Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-04-15
General News.

Hart, the pedestrian, uses neither intoxr
eating drink nor tobacco.
The iron boom has passed the turning
point and is subsiding.
The big dealers in coal are combining to
give that article of fuel still higher price,
Col. Robert Ingersoll rises to explain. He
saws that he is for Blaine. that he now
stands where he stood in 1876. and all re-
porrs to the effect that he is for Grant are
untrue.
Ex-Minister Washburne has been suffering
during the past Winter from almost constant
headaches---she result Of the malaria of sewer
gas. He thinks that the Hot Springs have
helped him.
There are now some forty or fifty married
couples in the Oneida community The
members are now very reticent about their
affairs, and no persons have been admitted to
membership for many months.
Eastern bricks, which are brought from
several towns along the Maine coastcost So per
1000, against sl.50 year ago, and the bricks
themselves sold here year ago, by the cargo,
at S52J TO 1913, whereas the present price
is IS Ss.50-TrareUer.
Three farmer brothers of the late William
Cullen Bryant live in Priaceton, Ill. They
are described as good. honest, substantial
men. only one, Mr.. J. H. Bryant, having lit
erary capacity He has written many poems,
and published them too. He dwells in
handsome house, which was tn, gift Of his
distinguished brother
Monday was one of the heaviest days Cas-
tie Garden has seen in years. No less than
1892 newly-arriyed immigrants were landed
from five steamers, and another (the AriZona)
was reported too late to come up in the even
brought ,25S; the Baltic from Liverpool 564;
the Donau, from Bremen, $50: the Circassia,
from London, 726, and the California, from
Glasgow, rs.
at Bath, England, and a number of persons
were present to witness a snake performance,
one of the reptiles coiled itself round the cx-
hbitor's throat. After some struggling he
fell from exhaustion. There was much con-
stcrnation among the crowd and the ladies
screamed loudly. Ultimately che snake,
which was about seven feet in length, was
detached by a fellow-employee.
A brood-mare on Colorado ranch lost her
colt this spring and appeared to be deeply
grieved oyer the circumstance. She was
melancholy and depressed in spirits for some
days, and then her cheerfulness returned.
1t was discovered that she had adopted the
offspring of another animal as her own. The
curious part of the matter is that her choice
had fallen upon calf which she had enticed
away from its real mother and sucked
with the greatest care. The calf was appar-
entity happy, and followed its foster mother
with great affection. When the calf was tax
fight to retain it, and relapsed into her former
melancholy condition for number of days
after its loss.
Mr.. Francis Murphy has received from d.
vers Philadelphia friends the gift of horse
in that city. Mr.. Murphy took possession of
his new home on Saturday, for the first time
in ten years gathering his six children togeth-
er under one roof. 1.-The last time they were
together" says The Record twas year after
Mrs. Murphy died, and when the father had
given up his life of dissipation, and had be-
gun, in feeble way, to preach temperance.
He was too poor then to support them, and
placing the girls in an orphan asylum and
the boys on farms, he started out on his cru
SADIE. When he had saved $40 he removed
the girls from the asylum and placed them
in christian homes, where he maintained
them"