Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-16
General News.

General News.
Senator Chaffee has presented his son-in-
law, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., 100000 in Gov
eminent bonds.
Cider is so cheap in New Jersey that the
police Justices have reduced the fine on
drunks to half a dollar, or three days In
Jail.
Representative Horace Davis, of San Fran
CISCO who has lost his election, is nephew
of George Bancroft, and the husband of Starr
Kings only daughter.
Capt. Kidd's ghost looms up again. Search
ers for some of his sunken treasures have
actually got few iron scales from what is
believed to be cannon embedded forty feet
deep in mud at the bottom of the Hudson
river
The National Association for the Protec-
ton of the Insane met at New York on Thurs
day, with DR.. Wilbur of Syracuse. in the
chair In his address he stated that the num-
Der of lunatics in the United States was about
30, 900 and of these 10, 500 lived in New York
State.
Beaufort county, S. c., where the first eff
forts of Northern people to educate the ne
groes were made, gave republican majority
Of 300. and the Beaufort News says the DEM
ocratic papers of the State have ignored the
fact in their declarations Of the vote.
According to Liebig, tea and coffee have
become necessaries of life to whole nations,
but especially essential to the poorer classes,
supplying void not readily filled up by the
limited supply of good meats and wholesome
food generally.
Stopford Brooke, the clergyman who is
becoming so famous as the leader of the adj
vanced school of thought in the English
Church, is said to be a remarkably handsome
person. His face is refined and intellectual,
and he has dome-like forehead, reminding
one of the portraits of Shakespeare.
Mr.. A. Bronson Alcott, the well-known
American author, has not tasted animal food
for half century, and with the exception of
cup of extremely weak tea or coffee
now and then, he drinks nothing
but water. This abstemious diet reminds
one of the famous motto of the originators
of the Edinburgh Review: ''We cultivate
literature upon little oatmeal. london
Truth.
sailor in the employ of the Inman line
has two hundred and odd times crossed the
Atlantic, and was aboard the Inflated Allan
tic when she was wrecked. He has been in
the service of six different lines, and his
knowledge of navigation is by no means su-
perficial. This somewhat extraordinary
character answers to the name of Robert
Burns.
At Kingston, On. c. S. c. Spence, we'll
to 80 days Imprisonment for attempting to
kiss Mrs. NJ. f. Waller. Spence's council
appealed. On Thursday the case was sub
mitted to the jury, who returned verdict of
guilty. and Judge Gudger reaffirmed the 80
days Imprisonment, afterward changed to a
fine of $50. The court expressed regret that
the law limited the punishment.
In a communication to the London Times
Mr.. James E. Thorold Rogers states that six
times between 1925 and 1879 there have been
1amlneS OF severe urOutnS at Intervals OF lZZ
years. He quotes 1879 on the ground that if
England had relied on home produce in that
year the famine would have been as serious
as any which have been recorded in English
history.
An old negro named Ally, at Brook
Ign, ILL.,, who was very feeble and liable to
die lat any moment, had often expressed a
hope that he might live long enough to vote
for Garfield. When election day arrived, as
sisted by several friends he tottered to the
polling place. He gave his name and depos-
tied his ballot, then turned to go home, but
before he had made half dozen steps stag
gered and fell dead. His one hope had been
fulfilled, and then the end came.
Among the many cases of old men who
voted for Garfield, Mr.. Isaac Farewell, of
Dorset, VT, is, perhaps, the most remarka-
BILE. He was born July IA, 1879, on the farm
where he has always lived. He voted for
Garfield and Arthur, and has voted for Presi-
dent at 81 successive elections. His first
vote was in 1900. Fifteen times he has voted
for the men who were elected. In 1928,
1882. 1886, 1874, 1852, and 1856 his vote did
not help make the Presidents but in each of
those years the voice of Vermont was in ac-
cordance with his vote.
Two Organs.
Regulate first the stomach. second the
liver: especially the first, as to perform