Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-05-06
General News.

New York's anniversary week will begin
next Sunday.
Mary Anderson will soon go 10 her sum
mer home at Long Branch.
Henry Ward Beecher visited President
Garfield on Tuesday.
Secretary Blaine expects TO spend por-
tion of the summer at Blue Lick Springs.
An effort is To be made To get Mr.. Irving
to come TO this country and play in GENUINE
ton with Edwin Booth.
II is said that the Standard Oil Company
owes the State of Pennsylvania S3.li4, ,s.3
for taxes unpaid for eight years.
Steamships Buenos Ayrean and Polyncsian
have brought 500 British immigrants 10 Mon
treal en- route 10 the West.
The United States has more miles of tele-
graph line than any other country in the
world
The public schools of Georgia in 1850 con
tanned about l5u. .0oo white pupils and st, 900
colorcd-a gain of lo.oh over the previous
year.
A San Francisco Gal. despatch states
that small pox has been prevailing among the
Indians in the neighboring mountains. There
are also several cases in Virginia City, New.
1t has been decided bv high authority that
(Mount) Desert should be pronounced with
the accent on the first syllable Boston
Journal.
The death of Fannie J. Banchett aged "A i.
from lead poisoning, caused by the use of
cosmetics, was reported in New York on
Tuesday.
Mr.. Cyrus W. Field and his wife are eN-
pected to arrive at New York upon the steam
er Britannia about Nav 10. His tour round
the world has been cut short on account of
the prolonged illness of bis wife.
When Abraham Lincoln was asasssinat ed
Queen Victoria wrote four-pagc letter TO
Mrs. Lincoln. II was the unrestrained out
pouring of sympathy from full heart. II has
never been published, as the Lincoln family
regarded it as violation of proprietv to do so.
Prof. Proctor, the English astronomer. and
Mrs. Sallie ID. Crowley of St. Joseph Mo-,
were married at Christ Episcopal Church.
Boston, Tuesday afternoon. The bride is
the niece of General JEFF Thompson of Con-
federate fame.
The relics of Charlemagnc at Aix-la-
Chapelle will be exhibited in July for the
benefit of the faithful. Every seven years
these souvenirs of the great Emperor are
publicly exposed in the cathedral. and devo-
tees flock to the old town by thousands.
Many colored people have recently been
ku-Kluxed in Franklin county, Virginia.
Some have been whipped others have been
robbed, and still others have been driven out
of the neghborhood. The country is noted
for its Illicit distillcres. .-B0sfoa Trdreiier
1t is said on good authority that an enter
prising English capitalist, now on a visit to
Halifax. \. s. is negotiating for 5000 acres
of the famous Cumberland and Westmoreland
marsh land for cattle ranch. to Craze be-
tween 5000 and 1000 head in one herd for the
English market.
Actors are, as a general rule, a loDg-lived
race. This is owing, in all probability, to
the fact that the profession involves that com
bination of mental with bodily activity which
the personal experience of good many of us
tions Of health and happiness Boston Jour
noi
The annual meeting of the Petroleum Ex-
change was. held in New York on Tuesday
The average daily production during the past
year was 5000 barrels. A stock Of 2l 900
900 barrels was held in pipe lines, and ,OOO.-
900 barrels at the wells, in private tanks and
refinerles. The estimated average daily CON
sumption of crude oil throughout the world
was - 900 barrels.
During the year ls73-s0 Galveston, Texas,
received 4s0, ,352 bales of cotton. or almost
one-tenth of the total crop of the United
States, making her. we believe. the third port
for that staple in this country. For some wears
with scarcely an exception. Texas cotton is the
first in the market In considering the i'm
mense WELD Of this product in the Lone Star
State, it should he borne in mind that about
80 years ago the annual harvest would hard
ly roach cs DD0 hales