Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-22
GENERAL Ne VS..

The salary of the German Ambassador in Eng
land is S45 900 in gold.
A Virginia woman of 2S a grandmother. She
was married at the age of thirteen years.
Massachusetts proposes to prohibit pool selling
within half M lie of agricultural fairs.
Lolita Miss Crabtee) is said to be worth more
than SiO0, goo, and only last week she sold So,
900 worth of property to John Jacob Aston.
Gen. Robert Toombs says that he is the owner
of seven barrels of type-the remains of the for
tunes Of 20 editors of Atlanta
Mr. Joseph Jefferson the noted actor, has made
such success In England that he has decided to
remain year longer in London aud appear in
new character parts.
Secretary Evarts will reside at Washington in
one of the three fine dwellings which were con-
struo;ed by remodeling the Old Capitol Prison.
where prisoners of state were detained during the
civil war.
The large importatons of salt, amounting now
to about 100000 pounds monthly, are due to
the fact that vessels from Europe bring it rs bal
last, rather than come westward empty.
Judge Taft's son is to deliver an Grafton at the
Junior exhibition at Yale College on the vitality
edctorian of the class of 81.
The question of spontaneous generation is likely
to be set at rest very shortly. DR.. Charlton Bas.
tian, its great disciple in England has been chal-
lenged by its principal opponent, NJ. la Pasteur of
France, and a commission of Swans has been sp-
pointed to thoroughly investigate the matter.
Six of Mrs. Hayes old girl classmates happened
to be living at Washing at the time of the inaugu-
ration, and possessed their school badges. They
had the badge copied in buds and blossoms and
sent it to the Presidents wife with their cards,
and the next day Mrs. Hayes sent for her Old
friends and held society reunion in the White
House parlors.
Mrs. Burnett, the author of That Lass O. Low
rie's." which has been running in Scribner's, is a
native Of England, who removed to this country
when child and settled in Knoxville, Tenn. She
is still but a young and blooming girl, though
married and the mother Of two boys. Her hus-
band is sklful oculist-himself writer-who
is now establishing himself professionally in W ash
ngton.
Switzerland was one Of the last countries of
sion which has prevailed almost all over the world.
sue 10 HoW suffering rs severely Us ntlSuDOfiDB
States. The trouble there began short time ago
with panic in railway stocks. Matchmaking is
now very much depressed; and the hotel business
has been so Improbable that no less than 26 pub
lic-house proprietors in Montreux and Geneva
have already failed. The suffering is so great that
the Government, in order to find work for the
starving people, has undertaken the construction
of public roads on a much larger scale than at
any previous time.
Writers in some of the English newspapers ex-
press satisfaction with Pullman railroad cars. The
great Midland Railroad Company uses them and
finds them to be profitable. They are said to have
earned more in the latter half of 1876 per car per
mile run than in any previous half year since their
introduction into England. They saved life and
loss Of property in four bad accidents in 1876, and
on the whole the company like them so well that
new ones have recently been ordered and put up
on the lines between London and Liverpool, Biz
mingham and Leeds. The Westinghouse air.
brake is spoken of with interest also. Its work.
ings have been studied upon the Midland Scotch
Railroad; and newspapers urge other lines to
adopt either that some other system which
promises equal security.