions for packets of samples of mer-
chandise exchanged in the mails between the
United States and France to $50 grammes
Twelve ounces) in weight, and the following
dimensions Thirty centimetres twelve in
chess in length, twenty centimetres (eight
inches) in width and ten centimetres -four
inces) in depth.