Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-03-12
General News.

Cadet Whitaker proposes to write novel.
The Hudson is breaking up.
There are ~ murderers in the Nevada
State prison.
There is to be a new summer city created
| at Barnegat Beach,
w. i. Andrews, publisher of the American
Queen and Andrews Bazar has failed.
The Princess Louise started from London
for Paris on Saturday on her way to Italy.
Shadrach Bond the first governor of Illi-
nois, is to have a 81 800 monument.
Bridgeport, Ct. woman claims to have
| 100000 Cancelled postage stamps.
The Rev. A. st. John Chambre has ac-
cepted the call to the Church or the Asccn-
sion at Fall River.
Mr.. John BOYLE O'Reilly has been asked to
give the Phi Beta Kappa poem at Dartmouth
in June.
1t is again reported that Mrs. Langtry is
coming to the United States to make her first
appearance an actress.
The prohibition question is more agitated
in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and other
States now than for several years.
The Duke of Sutherland and eight or ten
other railroad magnatcs of England will visit
this country in April for three months trip
on our railroads.
has been selected to read the poem at the an
nual reunion of the Army of the Potomac in
Hartford in June.
Miss Anna Dickinson is to appear in Ham.
let, Claude Melnotte, and Macbeth in New
York She is to alternate with Salvini in
Philadelphia during the week before Easter
The Russian Emperors new wife is said to
be remarkable for neither brains nor tact but
nevertheless her power over her husband is
absolute.
1t is said that dying man in Louisville,
Ky, has mortgaged hi. body to physician,
| as security for rent, an avarcious landlady,
accepting such security
George Gorham. an old citizen of Cincin-
natl, who delivered the address of welcome to
Lafayette when he visited Cincinnati in 1924.
died Saturday. in his eighty-sccond year.
One Mr.. Dublin. living in Lime county,
| Kansas, possesses n maidstone. to try the vir-
tnes Of which people sometimes travel hun
dreds of miles.
At social gathering in Boston, last week,
| Miss Terry. niece of Mrs. Julia Ward
| Howe, wore u satin dress which once be-
longed to the mother of Napoleon Bona
parte.
T Gov. lloyt, of Pennsylvania, has issued a
general order congratulating the 600 mem
| bers of the National Guard Of the State upon
| the good display they made in Washington at
| the inauguration.
White buffalocs have frequently been seen
| and killed. The Comanche Indians believe
| il is a fOrerunDer of some terrible calamity
for one of their number so see such an ami
| NAL Some other tribes believe it "a good
| omen.
The phylloxere has thus far been dis
covered in vineyards in six counties Of Cali
fornia, and it is feared that the spread of the
pest may result from the very large shipments
of grape cuttings.
The statement that twelve trains comprising
| l37 cars passed over the Baltimore and POto-
mac Road between the time the wreck Of
| Saturday was cleared away and noon Sunday,
| gives some indication of the size of the crowd
of visitors that has been in Washington
during the past week.
Mr.. Jay Goulds special train, on which I,e
| is now flying from point to point in the South
west, is described as being as magnificent as
| money can make it. There are two gorgeous
| ly-upholstered drawing-room cars, the Convoy
palace, a hotel car and sleeping cars for the
party. Cooks and porters in great numbers
have place on board the train.
The collision by which ex-President
Hayes's train was wrecked was the result Of
the disobediencc of written orders. The en-
gineers of both trains had written orders.
| The one who disobeyed got his skull frac-
tured; the one who obeyed escaped unhurt.
and received the thanks Of Mrs. Hayes and
otHer- 1Or MS bravery. 1Hls Is almost 100
much like novel
| DIR. T.. J. Records, manager of a so-called
Bankers and Brokers Association in Phila-
delphia, was arrested short time ago in
New York, just as he was about to go to Eu-
rope. on the charge of swindling Mr.. J. B.
| Lippincott, the book publisher. Records
had hired s24, 900 Of Lippincott and deposited
bonds as collateral. Subsequently he paid
his creditor Sl2, 900 aud received back half
his securities. On Feb. 10 he presented his
check to Mr.. Walter Lippincott for the re-
mainder of the loan, aud obtained all Of his
bonds. The check proved to be worthless,
has been unsavory.