Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-03-31
General News.

Landgrove, VT, has girl years old who
weighs llj pounds
Mr.. Henry W. Longfellow is fond of the
atrical performances, and is frequent visitor
to the Boston theatres.
An organst at Litchfeld Mimi, played
marched out of the church.
The Ogdensburg Railway Company pro-
poses to build million -bushel elevator at
Ogdensburg and make other Improvements
on the road.
The city Hospital at Kansas city, Mo-. was
burned Saturday night. The patients were
removed in the midst of rain storm, and
some of them were unprotected for several
hours.
Adelina Patti is described as keeping her
youth wonderfully, being still winsome per-
son, with velvety dark eyes, retaining all the
softness and luster they wore twenty wears
ago
1t is related by the Washington cores
pendent of the Courier-Journal that gen.
tleman who saw copy of Voltaire lying on
Colonel Robert Ingersol's table, inquired
GLOW much did this book cost you?" and the
colonel answered, 1.-The governorship of H.
linois"
The Freedmen's Aid Society proposes to
the friends of the late Bishop Haven to raise
$50, 900 for the completion of Clark Univer-
sity, at Atlanta, Ga, as a suitable monument
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Professorship in the institution, in which he
was very much interested.
The two daughters of Mrs. J. B. Whit
comb, former teacher at Bellows Falls, and
whose sister, Mrs. o. ID. Gray, still lives
there, were recently sitting in the woods near
Oakland, Cal, when two of the hunters mis-
took the plume on one of their hats for a
wildcat, and fired a double charge of buck
shot into the thicket. Harriet. the oldest.
aged %, was killed, but Alice, little girl.
will recover.
81 would announce to the congregation
that, probably by mistake there was left at
the meeting house this morning small cot
ton umbrella, much damaged by time and
tear, and of an exceedingly pale blue color :;
in the place whereof was taken very large
black silk umbrella of great beauty Blum
ders of this sort, my brethren, are getting a
little too common
young woman, who is teaching the In
dams at Hampton. Va, was recently drilling
ing company of girls on the hymn. .sYield
not to temptation" and trying to explain to
them the meaning Of the words Some time
after the class was dismissed, a pupil came
to her and said, ''Me victory meaning that
she had gained victory. Being asked to
explain, she said; Indian girl, she b;u
temptation to me; no yield; fight her.
A New Hampshire woman has husband
who is addicted to joining secret societies
One of her exasperated outbursts is thus 70.
ported by the Manchester Mirror: slime !,
He'd jine anything. There can't NOTHING
come along that's dark and sly and hidden.
but he'll jine it. If anybody should get nm
society to burn his house down, he'd line il
Just as soon as he could get in. and if he had
to pay to get in, he'd go all the suddeuer.-
The little daughter of De Lesseps, who
went TO California with him, is nick-named
''Totote" and is devotedto her careful father
Throughout his California visit she did not
leave him for an instant. At the PHOTOGRAPH.
ers, the bright-eyed, fair-skinned and raven
locked child was on his lap; =, the Board of
Trade she vas seated ON the table, playing
with his hand; At the theatre she was aeaiu
by his side, and 80 too in Chinatown. mn