Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-17

RochefoFt - Sefl0usiys ana proo3pty lSssus
ILL.,
Gladstone has cold which keeps him in
his house
Three French lighthouses use the electric
light
Kansas i being flooded with silver certih-
eates-
A forty-ton whale On ice Is the --latest treat
for Chicago people
Mrs. Ba1emzn. niothe. % the celebrated ac-
tress, died Thursday
Mr.. Charles Franei. Adams of Boston i
assessed .. worth ss3s, 40.
Queen vicsoriz made 1900 90 stock farm
ing last year.
Gotham expects that the ebelisk will bs
placed in position the latter part of the nexi
week
General Sherman has issned invitations fo'
4 large parry At Washington on the 18th
inst.
Senator Wade Hampton has discarded his
crutches and appeared in the Senate with q
bran new wooden leg
There are forty-two night schools in Phila.
delphia with a registered attendance Of !. 200
pupils
Judge Knowles, of the United States Dis
trict Court for Rhode Island, will soon retire
from the bench.
Russell Sage hiss 81 900. 90 per annnm in
come. Jay Gould S., oOo, 900, and Vanderbilt
$40, 900, 900.
In Texas during the past year greater
quantity of school land has been sold than
during the six preceding years
Ten schooners Of larger beer, drank in five
minutes on a wage- in ST. Louis saloon,
killed Henry Minnecker.
There is an establishment near Melbourne.
Australia, for canning RABBITS, which are 90
plenty as to become pest.
wife in Ohio. who sued her husband for
money she loaned him after marriage has won
her suit.
Gen. Fitzpatrick. with hi. handsome South
American wife, will spend u portion of the
winter in Washington.
There is town in England the inhabitants
of which depend for living entirely upon
he manufacture of needles and fish-hoOks.
There were SOC visitors TO the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts on Saturday last and
600 on Sunday.
Connecticut has had but three Governors
since the wear 1886 who have been practicing
lawyers.
The Westinghouse air-brake works, now at
Pittsburg. are TO be removed to Allegheny
City, SO that more room can be had.
Young man in London has been sent to
prison for contempt, in having married a
warn IN cHaUfcTy WltflDut the siUtslpu u tHc
court.
Baron Adolphe Rothschild, of Naples. has
closed out his business and retired to Paris
with fortune Of thirty-six millions of dol
lars.
Nelson Andrews of Lyme, y. H., has
raised Durham calf, this season, which,
weighed $50 pounds when five aud one-half
months old.
The importation of thoroughbred horses.
cattle and sheep from Europe to this country
for the past year exceeds in number that of
any former year.
A Washington letter says Mrs. Senator
Bruce is a lovely quadroon, with eyes like a
gazelle, She has a taste for diamonds. which
her husband is able to crafty.
The Hon. T. NJ. Allyn has contracted for
the erection of a chapel to cost $40. 900. at
Spring Grove Cemetery. Hartford, Conn. as
memorial to the Allyn family.
The attempt to introduce Cinnamon As
workmen on Louisiana plantations is said to
be failure, owing to the inability Of the
Chinese to endure the intense heat.
Sir Thomas Heskcth and Lady Hesketh
(nee Sharon sailed for Europe on til Scythia
on Wednesday. Senator Sharon and wife
were at the dock TO take leave of their
daughter.
The Lawrence (Mass.) American SAYS that
a troublesome disease called ''pink eye" and
supposed to be caused by changes in the
temperature is affecting a number of persons
in that city.
Hon. William Walter Phelps has decided
that the depositors of the broken savings
bank in his county in New Jersey who have
one hundred dollars and less deposited be
paid out of his own funds, at cost of twenty
thousand dollars. He had no official con
nection with the bank.