Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-02
General News.

Southern p lanters hope to find the English
sparrows remedy for the ravages of the cot
ton worm.
Riley has challenged Warren Smith of
Halifax to four-mile race for $1,000 side,
on neutral waters
There is a large foreign demand for Amer
lean built locomotives and railway appara-
tus generally.
A Liverpool letter says President Hayes
proposes to visit England with his family at
the close of his term of office
The Comptroller of the Currency says -
per cent has already been paid to the credi-
tors by the First National Bank of Brattle-
boro', VT.
"Demi-brunette' is the name given to the
complexion possessed by women too black to
use powder. Perhaps it will be sort of
balm.
This is most enjoyable autumn weather,
but there are signs that the season of frosts
is at hand, and lovers of flowers are housing
their tender plants
Colonel Bob Ingersoll in closing a lecture
last Sunday, said Il have made up nv
mind that if there is God he will be merci-
full to the merciful. Upon that rock stand
The apple crop is immense this year, and
it is estimated that l25. zoo, 900 trees are
bearing and will yield POO, zoo, 200 bushels
This years crop ought to be worth 500, 000,-
900 or $40. 100000
Four thousand colored men paraded ut
Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday They
passed resolutions declaring that their race
would emgrate from the State if their rights
are longer withheld.
Ii is stated that the census returns from
Mississippi show frauds similar to the South
Carolina returns. The Pension Bureau has
detailed a prominent officer to visit that State
to investigate the matter.
Professor Agassiz, of Harvard, to show his
appreciation of the efforts of the firemen
when his Newport villa was burned, sent
check for $500 to the Newport Firemen's Re
lief Association.
Forty freight hrakemen on the Northern
Railway in Canada have struck for an in
crease of wages, and in consequence all the
freight business of the road is for the time
beirg at a stand-still. An early and AMIGA
BILE settlement is expected.
The famous Stevens Battery was sold by
auction Wednesday afternoon by order of
Washington b. Williams, a Master in Chan
Gerry. John c. Crevier of Hoboken was the
auctloneer. he battery was sold IN eight
lots. Lot /, which consisted of the hull of
the vessel, all the boilers and engines on
board the boiler and worthington pump in
the yard. also the wooden trestle work aud
track, all the articles on the battery, was
knocked down to William +. Laimbeer. a
builder of this city, for So, 1000. The other
seven lots, which were made up of iron and
articles in the machine shop, the blacksmith
shop, the shed, the store-room and the yard
were sold at low figures. Two years ago
SI25, 900 was offered for the battery. The
purchaser was given six months to remove
the battery.
A correspondent, who has recently been
visiting several New England literary cele-
brities, writes that Oliver Wendell Holmes
is still summering at Beverly, but will re-
turn to Boston early in October; John G.
Whittier has left Amesbury and now resides
at Danvers, where he occupies himself with
literary and agricultural pursuits; George
Bancroft is still busy at Newport with his
History of the United States, and continues
his daily horseback exercise; and Longfel-
low has abandoned Nahant for the season for
his fine old Colonial mansion at Cambridge.
The accomplished poet is justly proud of his
grandson, Richard Henry Dana the fourth,
sturdy and handsome young gentleman Of
some twelve months of age.