Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-28
General News.
so others

A mountain of rich salt has been found in
Southern Utah.
Rome is preparing for worlds fair, -four
years hence.
An academic gown is talked of for young
ladies in colleges.
Mr.. Henry James, Jr.. intends TO return to
this country shortly.
The present Gar is the first since Peter
the Great who has not married German
wife
A large iron steamship will soon he bull,
at San Francisco. the first on the Pacific
coast.
A Chinaman in Eureka, Nevada, challen.
ges all comers, of whatever nationality, to
play billiards. and puts up his money.
Mr.. Joseph h. Emmet's new residence in
Albany is to Ge the finest or at least the
costliest in that vicinity.
1t is estimated that the immigrants pouring
into this country will bring during the sum-
mer at least S., ZOO. 900 hard money.
4 colored woman in Philadelphia, believed
to be one hundred and four years Of age,
passes her time reading her Bible.
The New York Express: Now let Harvard
invite Rev. Richard S. Storrs. ID. d., OF
Brooklyn. He is the fittest man in America
for preacher of its first university.
1t is understood that Mr.. Fields had ex-
pressed the intention of leaving most of the
best books of his valuable collection TO Dart
mouth College
Work has been begun on the great bridge
| at Poughkeepsie, to connect the Erie Rail
road system with the New York & New Eng
land Railroad.
The nation has been giving its attention to
the important question. (Which should bow
first. lady or a gentleman" and comes to
tb.. t1,at tl,.;r hn,r pbnull bo
ultareous.
The Madrid Abolition Society has begun a
series of meetings. and lectures in the princi-
pal towns of Spain in favor of the immediate
abolition of slavery in Cuba, which are at
tended by enthusiastic audiences.
The President and Mrs. Garfield and Sec
retary Blaine expect to be present at the un-
yelling Of the Morgan statute at Spartanburg,
S. c., on the eleventh Of May. Ex-Presi-
dent and Mrs. HAYES will probably be there
likewise.
Mr.. Edward Hull. director of the Geologic
al Survey of Ireland. estimates the available
quaint ity of coal in that country at 1872 900 200
tons. and as the yearly output is only about
l2l ,975 tons. the eoalfields are not likely to
be exhausted for a thousand years.
Many shrubs that have thrived through
previous winters at Mount Vernon. were
entirely killed by the severity of the past
winter, and the fine magnolia tree. said TO
have been planted by Washington, in the last
year of his life. was much injured by the
cold weather
The New Orleans Picavune relates that a
procession of colered men in that city last
week encountered fremens funeral process
sion and, reverently stopping. with one
accord lifted their hats as the firemen march
ed by. Aud the firemen, as they came
abreast of the paraders, themselves uncovered
in recognition of the courtesy.
The imported and genuine Nautch girls
were wholly lacking in beauty and grace. and
their tour in this country was failure. 4
troupe of imitation Nautch dancers. how ever
seems to be satisfying the public demand in
Chicago. They are handsome mulattoes
and do livelier kind of dancing than i.
known to the natives of India