Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-09-28
General News.

WcdlueT sllc1CcS tnc gTuIUDlcTS anu
is stopping the hum of the mosquitoes.
Texas produces cider from tomatoes which
brings SIPS gallon.
The exports of breadstuffs from this coun-
last year.
Minnie, the daughter of Secretary Evarts,
is just engaged to Mr.. Tweed. one of her IA
theirs law partners.
The semi-annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge of Good Templars of Maine will be
held at Brunswick, Oct. 10 and 20.
1t was young housekeeper who set the
cake she had baked for picnic out of doors
one cold night to be frosted
The will of the late Marshal o. Roberts
gives Sl4, 200 to charitable institutions, and
the rest of his immense estate is divided
among his family.
The city of Baltimore does the greatest
business at oyster packing of any place in the
world. From Sept. LIST, 1879, to May 18th,
1880, it was 7,277,972 bushels.
A new style of fashionable dancing is called
the Canadian LOPEZ" 1t is as awkward and
idiotic as these new fantastic things usually
are, ard eminently suited to the young peo-
pie who 60 to make up one branch of $50
ciety''
The monument over the grave of Charlotte
Cushman at Mount Auburn has been placed
in position. The shaft, in the shape of the
ancient obelisks, is about 80 feet in height,
of granite, and forms an imposing feature of
the hill upon which the actress is buried.
The occasion was marked by no set cere-
ward c. Cushman, a nephew of Miss Cusl-
man, who resides in st. Louis.
''Bad luck to 'em!" exclaimed Patrick, ex-
Treating himself from the general assortment
of pickaxes. wheelbarrows, Goals and pro-
family with which the explosion of his lamp
had associated him "Bad luck to 'em for
calling that safety lamp When Oh did
but pry open that same for a Whit at the
pipe, didn't it fly Until tin thousand pieces and
knock me down widout as much as saving
Look out for yourself, Pat That's the way
they chate the poor laboring man, bad cess
to 'em Boston Transcript.
Some of the horse car companies have re-
duced the number of their daily trips owing
to the prevailing horse distemper. Many OF
the affected animals. while not actually dis
abed by the disease, require very careful
treatment in their weak and feversh con-
dition. and these are being favored by a par
tial relief from work. Most of the stablemen
and drivers who handle these sick horses are
more or less afflicted with symptoms of the
same disease, although we learn that none of
them have as yet succumbed to it.-Boston
AdrerTkseg.
An old tavern keeper named Catlin. a
grandfather of Mrs. Benjamen X. Phelps. of
New York. was an eccentric person and a
true-blue Congregationalist. Every night he
held prayers and made all the guests at his
tavern attend them. One of his regular
petitions to Providence was this .'God bless
me. Ged bless my wife. God bless nv
daughter, Flora Jane. God bless nv son
Julius, wholesale and retail dry goods dealer
in Asylum street. Hartford" His son Julius
got the benefit of considerable advertising
out of the old gentleman's prayers if nothing
else.
Returns from "a central points in the cot
ton states are published. Louisiana speaks
unfavorably. there being reduction of the
estimated yield in eleven, and an increase
over last year in two points. Arkansas rep
resents decrease from 10 to % per cent. in
yield. In Texas. half the crops in two
counties is damaged by rainy weather. and
there will be an increased yield in one. In
one county in Tennessee there is decreased
yield OF 20 per cent. Receipts are 40 per
cent ahead of last year in one county in
Georgia, and in another there is an increase
IN yield of from to 10 per cent