Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-12-31
General News.

| jefferson Davis will visit Europe next
June.
Postmaster Burnham of Hartford, Conn,
has been decided to be incurably insane.
Mrs Christiancy is spending the holidays
with friends in Baltimore.
Archibald Forbes was Tuesday night the
guest of the members of the press in Chi
| cago.
The South is already suffering from a
scarcity Of labor, and the negro exodus con-
tinues.
A knife with l9l blades was lately sent to
the Prince of Wales on his birthday.
Rev. Father Ryan of Lowell, Mass. is not
expected to recover from the effect of re-
cent fall.
The Duke of Aosta, once King Of Spain,
now lives in Turin, and is widower with
three little sons.
A good authority claims that New Hamp-
shire's summer business soots up 81, ZOO, 900
a year.
Mrs. Sherman, the wife of the General, is
i'll, and will probably not perform any social
duties this winter.
The officers of the New York and New
England Railroad have decided not to EN-.
ploy minors in any capacity.
The first cargo of oranges arrived in Bos-
ton Tuesday, consisting of 500, 900 from Por-
to Rico.
The tax on life insurance companies in
Massachusetts is calling forth strong protests
from those who regard the tax as excessive.
1t is predicted that the Legislature Of Tex
as, at its coming session, will repeal the tax
on drummers and the Liquor Bell-punch
law.
Gen. Mcclellan has declined the Presi-
dency Of the New York Underground Rail-
road Company, and will go abroad with his
family in April.
1t is said that the first granite used in this
country for constructing building was en-
ployed in the erection Of Kings Chapel in
Boston in 1852, and was quarried in Brain
tree, Mass.
It is reported from Hong Kong that the
difficulty between China and Russia has been
settled. and that China has agreed to pay an
indemnity of twenty million taels.
burning dwelling-house in East Hart
ford, Conn.,, was saved from destruction on
Sunday by the use of cider, which happened
to be more plentiful than water in that local
ity.
Endymion is selling at an unexampled
rate. 1t is almost impossible to keep the
two Appleton editions, paper and cloth, in
stock, and the Harpers sold forty thousand
Of it in the Franklin Square Library in four
days.
Gen. Oliver o. Howard spent Sunday be-
fore Christmas with his mother at Glencoe. q
suburb of Chicago. Mrs. Howard has just
passed her scventy-sixth birthday, but was
out to church morning and night, notwith-
standing somewhat inclement weather.
The estimated cost of the Mormon temple
is S27 ,O00, 900. No building in the country
has cost as much. The three which stand
next to it in cost are the capitol at Washing
ton, the capital at Albany and the New York
court house.
Landlords Of summer resorts are already
preparing for next season. One is. having
built an old fashioned set Of furniture, that
Washington once used; another is blasting
out cave that will be occupied by hermit
as soon as warm weather comes; and
third is having q medical well dug. Sum.
mer resorts are to be both romantic and
healthy next year.
Notwithstanding the efforts of the author
tiles Of San Francisco to prevent the estab-
lishment Of leprosy among the population,
by sending back all Chinese lepers that could
be found, il appears that the terrible disease
has secured q foothold there. One physician
reports that sixteen white lepers, of both
sexes, have applied to him for treatment
within short time, and all Of them incur
able.