Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-27
General News.

NO fewer than eleven ex-governors OF Con-
necticut are living.
In China the flesh of rats, dried and sailed.
is deemed an excellent hair restorer.
James Whitelp, Pekin, Ill. clerk, is a de-
faulter, and has fled.
Fairburn GA woman, 20 years old. has
never eaten a mouthful of meat of any kind.
By the January count. there were 100000
paupers in London, and still they wonder at
such crimes a. riots.
The post Office appropriation bill aggregates
S54, 800. 900 and is 100000 more than last
year.
The Dominion government has settled the
Hudson's Bay Company rebellion losses for
81, 800, 900.
committee of the G. A. R. will invesri-
gate the charges against the management of
the soldiers orphans schools in Pennsylvania.
The people of this country paid last year
more than S9,000000 for imported precious
stones.
Anton Jeregolden has been sentenced to 10
years imprisonment for attempting to poison
the family of Eugene Miller of Mt Pleasant,
N. Y.
At Mantle, Ill. an old man of 20 attempted
to elope with girl of Is (who was perfectly
willing), but an uncle OF the girl put stop to
the proceeding.
Ten Thousand unlicensed dogs have been
destroyed in London at the Dogs Home alone
since the hydrophobia scare began a few
weeks ago.
Episcopal Church South will assemble in
Richmond in May next. The last time it met
in Virginia was in 1857.
A woman was buried with military honors
at Pottsville. Pa, the other day. She was the
widow of Colonel Seneca G. Simmons of the
Fifth Pennsylvania Reserves.
In New York nearly 5000 prisoners of the
higher grade will be affected bv the bill just
signed by the governor, providing for com
mutation of sentences of convicts for good
behavior.
The small tract of land at Halletts Point,
New York, upon which the tower of He'll
Gate electric light stands, has been purchased
bv the U S. government from the Halsey
estate for $4,000.
Ouray, Colorado, has just invested S 900 in
| a novel hearse. 1t is said to be a very gor-
geous affair, but its principal feature is a
| speaking tube leading from the drivers seat
| to the interior.
number of bankers were hunting at Fort
| Worth, Tex, on Monday. During the chase
the horse of CYRUS w. Lambert, of the Fort
Worth National Bank. stumbled and, rolling
A mark upon the farm of Mitchell Hooper
Esq, at Bridgewater, has remained as the
monument of the overflow of the Taunton
river in 1880. The food last week reached
exactly the same point.
The exhibition of work done by children in
schools of manual and industrial education
will open in New York March 81. Schools
in Chicago, Boston. st. Louis and Philadel-
phia have been invited to contribute speci-
| mems of their work.
Two miners were seriously if not fatally,
| injured by the premature explosion of a blast
at Ellangowan collierv, Penn. The accident
was caused by one of the men using steel
drill as a tamper instead of the customary
wooden one.
George Crist of Cincinnati, O., claimed
$4,000 from Bradstreet's Mercantile Agency
on the ground that it had misrepresented him
in its rating. He had declined to furnish in
formation and the agency estimated. The
jury returned a verdict in favor of the agency
New York cleo factory boasts that it
EMPLOYS the highest talent in its laboratory,
having secured the services of the French
chemist who beached the famous Sacred
Elephant. man who can counterfeit an
elephant ought to do fairly well in counter
feitng butter.
George Ross, the l4year-old son of a
wealthy merchant residing at Harlem, N. Y.
was intercepted by a policeman when about
to start for Denver, Col. He had stolen $500
from his mother and purchased two revolvers,
bowie-knife and silver watch, completing
his outfit by paying 500 for pointer dog.
Two Swedish lovers fought duel at Sand
wich, Mass, with bare fists, to see which
should have free field in winning the regard
of the young lady in whom both were inter
ested. After pounding each other till they
were exhausted. the fight was declared draw
and the lady, hearing of the case, expressed
decided preference for the challenged party.
few days ago, in the course of some ex-
cavations at the Acropois Athens. near the
Erectheum, three statues of women, in an
excellent state of preservation, half as large
again as life, with large heads and completely
colsred, were discovered. They belong to
the period before Phidias, are delicately
finished, and are Of an archaic art, admirably
preserved.