Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-04
General News.


Sunday.
Thrty-five hundred immigrants landed at
New York Sunday.
Massachusetts is the only one of the New
England States where bv law ten hours is the
days work IN the mills.
The Brush Electric Light Company has en-
tered into contract 10 light Broadway and
Fifth Avenue, New York City.
The San Francisco Call thinks there is
now no place where one dollar will buy more
of the necessaries of life than in thar city.
London. with population Of 1000 200,
has church accommodations for 1000, 900.
but not more than 5oo,o goo are at church on
any one Sabbath.
The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald advises
New York to take the dirt out of the streets
and start two States the size of Rhode Is
land.
Alligator-skin boots and shoes have hc
come SO popular that y. 900 hides were con-
sumei in their manufacture last wear in this
country.
-Four iron posts have been placed in Sco-
lay square. Boston, preparatory To making
| the first experiment in that city in street
| lighting bv electricity.
a ST. Petersburg dispatch says 500 jew ish
families have been massacred at Elizabeth
grad in Southern Russia. where the Jews are
much disliked by peasants.
The average death rate in Memphis during
the last three months WAS IL in 1000. the
| highest of any city in the United States,
The new sewerage systeA has not made a
healthy place of the city, which seems to
have some secret cause of disease.
The thruble wild the country, sor, is alb
senteeism." said an Irish car driver to a
tourist. But there are not many absentees
| in, I fhr rapI,. ~ \,,f
many absentees. is it: Well. thin. let me
tell We the counthrav's Just full of ahsen-
tees ."-Londoa Punch.
After sharp contest the Superior Council
| of Education in Spain has decided by a small
majority to admit women and girls to lectures
and degrees of universities and faculties but
no action has been taken on the question of
allowing them to practice after they have OBJ
tained their degrees.
Vice President Arthur is said to be as much
amused at the new spaper version of the num-
ber of his children and their ages at the
false rumors of his intended marriage. He
says he has no idea of marrying, and that he
has but two children. a son of sixteen, who
is six feet two inches in height, and 4 daugh-
ter nine years old. Both are at school.
\ system of lighting railroad cars with gas
has been tried on the Baltic Railway. The
phuric acid on zinc, the resulting hydrogen
being carbureted by being passed through
naphtha vapor. 1t is SAID that this gas has
very little odor. that its flame is bright, white
and constant. and that it is cheaper and gives
better results than stearine candles.
The diplomats and Senators at Washington
have all been going 10 the circus within the
past few days. Vice President Arthur did
not dsdain the attractions of the elephants
and lions. the clowns and gymnasts: and
Senator Anthony got a renewed attack of
rheumatism under the canvass. Even Sena-
tor Sherman's grave face visible; and
the British Minister made up party and took
forty seats.
According to the Year Book of Trinity
Episcopal parish in New York city, itappears
that there were baptsed last year 1875 per
sons confirmed, 49, The communicates
number 42l4; Sunday scholars, 4s7l; schol-
ars in parish schools. 953 scholars in indus
trial schools, 2276. the contributions were
S44, ,O96: appropriations by Vestry, Ss3, ,237.
The rector. Dr. Dix has l6 clerical assist
ants.
The results of the recent census of India
are being roughly cast up, nearly all returns
being in. According to these the numbers
for the Northwest Province are 32, ,600, 900,
and for Dude II POO, 900. The increase since
1872 has been about per cent. The grand
total for the Puniaub is 22,640, 463, of whom
nearly 9.000,0oo are British subjects. The
increase since ls6S is about 6i per cent.
This is exclusive of the districts of Lahoul
and Spit. of which the census cannot be
taken until the SHOWS melt.
The immediate ancestors of Lord Beacons-
field, descended from Spanish and Venetian
Jews. were lax in their adherence to their
ancient faith. and he himself, born in 1904 or
1905, was actually baptized as Christian in
his boyhood. One of his newspaper biogra-
pliers. and he not of the deceased Earfs house.
hold Of political creed. saws that he was never
ashamed Of the race from which he sprang
| and that he contende1 for its political rights
even at period of his career when his per
soual interests pointed in the opposite direc-