Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-09
General News.

Harrington, the veteran ventriloquis,, is
dead.
General Shermsn's only son, Thomas, has
just been ordained a Catholic priest.
Young ladies in London now all carry
| canes.
Victor Hugo is suffering from a severe
cold. His friends are uneasy regarding his
| condition.
Miss Olive Gould. for many wears living
with the family of Daniel Webster, died AT
Eliot Me. few davs ago, aged 81 wears.
ID, Il. Locke (Pe;roleum V. Nasby) will
pass the summer in Europe, and will write
letters 10 the Toledo Weekly Blade.
Brush, the inventor of the electric light
could not borrow s. at one period of his
life. He has now an income of 81 900 day.
Senator Edmunds of Vermont has received
and declined four invitations to deliver com
mencement addresses at as many colleges.
No Kerosene lamp should be allowed tn
stand in draught of air. Lack of precas
tion in this regard has just led 10 two funer-
ais in Canada.
The Sacramento (Cal.) Union SAYS ,ha,
the run Of salmon is now verv heavy in the
Sacramento River at that point, and that
from 200 10 | 500 are caught every day.
The Indians near Winnemuca. New, re-
Gently sacrificed squaw upon the grave of
brave whom they were hurying. They say
they did it because she was witch and had
caused the death of four Of five warriors of
the tribe.
Suicides are ON the increase in France.
About a fifth of the victims belong to the ag-
ricutural class, n seventh to the liberal pro-
tessions, while more than half belong 10 the
financial and commercial community.
Mr.. Lowell. United States Minister 10
England. presided AT n dinner of the Literary
Fund in London. "Wednesday night. In pro-
posing the prosperity of the Fund he said ::
"Whatever advance science might make,
imaginative prose and poetic literature would
| always concurrenily exist" One hundred
and fifty guests were present, including Lord
Derby Lord Coeride. Sir Garnet Wolselcy
and Viscount Enfield.
Prof. Proctor. who expects the comet of
1872 to reappear next July. coming into per-
ilous proximity TO the earth, was not restrain
ed by fear of such a catastrophe from taking
unto himself wife Wednesday, MAY 4th
His marriage to Mrs. Sallie ID. Crowley, of
st. Joseph, indicates that his alarming pre-
diction may have been ~ signed for sensation
al effect in his lectures, unless he has con-
cludcd it is best to eat drink. and get married.
for next July we die. Prof Proctor takes de-
light and many dollars by his speculation as
to the fate of the earth. In his forcbodngs
for the summer he has the earnest sympathy
Of Mother Shipton, but not much support
from astronomers.
The conceit and sw fitness of college stu
dents to form and pass hastv judgment is well
illustrated in the present disorganizcd condi-
tion of affairs in the University in the City of
New York. One of the ''literary societies of
the collcgc--perhaps the same one which re-
Gently locked its rivals in another ass ociation
into their lodge room in retaliation for de-
feat in dcbate-has passed resolution de-
nouncing Chancellor Crosby and declaring
him unworthy to hold his position. This they
publicly posted, although the man they criti-
cised has been connected with the institution
nearly half century, and has at least some
proper ideas about the relations of students to
faculty which these Young critics seem TO
have no notion of-BoSton Journal