Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-11
General News.

Look out for another cold wave.
Speaker Randall is a victim of acute govt
A sugar exchange is to be established in
New York.
Of all the RotI,schilds there is but one a
Roman Catholic.
DR.. Cuyler's Sunday school gave Sl252. 40
for missions last year.
Prof. Patton adheres to his acceptance Of
the Princeton professorship.
Ex-Gov Walker of Virginia will, this
week, open law Office in New York.
The Union Stock Yards, Chicago, have a
Gospel mission, recently started
Eleven million dollars will be paid out as
interest in Philadelphia this MONTH
There are s. l03 colored Baptist churches
in the United States, with 62i, l5S members.
Pere Didon, the eloquent, liberal Roman
Catholic, has been permitted to return 10
Paris.
The Oneida Community is now joint
stock concern with paid up capital of $780,
600.
Cotton lands in Alabama have appreciated
in value nearly 200 per cent, within five
years.
You might as well try to strike light on>a
block of ice as to do business without adver-
Using.
There are people in Ohio who wish to have
a girl appointed as one of the ''pages" in the
Senate of the State.
Generosityio the Chinese in the late fam
inc is said TO explain the unusual progress of
Christianity in China.
The exports of domestic produce from Bal
timore in 1880 were SC, 900 600 in value more
than those in 1879.
The Kentucky Central Railroad has volun-
tarily reduced in fares from four to three
cents a mile.
The Hon. Columbus Delano has given
$40, 900 to build hall for the preparatory
school at Kenyon College, Ohio.
Louisville. Ky, has subscribed the capital
and ordered the machinery for $500, 900
cotton factory.
1t is stated that the late George Elliot left
manuscripts which. although incomplete. will
yet in part be published.
There were 900 disasters on the great
lakes last year, involving the loss of more
lives than for several years past.
General Garfield is fond of swimming and
of exercise in the saddle. He rides regularly
every day at Mentor from five to ten miles.
The mammoth marble hall in the New Or
leans custom house is marvel of magniti-
cence. Its proportions are 1872 by 80 feet in
area and "a feet in height.
Counterfeit fve-dollar and twenty dollar
gold pieces are sald TO De numerous IN sac
ramento. Cal. The city is also flooded with
spurious ten-cent pieces.
The names of all the Spanish residents of
New England are being enrolled by Antonio
Ziewo. the Spanish Consul at Boston. by or
der Of his government.
There were % homcides committed in
San Francisco last year, some of them of
peculiar atrocity, and not one Of the perpe-
traitors has vet been convicted.
A young French couple who do not under
stand word eff English were married the
other day i'll Texas, By a Justice ofthe Peace,
who pronounced the ceremony in English.
A telegram from New Albany, Ind, SAYS
that Prof. w. w. Borden. one its wealthiest
citizens, placed 800, 900 in the bank to the
credit of his wife by legal transfer, as a
Christmas gift. and spent $50, 900 more to
furnish her a residence.
Congress has bought another of Washing
toms swords for $4,000. A small army of
impecunious Virginians will now be en-
couraged to hunt mp all the Centennial
swords they can find in the old Dominion and
offer them to Congress.
DIR. A. G. Byers, Secretary of the Ohio
Board OF State Charities. declined, the posi-
tion of Chaplain of the the Massachusetts,
Penitentiary. and will remain in his present
capacity. The Rev. James Barnes, a son-in-
law Of Father TAYLOR, has been made chap
lain of the prison.