Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-25
General News.

General News.
Five steamers from Europe landed 5s75
emigrants in New York city on Tuesday.
| The deposits in the savings banks of Yer
mont have increased S66o.145 in the past
| three months. and amount to $40. .292, io1.
\ census of Cuba Just completed. shows Il
white population of 9so.0oo. a colored pop
ulation OF 49,, 900 and Chinese $4,000.
The Harvard bvcrseers say they have not
had any other name under consideration for
the place offered to and declined hv Phillips
Brooks.
A new mammoth moth. measuring II inch
es from tip To tip of wings and displaying the
| richest solferino and other tints, was recently
discoy cred at New Orleans.
Scarlet fever diptheria and measles are
prevailing to such fearful extent in New
Bridgton, Pa. that the public schools have
| been closed.
The sum of Sl3.0oo has been sent from
Boston within the past eight DAYS TO Patrick
Egan. treasurer of the Irish land league. in
| aid OF the cause of the league.
The report of the New York city health
board, on Tuesday, showed that there were
l2l smallpox patients at present in the hos
pital, an increase for the week of II and l03
sufferers from typhus fever, an increase of t..
The fatal sickness among the Chinese en-
ploved on the Canada Pacific Railway in
British Columbia, it Is stated, is caused by
the victims coming in contact with poisoned
| oak. which abounds in that section.
Thirty German immigrants who arrived at
Savannah. Ga. last week. intending To settle
in that State, were entertained at the public
expense and welcomed in a speech in their
| own language.
Ivan Turgeneff. the Russian novelist, is a
persistent traveller, and has made studies for
his books all over Europe. lie is now sixty
two years old. He prefers Paris of all places
for home.
When the Austrian Empress goes to Eng
land or Ireland she carries her own bed with
her--a plain little bed with an extremely
hard mattress. Her own room is always ar
ranged in so plain and simple manner that
it looks almost conventual.
The man who frightened lady to death in
Baltimore last Wednesday by forcing his way
into her house has been discharged upon pay
ing fine of 95. II was found that he
| could not be held crilninally responsible for
her death.
Conductor, why didn't you wake me up
when asked you: am miles beyond my
station Conductor Il did try. but all
| could get out of YOU was, All right, Maria ;
get the children their breakfast. and I'll be
down in a minute.
The farmers of Carson Valley, Nevada. are
in quandarv When they began to plow
they tnrned up whole beds of grasshoppers
II they cultivate crops they will he eaten by
the grasshoppers, and if they do not plant
they will have no crops
The Boston Traveller says: \ number of
boys who were playing together on Readvilc
| street, Hyde Park, about o'clock Thursday
evening, were fired at by one Of two men
l,n .aJ thnr nd of ti, h,,,S IN
the thigh. The boy. had called out to the
men as they passed that they had dropped
something whereupon the shot was fired.
Mr.. Richard Grant White, in an article in
the Atlantic saws that about The most anaz-
| ing piece of paper that he ever looked upon
was the business card of an English hang
man. which read as follows: civilian
Marley, Executioner. No. l2--- street. Bris-
| tol. y. B.-ENecufions attended to with
promptness and despatch
| Onc of the large peach growers in Worces-
ter county, Md, is hopeful of good crop the
coming season. He saws that one good bud
out of five i all that is needed to make a
good peach crop, and samples from his or
chard sho five good buds out of eight The
pear. apple and cherry trees have not been
hurt at all.
Several specimens OF fossil woods and
| Ignite have been found at depth of I9l feet
| below the surface in boring an artesian we'll
| at Galveston. Texas. Above these were 81
feet of quicksand and I35 feet of solid blue
clay The contractor also asserts that a CON
siderable quantity of bones and shell have
been drawn out of the well, from what depth
is not stated.
| The experiment of lighting the city of Ak
ron ohio, with electricity was successfully
tested on the night of the 9Th inst. Lamps
were placed on high towers at two stations.
and brilliant light was produced, illumiD-
ating an area fully mile in diameter The
towers about four-fifths Of mile apart.
and each has four lamps. severally of 1000
candle power.
ship who had gone West to make a home for
his Birdie wrote to her: 1--WE got the
| finest quarter section of land ] ever put my
l foot down on Birdie" wrote back 'Sup.
pose YOU bus another quarter section, John
! that you can have lawn around your foot.
John made home, but Birdie never wa.
| the mistress Of it.-Hopat Pleasant Pa
I. Ne,rs
| The day before the burning Of the Nice
opera house some one remarked to the Mayor
Of that city that the old building was sadly in
need Of repairs. nothing having been done tn
it in sixty wears. "Ol. yes" he answered
1 Il KNOW li. but the season is over. tncre j.
only one more representation TO be given
and then, during the summer months, | will,
see to IL The evening of the next day wit
messed the awful tragedy that put the building
forever out of the reach Of repairs.
4 college journal discovers that base ball
was known to Shakespeare, witness the
following quotations Nov let's have .
catch. Merry Wives: ''And so shall
catch the fy"-Henrv v; 81 will run nd
base"-Merry Wives: AFTER bis scores
Ais Well s'Have you scored me?"-Othello
The World is pitch and pay"-Henry "
| These nine men in buckram' ".
'.Where go YOU with bats and clubs"-Corio
lanus; '.Let US see you in the feld"-Troilu'
and Cressida; 81 will fear to catch7-Timon
"More like to run the country base'-Cym
beline.