Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-10
TUESDAY 10
General News.

Mrs. Winnie Ream Hoxie receives Seo, ,oot
for her statue of Farragut.
Edward Everett Hale will probably accept
the invitation 10 become preacher at Harvard
University.
Mr.. Spurgeon. with a brace Of Tabernacl,
deacons, is To make n trip up the Nile for hi,
health.
\ Leicester Mass, Catholic priest broke
up Sunday cock-fight by jumping into III,
ring and wringing the necks of the fowls.
Indianapolis is somewhat excited by III,
evangellstie efforts of the Boy Preacher.
Rev Thomas Harrison.
Oberlin College has receiveda gitt of eight
hundred acres of valuable Missouri land from
DR.. Lorenzo Firmin.
| The protest of the students of Cornell | nj
versity against the enforced retirement o
the acting president Professar William {,
Rus ell, is very emphatic.
| Gen. Benjamin F. Butler is going 10 pre-,
sent 10 the city of Newburyport, Mass, 8
massive granite fountain. 10 he placed in one
of the public squares.
President Garfield and some of his Cabi-
net are expected tn attend the meetings u,
the American Teachers Institute in St Al
bans, Vt, in July.
Throughout the country there is much agi.
tation on the subject of health. As every one
knows, this year has thus far shown longer
| list of dead than any recent year, both at
| home and abroad.
A new college of Esyptology has just been
established in Cairo, Egypt. Its object is the
promotion of the study of hieropyphics, and
also of Arabic art and literature. The French
government bears all the cost.
Rev. Dr. Stephen II. Tying. Jr.. has been
invited by the Equitable Life Assurance So
| ciety To superintend for time the company $
| business in Europe. with his headquarters at
Paris. 1t is understood that DIR. Tying will
| take the position.
Mayor Lathrobe of Baltimore. in imitation
| of the Caliph Haroun Al Raschid. has a habit
| of taking early morning walks about the city,
| which are productive of good results and
| have resulted in ousting many lazily disposed
| employees from the city's pay roll.
Papa: That picture shows the story ot
| Prometheus and the vu!ture that fed on his
| liver. Every day the rulure devoured it.
and every night it grew for him to eat again.
| sympathetic child "Poor old vulture. How
| sick he must have been of liver every day :"
| Rome " ~ Sentinel
Sarah Bernhardt who sailed for France on
Wednesday. will 60 at once to her chateau,
| St. Adresse, near llavre. where she will re-
main a few DAYS. Thence she will go to Paris
| to stay a little while. On June lst, she be-
| gins short engagement at the Gaety Theatre
| in London. After that she will make tour
| of England Ireland and Scotland.
Miss Bronson, the fearless nurse who ex-
posed herself in Grenada, Miss, at the bed
| side of the dying inhabitants. and Subsequent
! ly in Memphis and New Orleans, has just
been left a fortune by the death of her father,
an eccentric old man, who boarded his gold
and refused to live in any kind of habitation
| except an old canal-boat.
A. Bronson Alcott, who has been at the
West this winter, delighted and deligh,ing, is
now on his way home. He writes "My jaunt
has been extended beyond my expectation at
| starting; but have been pleasantly occupied
and, may believe, usefully. New England
has never offered field tempting and so
extensive rs these States. ] am creeping home
| ward at slower pace than | would; but in
ducements are tempting, and yield half will
linely, and so linger.'