Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-27
General News.

Patchwork is coming into fashion again.
There is fancy for single breasted jack
cts.
Military looking mantles with double capes
in front for young ladies, and even for school
girls are in favor.
The hotels in New York have not been so
full since the flush times, eight or ten years
ago, and most of them have raised their
prices.
The shooting of Hamilton Brock by Ed
ward Lyons, in N. York, was because Brock
secured the arrest of Mrs. Lyons on a charge
that she was the notorious Louise Sylvan.
Two New Haven dry good stores began
running each other on calico the other day,
and one sold six yards for five cents, while
the other gave it away to all who asked.
Dinner time closed the competition.
The arrest of J. B. Doyle in Chi'ago is
considered one of the best pieces of work
ever done by tina detective service and it is
expected will result in the breaking up of one
Of the most extensive gangs of coun terfeters
in the country.
Rev. DR.. Fl. w. Thomas, of Chicago, who
was lately on trial before the Rock River
Methodist Conference on charges of heresy
and seditious teachings, has accepted a call
to the pastorate of a new religious society
organized in Chicago.
'What is the first thing to be done in case
of fire. asked Professor Stearns. sSue the
insurance company" promptly answered the
boy at the foot of the class, whose father had
been burned out once or gton
Harkeye.
A fine marble shaft, to be erected as mon
ument to the late Confederate General AL
bert Sidney Johnston, has arrived from Italy
at Houston, Texas. The monument was
purchased with fund raised several years
ago by the ladies of Houston.
century ago there was not a single Ro-
man Catholic Bishop in the whole United
States. The statistics of the Church in the
States recently issued show that at present
there are eleven Archbishops and forty six
Bishops. The Roman Catholic population
throughout these dioceses is estimated at
; 10000.
Gen. Garfield has sent his portrait and
autograph to little George Vanankin, the
9-year-old boy at Mishawaka. linda. who was
shot for hurrahing for Garfield George was
after the cows. and wore a political badge
Three other boys, the oldest 16, met him and
ordered him TO take off the badge He re-
fused and ran away, and the oldest boy seized
gun and commanded George to hurrah for
Hancock. He said he was Republican, and
hurrahed for Garfield and the boy shot him;
~ shots entered his body, and it was feared,
for time, that he was fatally injured
Judge Hamlet Bates. of Chelsea, died on
Saturday evening of disease Of the heart.
He had been affected for several wears. and
during the past six months his sufferiugs have
been intense. He was born in PASSPORT, Me-.
and educated in Windsor, VT. He was a
printer by trade and started the first newspa-
pei published in Calais, called the st. Croix
Courier, and was also one of the founders of
the Sandy River Yeoman. Later he edited
the Chrocle at Thomaston. Me. He came to
Boston in 1886, and went to work in one of
the old printing houses on Cornhill, worked
upon the Atlas. and afterwards was for two
years bookkeeper in the office of the Bos-
ton Liberator. He afterwards moved to
Chelsea, in that portion which is now Revere
He was constable in the town for a short
time when he was appointed justice of the
peace, and served in the capacity of trial JUS
tlce for six years, when the police court was
established and he became Judge, in which
capacity he has served ever since-25 years.
he was man of influence in his community
and very generally esteemed He wa. &C
years of age, and leaves a widow. but no
children Trareiier.