Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-03

From world 70 luminous world. - far
r s IN the rsrssures o. n the spheres,
And multiply each through endless years;
One minute Of heaven is worth them all.
Moore.
There are 5000 miles of canals in France.
Ex-Secretary Thompson has located in
New York.
There is no doub, Of the death of Victoria.
the Apache chief.
Eight Philadelphians have died during the
year. who left property valued at over half
a million dollars.
Judge A. W. Tourgee is at work in Phila-
delphia, where he is spending the winter,
dramatizing "a Fools Errand."
The military enrolment Of Connecticut
shows that there are in the State 79, 236 citi-
zens fit for military duty.
The first detachment Of engineers and work
men start from Paris, Jan. 9Th, to prepare
for the commencement of the Panama Canal.
Fifteen conductors on a Boston street rail-
road have been discharged for what the Ad
vertiser calls misusing their bell-punches.
John Pope, the artist, died of pneumonia.
after an illness Of a week, on Wednesday
evening, at his residence, No. 236 Fourth
avenue, New York.
Col. Marshall P. Wilder has appointed
Boston as the place of meeting of the Ameri-
next September.
Hon. John c. New, ex-Treasurer of the
United States and candidate for Senator from
Indiana, is in rapidly failing health, his con-
di.ion being such as to alarm his friends.
The proposed visit of Moody and Sankey
to New Orleans will be postponed for some
time on account OF work which they are do
ing in San Francisco.
j. b. Stearns, the English electrician, has
arrived in this country on his way to Mexico
where he will lay an electric cable from the
mouth of the Rio Grande to Vera Cruz.
The Boston division Of the Pullman Palace
Car Company. originally comprising the va
rious lines in Maine, has been consolidated
with the Eastern division of that company.
Mr.. Yung Wing, who has been thirty years
in this country, is the only member OF the
Chinese Legation who has the special per-
mission of his Government to wear the Euro
pean dress.
The orders for steel rails during the past
week in Eastern markets aggregated some
$4,000 tons, of which $4,000 were placed
abroad and the remainder in Pennsylvania
and Western mills: delivery late in 1881 for
home contracts.
The Old Colony Steamboat Company have
contracted with John Roach & Sons to build
them a steamer, to be dOuble-hulled and
double-decked, at cost of nearly 81 100000
She will be one of he fineat steamers af1oat
The printers of the London Times struck
work on the 18th inst. because Mr.. Walters
persists in having the type set by machinery.
He has eleven machines in full work and
AYERS that though the cost is greater the work
is more rapidly done.
The cost to the Odd Fellows of this coun-
try for change of ritual. which goes into
effect Jan, l, is considerable. In eighteen
States II ,049 copies are required. of which
Pennsylvania needs 1850. the largest num-
Der of any State. Massachusetts receives
$50. The cost is sl.5O per volume.
The English publisher of Scribner's Month
" telegraphs for seventeen thousand copies
of the coming Midwinter (February) number,
an advance Of six thousand upon his orders
for the same issue last year. The Midwinter
Scribner will be, as usual with this issue. a
number of especial interest and pictorial
beauty.
The largest sum ever recovered from a
railroad corporation in suit for personal
damages brought by an individual was paid
to Deputy Sheriff Bayley of Boston, Satur-
day 25th ult. bv the Grand Trunk Railway
Company for Mr.. Chas. II. Worthen, who
lost his leg on that road several years ago
The amount was S41 ,557. Gen. Butler and
f. l.. Barney were counsel for Mr.. Worthen
St. Peters Cathedral church. which has
been in progress Of erection in Montreal
nearly ten years, and would have been the
largest church edifice, when finished, accord
ing to design, on this continent, is doomed
to destruction. When almost ready for the
roof, and after hundreds of thousands of dol
lars had been expended, as well as many
lives Of workmen lost in its erection, it is
found that the undertaking is too great. and
it has been determined by the Catholic church
authorities to have the building RACED to the
ground and church of moderate dimensions
erected in the east end of the city, where the
Catholic population resides.