Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-20
General News.

The ice merchants take it cool this win
One hundred thousand dogs inhabit Con-
stantinople.
The weather is served out TO us now adays
in no summary manner.
Chicago sent to Europe 81 200, 600 worth
of wild game in 1880.
The total cost of the new capitol at Hart
ford was S2,JS5. .55i
Col. Ingersoll will visit Australia and lee
turc there.
Gen. Grant has ordered his cottage Mt Long
Branch repaired for occupancy next summer
This has been the mildest winter known in
the South of England for twenty five years.
Sir John Mcdonald of Canada. celebrated
his sixty sixth birthday on the 18th inst.
Latest advces from Sitting Bulls camp
indicate that he IS willing to surrender peace
ably.
The track layers on the New York and
New England railroad have reached Brew
sters. n. Y.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle calls the
Presidency of the United States the highest
position to be attained by man.
An Ohio newspaper refers to George Eliot
as the author of "Ilelens Babies such is
fame.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons the actress, was thrown
from sleigh and painfully injuredat Young
town, O., recently.
1t cost Senators Sharon and Jones 81 ,620
recently to ride in special car from San
Francisco to New York
Professor Huxley has been appointed In
spector General of the English Fisheries, to
succeed the late Francis r. Buckland.
A child in Geneva, y. Y, four weeks old,
weighs only two pounds, and its Irish father
is very proud Of it.
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the South" Missouri, Texas and Tennessee
now exceed it in population.
The ''state-room car is the latest. The
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road is
building one to cost Sl5,c coo.
There are 40 prisoners in the Connecticut
State Prison serving life sentences, 32 for
murder and for rape.
The employees of the New York Central
number 13, l04, and they draw sc, $50, $40. 40
yearly salary.
The total census figures Of North Carolina
are in Ground numbers" there being Gas, lG4
males and II .s3G females in the State; to-
tai. 100000.
The gray trottng gelding Dan Wood.
owned by Alexander Dearborn, of Boston.
and valued at $4,000, died on Thursday
night last.
The Petersburg (va.) Index-Appeal truly
says that. for poor men or rich men, blacks
or whites, this is the hardest of countries to
emigrate from.
There are two members of the Marcy ave-
nne Baptist church, Brooklyn, who fought
at Waterloo. one nnder Napoleon and the
other under Wellington.
Josephine Iturbide, daughter of the for
mer Mexican Emperor, is to receive from the
Republican government pension Of $40, 1000
year.
The governor of Navada says in his annual
message that the State is on the verge of
bankruptcy, because of the sweeping reduc-
ton of taxes, two years ago.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin says that
young partner in manufacturing firm in
that city has been induced to withdraw there
from and form a connection with Boston
banking firm by a guaranteed yearly income
of s75, 200.
The largest order for locomotives in one
block ever placed in this country has just
been received by the Baldwin Locomotive
Works. 1t comes from the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad Company, aud calls for one
hundred and forty-four locomotives, part of
which number will be delivered next fall and
the remainder during the following winter.
The cost Of the IA locomotives will aggre-
gate something over 1000, 900, or about
81, 900 apiece, and with the present force en-
ployed in the works 2,700 men-it would
take about three months time, provided there
was no interruption. before the engines
could be made ready for shipment.