Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-25
NO. 81.
Dailu kennetrr journal.
General News.

Staten Island Sound is frozen over.
Plumbago is now found in Georgia.
Wisconsin has 3,l33 miles of railroad.
Prussia can boast of ,l95 millionaires.
Jute is being raised in North Carolina.
A three-million dollar hotel is to be built
in Montreal.
Neither of Governor Cornclrs messages
contained an Il"
An Anglo-Spsnish publication is contem-
plated at Boston.
London had %, ,262 paupers in the third
week of December last.
Boston annually spends 81 per capita tor
educational purposes.
II will cost Chicago S6l9. Dps. 80 to run her
police department this year.
The San Francisco Board of Trade has q
halfbrecd Indian member.
King Cctywayo, of South Africa. wears
large plaid shawl. but hardly anything else.
Boucicaut proposes to form a training
school for young people desirous of adopting
the stage.
Mississippi is practically free from debt.
except for school fund which cannot be
paid.
DIR. Mary Walkers brother believes her to
be insane. His views are in accord with peo-
Pile in general.
The climate of Colorado is said to be
changing every year This winter there is
good sleighing on the plains.
a Quebec machlnist manufactures lace by
machinery, initiating very closely the genuine
handmade and high-priced article.
When we consider tha, De Lesseps is SEVEN
ty-five years old. his anxiety to get his Pan
anne canal scheme under way is pardonable.
Its reyorted that the three daughters of
Mr.. Evarts are all to he married during the
present year.
n. n & N ~ IL.
is engaged upon work entitled 1.-The Wealth
of the United States
\ Delaware man turned his damp cellar to
good account: in two weeks he raised sixty
quarts of mushrooms that netted seventy cents
a quart.
Mrs. Maria Clifford, who claimed she owned
one quarter of the western half of Coney Is
land. is dead Her heirs will prosecute the
suit with vigor.
Compared with the great nations of Europe,
the United States shows a larger population
than any other except Russia, which has 72,-
600, 900 people.
Mr.. Berghs heart ought to he glad The
grand jury of Essex county, n j., has recon-
mended the establishment of the whipping
post for wife beaters.
The head master of the famous school at
Harrow, England. gets S25, 900 a year.
schoomasters in this country.
Washington Territory can boast of only
5000 Inhabitants, vet hopes to be admitted
to the Union before the close of General Gar
fields administration.
An iron steam Yacht. 90 feet long, an iron
tug of the same length. an iron yacht go feet
long and an iron and steel yacht 46 feet long
are to be built at Buffalo before the opening
of navigation.
A gentleman who borrowed an old pamph-
let of Lowell physician found "A one thousand
dollar bond within its leaves. the doctor hav-
ing placed it there for safe keeping and for
gotten all about it.
William +. Dalrymplc. of the famous grain
farm in Dakota says that the clean profit for
1880 was over S250.00O. He raised more than
half a million bushels of wheat on "a, 1000
acres aud disposed of it in Buffalo at a profit
of fifty cents a bushel.
The $4,000 found on the body of Rev.
John f. Giles, the tramp colporteur found
dead at Niskayuna. n Y, has been paid over
to Mrs. Jane +. Giles Of Michigan, who has
established her identity as his wife
The Boston Transcript, although an anti
prohibition paper is moved TO say :-''Chan-
cellor Crosby has done more to discourage
those who are seeking to influence sons, hus-
bands and brothers to the end that they and
theirs may be saved from sorrow, disgrace
and ruin, than all the rumshops in Boston"
Gov. Roberts. of Texas, opposes the plan
of the general Government taking exclusive
control Of the exterior quarantine operations.
In special Message to the Legislature he
suggests that it make large appropriation
(say land donation of 900, 900 acres) TO
carry out the States quarantine laws, and
recommends the erection Of quarantine estab-
lshments at Sabine Pass, Galveston Pass,
Pass Cavallo, the mouth of the Brazos, Ark
ansas Pass, and the Pass of Brazos Santiago.
With this system the Tfxas seapor's, he
thinks, could be kept open to brazilian and
Cuban trade throuhout the year, instead Of
being closed up for six mouths out Of twelve