Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-04
General News.

Wendell Phillips is the executor of the es-
tate of the late Lydia Maria Child.
A musical composer cannot do much with
one piece of music He must write by the
score.
At the Highland ball at the Prince OF
Wales seat, Abergeldie, the Queen danced
reel with her son, Lord Fife, and the Prin-
cess Ireen of Hesse, the first reel she had
danced for years.
Barnum is said to have made one hundred
thousand dollars out of his engagement with
Jenny Lind When she was in Boston high
official complimented her on her pure
character, when she abruptly told him that
this was a matter about which he had no
right to concern himself.
No paper in St. Petersburg has mentioned
the marriage of the Gar, which took place
in July. He has a numerous family of chill
dren by his new wife. who will now take rank
as Princes and Princesses of the royal timl-
ly He mas bought for his wife palace cost
ing almost twelve hundred thousand dollars.
The American Bible Revision Committee
have completed the revision of an English
version of the New Testament. and trans
mitted the result of their labors TO England.
The British committee meet in November for
final action, and the University presses of
Oxford and Cambridge are expected to issue
the revised New Testament next February.
The Old Testament will be published two or
three years after.
A terrible railroad accident occurred on
the Pan Handle Railroad about six miles
west of Steubenville (O.) on Sunday night.
freight train was coming around curve
over a high embankment at a rapid rate OF
speed, when a rail broke, preclpitating the
whole train, composed of cars loaded with
cattle, over the embankment. The engineer
was thrown under the engine, badly injured
but may recover. The fireman was badly
bruised and cut. but not fatally. One other
man was injured slightly. Almost 100 head
of cattle were killed.
Mrs Abraham Lincoln, who has been i'll
in New York started on Monday to take up
a permanent residence with her sister. Mrs.
Edwards, at Springfield. Ill. While in Paris
last year she was seriously injured by 1all
while arranging picture on the wall of her
parlor. The chair on which she was standing
broke and she was thrown violently back
ward against the corner of table. The blow
injured her spine, inducing an inflammation.
which causes the patient painful spasms of
the limbs, and deprives her of the power to
walk. She also became a sufferer from kid
ney trouble. Her physicians consider her
condition serious, but not hopeless.
DIR. Nelson, physician practising in Gran
will, N. Y, was recently poisoned by drink
ing water which had been pumped through a
lead pipe from a cistern supplied from painted
roof and conductors. The water falling on
the roofs and running along the spouts took
up in its course each time a portion of the
lead used in the paint and deposited it on the
bottom of the cistern, where it collected in in
creasing quantities after each shower. 1t
was then pumped through eighteen or twenty
feet of lead pipe, two to five feet of which lay
in the bottom of the cistern. As this was
the only water on the premises, it was used
constantly for tea and coffee, for cooking
meats and vegetables. and for drinking. The
doctors illness terminated fatally few days
ago. His wife, who was attacked on the
same day, still remains in a critical condi-
ton.