Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-10-22
General News.

1t is reported that Daniel Drew is again opcrst.
| ing in Wall street.
The total registration in New York city for the
first two days foots up 72,27O. against 1888 the
first two days of 1876.
| William C. Gilman, the forger. has been made
assistant bookkeeper in Sing Sing Prison. His
wife had become insane.
The State Bank in Russia has advanced to the
government 239 millions of roubes, and the paper
money in circulation reaches 90S millions Of
| roubles.
l.. j. Smith, newsboy on the Pittsburg, Titus.
vile and Buffalo Railroad, 10 likely soon to receive
S22 600, the amount Of insurance upon the life o.
his father, the payment Of which had been resist
ed by the insurance company.
Lord George Ham ilton, the Under Secretary
for India, has made speech in which he admitted
that the coat of the famine to the Imperial Gov
eminent would be SIS, O00. 900, or double the or.
iginal estimates.
Col. Frank Bond, son Of the Dean of Montreal,
and prominent business man Of that city, and
John Campbell, commercial editor Of the Daily
Herald. were arrested and bound over for trial.
Thursday, on . charge of conspiracy against the
City and District Savings Bank.
The Atlanta (GA) Constitution has . story that
jefferson Davis by active interpretation, saved An.
dy johnson from being lynched on his return from
Washington to Tennessee in 1861, and it intimstes
that il vas the knowledge Of this fact obtained in
April, 1866, that caused him to weaken in his de-
sire to make this particular traitors treason pecul
iarly odious.
The Berlin police have followed the example Of
the Hamburg authorities in forbidding . public
re-appearance upon the stage Of Adele Sptzeder,
former actress, who committed gigantic and
wholesale frauds upon poor ignorant people 10
Bavaria and who has just been discharged from
long term Of Imprisonment. An enterprising
manager had engaged her as "Msry Stuart" at =
large salary. and an overlooking house was a.
sured.
Gen. John NJ. Harlan, newly appointed Supreme
Court Justice is said to be not 20 heavy . man Is
Judge Davis, but he will be by far the largest
man on the bench. "If he we're lady he would
be called magnificent blond" says Mr.. II Alstesd
for the new Judge is tall and ruddy, and of majes
tic figure.
The unpublished life Of Gen. Grant, written BY
his father, by Mr. Jesse r. Grant, is in possession
Of the Connecticut State librarian. This mana.
script gives 9 new version Of the way in which
young Grant got his name Of Ulysses; it says
that the name WAS one of . lot drawn from hat
when bis parents were debating what to call him.
10 his last annual report the Postmaster General
of Great Britain says: "Whether it 10 owing 10
the fact that letter carriers are rendered conspicu
Gus by their uniform, or that their duty takes
them into portions of premises not much frequent
ed by other persons. am unable to determine
but it appears to be the case that letter carriers
are peculiarly liable to be attacked by savage
dogs. In one large town in the north of England
the postmaster has reported 10 me that 20 per
cent. of bis mea were bitten by dogs during the
past year" Z