Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-02-01
NO. ~.
Daily kennebtl Jnurnal.
General News.
Gen. Sherman is in rine slirits.

Gen. Sherman is in rine sl irits.
| Ohio built Az school houses last year.
\ second series of Quiet Hours" is just
\ out.
Charles Lonman's werks will soon be pub
| lished
Kate Bateman, who has grown stout. will
| retire from the stage.
The Duke OF Westminster is the richest
man in England.
| 1t is said that Thurow Weed reads through
all of Dickens works every year.
Colorado had Go Chinese within her bor-
| ders last November.
There are six newspaper men in the Arkan-
sas House of Representatives.
Oliver Optics sncw Juvenile magazine, "Our
| Little Ones, has proved success
| President Chadbourne is writing a book ON
'''The wealth OF Nations
| The Princess Louise will return to Canada
| in March next. Her health has improved.
| Fernando Wood has gone to the Hot Springs
| of Arkansas in pursuit of health.
The last of the Stuarts who called himself
| Charles ". of England, died last Christmas
| The number of books published in Eng
| land during 1850 was 4. .293-onc less than IN
1879.
Thomas Harrison, the boy preacher, is
| about 50 years old, In fact he is an old
| boy.
The cx-Khedivc has again asked
| permission of the Sultan TO visit CONSTANT
| nople.
If all hearts were frank. Just and honest,
| the major part of the virtues would be use
| less to us.-W Woiiere.
1t is asserted that there are one thousand
people in Chicago wearing glass eyes, one
third of whom are women.
a nephew of the late Major General Hal
leck is the head centre of a successful opera
boufe company.
sister of the King of Sweden is a mis-
sionary in Lapland, and has sold her jewels
to aid her in her work
4 Winnebago Indian has sued Register
wilkins, Of Lincoln, Neb.. for $4,000, be-
cause the register refused to allow him to
vote
London, Eng, has new paper treating
upon asrology, alchmy and the occult scien-
ces. 1t is called the Light"
All of the Presidents down to the martyred
Lincoln, with the single exception of Van
Buren, were smooth shavcn.
Mrs Marietta Davis, widow of the late Gen.
JEFF G. Davis. of Indiana, is the owner of the
Mexican Emperor Maximian's scarf pin
Hon. John |. Blair, of New Jersey, has
given forty thousand dollars to Lafayette Col
lege at Easton. Pa. To endow its presidential
chair.
A lady in Ithaca \. Y, recently had a pin
extracted from her tongue which had become
imbedded there when she n girl, some
dozen years ago.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rem
| dered decision that money lent on Sunday
cannot be recovered. either principal or in
| tercst.
Ex-Minister Seward thinks that the number
| of Chinese in the United States has been
| ovcrestmated. lie places the number in
| California at -, 900, and in the whole coun-
| try at 100000.
| More than 100 inches are being cut in the
| great lioosac tunnel. for the purpose of shell
| teripg workmen when trains pass after the
| double track has been laid
A mortgage Of ten thousand dollars held by
| a Boston man on the farm of the Rev. w. II.
| ii. Murray at Guilford, Conn. has just been
| forecloscd, Mr.. Murray having taken no
steps to stay the execution
| Alphonso and Christina, King and Queen
Of Spain are now living quietly and simply
at their palace of La Granja They walk,
hunt, and amuse themselves placidly
| The actual outlay and loss caused by the
floods from the Mississippi river since ls49
| has been S230, 200, 900, or an average of 81.
GG9 900 yearly. About 81 100000 has been
spent on the river since the formation of the
| Government
One hundred thousand dollars day is the
estimated loss imposed upon the New-York
business community bv the police commits
| sioners' neglect to clean the down town streets.
| The richest man in Boston is said to be
| Mr.. Sears, who has an estate Of So ,0S5, 900
| The next richest man is Mr.. Moses Williams,
who has accumulated 81, ,0S3 900, and who,
although past ninety, is a vigorous man and
walks 10 his place of business every pleasant
day.
A bill has been introduced in the New
| York Assembly pxcusinp physicians dentists
having patients requiring their daily attend
ance, licensed druggists, editors and report.
ers of the daily press from jury duty.