Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-15
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pailp krnnebtr 5uurnal.
General News.

Virginia has n freshet for a change.
=. T. Barnum lost - pounds during his
late illness.
Gen. Hawley will be the new Senator from
Connecticut.
jefferson DAVIS will publish his "Me-
moirs" in April.
Ex-Secretary Thompson is lobbying for the
Panama Canal.
Gen. Trochu. of France. is descendant of
the poet Racine.
Canada takes her census on the first day of
April next.
Gov. Porter of Indiana was assisted at his
inaugural reception Monday evening by his
bride.
The governors of Missouri. Tennessee,
Illinois and Indiana were inaugurated Mon
day
Ex-Governor Warmoth of Louisiana will
get from his plantation million pounds of
sugar this year.
Mr.. Jennings writes 10 the New York
World that Besconsteld appears to be much
broken in health and spirits.
Mr.. F. ID. Millet, the painter and war cor
respondent. is at work upon portrait of
Miss Kate Field.
General and Mrs. Mcclellan and Miss Nc
Clellan are having many entertainments in
their New York home
Senator Hamlin has been confined to his
house for some days by rheumatic affection
in one of his knees.
Five hundred dollars is being sent to Ire
land every week by the Land League of New
York city.
Mrs. Christiency dresses with taste, wears
"A very small shoe, and has been described in
general terms as "a handsome little woman.
The Banks Club of Boston, has changed
its name to the Boston. Gen. Banks is un-
IL
The sum of S32, 900 was bid for seat in
the New York Stock Exchange on Saturday.
On Friday Edward II. Wales bought seat
from W. s. Williams for $4,000.
One hundred and sixty four corporations
of Boston are taxed for $40, ,3oI 400. The
total assets of the city are placed at $55,-
3s5,670.0s; liabilities, S42, ,030, ,225.36.
DIR. Schliemann has been building himself
marble dwelling at Athens, and over the
door in gilded letters is the inscription Got
tage of Homer
At present there are said to be about 5000
men and bows and 800 horses Mt work
on the ice of the Hudson, and an estimate
made places the harvest, when completed at
., SOC, 900 tons.
The horse which Wilkes Booth rode to the
place OF his capture after President Lincoln's
assassination belongs in Arlington, Conn,
and is good traveller, though twenty three
years old.
Hon. Israel Washburn, Ii. D., has been
elected one of the vice-presidents of the New
England Historic. Genealogical Society
Among the members who have died during
the wear was John A. Boutclle of Monmouth,
Maine.
Senator Blaine says that there is not
particle of truth in the report that he is going
TO build new palatial mansion at Washing
ton. His present residence is all that he de-
sres, and is one of the finest in the city.
There are many who will recall the dimin-
utive form of Henry Giles, the author and
lecturer, who years ago gave the Lowell
Institute a remarkable course of lectures.
Mr. Giles lives in seclusion at Hyde Park.
He is an Irishman by birth and about ~
years of age.
An old negro known as Prince Hannibal
died near Warrenton, Va, several days ago
from cold and lack of food. He was at one
time a slave and also n slave owner. and
claimed to be the son of an African King,
and said he was kidnapped by slavers on the
African coast.
| There is an immense volume ofspeculation
going on in railway stocks and bonds in New
York city on orders from Europe, and nearly
all the large banking houses abroad have
correspondents there who are constantly
tclegraphing over their advice regarding
operations on the New York Stock Exchange.