Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-19

a thousand barrels of flour We're or
dered last week from a Mobile firm for
Spanish Honduras, and a Louisiana
merchant back from Honduras says
that the trade between that country
and the States is increasing
\ self-willed young lady in Denver
insisted on going wheeling against the
command of her father He whipped
her. and she had him arrested and con
victed of assault Now she visits him
every day in Jail, riding there on her
wheel.
Leprosy is slowly. but steadily
spreading in the district of Memel
in East Prussia. some of the patients
being very young. As the disease
seems to be chronic and indigenous.
the government is about to establish
leper asylum there
Elizabeth J, Gardner. whose mar
riage to Bouguereau after nineteen
years engagement has recently taken
place in Paris: Kate Field whom all
the country mourns. and Annie Whit
ney. the famous sculptor Of Boston.
We're all pupils at Lassell Seminary.
Auburndale. Mass.
Enormous quantities of Goldfish con-
time to be taken on the southwest
coast Of Newfoundland especially on
that part of it between st. Joints ard
the Peninsula of BUrin. The residents
of Trespassy bay say that thy never
before saw fish s. plentiful. Stages.
stores and houses are filled. while the
beach in all directions is piled with
fish. Thirteen schooners belonging 10
Grand Banks brought into 81. Johns
10000 quintals of fish
Saturday is the recognized begging
day in Laredo, Tex. and very many men
and women able to work make their
living by the weekly systematic can
vass of the town. Blindness is the most
common of their pretended afflictions
One blind man had a goat to lead him
until one day Billy got out of training
and insisted upon eating by the road
side. His master was wroth and pull
ing a raWhide from his coat. delivered
such Well-directed blows upon the
creature that unfeeling bystandcgs
forgot the sensations of the goat in
their enjoyment of the impostor's ex-
posture of himself
Russian peasants are emigrating to
Siberia in numbers that alarm the gov
eminent. The part of the Siberian rail
road opened has been blocked by the
rush, 10000 persons being encamped at
Tchelyabursk in the middle Of Nav.
waiting for transportation. So far this
year $4,000 have emigrated. whole vii
lagos being left without inhabitants. TO
the great embarrassment of the elder.
who is responsible for the. payment of
taxes and finds only deserted farms or
which to levy Plentiful, cheap land is
the attraction in Siberia 1t is re-
ported that the government will stop !
banishing criminals to Siberia. and will |
use only the island of Saghalien. the
northern provinces, and the prison dis !
tricts as receptacles for convicts.
The tabulation of enlistments in the
United States army for the month OF
July show Enthusiastically the care with
which recruits are now accepted Can
tain Palmer, in charge of the Chicago
recruiting station accepted only /,
tWenty-seVen men out of ASS who an !
piled for enlistment. The army stand |
ard has been raised until it is more |
difficult to enter it as private. for the
wage OF $l4 a month, than it is to !,
secure admission into any other de-
paftment of the government A good !
physique without a good moral char
acter debars an applicant His recon- !
mendations have to be certified by two
or more responsible citizens. and a
record for industry must be shown bv
the applicant. The total number of
enllstments during the month were 430
and the reflections 1888.