Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-05-25
General News.


Ocean steamships are encountering ice
bergs us plentiful as porpoises.
Mrs. II. Ii. Stoves orange grove in Florida
is said to have yielded $1,000 to the acre last
year.
Gen Hutler is going with large party of
friends to take II pleasure trip in California.
great many men who start out to reform
the world leave themselves of for the last
Job Hddietorn Transcript.
1t is estimated that the Town of Plymouth.
Mass, receives $1,000 or $4,000 every year
for its fragrant May flowers. Most of the
flowers are sent to New York.
Shakeress living in the United Society of
Believers mt Mount Lebanon, New York, and
known as AUNT Dolly" has attained the re-
markablc age of l04 years.
Pedestrian (who has dropped half crown
in front of ''the biind'); "Why, you con-
founded humbug, you're not blind"' Beggar ::
''Not l, sir. If the card says l am, they
must have given me the wrong one I'm
deaf and dumb"
After seeing a torpedo throw column, of
water three hundred and fifty feet high, Sec
rotary Ramsey and Gen. Sherman think it
would be difficult for hostile fleet to enter
New York harbor, even if its defences are in
sufficient.
An Irishman. who had pig in his posses
sion, was observed to adopt the constant
practice of filling it to repletion one day and
starving it the next On being asked his rea-
son for doing so, he replied: ''Och, sure, and
isn't it that | like to have bacon with strake
o fat and strake o lane aqually, one after
the tother
Mrs. Tyler. the widow of the ex-President
lives at Sherwood Forest. the Tyler estate on
the James river. not having retired. as was
reported. toa convent Tor to the Louise Home.
Her daughter, her little granddaughter and
herself have all been received into the Cath
Ollie church.
Tarred paper is likely to go out of use as a
roofing material. A letter from Milton, states
that it was largely responsible for the quick
and widespread proportions Of the fire in
that town, blazing sheets of it being whirled
through the heated air and lighting up scores
of simultaneous fires. Similar results, it
will be remembered, happened at the great
Chicago contlagration of 1871.
They do not hvve a wedding at Rockford,
H., every day. but when they do they make
the most of it. One of the Western papers
publishes bit of special correspondence,
Il. l..
and stating that lat the happy event. she
wore black velvet and cream color. and that
the painful sense of overdress sometimes
found was entirely lacking in this respect -
A painful sense of overdress' must be truly
dreadful.
Superintendent jackson, at Castle Garden.
saws that this year will probably be the larg-
est year for immigration that has ever been
known, and the record far justifies the cal
culstion. The total for the year thus far, I'D
to Friday. was ll6,S72. OF this immense
number Germany sends the largest proper
ton: and Ireland, the Scandinavian countries.
England. Scotland and Wales. follow in the
order named.
Mr.. Henry G. Vennor comes forward again
with his direful prophecies Of storms, heat.
cold. &c. His letter is dated at Montreal.
May Is. and in it he says Il believe that
June VIII oe an inteuseiy not month. on the
whole. but the end of the present month. and
probably the first Of June. will be Fall-like,
with frosts again. July will be a terrible
month for storms. with terms of intense heat.
but another Fall-like relapse, with frosts. will
in all likelihood, occur few DAYS before the
Goth. l fear the STORMS of thunder and hail
will be Of unusual severity during July.
must claim the verification of my prediction
relative to q cold wave. with frosts, over .
large portion of the United States between
the 10th and 18th Of May The relapse
toward the close of the present month will be
more severe than that just past
Novvone and raua~>1 Iak.l:&-