Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-06-19
General News.

Georgia has one patch containing three and
Q half million watermelOns.
OF seventeen passengers on the Narragan-
sett bound for Attleboro, Mass, eight were
lost.
A boat sixty feet long. supposed to be
Vikings ship Of l,0s0 years ago, has been
found in a monnd near Sandeford, Norway.
President Hayes has been improving his
house at Fremont Ohio. Mr.. Webb Hayes
is experimenting the work.
A farmer in Dearborn county, Ind, had
roof IA feet square come crashing down into
his orchard during tornado. -four weeks ago,
and has not yet been able to ascertain where
it came from.
One curious effect of Sundays tornado in
eastern New jersey, was the driving away of
all the army worms which have recently been
doing so much damage in that section.
1t seems that several rebel flags were dis
played at Winchester, Va, upon the recent
occasion of the decoration of the graves of
the Confederate dead at the cemetery in that
place, and that some adverse criticism is be-
ing made upon that fact
man who firmly believes that second
flood will come next November to cover the
whole face of the earth is building an ark at
Helena, Texas. The craft will hold fifty
persons, with food for forty days and forty
nights, and he will take passengers at $500
each
During the session of the Chicago conven-
ten the Western Union Company sent from
that city 424, 705 words over and above the
usual average of business. In book form
this would fill five ordinary volumes of over
300 pages each.
Siamese twins have been born in a small
fishing village in North Devon. The wife Of
thatcher named Gaydon, recently gave
birth to two children incorporated or grown
together from the breasts down to the abdo-
men. They are perfect in every other re-
spect, having a head each and two hands,
two legs, and, it is believed. a separate ex-
istence.
Isaac Bickford. venerable and respected
citizen of Biddeford, vOuches for the truth
of the following: 'How shall we keep the
Sabbath? A robin commenced trying to
build her nest, but the wind blowing very
hard, she couldn't make things stick
When we came home at noon the young m an
climbed up and fastened to the tree some
strings, etc, so that the bird could work. She
worked that afternoon and all the next day
Saturday. The following day-Sunday-I
went into the sitting-room and inquired for
the robin. No one had seen her. The robin
was not seen all that day by any one at the
house. On Monday following she was at
work again, by five o'clock in the MORN
ing"
Prince William, eldest son of the Pru.sian
Crown Prince, has just been solemnly be-
trothed to Princess Augusta Victoria The
aged Emperor brought in the bride, and
beamed with qualification as he presented
Bismarck aud other guests to her. She has
great personal attractions, and is in her
twenty-second year, nearly the same age as
| Prince William. She wore white silk dress
and hat trimmed with mayfiower., with
white veil A bouquet of tea roses rested
on the breast, and in her hand the Princess
held one of white roses and mayfowers A
| six-fold string Of pearls. with a golden me.
dallion, was round her neck The match is
said to be one of mutual affection rather than
ono of state arrcnuemept