Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-02-10
General News,

Chcvalier kremer will be the new Aus
| trian Ambassador At Washington.
Ex-Gov. Jewell of Connecticut is going to
| Havana this week. and will remain there
| several weeks.
The whole National Guard of Pennsyl-
| vania, eight thousand strong, will participate
in the inaugural procession.
1t is estimated that about | ,000. 900 tons OF
| ice will be harvested this season in and
around Boston.
Wendell Phillips and Gen. Butler are to
speak at an Irish sympathy meeting in Fan
cuil Hall, Boston, on Friday evening next.
Down east fishermen are complaining bit
tcrly and frequently of the robbery of their
| travis, the thieves in many instances also
taking the entire gearing.
Olive Logan says that she has seen Mile
Bernhardt turn her back on n duchess in or
der to speak Ia person who works for a liv-
ing.
1t is not true that the DE PAW rlass
| works are to be removed to Pittshurg, Penn.
Some new company is to establish glass
works there.
The Senate of Missouri has rejected, by n
vote of nearly two to one, n bin TO set up
the whipping-post for the punishment of
petty thieves.
fisherman from Kingston, Canada, is
said to have found a twenty-dollar gold piece
| in pike which he caught in the BAY of
| Quinte.
| bill has been introduced in the legisla-
| ture of Arkansas looking to the creation of
the office of railroad Supervisor 10 regulate
| railroad business
| Lunch parties for ladies only are very popu-
| lar ut Washington. They are in fact din
ners, without the preliminary courses Of soup
and fish.
The new Senator German. of MARYLAND.
was once page in the legislative house
where he now sits as Senator. lie is a port
" young man with a clever face Of the Celtic
type
Mrs. Hayes has gone to New York to give
the final sittings for the fulllength portrait
Of herself which is being painted for the
| White House AT the expense of her temper
ance friends.
General Weaver declares empha,ically that
| his party will make no changes nor offer any
concessions in the way Of a coalition with
either Of the two leading parties of the coun-
try.
The greenbackers in Congress are talking
about their intention to reorganze
their party as peoples party
| peoples party without the people will be
lonesome.
DIR. Carson of Leechburg. Penn, while at.
| tending a severe case Of diphtheria. is said to
have received some OF the vlrns on n sore
| spot on his hand, and to have died day OF
two atterward in consequence. The bad ef-
| fects were felt within two hours after the in
| incubation.
Abraham, Moses and Isaac Ben Irish,
brothers. Jews and Arabs from Tangicr, ar
rived ut Castle Garden by the steamer Baltic,
Friday. They are middle aged men and said
they came out TO join their father They
speak English, French, Italian, German.
Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew with vigor,
| and according to the many authorities about
Castle Garden with correctness. There was
no one to test their Arabic.
Governor Murray of Utah, who is in Wash
ington, says "Polygamic slavery is worse
than negro slavery. Under the laws Of Utah
| a man, the next day after naturalization. may
marry many wives as he chooses. and then
they may all vote. He may, for instance.
marry Chinese girl II years old. who hasn't
been in the country month, and the act will
entitle her to vote
Rev. DIR. Jabez l.. NJ Curry, Of Richmond,
Va. the new general agent of the Peabody ed
| ucational fund, is Georgian by birth. but was
brought up in Alabama. lie was at the Har-
ward law school with President Hayes, and
| was a Representative in the Both and 3Gth
Congress. from Alabama. During the war
he served in the rebel Congress and also in
the rebel army az lieutenant colonel of cav
airy regiment. When the war closed he en-
| tered the Baptist ministry, and has recently
| been college professor.