Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-09-09
General News.

Beer trains are now regularly run from
Mu0ch.
The English Church Congress will be held
in Portsmouth this wear on October b.
Colored women are working on the chain in
the streets of Pensacola, Fla.
1.-THE Americas Cup has recently been on
exhibition at Titfany's. New York.
In the great smuggling match between John
sullivan and John Barleycorn, the combatants
will soon rally for the last round.
Agents are canvassing Atlanta for General
Grants book, and several hundred copies
have already been subscribed for.
A Bonapartist paper, named the Buonaparte
has been started 10 Paris. 1t is devoted
chiefly to laudation of Prince Jerome.
The members of the Cape Cod Historical
Society will take their summer excursion to
Plymouth on Thursday, September 10
The colored debating society in a Georgia
town has been discussing the question,
(Which sre the more useful to society, law
yers or buzzardsY
A writer in the Leisure Hours states that
there have been discovered, up to theapresent
only three printers errors in all the editions
of the revised Bible. and these are of a most
obvious description.
A cotton picker is reported at Chattanoo
rs the invention of G. Seers, which will, it is
expected, DO the work of 35 men. and will
cost but $500 1t will revolutionize the pro-
duction of cotton and greatly cheaper it.
The backbone and ribs of a gigantic lizard
have been found 40 feet below the surface at
Rochelle. H. The backbone was over nine
inches in diameter, and was probably that of
an ichthyossurus between 60 and 80 feet long
Here is an extract from the town record of
Northampton. dated April 4. 1885: 1.-The
question was then put whether the town
would be at any expense for schooling the
girls, and it passed in the negative"
A member of the Bible revision commtte e
received a touching plea against the chang
ing of q verse in Proverbs, which" said
the writer, was always a great comfort to
NV two husbands both deceased
The mushroom season is at hand. Don't
go out and gather them yourself 1t is cheap
err to buy the genuine article than to turn
your toes up to the daisies as the effect. of a
hearty meal of toad stools.-Providenc
Star.
1t is reported of a Weymouth man that he
charged his neighbor 25 cents recently for
stopping in his house during a tempest, be-
cause he had lightning rods on his house
He said he could not protect people for
nothing.
An eagle attacked an S-year-old boy near
Bullion, Ari recently while he was riding
horseback, and lifted him clear from the sad
die, dropping him to the ground and bruising
him badly, besides tearing his shoulders with
its claws.
Popular education has made gigantic strides
in England and Wales during the last 10
years The number Of schools inspected in
1870 was s2sl: in 1884 it was Is S7+ The
seating accommodation has risen from l.S7s.
5S4 TO 4.s26.13S. and the average attendance
from l ,225, 764 II 3,273.l24
We often hear of the absurd names given
to twins, but ALBANY has pair of girls that
will take the premium in that line. Their
mother is a colored wasberwoman, and she
has named her daughters Marv Magdalene
and Virgin Mary. Each of them is called
by her full name Macon, Ga, Telegraph.