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

Another y Leary walk begins IN Chicago
next Sunday night.
Seven death. from pistol shots recently oc-
CURED within five days at FL Paso. Texas,
The indications are that the rush 10 Long
Branch the coming season will be greater
than ever before.
A Cincinnati lawyer has astonshed even
his brethren by charging $4,000 fee for
collecting S53, 600.
The number of deaths from starv alton and
Of deaths accelerated by privation, in London
during 1850, was lol.
One of the popular New York clergymen
is said To have an income of about five thou
sand dollars year from marriage fees.
A passenger train on the Western Pacific
Monday ran over and killed five children OF
family named Nebas between Hayward :
and San Lorenzo, Cal.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett. it is announced
by The Whitehall Review. is engaged to
marry the daughter of the Prince de Furst-
enberg.
Three Mormon preachers are attracting
widespread attention in Banks county, Ga,
The people are much incensed against them,
although they have made numerous conv crts
among the very iliterate and ignorant.
The mayor and aldermen of Lowell, Mass.
have voted not to issue any liquor licenses
except to druggists. All the liquor stores are
closed and a crusade against the liquor traffic
has commenced.
Ira ID. Sankey spoke and sang at great
meeting in New York on Sunday evening.
He suggested that Mormonism can be most
efiecmally fought by preaching of the gos-
pei among its disciples.
DIR. Kemp. the Young Massachusetts physi-
clan. whose services have been secured for
IL ubx- has a f.I n.
doctor says he could not live on his fees as
there is very little sickness there.
The original of MARY had little lamb, "
was written by Mr.. John Roulstone, of Bus-
ton. son of Col. John Roulstone, the propri-
etnr of popular riding school sixty years
ago. ''Mary. the owner of the lamb, is now
Mrs. Tyler, of Somerville.
The cotton crop in the Province of Behera.
Lower Egypt, is seriously endangered. the
new pumping machinery not having answered
the anticipation, and the dredging of the
canal having been neglected. Four thousand
enforced laborers are now working in the
canal.-N T. Times.
Prince Bismarck while comforting in his
private cabinet with a diplomat happened to
speak of the Earl of Beaconsfeld. and to
show his esteem for the English Conservative
leader said, pointing to the wall'There hangs
right that of nv wife, and on the left there
that Of Lord Beaconsfcld."
4 l0-year-od son of Mr.. y. V. Dewitt Of
Bedford County. Va, was attacked some
weeks since with pain in one of his eyes,
which was pronounced to be neuralgia. Soon
the eve-ball burst and came out of its socket,
and shortly afterward the other eve protrud-
ed, leaving the child blind and in great mis-
erv Death relieved him from these suffer
ncs last Wednesday.
On the occasion of the first appearance OF
Mr. Edwin Booth at the London Lyceum on
the evening of MAY =. as Othello, the house
as packed Immediately after the doors were
opened The audience was a brilliant one
and included Minister Lowell and party
from the United States Legation. The per
formance has excited great interest in the
literary world. and among its well-known
members present were Mr.. Edmund Yates
Mr.. George Augustus Sala and Mr.. Dutton
Cook. The piece was splendidly mounted.
upon their first appearance all three OF the OF
the principal performers, namely, Mr.. Booth
Mr.. Irving and Miss Terry, were greeted
with enthusiastic applause.
A pleasant story of Mrs. Lydia Maria Child
and DR. Holmes is told by the Boston Courier
Mrs Child, it Glanced never met DIR. Holmes
until after the close of the war. The Auto
Gratis attitude toward slavery had seemed tc
her rather lukewarm. and upon that accouan'
she did not warmly admire his earl,
works. One morning at the Radica
Club the hostess introduced DIR
Holmes to Mrs. Child, but the latter either
did not hear or did not notice the name
Passing the pair few moments later, Mrs
Sargent found them both laughing very
heartily Pleased at the establishment Of Sc
jovial a relation between the two authors
she stopped and asked the cause of their mer
riment. Mrs. Child has Just been telling
me, - the Doctor said with great glee, that
she thinks Oliver Wendell Holmes is improv
ing in his later writings. but that she can
admire his early works" We'll" said Mrs
Child. with mingled amusement and pique
''now know who you are. ] certainly shall
not take il back