Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-06-15
Personal.

Judge Walton, Congressman Dingley.
Mayors Garcelon and Woodman. J. B. Cot
ton, esq, and j. b. Straw, esq, of Lewiston,
are on tour of observation through the
lakes.
Admiral John Randolph Tucker, formerly
of the Confederate and more recently of the
Peruvian navy, dropped dead at his residence
in Petersburg, Va, Tuesday night. He
was seventy-two years old.
John Browns old wagon, in which he car
ried runaway negroes from Missouri, and
which carried arms for his men at Harper's
Ferry now belongs to II. S. Fairall of Iowa
City, Iowa.
An Indiana paper saws that Pension Com
missioner Dudley will be the Republican
candidate for Governor in that State in 1854.
1t also claims that he will be strong candi
date, because Democrats who were in
the army will vote for him.
H. NJ. Britain, for the last three years
General Superintedent of the New York,
Susquehanna and Western railroad, and pre-
viously occupying a similar position upon
the New York and New England railroad,
has accepted the office of General Manager
of the Rome, Watertowu and Ogdensburg.
Next Sunday will be the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the visit of President Jackson and
Vice President Van Buren to Hartford. The
occasion will be celebrated on Saturday with
a parade and banquet given by the Governors
Foot Guard to Major Calvin Day who on
that memorable day in 1885 first appeared in
command of the Guard.
Pres ident Arthur's state of health. accord
ing to The Hartford Times, causes his friends
some alarm He is resolved now to take u
good rest at the Soldiers Home, not transact
ing any business that can possibly be avoid
ed. About July 10 he will go to Newport
for short time. and then on a fishing excur-
sion on the coast of Maine. In August he is
thinking of a trip to the Yosemite Valley.
VIM. DeeriBg. Esq, a native of south
Paris. and formerly of the firm of Deering,
Mlliken & Co. Portland, is manufacturing
agricultural machinery in Chicago. In antic-
ipation of the new Canadian tariff be took
into Manitoba just before the tariff took effect,
an express freight-train of thirty six cars all
| loaded with his machines. Mr.. Deering is
one of the largest manufacturers of farm ma
chinery in the country.
Senator Justin S. Morrill,. s'tbe father of
the tariff" lives at Strafford one Of the quiet
est and sleepiest and most out-of- the.way
villages in the Green Mountain State. With
| al it is a>place of great pastoral beauty.
| The distinguished statesman lives in hand
some house surrounded by lawns and groves
| of elms and naples. Within is one of the
finest private libraries in New England,
| and in the hallway hangs life-sized portrait
of Senator morrill, at fifty-six years of age
seventeen years ago.
The Hon. c. G. Williams, chairman of the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs in the
las tCongress, and for many years Repre-
sentative from Watertown. Oak, where he is
| in charge of the United States Land Office.
| Of his surroundings there he writes: 1.-THE
society, dress, and accomplishments of the
people here surprise US all. In fact society
is made up largely of class of people who
have brought with them from the old cities OF
the East not only their clothes and furniture,
but many refining influences. The people are
young and enterprising; there is activity
opportunity, and hope, and these make life
agreeable Railroads have revolutiopized
pioneering and there is more advance in one
year under the new methods then in FIVE unde,
old do not think people have made any
mistake As TO Dakota"