Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-05-07
Personal.

| The entire income of General Grant is said
to be $4,000 a year.
Senator Blair has decided to change his
| residence from Plymouth to Manchester, n.
| II.
Hon. Robert C. Winthrop will enter upon
| the sevnty fifth year of his age, next Thurs
| day.
| DR.. Calvin E. Stowe and Mrs. Harriet
| Beecher Stowe, his wife, have returned to
Hartford from their Florida winter home.
| Green B. Raum during the period of his
public service collected $3.50, ,000. 900 for the
| Government.
| Mr.. George Bancroft, the historion, is in
his eightv-third year. He loves roses. He
loves also to ride horseback. He sits erect
and enjoys the motion of the thoroughbred.
Edwin Booth is so popular in Berlin that
the gentlemen kiss him, and that in spite of
his warning to "beware of paint" He also
said that If that sort of thing was to go on,
they must make way for the ladies'
! Alice F. White, the daughter Of the wealth
lest farmer in Boylston, Mass, and young
lady of refinement and education, has mar
ried colored man who formerly worked as
a farm laborer for her father, after three
years clandestine courtshp.
| Governor Butler and Secretary Chandler
are members of a syndicate which has OBJ
tained control of the Great Falls Manufactur-
ing Company on the Potomac, and which
proposes, it is said, to build up great man
| ufacturing town there.
| The Hon. Thomas w. Palmer, Michigan's
new United States Senator, is said by Mchi-
gan politicians of experience to be cultivated
and refined gentleman, who will make one of
| the ab1est representatives that State has ever
sent to Washington.
John II. Parnell, brother of the famous
| Irish leader; owns the largest peach farm in
| the world, about six miles below West Point.
Ga. There are l25, 900 peach trees on it, be-
| side large number of other kinds of fruit
trees. They cover 700 acres. Mr.. Parnell
| has planted 500 acres of young trees this
| year, and reports his business paying one
Mrs. Julia l.. Gardner is the richest woman
| in Boston, being rated at 81 ,293, 800. Mrs.
| S. o. Brooks, with 81 ,034 800, comes next,
Mrs. Gardner Brewer, with $937 500, rank
| ing third. There are four others, each worth
over 100000; eight others rated at over
| $500, 900 each; ten more worth 5000 or
over each; eighteen others rated at over
$50, 900 apiece. and twenty-six more whose
possessions amount to Sl00, 900 or over.
Queen Victoria's birthday, on the Path,
will be celebrated on that day throughout
| Great Britain, except in London, where it
will be observed on the 26th. The London
tuis all arrange
ment, as it will enable loyal subjects to Gel
| ebrate the day twice. while Mr.. Bradlaugh,
Mr. Laboucbere and others of their way of
| thinking. can avoid the celebration altogether
| by spending the oath in London and the 26th
in the country.
The Crown Prince Of Germany is an earnest
| Freemason, and recently delivered an ad-
| dress before the Royal York Lodge in Berlin,
which caused great sensation and drew forth
much comment. The burden Of his remarks
was that Freemasons should be more pro-
gressive, and that instead of clinging to old
traditions, whose only Importance is their
antiquity, they should distinguish themselves
by being tire foremost rank of seekers after
new and living truths.
Harvard College is so much in the habit of
comforting an LII. d. on the governors Of
Massachusetts, that the weIghty question now
comes up whether it will do so with Governor
Butler, who probably will be apt to resent
il il he is made an exception. But the Bos-
ton Advertiser intimates that the Harvard au.
thorities will meet the difficulty BY a lofty
disdain of any attempt to review the action OF
the people in electipg Butler, and continue to
bestow the honor on the Office rather than the
man, uninfuenced by personal or political
prejudices. And if that is all the degree i'm
| plies 81 let it slide