Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-09-17
General News.

General News.
There are five families living near New Je-
| rusalem, Pa, who have among them no less
than So children. One numbers 90 children
mother 10, another IL, and one of IA of one
| mother.
~ am astonished, my dear young lady. at
your sentiments-you make me start"
We'll sir, I've been waiting for YOU to start
f,r the last hour
The Partisan thinks that Mrs. Langtry
would lose some of her reputation for beauty
by visit to the United States, owing TO 1.-THE
bright eyes, clear compilations and shapely
igures of the fair Americans"
A Saratoga lady at first astonshed the peo-
pie there by a costume made entirely of lace,
but they were satisfied when they found her
to be a walking advertisement for her father
lace factory.
The number of permits issued for the cree
ton of buildings within the city limits of
Boston during the eight months from Jan. |
TO Sept. | says theiCommercial Bulletin, was
~ against 4Gj for the corresponding period
in 1873.
The slavery question is agitating the minds
of the Cubans, and the Spanish Government
has been called upon To decide whether to
free the blacks or retain them in slavery. 1t
is announced that Il Government will pro-
pose to the Cortcs that the slaves be freed
July |, 1850, on condition of seven years OBJ
igatory labor. with wages.
In the last Congress the Democrats insist.
ed on a reduction of the tax on tobacco, and
the result is as was predicted by General
Raum, internal Revenue Commissioner
decrease in the revenue for July alone OF
nearly eight hundred Thousand dollars.
The Norwich Conn Bulletin says that q
| lady residing in Grecnvile, that State. lost q
valuable ring 10 years ago that was presented
to her in Great Britain, and this Summer il
was picked up in her flower-garden, which
had been cultivated every year since its loss
The Bulletin believes that it has lain ther.
the whole decade.
The Lexington (Ky.) Press says that tn,
Mammoth Cave has been purchased by par
ty of Eastern capitalists for 5000, 900, ant
that they will complete the railroad from Glas
gov junction to the cave, and put the hote
and its surroundings into the finest order.
Miss Fletcher the author of ''Kismet" an,
mirage" very successful works, is abou
twenty-three. She lives in Rome. is pretty
with much blonde hair. She is spoken of a.
George" after her nom de plume, George
Fleming. She is capital horsewoman
speaks several languages fuently, and i,
quite a picturesque, dashing woman. She
dedicated mirage" to Walter Pater, anC
when she was in London last season he invit
ed lot of college dons and literary people tc
meet George Fleming. He was much sur
prised when the blushing girl presented her
self He supposed, Of course, she was a man
She is the daughter of the Rev. j. C.. Fletch
er, and was born in Rio .Janeiro and passed
the first half of her life in America.
The Brooklyn Bridge is to be one of tho
wonders of the New World, and is so wei
forwarded that its utility can now be antici
pated 1t is truly wonderful structure
stretching itself well into the yitals of New
York, while the high land of Brooklyn viii
stop it nearer the river. The enormou,
structures for its archways are so contrivet
that they can be utilized as storehouses il
the immense archways. On both sides the,
are crossed by streets over which the immens,
bridge-work is to be thrown, and when com
pleted it will form the grandest combination
OF architecture in America, il not in tn,
word. With all this, and the now almost as
sured cost of twenty millions ofdolars. three
fourth of which is borne by Brooklyn, tn,
question comes, Is it absolutely necessary
WIZ the people and the teams who now get
partial rest while crossing the ferries adop
the bridge. when toll quite equal to that
the ferries is to be the programme? Wher,
the myriads passing these ferries come from
is question of every stranger, and in talkin,
with them they say, we want no bridge. r,
the question why they did not oppose it the,
answer, ''We could not help ourselves
Power is in the hands of a few and the man,
submit Taking everything into account
the need of bridge while the ferries are 81
splendidly managed looks very questionable
Still, the word business" means business il
New York, Notwithstanding their enormous
taxes, and that vortex includes everybody.
the merchant. politician. and man of letters
who all act as though the old saying wa
the handwriting of their life, every one 70,
himself, and God for us ALL"
Thomas Wilson, retired merchant. wortl
over million dollars, and weli-knowi
Quaker, has just died in Baltimore at tn