Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-12-23

Feaconsfeld was seventv-fiye Tuesday
Nj. VIM. Henry Smith. Collector Of Chr
CO. is dangerously ill.
The wife of the Rev. W. H II. Murray has
sailed for Europe
Robert Toombs of Georgia has given
thousand acres Of Texas land to aid IN found-
ing university in that State
The sale of three negroes for vagrancy at
Liberty. Va. has been set aside by the coun-
tv court. and the men given their liberty.
Illinois is not only free of debt, but its
share of the earnings of the Illinois Central
Railroad pays the running expenses OF the
Government.
Francis Treyelyan Buekland lbetter
known as Frank, very eminent writer on
natural history, died Monday, in London,
aged just fiffy-four years.
Within q month wheat has fallen in price
Is cents. and corn has declined 1-2 cents
in Chicago. and several heavy failures are
reported in that city.
The crew of the British ship City of Mon
treal. from Quebec. recently abandoned at
sea. passed five days in the rigging OF the
vessel before they were rescued.
Bernbardt has employed two stenographers
TO attend church and report anything minis
ters saw against her. She proposes to sue all
detractors for libel.
Rev Mr.. Talnage is to be again tried by
the Brooklyn Presbytery on the charge OF DIR.
vandyke that he (Talmage) made false
statement on his former trial.
The Iowa Central Railroad has issued a
Maine law order which makes the drinking
of alcoholic or malt liquors while on duty
an offence, the penalty of which is prompt
discharge.
Burlington girl recently had one Of
her feet modelled in marble, and gave it as a
paper weight to her betrothed for a birthday
present.
An order has been passed authorizing the
police commissioners to distribute soup to
the worthy poor of Boston. during the winter,
at an expense not exceeding $500.
A girl in Pittsfeld was struck dumb by the
firing of a cannon. Since then, number of
married men have invited the artillery to
come and discharge their pieces on their
premises.
According to the reports made by the per-
sons now gathering statistics of New York S
industries, about $50 00O, 900 worth of sugar
is refined and sold in New York. of which
about one-sixth is believed to be glucose.
There was discrepancy in the vote as de-
clared and in the ballots in one of the Boston
Wards, and l66 of the stolen ballots have
been found in a school house. The guilty
parties, democrats, will have TO toe the
mark.
OF the 457, 1857 immigrants who came to
the United States during the year ending
with last June, nearly one hundred thousand,
or, in exact figures, 99,706, were from the
British North American provinces.
The foreign demand for black walnut tim
ber is very large. Agents for English manu-
facturers have recently been through Iowa,
Indiana and Missouri for the purpose of buy
ing this wood. which quarter of a century
ago was but little appreciated for any pur-
pose.
When Lady Burdett-COutts ascertained
that she could not marry Mr.. Ashmead Bart
lett without losing large part of her fortune,
she settled with him by giving him half a
million of dollars-a present that most young
men would prefer to bride old enough to be
his mother.
Mrs A. r. Stewart is much attached to
the Episcopal church, and solely sustans the
Bishopric of Long Island, to which apper-
tain the cathedral and schools of Garden
City. As an investment Garden City is a
complete failure, like many of Stewards pur-
chases The whole settlement has not above
three or four hundred persons. The body
Of Mr.. Stewart has never been recovered.