Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-30
General News.

In Melbourne the letter carriers are clad
in scarlet-cOats, waistcOats and trousers.
Ten days hence a second worlds show
worth seeing will begin at New Orleans.
Rackarock did its work we'll, for the bot
tom of He'll Gate is still sinking slowly.
The Chicago current has been sold for
$500 to Alopzo j. Grover.
The Genesta reached home Wednesday
morning.
The silver men claim to have a majority in
the lower branch of Congress.
The shipbuilding trade on the Clyde is great
ly depressed
Smallpox has nearly exterminated the
Huron and Irequois Indians living in Canada.
The Newport noodles are making pets of
white rats now.
The streams of New York are to be stocked
with Oregon trout.
Whiskey manufacturers are in secret SEES
sion at Chicago to form a new pool.
Many English rOyalists are scandalized be-
cause the Prince of Wales went to see a
Sunday horse-race.
Philadelphia has had enough of the special
delivery letters to average 300 per day since
the law went into effect.
Cranberries are very cheap. This has been
year of remarkably low prices for all kinds
of berries.
Captain A. N. Thornby, of the Lancashire
(Eng.) cricket eleven, writes that the team
probably will visit America next season.
The Milwaukee police have orders to ar
rest anv one who leaves horse unhtched in
the streets
Hand-picked apples are selling as low as 80
cents per barrel in towns along the line of
the New York City and Northern Railroad.
A London dispatch states that the Great
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nesday for EGG, 200.
The President has appointed Henry F.
Weld of Massachusetts to be assayor in
charge of the assay office at Boise City,
Idaho.
The Supr me Court of Rockingham county
N H.. finished it's shortest term on the 2Sth,
having been in session only seven working
days
Old Roman remains have been found at
Einng, in Germany. These incline masonry,
arms, rugs, gems, surgical instruments and
the like.
There is a dispute at New York whether
the city or national government shall provide
huts for the occupation in winter of the
troops who guard Grants tomb.
An engine driver on a Saxon railway has
just retired from service of 40 years, during
which he has travelled on his locomotive.
without single accident, a distance of
253 ,347 miles.
A Pennsylvania colored man who wished a
marriage licence, and could neither write nor
spell his name, presented a check payable to
his order from which the name was obtained.
Who says the colored race is not progressing.
Sadie Bay, young lady of II. who resides
in southern Colorado, edits a weekly paper,
sets the type, pulls the press and distributes
the copies. She also goes to school regular
ly. The paper is appropriately named the
Wasp.
fair under the auspices Of the Colored
State Fair Association opened under auspic-
ious circumstances at Jackson, Miss, on
Tuesday. Addresses were made by the pres
ident, Isaiah I. Montgomery, and by Gov.
Lowry.
Committees of the Lehigh and SchuylkilI
coal exchanges have agreed to make no
changes in the present line and city prices of
coal during next month The Western Coal
Association will make an advance of 25 cents
per ton.
The statue of Benjamin II. Hill will soor
be completed and set up at Atlanta, Ga. 1t is
about eight feet high and represents the sena
tor standing in an easy attitude, with his ovel
coat carelessly thrown over one arm. The
likeness is said to be good. Doyle of New
York is the sculptor.
| Librarians the country over have ever beer
seeking to discover volume 81 of the Christian
Observer, and Bowdoin College is said tt
have been especially persistent in its search
| for the missing book After looking for i
for ten years it occurred to Librarian Pool,
of Chicago to examine his set, when he mad,
the discovery that there had never been any
volume 81. that volume 20 closed with De
cember 1921. and volume % began with Jan
usry 1922, the change being made that tn,
volume might correspond with the year of tn,
century.
The library of the. late Richard Gran
White is to be sold at auction in New York
the middle of next month, and the catalogu,
just issued gives one an idea of the direction
in which Mr.. Whites tastes led him in tn
purchase of books. There are 1900 lots o
books to be sold, and in addition there is
collection of engravings, about 80 oil paint
ings and some 'cellos (by Borgenzi, Amati
Galiano and Sylvester, with two called 'olt
Italian" simply, violin and two sold vic
Inns Nine bows, two flutes and q piccol,
will also come under the hammer