Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-05-23
Personal.

The President is making arrangements to
| take up his residence at the Soldiers Home
| for the summer.
DIR. Samuel w. Jones of Lebanon, Maine,
is preparing the material for history of that
town, which will soon be given to the press.
Whittier will attend the friends yearly
meeting at Portland, Me-. on the sth of next
month. if his health will allow him.
Mr.. Robert Grant, who was class poet at
Harvard ten years ago. will read poem be-
fore the Phi Beta Kappa Society at the next
commencement.
The demand for Mr.. Gladstone's speech on
the affirmation bill is said to be so great that
the Liberal Central Association of London
will issue an edition of l00, 900 copies.
Miss Agnes Brown Begg, niece of the
poet Roberd Burns, died this month at the
Bridge House, Ayr, Scotland, age SO. Her
younger sister survives her.
Governor-elect Hale, of New Hampshire,
has purchased for $4,000 a forty acre tract
of land at Point Shirley, and will spend $780,
900 in building a summer residence there.
George II. Corliss, at whose WORKS in Rhode
Island, the big Centennial engine was built,
is building the engines for the first cotton
mills to be erected in China.
Rev. Mr.. Smith, pastor of the Methodist
church Of Peabody, Mass, was robbed of
about three hundred dollars while in hard
ware store in Maiden, on Thursday noon, of
last week
W. L. Wicks, of California, has offered
$1,000 and twenty acres of land if the Odd
Fellows of that State will raise Sl5, 900 more
and locate the Odd Fellows College and
Home at Pomona, Los Angeles.
Ex-senator Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, is
| still compelled to carry in a sling the arm
which he broke recently by falling dow n
stairs, and on this account does not expect to
| attend the coming State democratic conven-
vention.
The Pope has vouchsafed permission to
Archbishop Spaulding for the erection of a
Catholic university 10 the United States
which will probably be at Milwaukee. and
for which 81, ,00O. 900 have already been SUBJ
| scribed.
The government attorneys in the star route
cases have notified ex-senator Kellogg that
he must make some sort Of reply to the in
dictment against him on or before Tuesday
Of next week. 1t is understood that his law
yers will move to quash the indictment.
Gen. McClellan's friends will utilize the re-
cent soldiers meeting at Washington to bring
| forward their favorite again as a candidate
| for President honors, and Gen. McClellan's
speech is thought by some TO have been in
| line with such movement.
Secretary Folger is reported to have infor-
| nation that the British government has ar
rangements by which paupers are sent to
Belgium and from there shipped to the United
| States. Mr.. Folger thinks existing law does
| not pruvide adequate penalties for bringing
paupers to this country.
| Judge Hoadly, no has aspirations for the
gubernatorial chair of Ohio, and after that
for the presidency, was Republican until
| 1872, when he voted for Greedy; in 1875 he
voted Republican tickets, but in 1876 he came
out for Tilden, and, with the exception Of a
little wobbling in 1879, he has since been a
straight Democrat.
The tomb of Thaddeus Stevens, in Lam
l caster, Penn, 10 in a small corner lot crowd
ed with humble graves. The monument is a
huge block Of Vermont granite, and about il
grow wild roses, wood violets and dandelions
in the rank grass. His former residence 10
now owned by his old colored housekeeper,
and her son occupies part of it a barber
shop.
Senator Anthony has so far recovered that
he eats we'll, sleeps pretty we'll, walks TO his
deck and looks over his papers and dictates
letters which he signs. There are grave
doubts whether he will be able to occupy
his place in the Senate again. Anthony
showed signs dnring the last session of loss
of strength, and of the approach, probably,
Of the illness from which he is now suffering
he slept frequently in his chair.