Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-19
General News.
General Grant weighs 1904 pounds.

General Grant weighs 1909 pounds.
A petrifed eel, twenty-eight inches long
and averaging seven inches in circumference,
was ploughed up in one of the fields of Hiram
H. Clark at Branford, Conn.
The Bishop of Melbourne, Australia, has
made himself popular by smoking a "short,
black clay pipe" which his flock regard as a
mark of goodfellowshp
The merchants of st. Louis have organ
lied movement for the erection of perma-
nent Exposition Building like those of Chi
cago, Louisville and Cincinnati, to be COM
pleted next fall.
The Gar has nice little income-a trifie
of S25, 200 day. The Sultan gets $4,000 a
day, the Emperor of Austria $4,000, the
Emperor of Germany 5000, the King of
Italy Sc, 400 and the King of the Belgians
Sl,643.
The number of freshmen entered at Cam
bridge University, England, this year is sos.
showing an increase Of 100 over the member
ship of last year This is the largest fresh
man class Cambridge ever had.
The Detroit Post & Tribune, of which the
late Senator Chandler was one of the owners,
will soon publish his biography, which will
be prepared from original sources at its COM
mand, by Col. o. L. Beard.
Mr.. Gladstone has eight children seven of
whom are living. His eldest son is a Mem
Der of Parliament, his second son is rector of
Hawarden, his third is engaged in mercantile
pursuits. His eldest daughter is married to
the Head Master of Wellington College Mr.
Gladstone was about thirty years old when
he was married to the daughter of Sir Stephen
Glynner
Among the instances that have occurred to
show the need of National Bankrupt law is
one told by large dry goods jobbing house
that in selling in Texas they have lost money
by bankrupts, who took advantage of the
Homestead Exemption law of that State to
the extent of exempting a theatre and hotel.
the bankrupts sleeping on the premises and
thus claiming the property as a homestead.
Nearly twenty years ago Jonathan Weaver
was murdered in Newport, X. l., near the
beach. \ young man was arrested, but,
proving an alibi, was acquitted. 1t was re-
ported last night that sailor, now in New
port, was informed by another sailor in Peru,
who was at the point of death in hospital,
that he and not the person accused, was gull
ty. He was under the influence of liquor,
and, after intlictng the blow, made his es-
cape.
A despatch from the coal regions says that
all orders booked now are subject, not only
to such advance in tolsas may be fixed by the
railroads, but to the prices ruling at the time
of delivery, and no collier is selling any coal
more than fortnight ahead Coal interests
are now getting about $50, 900 to $4,000 a
day more for their product than in midsum-
mer; Readings net earnings will be half a
million per month, Lehigh Valleys aquarter
of million ahead of last summer for the
same amount of work, and the increase in
revenue will be equal to per cent. on the
total capital; if maintained for year it will
be equal to per cent. on the four hundred
millions capital invested in coal mining. The
retail price has jumped dollar a ton in a
month, and the railroad companies, with 80.
900 cars, are still pressed for want of enough
to do their work.