Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-02-23
GENERAL Ne US.

Miss Charlotte Cushman left fortune estimated
a. 100000.
The Danbury News is spoken OF for Gov
ernor of Connecticut
The Carlist rebellion is virtually at an end, Es-
telle having fallen and the Carlists fleeing to
France.
The Supreme Court of Texas has decided that
contracts made payable in Confederate money are
valid.
Lace-making is now one of the regular branch
es in the schools of Rome, and the Italian children
are said to produce lace equal to the best antique.
Owing to the suspension of operations by the
Bureau of Printing there is a serious lack Of new
currency to supply the place Of old notes sent IN
by the banks for exchange.
The sound portions of the old Elm OF Boston
Common will be made into furniture for the City
Hall of Boston, and specimens will be sent to the
various historical societies of the country.
Servia calling out her troops and ordering all
men between twenty and fifty to report to the
CONSUMPTION officials, puts an unhopefu lock upon
the peace prospects in the East.
At Point Reys, Call there is dairy farm CT
As 900 acres, on VIII ich there are 5000 cows. This
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several tenants. They make from $1,000 to $1,000
per annum, clear Of all expenses.
The building once occupied as law office by
Andrew Jackson at Salisbury, n. c., is still stand
ing A Virginia gentleman has purchased it re-
Gently, and he will have it repaired and removed
to the Centennial grounds at Philadelphia.
A reporter being called to account for the state
ment that certain meeting twas large and re-
spectacle one" when only one other person beside
himself was present, insisted that his report was
literally true; for said he, 81 was large and the
other man was respectable"
A Mr.. Rolf of England, descendant of the
Rolf who married Pocahontas, has informed the
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia that
he has forwarded as present to the State copy
of an original portrait of the Indian princess in his
possession 1t will be placed in the State library.
Miss Hobart, Massachusetts, girl who recently
purchased twenty acres Of land in Westminster
Cal, is putting ont ten acres OF onions, and Will
soon sink an Artesian well in the place. Such is
the force with which water is discharged from a
we'll in that vicinity that rocks measuring three
inches in diameter are frequently thrown out with
great violence.
The Portsmouth On. H. Times ofthe 18th inst
saws: SIN the family lot on the Rice farm at Kit
terry, Me-, whittier the remains of the late Major
Alexander Rice were conveyed yesterday, now lie
seven generations. Near by the LOT is growing
rose bush known to be over 200 years old
This estate was once owned by Sir Fernando
Gorges and decided by him to the Withers family,
and in 1862 it was given as a marriage dowry by
Thomas Withers to his daughter Mary Withers
On her nuptials with Thomas Rice. Thus this
farm has been in the Rice family for period of
pa years"
1t took place, ofcourse, in San Francisco where
they have bonanza failures, bonanza babies and
the bonanza hotel. 1t was bonanza banquet
given to Hon. William Sharon, United States Sen
ator from Nevada whose term of service will not
expire until 1881. and he therefore afford to
remember that his chair in the Senate Chamber
| has not been filed by him this session. The ban
quot room was in the new Palace HOTEL and the
hosts were the cold friends Of the Comstock lode
General John +. Miller presided, and MIR. d. o.
| Mills, who succeeded poor Ralston as President OF
the Bank of California, sat at the foot OF the table
| The menu, was of true occidental magnfcence.
Golden winged feathered songsters in silver wire
cages sang among the palm trees, and the perfume
| of orange groves mingled with the aroma of vim
tages of the remotest antiquity. The bills of fare
were engraved upon heavy plate of solid silver
| dug from the Comstock lode These cost forty
dollars each, and were carried home as souvenirs
| of the bonanza banquet. The estimated wealth OF
| those present amounted to many millions. War
rem Leland, the proprietor Of the Palace, is said to
have assumed, after looking at the table, the title
of "lIotel King Of America"