Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-19
General News.

There are ll6 stations for evangelical
preaching in Turkey.
There are said to be seven thousand So
caists and nihilists in London.
Chicago is to have a school of cookery,
and great results for the Chicago maidens
are prophesied therefrom.
The English tax on wedding rings produces
an income of one hundred thousand dollars a
year.
A very heavy frost has prevailed over
eastern. northern and western Texas for two
nights past, doing great damage to crops
Mr.. Rutherford B. Hayes. Jr., is engaged
to marry Miss Alice Smith, daughter of Mr..
William Henry Smith of Chicago.
Thrty-two sea lions were sent East from
San Francisco one day last week, consigned
to various geological gardens and menageries.
There are said to be hundreds of thousands
of persons in Ireland who speak the Gaelic
language alone. An attempt is to be made
to establish Gaelic newspaper.
Before marriage she was dear and he was
her treasure; but afterward she became dear
er and he treasurer, and yet they are not
happy.
The Lord Mayor of London opened sub
scription for the relief of sufferers by the
Chic earthquake. Nearly f10.000 for that
purpose was raised in London.
Student fresh from college to conductor
II wish to get on the penultimate car"
Conductor-.'We have no peanut car you
can take the smoker
man was lately whipped at Bristol by
order of the Mayor for stripping threc-yea
old child, leaving it naked, and selling its
clothes.
George William Curtis is to speak before
the Civil Service Reform Associations of
Boston and Cambridge, in the Music Hall on
Thursday evening, April 2Stb, on "The Evil
and the Remedy"
I1oyd's newspaper. very well edited jour
| nal announces this week that its circulation
is 600. 900. This is really 'the largest circu-
| lation in the world" For each issue it uses
$40 miles of paper.-!Saturdoy Budget.
Memorial services at the tomb of Abraham
Lincoln were held at Springfield, Ill. on
Friday morning at 7.30 o'clock. The Gov
| ernor and large number of legislators were
present and participated in the ceremonies.
| Celia Logan has it in for Anna Dickinson.
\ She touches her up in this style: ..No, she
| wants to be an actor and and with the actors
stand; a pair Of tights upon her-Yorick' S
| skull within her hand"
/ The export of linen piece goods from Ire
land in February was 5.059. 700 yards, while
in March it was G,50., 100 yards. being an
increase of 1.7ij,70 yards. or some "a per
cent.
+. Undoubtedly Phillips Brooks is the best
man for the pulpit Of Harvard University il
would be possible TO obtain. The reason is
that he is pre-eminently successful in attract
| ing young men.-Erening Mail.
A colored delegation. headed by Congress
man Smalls and colored bishop from North
Carolina, have visited Aston. y. Y, for the
purpose Of buying 100000 acres Of land
of Mr.. Raleigh Of Philadelphia. They
intend to establish a colony there.
Junge Burbank, of the South Boston Court
is a farmer as well as lawyer. Upon bis
splendid New Hampshire farm-one Of the
best in the State-he has one hundred blood
ed cows. and the butter from his dairy is the
choicest in the markets.
Mr.. Z. f. Chaplin, who graduates at the
Theological Department Of Tufts College ir
June, will probably take the pastoral charge
of the Grove Hall Uniuersalist Society in ths
fall. He has preached there several times
and has made a most favorable impression.
OF Carlyle, in 1868, an American writes II
the Cincinnati Commercial: ''He folded hi,
hands together, placed them on his knees
and with his face cast dovnwards, self-com
lmuned thus: Il do not dislike America