Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-02-19
NO. 43.
Dailu krnnebtl Journal.
General News.

Murat Halstead favors the whipping-posI.
Gen. Garfield complains of fatigue from
overwork.
President Hayes has been given the de-
gree of LID. by the John Hopkins Uni
versity.
The Boston Surgical and Medical Journal
advises the people 10 look ont for the small
pox.
The organized and unorganized militia in
the United States number 6,,ia3, ,395 men -
quite \ formidable army
The Commodore Mutt Show Combination,
after finding but 80 people present at an en-
tcrtainment in Hartford. ingoriously "bust-
ed
The valuation Of the United States is S32,-
600 100000. the country standing third ON
the list of all the great nations
Mr. Worth. III" famous Partisan man mill-
ncr, predicts that American silks will soon
supersede those of French manufacture.
There are only three ladies living whose
husbands were Presidents of the United
States, Mrs. Polk Mrs. lincoln and Mrs.
Grant.
George w. Hollis, Boston dealer in live
stock handled more than 500, 900 sheep last
year.
The Rev. Mr. Talmage has had his salary
As pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle in-
creased from ten 10 twelve thousand dollars
per annum.
A uniform rate of - cents dispatch for
all distances is the suggestion of the New
York Public TO Jay Gould. Not bad idea,
by any means,
In his sermon last Sunday, the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher said he hoped Mrs. Garfield
would follow the good example set hy Mrs.
Hayes and have no wine in the White House.
Mr. James G. Burnham, the millionaire,
who died in Havana last week. was 90 years
old. He was born in Charleston. :. c. and
went to Cuba as a shipping clerk seventy
years ago
4 former importer of liquors. speaking at
a temperance meeting in New York city, de-
carcd that not drop of pure liquor is sold
over any bar in that city.
King kalakaua was chief guest at a ball
given at the Palace Hotel. San Francisco, the
other evening. His Majesty appeared in an
ordinary black silk dress suit. and opened the
ball by dancing quadrillc.
The Buckevc State has n political tempest
all by itself in the discussion of the Sunday
laws and the license question. both of which
threaten TO divide the State next fall.
The Hoosier legislators propose to prohibit
bv law the marriage of lunatics. A cynical
friend remarks that most people contemplate
ing marriage are fit subjects for lunatic
asylum.
David Dudley field is the oldest New York
LAWYER in active practice. He was 20 years
old on Tuesday, but is as vigorous as he was
twenty wears ago. and walks along Broadway
as erect as grenadler.
4 gold pen manufacturer of Cincinnati
claims to have discovered process for fusing
iridium, and that it can be cast into electric
light burners winch will not require the
of glass globes.
The Baltimore American insists that the
al, t,,rh ,s tn l,Xi
the territory of Utah between Colorado and
Nevada and crush out polygamy in the courts
of those States.
A bill has been introduced in the Wiscon-
sin legislature to exempt papers from libel
suits when the obnoxious article was published
on mistaken information. and a retraction is
twice inserted.
The competing lines in the emigrant bust
ness have agreed to restore the rates in force
Jan. ! g, 1881. on the basis Of Sl3 to Chicago.
This ends the war in third-class business
which has been in progress so long, and
which reduced the fare from New York to
Chicago to So.
1t was expected that the building Of the cic-
waited railroad in New York would reduce the
rents. but such is not the case. The Knick-
erbockers look hopefully forward to the com
pletion Of Brooklyn bridge, when it is expect
ed that that beautiful city will be even more
than now the home of New York tradesmen
and workmen.
The number Of paintings and sculptures TO
be admitted in the Paris Salon this year is to
be limited to :. 800. One encouraging feature
to artists who have not heretofore exhibited,
is that the privilege Of admission to certain
artists who are hors coRcoUys will be with
drawn. and all pictures will be submitted to
the july. Original designs for the industrial
arts are to be received as an additional Sec
ton. The number of pictures and works ex-
hibited by one artist is limited to two.
The bouncing West is commonly supposed
to be the bright particular hotbed of fabulous
tales, but the most apocryphal cold weather
story this year comes from Litchfeld, Conn.
man by tho name of Bright went out in the
morning to pump water for his stock. As
he had not returned at noon, his wife started
out to seek him. There he stood at the well
pumping, literally, for his life; for, through
hole in the trough the water had flowed
around his boots and, freezing solid, fastened
him securely in his tracks. To keep from
freezing to death the farmer had continued
to pump violently all the morning, although
the we'll was soon exhausted. His wife set
him free by beaping salt around his boots
That story has the same defect rs the trough
it won't hold water.