Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-05
General News.

There is decline in the market value OF
rebel war claims.
The Canadian Pacific Railway is now
running to Winnipeg. Manitoba.
Mr. Bancroft the historian. has returned
to Washington for the winter.
Dr. Pearse, of England, recomm, nds the
use of onions by consumriive patients.
The Rebel Archives At y ashington are
safe enough for another four years.
Form of telegram TO your shoemaker
Make me another pair exactly like my last.
An English company has made PROPOSE
ton to drain the valley of Mexico. 1t is 40
by 80 miles in area, and is largely covered
by lakes.
Twenty salmon have been taken at the fish
Matching house at Plymouth this season.
thousand eggs.
Some Mormon girls formed society with
an oath to marry no man who would not
pledge himself TO be content with one wife.
The society was discovered and broken up.
The Erie canal was finished on the second
of November, 1925. The democratic party
was finished just fifty years later, and a
tow path boy did the business.
The bell of the Congregational church at
Newtown, Connecticut, has been used ll2
years, and the golden rooster on the top of
the building has bullet marks made by the
soldiers of the revolution shooting at it while
passing through the town.
An English journal mentions in breath
less manner that s'Mlle. Bernhard ordered
$50 pairs of gloves for Eer American tour.
They are of undressed kid of Mousquetaire
style, with three buttons at the wrist, but of
a length equivalent to a thirty button glove,
and cost Is fr. a pair"
Sons and daughters of Russian Princes in
herit the title, or its femme equivalent; hence
they are as plentiful as Esquires in England
and have about the same rank. 1t is said
that at least one Russian village is inhabited
entirely by Princes and Prncesses.
Two years ago, when Russia and England
were at swords points, the Duchess of Edin-
burgh perhaps the most accomplished Prin.
cess IN Europe, was respectfully tolerated
OF late her reception has been much more
cordial.
A clergyman said that he once visited a
lady of his parish, who had just lost her hus-
band. in order to offer consolation and upon
her earnest inquiries as to the reunion OF
families in heaven he strongly asserted his
belief in that fact, and when she asked with
anxiety whether any time must elapse before
friends would be able to find each other in
the next world, he emphatically said, ''No
they will be united at once" He was think
ing of the happiness of being able to offer the
relief of such faith, when she broke in up
on his meditations by exclaiming sadly, "well,
his first wife has got him then by this
time, -
short time ago. a large and beautiful sal
mon was offered for sale in Methuen. OF
course, as it was against the law for this fish
to be caught in waters in this vicinity, it ex-
cited some curiosity. II came to the ears of
the Fish Commissioners, Who put the case
into the hands of Detective Philbrick to look
up. After some searching, it was found that
young man, well-knOwn in Methuen, saw
the fish in Hanks Brook, which runs iuto the
Merrimack, near MtchelTs Falls, and firiug
gun over hin, stunned him. He then
stepped into the water, and after severe
fight succeeded in conquering his 'catch, -
and landing him. The young man was ar
rested. but on pleading ignorance of the law,
and the Fish Commissioners merely wanting
conviction. to let people know it was in
violation of the law to catch such fish, the
case was placed on file.
Near Chattahoochee, Fla. there lives an
old negro known to the boatmen as Keiser
He is farmer and makes a good living, but
has not slept in a house in a number of wears.
In'passing at any hour of the night parties on
the boat can see his torch-light in the woods.
For some time the negroes in the neighbor.
hood stole his cotton, cane, watermelons. &C.
and he devised plan to catch them. Dur
ing the months when the fruit was ripe and
IN contemplating season he sleeps in a hogs
head in the centre of the field He is a
strange creature in this respect, but succeeds
in making very good living The boys of
ten keep him on the boat by talking to him,
until she is well out in the stream, and then
see him jump overheard and swim for land
a STRANGE SYMPTOM. MANY men and
women. apparently enjoying robust health.
and capable of enduring much bard labor
without fatigue. can walk mile after mile
without WEAKNESS, and yet, when they come
to stand still, find themselves looking for a
place to sit down the very first thing WHY
is this! Reader. this is one of the sure
symptoms of Kidney Disease 1t should new
er be neglected. Take HUNTS REMEDY
at once-at once. Your life is in danger.
HUNTS REMEDY, the Great Kidney and
Liver Medicine. will save it.
Sold by all Druggists Trial size, IS cents.