Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-09

buildings adjoining. Inc loss 10 eepmateu
at more than $4,000.
The Sioux Commission said good bye to
the Indians at standing Rock Agency at .
final council held Tuesday. The commits
sioners now go to Bismarck.
There has been more fighting in Crete, and
Greece has ordered her naval forces to pre-
pare for action.
pickpOcket was arrested in Boston
Wednesday while stealing . man's watch.
Subsequently four more we're caught.
The Topeka Kas., sugar works, which we're
burned Monday night were only completed
a year ago at cost of &25O.OO
The Prince of Wales goes to Hombura
next week. and then TO Denmark. In the
course of his continental wanderings he will
visit the German Emperor.
Bids for furnishing the Washington Navy
Yard with an electric light plant were opened
Tuesday. The Schuyler Electric Compan,
of Middletown, Conn, was the 10 ~est bidder
at $3.50.
After vigorous and exciting campaign oil
three weeks. prohibition was defeated Tues
day in Floyd county, Ga, by a majority Of
GOO, out of vote of 1000. The election
passed of quietly At all precincts.
President Carnot of France is q literary
man by inheritance and habit. He has writ
ten good deal of poetry which has nevel
appeared in print.
General Cogswell is authority for the state
ment that President Harrison is direct de
scendant from a clergyman who was at on,
time resident of Ipswich-Rev. Timoth,
Symmes, who came to that place in 1852.
Princess Louise's wedding jewelry alon,
was estimated at 100000 worth.
Dinah. Senegalese potentate who 10 nov
amusing Paris. is dusky, dirty, degenerat,
specimen of his kind. He wears q silk hs
and gaudy costume, purchased at second
hand shop in Paris.
His Royal Highness, DR.. Charles Theodore
Duke in Bavaria, assisted by his wife and By
DR.. Won Zenker, has been for eight week
freely treating eye patients among the poo
of Meran.
1t is rumored that the queen has at las
yielded to her ply sicians and will take lont
sea trip. perhaps to India, or possibly Il
Canada and the United States.
DR.. Brown-SeQuard's new elixir Of life VA
considered at recent meeting of the Frencl
Biological Society. and NJ. Variat told oil
some very successful experiments made b,
him.
Robert Buchanan has finished his new
play "Mammon." He has also written
French historical drama for Richard Mans
field, which. he says, is to be produced il
this country in the autumn.
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Miss Kate Sanborn
Miss Frances Willard, Mrs. John A. Logan
and others are interested in forming Z societ,
for the training of girls for domestic service
Ex-Governor Hartranft of Pennsylvania,
member of the Cherokee Commission, ha
been obliged to come East because of i'll
health.
rustic bridge, just completed in Houston
county, Ga, contains 81 different kinds O
wood and vines, and all we're grown in tn
county.
This years crop of sweet potatoes il
Florida will be the largest ever known.
Fred Douglass, minister to Hayti, is in n,
hurry to make his residence at Pert au Prince
Yellow fever is painfully prevalent Their,
just now besides, it is dee med wise to val
until either Hippolyte or Legitime 10 sue
cessful.
The Alliance Coal Mining Company vii
erect mammoth works near Pottsville, "a
take the place Of the kaska William Colliery
Seventy five Of the 100 girls who struck q
the Reading Hosiery Mills returned to work
The appointment of colored clerk BY tn,
postmaster of Atlanta has created sensation
and caused the resignation Of q young lady
employed in the same department.
Reports to the Illinois State Board Of Az
riculture show that the aggregate yield Of
wheat in the State for the year will be about
"a 000, 900 bushels
A war is in progress between the people OF
Folsom, Pa, aud the land association oveI
the proposed change of the name of the place
to Lynne Mawr.
| Richard Henry Stoddard, il 10 said. nov
fails to recognize his most intimate friends
except by voice. He shuffles along in q
mechanical way, trusting to luck to carry
him safely through the street, while his
emaciaied form and husky voice attest the
physical wreck that has over-taken the once
vigorous frame. Mr.. Stoddard's literary
lsbors have been almost completely abandon
ed.