Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-27
General News.

1t is said that it requires sol, 200 year
TO physic the United States army of twenty
five thousand men-ten dollars head.
A St. Louis boy recently drowned himself
because he had been chastised for the EN-
bezzlement of dollar from his father.
Eff. Bertrands. a wealthy man, has Great
ed a sensation at Rockford, Illinois, by mar
rying his mother-in-law and becoming grand
father to his own children.
Vermont produces about one-sixth part
of ali the maple sugar made in the world,
and more than quarter Of all that is made
in the United States. Only one other State
New York-produces half as much.
Ben Hasselman, one of the inmates of the
Minnesota Insane Asylum, has confessed
that he fred the building and says that he
only regrets that he could not have "burned
all of en-
At meeting in New York, of gentlemen
interested in prominent railways Thursday,
the following committee was appointed to
devise some means to establish railway con-
nections with Mexico and throughout the
Mexican republic; General Grant, chairman;
Thomas Nickerson, C. F. Woerishoffer, Mr..
Adams, Mr. Croker, Mr.. Coolidge and Gen.
Dodge.
The Cape Cod canal project seems likely
to be failure for the present. The engin-
GERS who were consulted by those who were
interested in the formation of new company
to prosecute the work report that there are
no obstacles which may not be overcome, but
it is yet question whether the enterprise
will authorize the expenditure of so large
sum as will be necessary, probably SIC, O0O.-
600.
A short serial by Mrs. Burnett, author Of
'That Lass O. Lowrie's," etc, will begin in
the February Scribner. Meantime Mrs.
longest novel, for Scribners Monthly. Its
scene is laid in Washington. Mr.. Cables
new serial, MADAME Delphine," will also
begin in February, and run through three or
four numbers. Mrs. Schayer's "Tiger-Lily"
will be concluded in the January number.
A boy in San Antonio, Texas, went into
the house the other day and got piece of
bread and butter, and went out and sat upon
the gate post to eat it. Suddenly he was sur
rounded by a flame, which burned his clothes
off. made him deaf and dumb and nearly
blind. His flesh was badly singed. The sky
was clear at the time, and it is supposed the
boy was burned by an electric fire. After
burning the boy the fire skipped around the
back of the house and disappeared in an ir-
rigation ditch.
1t was in the Galveston Opera House. The
two gentlemen were from the suburbs After
the curtain fell on the first act, one of Them
who had been reading the programme, said
in an excited manner, ''It's an internal swim
die, Just got up to take in strangers. Whats
a swindle?" "Here it says the next act is
two years later. l wonder if they think we
two years just to see this thing eut?" They
went out and saw the tcket-man about it.
Mr.. Maynard says: The money order sys-
TEN continues to grow in popular favor, its
operations having increased from little
over 81 100000 in 1865 to more than $780,
900, 900 in the past year. At the present rate
of the charges the business has been conduct
ed during five years with no cost to the gov.
eminent. The fees have covered the ex-
penses with slight margin of profit. The
system is so near absolute perfection that
losses to senders or payers of money orders
are only possible through their own neglect
He recommends a reduction of the fee for
money orders, not exceeding S., to five cents,
and to extend the maximum limit of an order
from $50 to 500.