Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-12-20
General News.

s'Endymion has proved bonanza 10 the
publishers.
San Francisco is trying to keep warm with
coal at sls per ton.
There was a large advance in railroad and
other stocks Thursday. in New York.
The suIn Of $500 was refused for a Me-
rino ram at tie Australian sheep show.
The Italizn sinking-fand now amounts to
about $1,000 900 francs.
The first eight performances of the Bern
harit season, in Boston, brought in so. .22s-
Baron de I.esseps has recently had bis
ninth baby baptized
A large number Of diseased cattle were
seized on Long Island, Thursday.
Don't buy a piano for your daughters,
while vour sons need plow.
Mr. Vanderbilt holds 100. 600 shares in the
Union Pacific K. L.
The Chicago horse railroad companies viii
hereafter pay the city $4,000 revenue per
year.
DR. Glenn's harvest in Colnsa county. Cal.
Is Just finished. AMI the total yield is fo0, 900
sacks Of wheat.
Cen Robert G. schenck, who it was be-
lieycd. was dying, rises 10 announce that his
health is superb.
Cincinnati has manufactured more than
u, 100000 gallons OF whlskey so far this
year.
Mr. spurgeon is so much better that he
declares that he will not 20 to Mention again
this winter although bis friends urge it.
The Illness Of Mr. Reuben Springer, Gin
cinnati's bene4actor, has taken a favorable
turn, and his recovery Is hoped for
Mrs Ellen Grant Sartoris has now three
children-two little girls and boy. The
fourth-ber eldest son-is dead.
a whale weighing over 10 tons, which has
been lately exhibit d in Boston, is 10 be
taken TO Chicago in the expectation of aston
ishing the people there.
It'is thought at Brattleboro', Vt, that S.
VI. Waite, the defaulting bank president, will
never be tried. His health continues very
poor.
We ought to be six feet deep in snow.
with icicles eight feet long, according to Ven
nor, but we are almost without snow, and
have magnificent winter weather.
Gen. Sherman says that if the Oklahama
Invaders cannot be kept out of the Indian
Territory By peaceable means, the troops
will surely have orders to fire.
An American citizen writes to the Herald
of an insult and uniustifiable Imprisonment
inflicted upon him in Ecuador. The Ameri-
can consul has taken up the ease.
Brand, an American fugitive, was on
Wednesday night forcibly abducted from
Hemmngford, Can, by three men, who
placed him in sleigh and took him to
Plattsburgh, n. Y.
Concerning p. T. Barnum, letter from
his daughter states that his improvement IS
steady, but slow that his prostration is Sc
we're; and that complete Recovery must be
the work of considerable time.
Western Union has tumbled from los to
IS II on account of the war with the Amer
MI talauruut, al have banD ~ n
down - to 40 per cent. at competing points
only. The war viii probably end in consoli-
dation-
''Yes. sab, said the old colored man, ode
frs yeah. when | Civ fifty dollalls to the
Church, dcy call me Mistah R,chad johnson
Esquah; dc secon' yeah times was bad an
couldn't Civ no more than twenty-five dollahs
an dey call me Bruddah Johnson de next
yeah couldn't Civ muffin an dey call me
ole Nigcah johnson.
\ San Francisco paper reports that during
the past season the captain and mate of a
whaling vessel now in that port, made the
discovery in Alaska, of mountain of silver.
A piece Of melted metal. cut with Il aX from n
great mass, assays six thousand dollars a ton,
and loose rocks picked up assay as high as
three hundred dollars a ton.
4 convention of colored men who were
former residents of North Carolina, bet re-
moved to Indiana last year, was held at
Grecncas,le in the latter State; and adopted
resolutions declaring that everything in In
diana has been found better than they had
reason to expect" and that one half of their
race at the South ought to emigrate to north
crn States.
The people of Cincinnati are exerting
themselves to express their recognition
of the heroic efforts of the firemen who
lost their lives in the flames of burn
ing building the other day. The agen-
cies of the various insurance companies do
ing business in the city have already contrib
uted over -. 800 for the sport of their tami-
lies, and the theatres of the city, without ex-
cepton, have announced benefit perform
anccs for the widows and children.