Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-06-23
GENEH4L NEWS.

Inc PUBIC library OF boston now CONTAINS 'li,-
26j volumes.
According TO a recently published law directo-
~ Chicago has one thousand and odd lawyers.
1t is stated that ten members of the United
States Senate are printers by trade.
1t is proposed in Holland to erect monument
on the grave of Motley, as a tribute TO be pre-
scented by the Dutch nation.
Uncle Sam realized 50, lj9 67j by the tax on
beer last year-an increase of nearly 100000
over the previous year.
Thifty-one carloads Of tea left San Francisco
for the East fast freight time on the 18th inst.
An old soldier laughed so heartily at perform
ance of demons" in Eau Claire, Wis, that he
caused an old wound in his leg to bleed and he
died in half an hour.
Kentucky man is reported to he operating
daily sean-wagon of his own invention which
weighs about $500 pounds, runs at the rate of Is
to 20 miles an hour and can be turned lily.
Mr.. Motley received from the llarpers as copy
right the comfortable sum of $50 900; while Prof.
Charles Anthem got upon his writings 100000.
The firm paid to Mr.. Jacob Abbott $4,000; to
the late Albert Barnes $4,000; and to Marcus
Wilson, the author of their series of school read
ers, about 100000.
There is precocous six-year old boy in Au
burn Me-, who is wonderful on spelling and def
milton. The other day his teacher asked him to
spell matrmony "M-a.t-r--m-o-n-y," said the
teacher. "Wel | don't exactly know what it
means, but know mothers got enough of it."
replied the boy.
Two little boys in Portsmouth, Ohio, aged
and 8, took into their heads to visit their grand
father last week, and without informing any ore,
started off, and walked 20 miles to his residence.
Their freak caused much alarm, until they were
brought back three DAYS afterward.
Gilbert Stuart the painter rarely went to church;
he had the idea that people could pray without
going there. But one Summer morning he con-
cluded to 90, and when there arranged himself
very much at his ease, standing and leaning over
the pew when everybody else was sitting, taking
snuff yet paying great attention TO the sermon.
On his way home he said, "Wel, | do not think
l shall 20 to church again His daughter asked,
"Why :" ooh, said he, II do not like the idea
Of a man getting up in box and having oil the
conversation to himself"
Sherl Ian Shook has introduced cold air
chine in Gilmore's concert Garden, in New York
city. 1t consists of an immense fly-wheel, that
catches the breeze through fve-windows, and is
driven by steam. This wheel or fan pushes the
air through wooden pipe casing that surrounds
the building, and which has outlets under the box
es aud the music stand. The heated air is lifted
up by the influx of the cool breeze, and being
lighter, it is pushed through windows and ventil-
ators in the roof
"Ben" Montgomery, remarkable colored man,
has just died in Mississippi. lie was once the
personal servant of Col. j. D. Davis, the brother
of the Confederate President. Montgomery had
extraordinary ability, and while slave he was
accustomed TO attend to the greater portion Of
the large estate owned and managed by his mas
ter, and after the war purchased from Mr.. Davis,
at a cost of $3.50 900 in god the Hurricane place
and Brierfeld, the former house of President
Davis, He subsequently, purchased from Mr.,
Wood of Jefferson County, Mississippi the Ursine
plantation, which made him monarch of Hurri-
cane Island, excepting the Palmyra place formerly
owned by Gen. Quitmsn. He was thorough bust
ness man, and had too, it is said, the presence and
address of a cultivated gentleman. de was fairly
educated and was well read in current literature.
His two sons, known as business men Of undis-
pnted integrity, inherit his possessions.
The refusal of rooms to Mr.. Seligman at the
Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga, has caused great
excitement The papers are full of it. 1t is said
Judge Hilton's policy has been condemned by
William Cullen Bryant, Gen. Roger A. Pryor and
others in letters to the Seligman brothers, on the
other hand Mr.. Hilton maintains his position and
is supported in it by many correspondents. jew
ish firms are Withdrawing their accounts from A.
I. Stewart < Co., of which Mr.. Hilton is the
manager.