Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-12-17
General News.

Fresh shad are seen in the Savannah
markets.
This years lord mayors dinner in London
cost flS00
The 1000 convicts in Sing Sing prison eat
II barrels of -four daily.
Buffalo Bills "Wild West" is to make
London open its ewes.
II. A. Adams of Orange county, Fla, has
grosn a sweet potato % inches long.
A Kansas City restaurant advertises fan
mel cakes that are "a yard wide and all WOOL"
true bill has been found ut Hartford, CT,
against Hezekiah Case, the Bloomfield muir
derer.
Bernard Helms, who WAS injured in the
riot at San Francisco on Sunday. died on
Tuesday.
Mrs. Druse, who murdered her husband,
is to be executed in Herklmer county, N. Y.
Dec. 30
Painting is going ont of fashion. The
has her innings.
1t is said that New England office-seekers
bother the President more than those from
anv other section.
Banqueting defeated candidates for the
Legislature is the dangerous custom estab-
lished by the democrats of Plym 1uth, Mass q,
the other day.
William Storer, a New York dry goods
merchant, it is reported, has joined the
Canadian colony $50 600 ahead. sheriff
has possession of his store.
About one hundred members of the con.
stitutional convention and all of the mem
bers of the so called Legislature of South
Dakota met at Huron Wednesday.
drpl request was received the other dav
at the Interior Department from a young
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daughter of Standing Besr. a Sioux chief
A 10 year old boy of Marion, Ind, has be-
come insane, and physicians saw that it is
solely due to tobacco. which he has used since
he was five years old.
Mr.. Edwin Buorman of Findley's Lake. N.
Y. has photograph of his mother, himself,
his daughter, her dsu yhter, and her baby
The picture represents five generations, all in
good health.
II is now said that the w. c. T. U of St.
Louis did not make the public criticism at
tributed TO them on the use of wines at a
e gathering at the house of cabinet officer in
Washington.
The postmaster at Cold Spring, ). c., and
negro were killed Tuesday by an explosion
of powder. The former after lighting his
pipe carelessly threw the match so that it fell
into an open keg of powder.
An agreement mas been rPached between
the Lynn Lssters' Union and the Knights of
Labor. whereby all differences between the
two organizations will in the future be
settled smicablv.
The office of Town Topics. New York
society paper, wss raided by Anthony Com
stock and posse of officers on Tuesday, at
the instigation of several parties who claim
to have suffered in its columns.
MANY of the Jscarilla Indians in New
Mexico are DESTROYS of leading a civilized
life, and are settling on land in the Rio
Grsnde valley, and have placed q number of
their children at school at Ramona.
Since Nov. l, special taxes have been
assessed on 81 manufacturers of oleomarga-
rine. on 204 wholesale dealers and on PALS
retail dealers. The number of pounds of
oleomargarine assessed at 2 cents per pound
was 1880 ia.
A bottle of purple ink was mistakenly
opened for port wine at Detroit supper,
and IA guests filled their mouths with the
liquid in pledging the host. But it was
probably just as good as most of the port
wine" nowadays.
Eunice Barton, an lS-year-old girl of Fred
erick. w. Va, was shot dead by her younger
sister, who was examining a revolver that
she knew was not loaded. Eunice was to
have been married to Young farmer, but she
was buried n that day instead.
George Semon of Charlotte, Mich, was
poor and shiftless, and Mrs. Semon was thrift