Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-14
General News.

The first boat of the season arrived at
Chicago on Monday from Milwaukee.
Dora Wiley is announced to take the part
of Botilde in Olivette, at the Novelty Thea
tire. Boston, this week Bangor Commercial.
A big land slide, four miles west of Port
Jervis, n. V, on the line of the Delaware &
Hudson Canal, has temporarily put q stop to
business.
A despatch from Omaha SAYS communca-
ton has not been restored across the Mis-
souri,. The water has fallen about foot and
is slowly receding.
Over George Cruikshank's remains in ST.
Pauls Cathedral a bust and tablet have just
been placed. On the tablet is written I'm
memory of his genius and his art, his match
less industry and worthy work for all his
fellow men, this monument is humbly placed
within this sacred fame by her who loved
him best, his widowed wife
Within the past year fifteen hundred resi-
dences have been erected in the city of Den
yer, Colorado, and all are in demand with
rent so high that real estate is rapidly ad-
vaDcing. Many of the residents are wealthy.
There is general prosperity, and there is an
expectation that the population i'll reach one
hundred thousand within ten years.
"Patting never made a horse win a race,
said Boucicault the other evening. ''It is
the horse whose sides show the lash, whose
flank is bloody from the spur, that wins.
just so with actors. Praise hurts them
Criticism, no matter how severe, provided it
be just, is the only thing that spurs them t.
do their best. Don't spare them
The American of Philadelphia, offers prizes
to the amount of 81 800 for the best editorials
the best special essays and the best poems
written by college students or graduates.
fThora fra prizoc in oil and tho
design is to test the inclination and capacity
of college-bred men for practical journalism.
The judges of the editorials and essays are
Noah Brooks of the New York Times, Walter
Allen of the Boston Advertiser and NJ. J..
Handy of the Philadelphia Press.
Before MAUD was printed, Tennyson
used to come and read it aloud to Mrs. Car
lyle. and ask her what she thought of it. Her
reply the first time was, Il think it is perfect
stuff" Slightly discouraged by this remark,
the Laureate read it once more, upon which
Mrs. CARLYLE remarked, at sounds better this
time and on being read to her the third
time. she was obliged to confess that she
liked it very much. This little incident
shows how Tennvson must have valued her
clear judgment and excellent taste.
Sol Smith Russell married, when very
young, the pretty Louise Berger, who played
the harp so sweetly in those days when the
talented ''Berger Family Swiss Bell Ringers"
startsd d out with Russell as their comic and
facial artist. Little Louise died you.lg. She
was with her mother in Michigan, at the time
and the rest of the troupe were in New Or
leans; and engagements must be kept, and
fun counterfeited, even while the girl wife
lay robed for the grave. After several years
Mr.. Russell married the daughter Of Wni
Adams of Boston, better known as '.Oliver
Optic He now has little son, named for
his grandfather and the child has so renew
ed the old mans youth that there has been a
book put upon the market by Oliver Optic.
dedicated to my Grandson, William Adams
Russell