Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-08
General News.

Maple sugar is selling in Boston at from
eight and half to twelve cents pound.
Ex President Hayes is reported to be en-
gagged in writing history of his Administra-
ton.
DIR. lie Moync, founder of the Pennsyl-
vania crematory, is to have monument
erected to his memory.
The exodus from New Brunswick is so
great that the clergy have taken a stand
stay where they are.
The interior of the Alumni Hall at Yale
College is being remodeled and receiving
many advantageous changes through the lib
eralitv Of lady in New Haven, Conn.
Mr.. James +. Murdoch. the veteran actor,
on Monday left Cincinnati. where he has re-
sided for quarter of century, for Massa-
chusetts, where he will hereafter make his
home.
According to the News and Courier. the
Charleston Manufacturing Company was or
ganzed early last week. The company pro-
pose to build a large cotton mill in that city
the first establishment of the kind in
Charleston.
Senator Mitchell is described in western
journal as ''the statue of Roman gladiator
Americanized," and that abundant locks and
eyes Of twinkling hazel complete the list Of
his attractions.
A Philadelphia society is wrestling with
the question. 'When a man has his life in
sured for 500. 900 is his wife justified in re-
fusing to prepare a mustard plaster for him,
when he is seized with sudden and severe
attack Of the cramps ?"-I Ihiiadeiphia Chron-
icie Herald.
Mr.. Spurgeon, who ha. been very i'll for
several months, and whose illness has been
increased by his persisting in remaining at
his work instead of going to Mentone ad-
vsed, is likely to proceed on an extended
tour in the East early in the summer. He
has lately suffered severely from acute rheu-
matism.
The Hon. benjamin +. Butler, after
stormy passage in his yacht. America, reach
ed Nassau, n. p. on the 18th ult., and
thence cleared for Havana. When the City
Austin, from New York. afterward entered
the harbor. a passenger jocosely inquired of
the colored pilot if any Of the old pirates
and buccaneers still infested the waters.
"No, sab not now" was the instant reply;
"Capen Ben Butler sail away in de Ameriky
yesterday"
Mr.. John Ii. Ayers, prominent paper
dealer of New York city, died on Monday Of
apoplexy, at his boarding place in West
Forty-third st. lie was born in Newton
Lower Falls, Mass, in 1916. He learned
his trade at paper mill in that town, managed
by his father and the fail er Of ex-Gov. Rice
of Massachusetts, Afterward he was fore
man in mills in Philadelphia, Niagara Falls,
Gardiner Me, and South Carolina. Finally
he came to New York city, and was employed
as travelling salesman. In 1862 he started in
business for himself, and in 1865 the firm of
J. Il. Ayers & Go. was founded. The present
partnership with Mr. Theodore ConrOw was
formed in 1876. Mr. Ayers leaves a widow
and four children. The funeral took place
on Thursday in Pittsfeld, Mass.
One Of the pleasant things told Of Secretary
Robert Lincoln, when he was a rosy-cheeked
boy. is an act of kindness shown to a private
soldier at City Point. A guard on duty had
been wounded in one of the early engage
ments about Petersburg, and had returned to
his post while still uncnred. One stomry
day, young Captain Lincoln watched the
poor fellow pacing back and forth until his
kind heart could bear it no longer. He
borrowed private's Overcoat, and went out,
and insisted on taking the soldiers place as
guard. The man yielded, and for an hour
the Presidents son carried the gun and
guarded the headquarters tent.
A certain amount of opposition is a great
help to man. Kites rise against and not
with the wind. Even head wind is better
than none. No man ever worked his passage
anywhere in dead calm. Let no man wax
pale, therefore, because Of opposition.--John
Neal.
In valiant suffering for others, not in
slothful making others suffer for us, did
nobleness ever lie. The chief Of men is he
who stands at the van Of men, fronting the
peril which frightens back all others; which.
if it be not vanquished, will devour the
others. Every noble crown 10, and on earth
will forever be a crown Of thorns, 49, Thomas
Carlyle.
Public speakers and lecturers can use their
voice continuously and with safety by taking
small or Alternative doses Of DR.. Bnlls Cough
Syrup.