Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-06-07
General News.

General News.
Ex-Queen Isabella is about to visit Eng
land, which she has long wishedto see. She
has great admiration for the English royal
family, but it is doubtful whether the admira-
ton is mutual.
James Oliver, of divers Grove, ILL.,, is 50
years old. He gave his wife a farm for con-
senting to divorce, as lie desired to get
young wife in her place but the new wife
asked and got $50, 900 in money.
There is negro woman in Emanuel coun-
ty, Georgia, known as Hannah ROuntree,
who, according to the SwainsborO Herald,
was a grandmother at the age of 26 years.
She gave birth to girl when only ID years
old, and the daughter, when about that age,
became mother herself:
The Morgan Envelope Company Of Spring
field and the Plimpton Manufacturing Com
pany of Hartford have securedfor another year
the contract for furnishing the government
with registered package, dead letter and
official envelopes. The price which they will
receive is Sis, 900. and the contract will re-
quire some &c, 600, 900 envelopes. The work
will be done at Hartford.
De Lesseps made q speech before the
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce on Monday
and offered the British public f166.OOO worth
of shares in his canal stock, but did not care
whether they were taken or not, as he can
get plenty Of funds. He says he is offering
money, not asking it.
Queen Victoria's rather ungracious attitude
in her drawing-room receptions is described
by young lady of. Philadelphia, who was
recently presented to her and who was not
dazzled by her glimpse of royalty. The young
lady says that she was very much disap-
pointed in her Majesty, ''she seemed so small
and Insignificant She did not smile at all !;
but looked very cross. She did not take the
slightest notice of me, beyond holding out her
hand for me to kiss, nor say anything. My
aunt had to courtesy as she passed the Queen,
but she did not take any notice; but the
Prince of Wales and the others spoke to aunt.
I didn't like kissing her hand at all. I'm very
glad it's over
Jefferson Davis's plantation at Hurricane,
Miss, is leased by Montgomery & Sons.
This firm is composed of four negroes, who
were formerly owned by a brother of the ex-
President of the Confederacy. They own
plantations worth SIS, 900. hire several more,
and do a large mercantile business at Vicks-
burg.
The end of the Kalloch trouble appears
further of than ever, and it seems now that
San Francisco is to be deluged with a torrent
Of nasty personal revelations. The Nelson
brochure, issued on Sunday morning, has had
sale of over 1000 copies in the city, and
none has been sent to the country. In the
prelude to KallOch's Sunday sermon he
designated Nelson as an Australian escape,
with a babe dose of catarrh, whereupon Neil.
son had Loring Pickering, one Of the propri-
ctors Of the Call arrested for publishing it.
Immediately after that Nelson was arrested
on two charges of libel and issuing an obscene
publication. The bitterness is intense, and
the feud will probably embrace more kill
ing.
Lord Dudley was one of the most absent
minded Of men. One day, says Sydney
Smith, he met me in the street and invited
me to meet myself. "Dine with me TODAY ::
dine with me, and will get Sydney Smith
to meet you" I admitted the temptation
held out to ME, but said he was engaged to
meet me elsewhere. Another time in meet
ing me he put his arm through mine, mutter-
ing: 81 don't mind walking with him little
way; I'll walk with him as far as the end of
the street" He very nearly overset nv
gravity once in the pulpit. He was sitting
Immediately under me. apparently very at
tentive, when suddenly he took up his stick.
as if he had been in the House of Commons,
and, tapping the ground with it, cried out in
low, but very audible whisper, "Hear,
hear"