Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-06-04
TIE RECESS.
General News.

+. o. LIGHT, the great European sugar au-
| thoritv estimates that in the last beet crop
| there was a deficiency OF 100000 tons. and
also in the colonial cane crops there is a de-
| ficiency of POO, 900 tons.
| Harvard College Library is to be open to
students Sunday afternoons. The Overseers
| have voted to accept the act of the Legislature
of 1850 providing that non-residents of this
Commonwealth, otherxise qualified, shall be
| eligible to the Office of Overseer.
4 couple of cases of economy occurred
lately in Newburyport families. The first is
that of lady who took the inside of lemons
to make lemon pie, and gave the peel to the
| servant girl for lemonade. The second was
| of thrifty householder who has season
ticket to Boston, where he bought bedstead
and carried it home by pieces to save freight
| or express charges.
The trouble with the miners at Leadville,
| Col, has broken out again. Where l00Omen
applied for work on Monday there were not
90 on Tuesday. The Chrysolte and Little
Chief are the only mines that are being
ing the Notifications. Much excitement pre-
walls. Several arrests have been made.
The railroads of New Zealand, with a pop
ulation of less than half million, have al
ready cost about sixty millions of dollars, and
they do not pay running expenses. Twenty
five new lines are in the process of construc-
ton. The taxes are so high as greatly to
distress the people, and threaten to stop the
growth of the colony.
Already notice has been given OF petitions
to set aside elections of forty-six members of
the new British Parliament. This will make
so much business for the courts as to inter-
fere seriously with the usual duties of the
common law judges. 1t is apparent that the
English elections are no purer than our
own.
The use of new anasthetic has Just proven
fatal at Jefferson College Hospital, in Phila-
delphia, Pa, but the verdict was death from
natural causes. Four drachms of bromide of
ethyl had been given William Linderman of
Luzerne county, who was to be operated upon
for gravel The patient was too weak to stand
ether. But one incision had been made,
when the difficulty of breathing was discov-
cred The cloth was removed and opera
tions were suspended, and the usual efforts to
resuscitate him used, but he expired in
short time. The post mortem examination
showed that the patient could not have lived
a week longer had no operation been attempt.
ed.
The Brighton & South Sea Company have
revived the project of supplying London with
sea water. Engineers have shown over and
over again that the thing is feasible, and sta
tisticians have proved it would be profitable.
Seeing that the estimated cost will be six
pence per gallon, the eau de mer will clearly
be within the limit of luxury. The idea of
the promoters is to establish little bathing
places and imitation seasides, not only in
suburban haunts, but even in the back yard
Of the private citizen, with a salt water bank,
few loads of sea sand to form margin of
strand, camp stool and umbrella.
General Logan is described by The Jour
nal of Chicago as having complexion as
Indians, moustache huge and dark-almost
blue-black, as is his hair-and eyes cores
pondingly dark, with the whites very
white. And yet there is nothing fierce about
him ordinarily. He is always ready to shake
hands with his friends, and occasionally
he smiles. There is that in his eye and face
that indicates 'bull-doggedness." When
he likes man he likes him all over, but
when he dOsn't like him he hates him.
The death of young wife has brought the
foundations of a Hudson River palace to the
ground. The bereaved husband on his return
| to Cornwall gave orders for the immediate
cessation of operations on the new residence
in process of construction, the discharge
of all employed on the work, the destruction
of the walls already up, and the filling up of
the extensive cellar which had been walled
out for the front and back building. The
| walls of the rear part of the structure had
reached the second story, but no bricks had
been laid on the front walls. 1t is estimated
that the mason work on the building, as it
stood, had already cost $4,000. As soon
as the walls are RACED the cellar will be
filled up and the site turned over and
| ploughed into field The probable cost of
the mansion would have been fully 500, 600
The plans exhibited one of the finest, largest,
and most commodious private residences in
the country.
4 fortnight ago the Paris police found the
body of man of color in the Seine. There
was tin case in his pocket. 1t was opened
by the police and found to contain certain
documents setting forth that the deceased
was NE son Of chief who had reyolted
| against the King of Abyssinia. His father
was killed during the revolution, and he him.
self, together with his brother, were taken
prisoners; but, thanks to tie help of wo-
man. they succeeded in escaping. His broth
er, however, was attacked and killed by an
enormous snake in the forest He himself.
after six weeks tramping through field and
food at length reached the Egyptian out
posts. He was then conveyed to Cairo, where