Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-10
General News.


the arm. to prevent desertion.
Rowell, the pedestrian, has retired with
$50. 900.
Ex-Secretary Boutwell, has entered law
firm in Boston.
1t is expected that King Kalakaua will be
in this country in February next.
1t is claimed that London every year
spends $3.50, 900 for the water in the milk
A Boston grocer left $40 annually by will
for the support of his dog,
Russia has 100 torpedo boats Of the first
class; France has 80, and England 10.
The South seems to be in danger of becom-
ing not only solid but concealed.
Gen. Walker calculates that the population
Of the United States in 1890 will be ca ,467,-
900.
The Board Of Health physicians of New
York vaccinated $4,000 persons the past
year.
The messengers Of the New York District
Telegraph Company delivered ~ 900 pack
ages Christmas eve.
Secretary Of State William NJ. Evarts,
will give weekly soirees during the coming
session in Washington.
Frankfort now like Paris, Dresden, Milan.
Leipsc Brussels and Rome, claims TO have
the finest theatre in Europe.
A railroad is to be built on the ice from Cron-
stadt, Russia, which is located five miles from
the coast, to the mainland.
Tennessee's valuation for assessment this
year is s2ll, 76s 1873, or only about two-thirds
of what it was seven years ago.
Fulton Market in New York is to be taken
down and rebuilt, An appropriation of $50
600 has been made for the purpose.
The new eighty-ton guns on the British
turret-ship Infexible have been tried with
verv satisfactory results.
At least thirty per cent of the pension
claims now being presented are said to be
fraudulent.
Fish Commissioner Parker is stocking the
streams of Navada with catfish from 10 to II
inches long.
Sarah Bernhardt's performance in Baltimore,
on Saturday evening was her fiftieth in this
country. The receipts thus far are reported
to exceed $4,000.
to his house by illness for nearly two months,
and is obliged to have his letters written by
the hands of others.
Undeterred by the dismal failure in Phila-
delphia. friends in Troy Of Francis Murphy.
the temperance lecturer. are endeavoring to
raise money with to buy him a house.
The Boston & Maine. Boston 4 Lowell and
Eastern railroads have entered into mutual
agreement not tie give free passes hereafter
to shippers Of freight.
Mile A. Gibbs, Louisville girl of sweet
sixteen, has just been lift half million dol
lars BY a rich English grand-uncle. She has
been studying for the stage.
Kate Clsxton, the actress, who is known
in private life as Mrs. Charles A. Stevenson,
mourns the loss of her only child. bright
little boy, aged fifteen months. The death
occurred at Albany. this week.
prnt,akl,- ,ftb .,p al I,lo
in the possession of President-elect Garfield is
the diary he has kept for the past twenty
years. 1t is said to be full of vivid details of
war experience and political matters.
The total expenditures upon State charities
in New York last year reached the enormous
sum of eight million dollars. The total
average number of beneficiaries in the insti-
tutions assisted bv the State money was "A,
700. or about $50 apiece.
The business of the Union Stock Yard of
Chicago aggregates Sl39. 200. 900 annually.
The bulk of this is done through the Union
Stock Yard National Bank. As much as
81. 500, 600 has been paid over its counter in
a single dsy. and the deposits in November
last reached S26.oo0,oo0.
Twelve vessels belonging to the Ports
mouth fishing feet have arrived with about
100. 900 pounds of fish. several bringing cod
weighing between IS and 100 pounds. Near
" $50, 600 pounds of fish have been brought
in since the Cd instant. The masters report
extreme cold with q considerable suffering,
The Maverick National Bank of Boston,
issues an annual for the benfit of its depos-
itors and correspondents, which is also of the
greatest interest to all investors in or dispos-
ers of Government Securities, Of whatever
issue or denomination. The Annual is now
ready for delivery, and will be sent free to
any address on application.
The crop of wheat on the Dalrymple farm
in Minnesota, for 1880, was SAT 900 bushels
The San Francico Commercial News thinks
his may do for . small Eastern farm. but
could be regardeias pretty small potatoes for
California II goes on TO say: sDr. Glenn
has already shipped ten large eargoes to Iu-