Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-12-29
General News.

Dr.. Salesman is containing his excava-
tions near Thebes-
Hon. Alexander Rice has been nominated
fns DE presidency of the Boston Art Club.
Jay Gould is said to have paid . quarter
Of Z million of dollars for the New York
World.
vennor, the weather profit used to be
workman in IN axe factory at Ballstou, New
York.
Judge Levi Parsons, Of New York, has
made q second gift of fifty thousand dollars
to Union College
Mr.. Ballard Smith. manager of the New
York Sun, will resign his place at the first OF
the year.
John Hittson, one of the best known cattle
men of the West, was killed at Denver, Sat
urday, by being thrown from a carriage.
A rubber belt is being made in Toronto
which is to be feet wide, 8 plies in thick
ness, and 2I2 feet long. 1t viii weigh over
ton and half.
Chas. F. Stevens, an Eastern railroad en-
ployee was burned at Portsmouth, n. H.,
Saturday, in shocking manner, BY pulling
kettle of kerosene over which subsequently
caught fire.
A large deposit of kaolin has. according to
the New Orleans Democrat, been discovered
on a farm near Bremcnd, Texas. 1t is said
to be clay of an excellent quality, and suita-
BILE for the finest porcelain ware.
Four Americans, calling themselves Willis
and wife, and Calberr and wife, have been
arrested and imprisoned in Florence on sus-
picion of selling Tunisian, French and other
securities which are forgeries.
John b. Eldredge, of Hartford, has given
s25, 900 to insure the success of the Memorial
Hall enterprise at Hartford, which the Con-
gregatiOnalists of the State have had in hand
for several years.
J. W. Baxendale, well known young man
at BrOcktOn, Mass, has mysteriously disap-
peared with at least from $1,000 to $40, 900
of his fathers money. This has ruined his
father. a shoe manufacturer, 60 years old.
Fast women.
The Hon. Isaac Davis, of Worcester, Mass.
gave 81 600 as a Christmas present to Rich
mond College. He had previously sent DIR.
Dickinson $50 for the same object, making
his donation to the "Jeter Memorial $l.l50.
Mr. Levi Calkins of Vernon, Wis, wished
to marry a second wife one month after the
death Of his first, but no clergyman nor JUS
tice Would perform the ceremony, so Mr..
Calkins read the service himselfin presence
of witnesses.
1t is believed at New York that Jesse
Grant, the Generals son, and his partner
Honore, brother-in-law of Fred Grant, who
were grain brokers on Wall street, have been
badly punished by the great failures in Chi
cagO.
During the past season Southboro', Mass,
hast sent to market % 900 barrels of apples,
and the product in cider of $4,000 bushels,
the whole apple crop realizing the sum of
$4,000. II has also marketed daily an av-
erage of 1900 cans of milk, yielding an an
nual income of 100000.
Treasury officials claim to have assurances
that the House committee on ways. and means
will report favorably upon the bills which
propose to repeal the statutes that require
national and other banks to pay taxes upon
capital and deposits, and which impose a two
cent bank check stamp.
The United States Agricultural Society,
founded by Hon. Marshall P. Wilder in 1852,
will hold its twenty-ninth annual meeting on
the 18th of January, when it is hoped that
there will be not only a general attendance
of members, but of delegates from State
boards and county societies.
Twenty prisoners in the county Jail of
Columbus, Ohio, mutinied Saturday, and a
detachment of police from the south end of
the town was called in to quell them. One shot
was fired without fatal result. Water and
chunks of coal fired at the prisoners were
found to be sufficient arguments to quell the
trouble. Several c0nvicts were seriously in
jured by being hit with pieces of coal.