Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-12-30

The icy cape of Labrador,
The Spaniards' land of flowers.
1t streams beyond the splntered ridge
That parts the Northern showers
From Eastern rock to sunset wave,
The continent is ours
A New York boy is at the head of a band
of outlaws in New Mexico.
The annual catalogue of Trinity College,
dents.
Generals Sheridan. Ord, and Schoield are
Roman Catholics.
Vitriol throwing is still a popular diversion
among the the criminal classes in France.
Four hundred and fifty horses month are
killed in Berlin. on the average, for food.
b. P. Shillaber Mrs. Partington) is quite
i'll at his residence in Chelsea.
The catalogue of Baron James De Roths-
chld's library will be published at an early
date
Mr.. Reavis, of St. Louis, is writing life
of Richard Yates, the war Governor of Him
DIS.
King Kalakaua has sent two Sandwich
Islanders. to Berlin, to study military art and
science.
The English postal savings banks system
has proved an unexpected success in the six
rural counties selected for the experiment.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, Of New York,
has given $500. 900 for benevolent purposes
during the last sixteen years.
A Barry county, Mich, woman has been
rendered crazy by swallowing a sharp piece
of oyster she'll it acting upon her stomach
like powdered glass.
The Loudon fogs are superinduced by the
imperfect combustion of the fuel consumed
in that great city, says Captain Gallon, an
English Engineer.
Gen Grant has turned author and written
l. Al FL
Review. in which he will favor the scheme
for Nicaragua slip-canal
Rev. Dong Gong. the first Baptist Chinese
convert on the Pacific Coast, and subsequent
lv The first Chinese Baptist minister on the
coast, expects to sail for China soon.
Mrs. Hooper says Adelina Patti is undoubt-
edly coming to this country next autumn to
remain two years. All arrangements are
made, and the contract signed.
Judge LYNCH who once flourished in
California. is not dead. Eleven persons
have been executed under his rule within the
last twenty-four days, in various parts of the
country.
The statement that General Butler had
to the National Soldiers Home, a loss said
to have been sustained by his carelessness,
is denied.
1t is limited that the Standard oil monopoly
is soon to be smashed by company which
has patent under which oil can be refined
to 800 degrees more cheaply than the Stan
dard can refine it up to LIS degrees.
The completion of the Grand Southern
Railroad, which connects Carleton, N. B..
with st. Stephen direct, was celebrated last
Wednesday. The road is eighty-two miles
long.
At the Madison avenue Reformed church.
xba
Rev. Edward A. Reed, appealed to his people
to clear dent of 100000 from the church.
The congregation responded with subscrip-
tons amounting to nearly $50 900.
Crocker, the Central Pacific millionaire
had to pay $500. 900 taxes under the new CAL
ifornia constitution last year, and has decided
to bring his millions to New York, where he
will build mansion on Fifth avenue to rival
even the Vanderbilt palaces.
A fish preserving company has been organ
lied in Philadelphia. with a capital of $780,
600, whose object is to freeze and keep in a
state of preservation shad and other salt wa
ter fish in the United States, and market
them at times when such fish are not in sea-
son.
Gov. Cullon, of Illinois, has been asked
to recommend in his Message the establish
ment of an institution for the care of epiep-
tic idiots. There are said to be nearly $50
such in the State, and they are excluded
from the State Asylum for the Feeble-mind-
ed, and are not proper subjects for the insane
hospitals.
For Christmas decorations this year the
citizens Of Philadelphia used $1,000 trees,
500 900 yards of laurel and other wreaths.
and 1000 barrels of moss, costing in the ag-
gregate about S54, 1000, to say nothing of vast
stores of holly and flowers. The trees came
priucipally from Maine and the laurel and
moss from the swamps of New Jersey.