Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-03-02
General News.

The wife Of Senator Logan acts as his pri-
vate Secretary
r. l.. James the New York postmaster be-
gan active life country editor.
Boston has large collection of bird. Ga-
der way, TO continue nine days.
Gen. Grant will start for Mexico next week
and expects to be absent from New York two
or three months.
The late Senator Carpenter is said to have
left to his family an estate Of nearly $780,
600 besides $50, 900 Of life insurance.
The largest ''grouper" ever caught on the
coast Of South Carolina is on exhibition IN
Charleston. 1t is about feet long, and
weighs 80 pounds.
The West Aurora public school at Bata-
via, H.. bonored James Russell Lowell On
Feb. 81. by celebrating his birthday with ap-
propriate literary and musical exercises.
Many old towns in New England do not
change much in their population. There are
4GS voters in the town of Seabrook, y. H.
and $50 of them bear only rs different family
names.
II. c. Hanson, Of Minneapolis, MINI. is
building a small sailing craft. in which he
purposes TO make the trip from this country
10 the coast of Norway. He il n sailor and a
native Of Norway.
The original official copy of the Constitu-
ton Of Wisconsin cannot be found. and the
great seal Of the State is so defaced by long
usage that its impression can hardly be de-
ciphcred.
The jury for the trial Of J. VI. KaIloch for
the murder of Charles DE Young in san
Francisco has been made up the las; man
having been got on the twentieth day.
A Chicago journal makes an estimate that
s2l 800. 900 were spent in that city last year
for books, stationery. mrsic. wallpaper and
kindred articles. IL il safe TO say the amount
is not underestimated.
II il a most significant fact that in spite of
the fall in prices and great stringency in the
money market last week, very few failures
were recorded. II is strong proof Of the
sound condition of business in general
Mr. Lanman, private secretary to the Jap
anese Minister ut Washington, expects as
guests the two japanese girls studying ut
Vassar College. Mr.. Lanman superintcnds
the education of the third girl, Uni Tsuda,
sent here to try our educational system.
Mr.. Langtry, the husband of the Jersey
Lily. is an Irishman. whose father and grand
father owned ships which ran between Liver
pool and Belfast one hundred years ago. Mr..
Langtry inherited from them a fortune and
was not brought up To any profession.
A man by the name of Cox. who was com
mitted to the Vermont House of Correction
for offence under the liquor law, is likely
to recover 5000 from the superintendent
for shaving off the heavy beard of the pris-
oner before he had the right to do so under
the law.
Mrs. Hicks Lord has again managed to
bring herself to the public attention. She is
at war with her neighbors in Fourteenth
street, New York, in regard to ''little Ger
man Band" She hires them 10 play morn
ing and evening in front of her residence.
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in the building opposite, are very angry.
Authorities on sanitary and vital statis-
tics tell us that, owing to greater attention to
health, the average of human life has been
heightened of late years yet at the same
time there is greater desire to escape its
burdens by suicide. Among a million peo-
pie in Europe who die. it is estimated that
widowers without children. which is double
the number of any other class of self muir
derers.
Admiral Bythesea. a very distinguished Of
fcer, who ha. Just retired from the service
after having for manv years filed the post of
consulting naval officer to the Government of
India. He gets his name from being. when
an infant, picked up at sea by ship of war,
dashed to bale of goods. Inquiry failing to
elicit any information regarding the babe,
the ships officers adopted him. called him
Blythe Sea and sent him to naval school.
The first ship in which he served was that
which saved his life. He has the Victoria
cross and the order of the Bath