Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-01
Political.

When President Hayes was asked in 1866
vhv he leat Congress to become Governor Of
Ohio, be replied: "Ohio has nineteen
ConGressmen, but only one Governor"
According to the Washington Post, the
Greenbsckers in the next Congress purpose
supporting Judge Kelley, Of Pennsylvania,
for Speaker.
when does . carpet-b7gger cease to be
carpet-bageer?' queries a Northern Gath.
why, when he joins the Democratic party.
Ask harder ene.- .Kemphis AraiaHehe( DeH.)
A well-irformed correspondent writes
that Senator David Davis may be expected to
vote with the republicans in the next Senate3
He is profoundly dissatisfied with his demo-
cratic friends.
Mr.. Hewitt would make . good coroner.
He has examined the corpse Of the Demo
cratic party and reports that too much Green
backism did the business for it.
Senator Hamlin is the Oldest and Senator
Bruce the youngest of the members OF the
Senate. Senator Anthony-who il now in
tinuously than any other man in the present
Senate.
The Washington correspondent of the New
Orleans Times, Who is usually we'll informed
about Southern political intrigues, telegraphs
that Senator Malone is preparing to organize
party in the South which shall be indepen-
dent during the next four years, but support
Garfield's administration Of national Affairs.
General News.
Greece has one railroad; It Is fire miles
long.
There are At present thirty-three small pox
patients in the Riverside Hospital, New
York.
The fund of s100,O0 raised by the Phila-
delphians for General Grant is completed,
and awaits the generals order.
Mrs. Jean Davenport Lander has returned
from Germany, where she has left one Of her
adopted sons for dramatic study.
In the death of Rev. E. H. Chaplin. the r.
w. Grand Lodge Of Odd Fellows of Massa-
chnsetts loses its Senior Grand Master.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has signed a
contract to sing in Paris. after her Russian
engagement, for twenty nights-the salary to
be $4,000.
Cadet Whitaker will probably be tried in
New York. This is . change Of venue to
which the state of public opinion At West
| Point clearly entities him.
A number of capitalists are said to be ne
gotiating. at Washington, for . site upon
which TO erect . palarial hotel, intended to
supass anything of the kind on the American
Vanderbilt remembered his daughters mu-
| nificently on Christmas, giving each of them
| thousand shares of Lake Shore. which, al
the present price would amount to the snug
little sum Of 4136.0O0.
The death of DR.. Chaplin, on the Tooth an.
niversary of the first sermon in the Univer-
| salist church in this country, that of the In
| dependent Christian Society of Gloucester,
was q noteworthy coincidence.
| The graduates of Amherst College resid'
ing in Cleveland, Ohio, and vicinity. hare
formed an Alumni Association, and will have
their first annual dinner in that city or
Wednesday evening, Jan. l2.
A writer on hygiene saws that diphtheria
is spread by heaters as we'll a. BY sewers. and
that the furnaces which heat foul air in eel
lars and send it to the parlors and chambers
above. are among the most accomplished
slanRhterers of the period.
The marriage of NJ. Joseph Axarian. o.
Constantinople, with Miss Anna E. Almy. Of
Boston, was celebrated in the chapel of the
Mechitarists, in Vienna, on the llth Of No
| vembcr.