Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-19
General News.

| Four prisoners dug out of the Rock Island
Jail, Monday, stole handcar an escaped.
The total number of killed and wounded
by the recent cyclone at McAllister, Indian
Territory, foots up l20.
Eighty jurors summoned to appear in the
Marine Court. New York, were fined $3.50
each for non attendance.
| The sum Of 81, ,667 81 has been received by
| the Philadelphia Press for Betty and the
baby" and has been turned o,er to her.
The house in Boston in which Wendell
Phillips has lived for forty years is to be de-
molished this week.
| Six thousand Swedish and Norwegian emf
grants passed through Hull, England, on
| Sunday and Monday on their way to America :.
The Hon. George Bancroft is to preside at
| the centennial anniversary celebration of
Phillips Academy. at Exeter, N. H., next
| month.
Geringer and Nitsche. two of those thought
| to be responsible for the Ring Theatre fire
| in Vienna. have been sentenced to fast one
| day in each month.
fire on the pine plains in the southeastern
part of Concord, n. H., on Tuesday, burned
over several thousand acres of timber AN
young growth land doing great damage.
London dispatch of the 18th saws; Mr..
Lowell, the United States minister, to-day
opened the Garfield House Home for working
| girls on Brixton road.
| The Superintendent of the Railway Mail
Service has decided that mustard -four is in
furious to other mail matter, and is therefore
unmalable.
| The Spanish Minister to Washington will
| spend the summer with his family mt Saratoga
but will not mingle in society there, Madame
Barca being in mourning for the death of her
| mother.
| 1t is announced that a loan of 81, ,0OO, 900
has been negotiated in New York for the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
| Company. The negotiation of this loan is
considered important, as it will reduce ship
| ments of gold from the United States.
| decree has been filed in the United
| States Circuit Court. affirming the validity
| of the Blue Ridge scrip issued by the State
of South Carolina under the act of March 9,
| 1873, in exchange for certain bonds Of the
Blue Ridge Railway indorsed by the State.
| The workmen at the Sycamore Mill in Fall
River returned to work Monday morning.
| The manufacturers, at an interview with the
| spinners Saturday, conceded To a certain ex-
| tent to the demands of the operatives. The
help appear well satisfied with the result.
| bill before the Albany legislature, requir-
ing telegraph and telephone companies to put
their wires under ground within two years,
| amended so that it applies only to New York
city and Brooklyn, has been ordered to
| third reading.
The Longfellow Memorial Association has
| issned q circular asking contributions of one
dollar each for the purpose of permanently
preserving the late residence Of the poet and
erecting an enduring memorial to his fame
| on the grounds Of his late residence. Contri-
buttons should be sent to John Bartlett
| treasurer, box 1890. Boston.
The Cincinnati Commercial tells the (per-
haps NJ big story Of a big walnut tree. In
| 1864 an Indiana man. as the story runs.
bought the tree for 81, and he subsequently
| sold it for $50. The buyer sold It to Gin
| cinnati lumber-dealer for 800. The Cincin-
natl dealer sold it to New Yorker for S2, 200,
and he cut it up into veneering which he sold
| for S27 900.
colored man having been appointed to
| the position of letter carrier in the Toronto
post-o Office, the other letter carriers, to the
number of fifty, refused to work if the col
ored man was taken on the force. The post
master assigned him temporary duty inside
until the matter is settled. This is the first
| appointment there of a colorcd man to the
Civil Service