Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-06-26
GENERAL Ne VS..


Il i. reported tia, James Gordon Bennett is in
New YorS.
Governor Packard will srsnd the summer in
Maine.
There is an abatement Of faslc feeling in the
H.Aoa-seligmsn aff.ir.
Tae Boston Museum has new fle proof wue
curtain.
The French Senate has voted in favor OF disco
lutios.
One cotton mill in Columbus, Ga, pays over
one-siAth of the State aud county tax sud ous-.
twelfth of the city tax.
The new United States Marshal o: Louisiana
has had four hurdred applications for two perms-
nsnt positions at his disposal.
Monday marked the eight weeks since the for.
NAL declaration Of war by Russia, and the crossing
of tie Roumanan frontier by the vanguard of her
army.
A man walked into police station in Syracuse
\. Y, Wednesday night, and asked the officers to
tell him who he was and where he lived. The
officer could not enlighten him.
light hundred and seventy-th three children and
adults died of diphtheria in San Francisco during
the year ending with May. This was about 10
per cent. OF the deaths in the city.
Among the members-eleci of the Constitutional
Convention Of Georgia are A. K. 2. LawtoG, Mel
son Tiff, Joshua Hill, and Robert Toonbs. The
convention will meet in atlanta. Wednesday, aiy
II.
The Presidential party, which arrives in Boston
to-day, viii consist OF thirieea. The party II be
composed of the President and has family, Sctaiz
and his two daughters, Secretary EvArt. aud All
torney-Genersl Dsvees, General Cowley Of Ohio,
Minister to the Sandwich Islands, and bis wife
A helpless, nofFensive infant il Missouri be :
been loaded with the name of Tilden Hendricks
and another in the same locality is struggling
for life under the sppellation of Samuel j. Tilden
As a matter of simple Justice the mex. male infant
which has the misfortune to appear in that neigh
borhood should be called Cronn.-T tribune.
A party of ladies, headed by Mrs. Mary A. Liv'
ermore, called upon Mayor Prince of Boston, as
representatives of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, and urged him to refrain from
furnishing wine at the banquet to be given Presi-
dent Hayes this week by the city. The Mayor, az
ter listening to the memorial aud arguments OF
the ladies, refused to grant their request
A performance 10 honor of General Grant was
given at the Royal Italian Opera House in Lon
don Friday night. The brilliant and enth usiastic
reception he received shows that he has not We,
worn out his welcome. Nine. Albani sang the
"Star Spangled Banner" and his box was decor.
sted with American flags.
Commenting upon the announcement that a
young lady of Buffalo, N Y, 20 years of age, had
suicide on account of the cruelty of her
father (who logged her because she loved a man
who was Objectionable to hm), the Philadelphia
North American says that there are few people
who will not look at it as murder on the part Of
the unnatural parent.
Mr.. Motley not long ago wrote to Gen. Wilson
81 have hal the strongest admiration for Mr.
Bryant since my college days, when first began
TO know his poetry by heart. Doe of the pleasant
est events 10 me, of my last visit to New York
was the making of his personal acquaintance-a
privilege which had long desired"
Mr. Gladstone has rooms at Oxford, and when.
ever he has any gieat work on hand he goes and
shuts himself up in that beautiful old home CT
scholars and writes uninterruptedly for three or
four days. Then he goes home with magnif-
cent speech like that given at Birmingham, or
stathiuS masazine artcle ike that on Montenegro.
One day when southey and Colerdge were
dFinking their wine after dinner. a young cousin
Of their host John Poole rode up and said 81
brsg you great news. Robespierre is dead"
"aeFeuPon Southey pat his hands between his
hands, eIelsiming, Good heaven, I would rather
hare heard the death Of my own father" 1t is "a
sci that government so spicious of the poets
that they sent down spy TO watch their nroceed.
ings.