Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-06-13
Personal.

Ex-Speaker Randall, when at his cottage
home in summer, drinks milk, goes to bed at
9 and rises at g.
| John Bright, "alleged inventor Of a cele-
brated disease Of the kidneys" is the way an
Omaha paper speaks of the English Quaker
| statesman.
A meeting of the contributors to the Port
| land Transcript is to be held in that city
| July lth and 18th The exercises will in
clude dinner and sail among the islands
Friday afternoon John C. Friend of Etna,
who was arrested for frauds on the pension
| bureau, died suddenly on a ferry boat between n
| Brewer and Bangor, of heart disease.
King Alfonso, of Spain, wants all the ma
| tons to take parts in grand celebration in
Spain of the Columbian discovery of Amer
| ica, and not to hold the celebration in Italy
or America.
The tallest man in Massachusetts, is said to
| be Charles II. Holmes, Esq, of Topsfield
whose height is 6 feet inches. He is a son
of John Holmes, for many years a distin-
gushed Senator from Maine.
| Senator Don Cameron has been well re-
ceived in London society. Minister Lowell
gives Mr.. and Mrs. Cameron dinner on
Wednesday of this week, at which Mr.. Glad
stone and other notables will be present.
| 1t is stated that President Arthur for some
| time past has been giving close attention to
the question of consolidating internal rev.
| enue districts. He viii dispose of the mat
ter before the first of July.
Rev. G. A. Hayden has been designated to
preach the occasional sermon at the Universa-
| list State Convention at Dexter, the last week
in Jane, and Rev Henry Blanchard, Gov.
Perham and others will speak on Education. -
Mr.. and Mrs John II. Bryant celebrated
| their golded weddeing in Princeton. Illinois,
/ lnsf vroaE ln1 Uue ATTENDING Kind I'd
came from DIR. Holmes. Rev. Mr.. Collyer,
Mr. Whittier and others. Mr.. Bryant is a
brother of the late William Cullen Bryant,
the poet.
| President Chamberlain has fully recovered
from the effects Of his journey from Boston
| to Brunswick. The dangerous wound he
| considers fully healed. He will not lecture
again before the present senior class, but will
attend to some of the making up to be done
by several members.
| Nine. Annie Louise Cary has refused an
offer of $1,000 to sing at the first Brooklyn
Philharmonic concert. Excepting last win
ter, Nine. Cary has sung at these concerts
for twe enty years, and the Brooklyn public is
urgent. especially since her voice is known to
| be in superb form.
| .iCamp meeting John Allen" of Farming
ton is at the Lake Walden, Mass, holiness
convention, and preached there recently.
Father Allen was eighty-eight years old in
March, and this is the 333 camp-meeting
which he has visited within the past 5s years.
| The annual commencement of Columbian
University, Washington, d. c., occurred
June 18th. Among the graduates, with
the degree of LII. B., we notice William II.
Smiley, Maine, our Washington correspon-
dent, and also graduate Of the Journal COM
posing room.-Leciston Journal.
Gen. Sherman attends even amateur per-
formances in the Washington theatres, and
when good point il made he boyishly leans
over the cushioned edge Of his box and