Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-12
General News.

Watermelon syrup is a new product of Ore
gon
Illinois Is out of debt and has money in
the bank"
The German army on a peace footing COM
prises nearly $50, 900 men.
President Grevy. of France, has a salary
Of about quarter of million of dollars.
Z. L. Barnum has so far recovered as TO
be able to return to his Connecticut home.
Eighteen hundred and fifty-four building
permits were granted in St. Louis in 1880.
President Hayes cOEtradicts the story that
he proposes to travel abroad next summer.
George T. Angel lectured on 'The Brute
Creation at Washington, Sunday evening.
The State of New York has thirty five
times the population of Delaware.
Sir Thos. Hesketh and his bride and Sena-
tor Sharon are at the Windsor Hotel. New
York city.
The San Francisco police arrested 800 per-
sons charged with drunkenness, in &c hours,
recently.
The vital statistics of New Yew York city
show 81 $50 deaths to .. $50 births for the
past year.
Brooklyn n. Y. is worse off than Phil
adelphia. 1t has Sl4, 800, 900 delinquent
taxes"
DIR. Tanner, the man of the forty days
fast, now weighs one hundred and seventy
eight pounds.
Elaborate preparations are making for the
reception of Gen. Grant in Albany. on the
18th.
Through the efforts of the Washington
Post, So, 900 has been raised for the poor of
the Capital.
233, 1875 standard silver dollars were dis
tributed last week against 122, f95 for the
corresponding period in $780,
Mr. &, III Cnrliss of Providence hos heep
confined to his house for some weeks with
gastric trouble.
1t is announced that Mr.. G. w. Danielson,
editor of the Providence Journal is about to
marry Miss Rose Peckham, the artist.
Orange, N. b., is suffering from severe
water famine. Nine-tenths of the wells are
dry and farmers drive cattle miles for wa
ter.
Secretary of War Ramsey wants an extra
million dollars to furnish clothing for the
army, the supplies of military clothing being
exhausted.
Senator Matt Carpenter of Wisconsin,
formerly a great smoker, has been obliged
by orders Of his physician, to get along with
three cigars a day
Miss Mary Anderson made her final ap-
pearance in New York at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre, Saturday night, and performed Meg
Merrilies.
Isaac c. Parker, Judge Of the United States
District Court at Fort Smith. Ark, has SEN
fenced forty men TO the gallows for murder
in the past five wears.
There were % homicides committed in
San Francisco last year, some of them of
peculiar strocity. and not one of the perpe-
traitors has yet been convicted.
The 18th annual session of the New Hamp-
shire State musical festival will begin at
Il Al. n-.l. l.. III
Carl Zerrahn as conductor.
1t is now 81 years since petroleum was
discovered. During the last year 367 .32s,-
900 gallons were produced. The value of
the oil exported was l.7SO, 900.
A poor family in Philadelphia named Glen
are soon to come into possession of one and
a half millions of dollars by the woman's
father, who recently died in Australia.
Gen. Butler has declined to act as counsel
for ex-Gov. Sprague in the divorce case
brought against him by his wife, but will
represent him in the civil cases with his cred
itors.
During the funeral services over the re-
mains of the Hon. John Heating, at Emlen-
ton. Penn, on Tuesday last, Mr.. John Mid
dleton. one of his oldest friends, aged 81
years died of apoplexy.
For the first time in many years Raritan
Bay n. j., is solidly frozen over to the width
of two miles, and all communication by wa
ter to New Brunswick. South Amboy and
other towns on the river is stopped
New England by the last census, has a
population of 4,0ll.3l2. of which one-fitth
are of foreign birth. and in which females
outnumber the men by s9.l23. The increase
since 1870 has been IA per cent.
Nebraska. of all the Northern States west
of the Alleghanies, has the smallest portion
-. -
The Western States have contributed gener-
ously to the population of that State.
1t is said the Illinois Legislature is likely
to enact laws restricting the powers and reg
ulating the charges of railways, and repeal
ing the statute limiting the damages for Kill
ling a person on the railroads to $4,000.
The latest marriage announcement in the
continental papers is that of Mrs Henry
Duncan and Mr.. George Parrish, a rich
American who formerly lived in New York.
OF late years he has resided on handsome
estate in Bohemia, where he has kept an or
chestra Of sixty musicians for his own
amusement.
An Ukase has been sent to the Russian Sem
ate. decreeing that the Princess Dolgorouski.
wife of the Gar. shall bear the rank and
title of Serene Eighness. and that the stat
ute declaring that the issue of an alliance be-
tween member of the imperial and per-
son not of imperial rank does not possess the
right of inheritance to the throne, shall re-
main in force.
The ten Monday lectures, delivered in Bos-
ton by leaders of opinion in the different de-
nominations, on s.Christ and Modern
Thought" will soon be issued in a volume
by Roberts Brothers. A preface will be
written by the Rev. Joseph Cook. founder of
the course, who will state therein his freshest
conclusions on the subject and his views on
current events.
There are now on passage for England. As
near As can be estimated, Is. 2ss, 900 bushels
Of wheat. carried BY 3S4 vessels. OF these
las vessels with 1900, 900 bushels are from
California and Oregon: 50 vessels with l ,72s.-
600 bushels are from the Atlantic ports Of the
United States: 45 vessels with l,eOO. 900
bushels are from the Black Sea; Is vessels
with $4,000 bushels are from Egyps and In