Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-24
NEWS NUGGETS.
Boiled Down Items OF Interest the
World Over.

The last Of New Hampshire's war debt will
be paid Sept. l..
1t is thought that Legitime has met with a
disastrous defeat in Hayti.
The first shipment of the new crop of Tex.
as cotton arrived in Boston Thursday.
The latest reported seizures in Behring
Sea have caused the greatest excitement in
Canada.
General Crook has been ordered to look
after the Colorado Utes, who have been re-
ported on the move.
The rumor that the British Hosiery Com
pany Of Thornton, X. L., was embarrassed is
unfounded.
New York banks mark up the loaning rate
for call money to 81 6 per cent. Stock
market values react.
A professor in the California University is
said to have discovered how to make leather
almost indestructible.
England and Italy are said to have come
to an agreement regarding the balance Of
power in the Mediterranean.
John II. B. Latrobe is said to be the old.
est practising lawyer in the United States.
He is Sc years old, and was admitted to the
bar 65 years ago.
Sir Charles Dixie is engaged upon a new
work. entitled Problems Of Great Britain"
The Swedish composer. Ivar Hallstrom.
has Just completed an opera, "Nesga," the
libretto Of which is by Queen Elizabeth of
Roumania.
Mr.. Edison, the famous American electri-
clan. will visit the Krupp works at Essen,
Germany, before the termination of his visit.
He will return to America by way of Eng
land
Robert Louis Stevenson was last heard
from in the Gilbert islands in the South seas.
He is on board his schooner Equator, and
has picked up not only his health, but much
good material for book.
President Harrison has leased his house in
indianapolis for three years.
Mr.. Gladstone's library at Hawarden 10
one Of the finest private libraries in England.
1t has more than 10000 volumns. Mr..
Gladstone loans his books out to any one in
the neishborhood who wants to read them.
Herr Gottfried Keller of Zurich, whom
Paul Hayes called "the German Shake
speare,' has recently celebrated his literary
jubilee.
Labouchere may be expected in America
a. soon as Parliament adjourns.
Australia is sending another actress to Eng
land, of whom great things are predicted.
Miss Myra Kenble il the young voman's
name. and she essays the high valks of the
drama.
The trustees Of Mt. Holyoke Seminary and
College not having appointed . permanent
president, have asked Miss Louise F. CowIes,
one of the older teachers, to open the session
in September and administer the Affairs Of
the institution until president is appointed.
Hon. Whitelaw Reid, the American minis
to France, has rented . cottage 1t Dieppe
where his family 10 domiciied. He goes "a
Paris two or three times . week, - occasion
demands.
The Standard OH Company has asked the
Chautauquans for permission 70 convincs
| them that trusts are good things. The per
| mission has been accorded.
DIR. E. Parsons. said to be the oldest prac
sising dentist in the United States, died ai
Savannah, G.. Wednesday. He vas born il
Northampton. Mass, in 1906.
James Brennan. the famous leper, escapet
from quarantine at St. Louis Sunday, vher,
he had been confined fourteen months. H,
| is At large in the city.
| The Scripps League Expedition Of Ameri
| can Workingmen were entertained at ban
auet in the Hotel de Vile on Tuesday By h
Paris Municipal Council. and Wednesda,
we're the guests Of Hon. whitelav Reid
| American Minister, as . breakfast 1t th
| United States Legation
Judge Barrett refused to grant . new tris
/ for Charles GibliI. one of the i've murderer
| sfnsenced to be hanged in New York. Gov
ernor Hill, hoveve-, sfanted him . respis
Of sixty days.
4 A var il being carried on in St. Louis b
tween the laundry girls snd the Chinese lsal
:, dsynen. PassAes sEe being held 70 asuul
synpashy for the women
The Cronin suspects ere getting very -,
vous in regard b Martin Burke - ~ d
fos the trial. Moody, approaches