Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-09
General News.

President-elect Garfield was 40 on the 10th
of November last.
Over s., 900 900 worth of dried yeast was
imported BY Great Britain in the year 1879.
1t is reported that larger amount of WIN
ter wheat than usual has been sowE in Wis
consin this fall.
On the petition of Mrs. Lyons, one Of the
depositors in the ''Woman's Bank" Mrs.
Howe has been declared insovent.
The leader of the classes at Vassar Col
lege is japanese girl She is from the elite
of japanese society and is both stylish and
popular.
General Garfield was in Cleveland, Ohio
Friday, shopping for household funiture-a
seqel to the recent visits to Mentor of whole
sale delegations of enthusiastic friends.
1t is understood that between now and the
meeting of the next Congress the President
will retire all the officers of the army and
navy who are eligible for retirement
Gen. II. G. Wright, chief of engineers
says the work on the river and harbor i'm
provements all over the country is in more
advanced state of progress than ever before
at this season of the year.
Flower manufacturers play all sorts of
tricks with nature. One of their latest de-
vices is daisies with ruby velvet centres Yet
these montrosties make delightful harmony
of color on ruby hats
A dispatch from st. john N. B.. states
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river large quantities of logs, and there are
now |, 400, 600 feet in the blooms at Frederic
ton. Many of the mills will resume work
An Indian woman recently gave birth to a
female baby with two heads. Heaven help
the father of that girl when it gets big enough
to wear bonnets. - Philadelphia Chronicle
A Maine lumberman who sat in the gallery
at a ball and saw the ladies' in short sleeves,
turned to his daughter and said ''Kate,
don't see any good muscle in the whole
room.-N J. Herald.
The chief criminal concerned in the muir
der of Rev. Mr.. Parsons, the American mis-
sionary in Turkey, has been condemned to
death, and the other two to fifteen years i'm
prisonment at hard labor
William Kelley, an employee of the Bos.
ton Maine Railroad Company, was run over
by freighttrain, near Prison point. on Friday.
He was taken to the Massachusetts, General
Hospital, where he died from his injuries.
When Jenny Lind visited America the IA
nous caricaturist Cham amused himself by
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his hand in glass case. II do not use it any
longer" said the American, "since Jenny
Lind has shook it,
1t is said that a firm in Pittsburg is engaged
dress for Sarah Bernhard. The articles are
as flexible as cotton or silk. and can be washed
and tied in knots. The material is not frag-
lie and is uninfammable. The exact mode
of manufacture is secret
The American Horse Exchange shipped on
Saturday. Oct. 80, by the National Line to
Liverpool, sc horses, the first instalment
sent by this institution abroad. The lot was
a capital one. and embraced two well put to-
gether four-in-hand teams. several specimens
of the hunter. coupe and harness horses.
Nordenskjold has ordered vessel to be
built at the mouth of the Lena, whence he
will set out eighteen months hence on another
voyage of discovery in the Arctic seas. BY
going overland through Siberia to the mouth
of the Lena he hopes to ''steal a march on
the brief open season.
President-elect Garfield, when he was
very small boy of three years old, went
to school to lady. who in her
old age delighted to relate the little fellows
pranks. He was so persistently mischievous
that to keep him still his teacher promised
him that he might sit on the larger bench as
soon as he learned to read. He went to work
with a will to learn, and before he had been
at school week he could say his letters and
several weeks before the end of the term he
claimed and received his permission to sit
on the high seat with the older scholars.