Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-20
General News.

About 10000 people visit the tomb of Gen
Grant daily.
DR.. Gustavus Seyforth,a noted EgyptolOg-
ist. died in New York on Tuesday.
Victoria Morosini's husband has gone to
work a. conductor Of a street car.
party Of 40 Ohio and Pennsylvania peo-
pie has settled in Brevard County, Ga.
The treasurer's books of the Pennsylvania
| state fair show that the expenses were over
$1,000 more than the receipts
Ii is expected that about 80 cheap gas bills
will be offered in the New York legislature
OF the first days session.
There are &c almshouses in the State of
Pennsylvania, half Of them having depart
ments devoted to the care of insane inmates.
Small pox is on the increase in Prince Ed
ward Island, and it is feared that the disease
cannot long be kept out of Halifax.
w. p. Bend of Chicago. granted his miners
the advance they demanded. The other
Hooking valley mines are idle.
A man named Fuller of Pittsfield, Mass.
supposed to have committed suicide, has
returned home.
Australia is in a bad way financially. The
earnings of railways are small, and trade of
all kinds exceedingly dull.
Fred G. Collenberg, aged %, a mailing
clerk in the Denver, Colorado, postoffice, has
been detected in robbng the mails.
Thousands of Michigan war veterans have
been swindled out of their State bounty by
forg,d assignments.
The Troy Steel Works, after a long siege
Of depression, have again started up on full
time. About 800 hands are benefited.
Mr. Blaine's old Washington house, now
owned by VIM. Travers, was damaged to the
amount of 81 900 by recent fire.
The trustees Of Hamilton college at Utica,
have elected Rev. A. s. Hoyt of Oregon, ILL.,,
to the chair of elocution and English litera-
ture.
William II. Ebert, the counterfeiter, was
sentenced to two years imprisonment in the
Elmira Reformatory, and in addition, to pay
q fine of $50
Mrs. MUatovitch wife of the Servian Min
lister to Great Britain, is an American lady,
She is said to be the author of all the minis
ters State papers.
Tine Dominion government has determined
to prosecute all companies found violating
the law by transacting a general insurance
business without licenses.
The prospects for wheat in Ohio, Michigan.
Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri are
generally favorable. The corn crop is better
than last year, but there is little of the old
crop remaining.
The rope used in hanging Rel has been
destroyed by the deputy sheriff according to
orders, to prevent relic hunters getting hold
of il. II was stout hempen cord five eighths
of an inch in diameter
Dio Eewis says that wearing large, thick,
heavy boots and blue hand knit stockings,
will improve woman's complexion. 1t might
work in Chicago, but pointed toes are where
the shoe pinches in New York
The tax book, says the Albany Ga, Me-
dunn, shows that colored men pay tax on
$50 900 worth Of property in Albany. The
medium does not know single property
owner among them who is frequenter of
bar rooms
The Standard Oil Co. is waging a bitter
war against the old dealers of New York city
with the avowed intention of crushing them
out of existence unless they agree to pur-
chase their oil from no other company than
the Standard
At the annual meeting of the episcopal
church Temperance society in New York on
Tuesday, Bishop Littlejohn delivered an ad-
dress, and the question of forming Met
ropolitan" organization was discussed Sec
rotary Robt Graham presented bill which
he has drawn up to lay before the legislature.
II provides for high license fee of 81 1000
for liquors ard 500 for beer. 1t is intended
to decrease the number of saloons in the
city.
Few people are aware how much bristles
are worth. 1t is stated that common flour
barrel is capable of holding $1,000 worth of
this common article. The long Russia bris-
ties are perhaps the most valuable, being
used in the manufacture of horsebrushes,
which are perhaps the most costly brushes
made 1t may be a matter of surprise to
Il
take a better quality of briste than even
hair-brushes. Many factories for msnufac.
turing brushes are located in and around Bos.
ton, but there are only two or three importers
of bristles, and they are in New York city