Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-04

The Chilians have arrived within 90 miles
Of Lima
Bemiz' block in Spencer. Mass, was
burned Friday.
Schooner w. H. Brookfeld from Halifax
for Boston is lost. r
One man in Goliad county, Texas, recently
sold lock Of 100000 ewes at 80 per head.
The extreme cold has made good ice roads
across the St. Lawrence. near Montreal.
1t il estimated that the pecan crop of Texas
will sell for a 900 900 this year.
The Carolina Rife Association Of Charles
ton will celebrate the birthday of Gen. Rob-
ert E. Lee Jan 10.
The ocean ut Horse Shoe harbor, Sandy
Hook, il frozen fast mile from the shore.
Several vessels are caught in the ice.
The receipts Of customs for December will
amount to nearly sl3. 600 600, and receipts
of internal revenue to nearly sll 800 900.
General Grant will be rendered 4 reception
by Post Willard, Grand Army Of the Repub-
lie. on his approaching visit to Troy, New
York.
Salvini has q son twenty-one years old
who has received a university education, and
is now studying Law in Florence.
Mrs Bette Taylor cambridge, daughter
Of President Zachary Taylor, is spending the
season in Washington with the family of Sur
geon-General Barnes.
Louisiana planter who expected to make
600 hogsheads Of sugar had his hopes blasted
by a recent freeze, which ruined his cane.
The frost turned it sour.
Marie Roze says that of the great singers
of to-day not one is Italian. English, she
thinks, will be the medium for the opera of
the future. Christine Nilsson believe So
Patti prefers singing English before an Eng
lish audience.
1t is said that Mr.. W. W. Corcoran Of
Washington, has given away in all 50.
600 in public benefactions and 81 600 900 in
private charities, and that this was about
three-quarters Of his private fortune.
The largest gold brick ever cast in Cali
fornia was turned out at San Francisco a few
DAYS ago. It measured l23 inches in length
inches in breadth. and a inches in thick
ness. 1t weighs 1885 II ounces troy, and is
valued at $4,000.
Jordan, Marsh & Co., the great Boston dry
goods house. have recently completed beau
tiful hall in their new building of a seating
capacity of over 500, which is to be dedicated
to the use of the army of sewing girls in
their employ, for private and public enter
tainments.
There are small manufactures springing
up all over Georgia. especially cotton manu-
factories. in many of which merely the thread
is prepared for northern and eastern manu.
factories. These are very profitable. yield
ing from IL to 20 per cent. on the capital
invested.
Out of 35s colleges and universities in the
United States, l53 admit women to their
course of study. In these there are in all
departments 35,357 males and 9599 females.
Reports from the majority of these institu-
tions agree that the average standing of
women in the college departments is fully
equal to that of the men.
Col. w. F. Elkin, the last but one of the
famous .'lOng nine" headed by Abraham
Lincoln. in the Illinois Legislature in 1882
40. has died in Decatur. Ninian W. Edwards
of Springfield alone survives. The aggregate
height of the ''long nine" was precisely fifty
four feet. They secured the removal Of the
capital from Vandalia to Springfield.