Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-28

tnlee le4as counties, nothing OF r1ateria
was brought out. The hearing will probabl
close tomorrow.
The river and harbor bill was complete,
today and will be reported to the Hous
Thursday. The aggregates are SIS. .432, 1s5
1t is the largest bill of the kind yet brough
in.
Following are the New England items il
the river and harbor bill as finally agreed up
on by the committee on rivers and harbor.
today. Appropriations for continuing i'm
provements
Observation-Disclosures, Boston, SIPS,
600; Lynn. $4,000; Nantucket, $50, 900
Newburyport, s25.000; Plymouth, So 900
Provincetown, $1,000; Scituate, 5000
Wareham, $4,000; bingham, s5 200; Hyan
mis-, $4,000; Sandy Bay, 100000: River
Ipswich, 81 500.
Rhode Isiand-Harbors, Block Islans
breakwater. $4,000; Newport, $4,000
Pawtucket, S25 ,o00 Providence and Nara
gansett Bay, $50, 900. Rivers, Providence
Green Jacket Shoal, $50 600: Pawcatuek
/ $4,000.
Maine-Harbor, Rockland $50 900; Sant
Breakwater, sl2, 500; York. $4,000; Port
land, S25, 900 Back Cove, 5000 Rivers
Lubec Channel, $4,000; Penobscot, Sl0,
900; Narraguagus. $40 0000; Saw, $4,000.
New ampshire-Harbors, Portsmouth
| $4,000 Little Harbor, $4,000. River
Cocheco, $1,000.
! Vermont-Harbcrs, Burlington. S25 900
{ Gordon's Landing, $4,000. River, Otter
/ Creek, 200.
! Connectieut-Harbors, Bridgeport, Slo,-
/ 900; Black Rock, $4,000; New Haven
breakwa ater, S75 200; New Haven, SIS 900
Norwalk, $1,000; Stonington, IS 900; STAN
! ford, S. ,000. Rivers, Connecticut, below
Hartford, $4,000; Housatonic.s - SIS, 900
| Thames, S25, 900.
! Appropriations for new projects Massa-
Observation-Disclosures, 50 500; Winthrop,
81 900; Powow, $1,000 Wellfeet, 81 900 {;
New Bedford $4,000; Vineyard Haven,
S25 1000; Gloucester, $4,000. Connecti-
cut-Five-Mile river, $1,000. Maine
! Bay Adrice river S3 900; Rockport harbor,
10000; Camden harbor, So 900; Kennebec
river, $4,000.
The House military committee today Or
dered favorable on the bill TO grant to the
York, Harbor & Beach railroad the right of
way through Fort McGary reservation, Me.
Notes
The International Council of Women re-
sumed its sessions Tuesday morning. Mrs
iidiiiet C ~ oudituCh, plesiueHt VI the va
tional Woman's Suffrage Association for
Massachusetts presided. A large and in
terested audience was present. A paper was
read by Mrs. McNeir, who was followed by
Isabella Bagelot, director of prison reform
work of st. Lazaire, Paris. Her paper was
upon the work of the Society over which she
presides Ednah ID. Cheney of Boston,
president of the New England Hospital for
women and children read paper on the sub
ject Hospitals, Managed by and for Wo-
NEIL" Interesting papers were also read by
Harriet f. Morris of Brooklyn, on mission
AIRY eork Amelia S. Quinton, work and OBJ
jects of the Womens' Indian Association,
and Clara A. Barton on the Red Cross So
ciety.
Mrs. Emily s. Richards, representing the
womens associations of Utah, made report
describing the relief societies and other Or
ganizations among the women of Utah.
Francis f. willard, president of the w. c.
I. u, spoke at the evening session on wom-
and temperance. Hannah Whithall
Smith, American secretary of the Worlds
Womans Christian Temperance Union, fol
lowed with an address upon The latest evo-
luton of the W. C.. T. L." Mrs. Bessie
Starr keefe, fraternal delegate of the To-
ronto W. c. +. IT,, reviewed the temperance
movement in Canada. Anna Gordon spoke
upon chow to reach children" Frances
+. NJ. Harper, (colored,) of Washington, on
what shall be done with the neglected rich"
Miss Ilooper's idea was that while great at
tenton is paid to those in poor houses and
jails too little attention is paid to saving the
souls of the rich, whom she intimated were
travelling fast on the road to perdition.
The session closed with addresses by DIR.
Mary Weeks Burnett, delegate to the Ma
tional temperance hospital and medical col
lege association on THE Temperance Hos
pitals" by Susan II. Barney. National Su
perintendent of Prison Work of the w. c.
Z, L. on Police Matrons.'
The Senate confirmed the appointment of
Warren Clark as post master at Concord, n.
II.
The funeral of the late Chief Justice will
begin this noon in the hall of the House of
Representatives. The seats on the floor
will be assigned to the family aud mourners,
to the President and wife, 10 supreme court
justices and families, to members of the
several committees, to members of the cab
met and families and to diplomatic corps
Generals of the army aud other leading men.
Reserved galleries will be held for the fam
lies of Senators and Representatives. The
remains will not lie in state as the family de-
sires that the funeral ceremonies be as sim
pie as possible. The body will be accOmpan-
led to the House by supreme court justices,
who will be honorary pail bearers, and about
twenty-tiv intimate friends of the family
The supreme court messengers will act
body bearers at the close of the funeral GER
emonies, which will be conducted by Bishop
Paret. The remains will be conveyed to the
Baltimore & Potomac railroad station
and will leave at two o'clock this afternoon
by special train on the Pennsylvania X. R,
for Toledo. All the justices of the supreme
court except Bradley and Mat
thews and the committees of the Senate and
House will accompany the remains to Tole-
do where they are expected to arrive Thurs
day forenoon at 10 o'clock. The remains
will be conveyed to Trinity Church. Toledo,
aud will remain there several hours to allow
the people at Judge Waites old home and
those who may come from the surrounding
country to see his face before the body is
inferred. The funeral services which will
be simple, will be held at the church at z.
NJ. At a special meeting of the Regents of
Smithsonian Institution of which the late
chief justice was chancellor, today series
of appropriate resolutions was adopted, and
it was decided that the Secretary and any
members of the board who could accompany
the remains to Toledo, would constitute a
committee TO represent the Regents at the
funeral. The executive departments and
district Offices of the Smithsonian Institution,
and national museum will be closed during
the entire day.