Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-22
Interest In the Event Grows
Stronger Every Day.
Rehearsals Will Commence, Tuesda,
--Exhorbitant Prices for Rents. j
Efforts to Strengthen ParnsIite Party and
Other News from London.

Va tAtC lANSH . QictiiOiu Jo'a~~'
wise the Goth anniversary of her aces
sion to the throne rivals even the east
ern crisis in public attention. Prepara-
tons for the event are going on every
where in London, and the queens pro-
cessicn will be rehearsed early during
the morning of Tuesday next.
| Sir Julian Goldsmith's house on PIC
cadiliy has been let for $4,000 for the day
Of the celebration proper, June ~, anu
single windows along the route to be
followed by the procession are fetching
$50. The insurance companies are in
surfing sightseers against possible loss
| by the abandonment of the procession
or change OF route. Landlords are CIV
ing tenants of houses on the poorer por-
tons of the route, on the south side OF
the Thames, notice to quit, in order to get
| big prices for windows, and the news
papers are publishing a special column
of advertisements Of windows to let
along the route.
The fashions of 1887, the year of the
queens accession to the throne. are be-
| ing revived.
AT a meeting of the Parnellite men,
bers of parliament on Tuesday last it
was decided to request John Redmond
| to call conference of representative
Parnellites from all parts of Ireland, to
meet in Dublin during Easter week. for
the purpose Of considering the position
and prospects of the party. This step
was regarded necessary by the recent
attitude of Timothy Harrington, and 1t
| is intended to make vigorous efforts,
both in Ireland and America, to strength
the party. Mr.. Redmond and his col
leagues are confident of success, and
propose to submit to the conference a
complete scheme for the reorganization
Of their forces in Ireland.
The lord mayor of Dublin has issued in
vitations to a meeting at the Mansion
House, there to float a Parnell family
fund. Already a considerable sum has
been collected for the project. and 1t is
expected it wiki meet with great sue
cess. 1t is learned that not only Mr..
Parnell's mother. Mrs. Della Parnell, but
his brother. John Parnell. are in pecu-
MARY want, and but for the prompt ac-
ton of Mr.. Redmond and others they
would have lost the family estate at
Wicklow.
Preparations are already on foot in
Ireland to celebrate the centenary of the
rebellion of 1898. A central committee
has been established in Dublin, and it is
expected that large numbers Of Irish
Americans will participate.
Several newspapers call approving at :
tention to the Montreal Stars Indian
famine fund. The Daily Mail says: The
Stars magnificent work in the cause of
the empire is attracting much attention.
The Daily Graphic remarks: From a
political point of view it is significant
testimony to the development of the
fraternal sentiment to which we look
for the firm welding together of the COM
ponent parts of the empire.
Considerable excitement has been Gre
ated in the artistic world of Paris by the
refusal of the hsnging committee of the
salon to accept picture of Jean Weber,
First Sight" The picture represents
the interior of a butcher shop, with fine
display of meat, but close examination
of the picture shows the butcher to be
an allegorical Bismarck and the car
cases exposed are human corpses, and
represent victims of the cfancellor's
alleged ruthlessness. Strong pressure
is being brought to bear on the commit
tee, with the view of prevailing upon it
to reconsider it's decision.
In an English edition of the Piuue
County Ballads of Colonel John Hay,
the successor of Thomas T. Bayard, as
ambassador to the court of st. James.
was issued this week, and is being every
where quoted by the press and reviewed
in the most favorable terms.
The largest diamond in the world has
arrived in London from Kimberley,
South Africa. 1t is said to be worth So
100000, uncut.
In the Edinburgh court of session on
"Wednesday last the hearing of the d.
vorce proceedings brought by Lady
Ross against Sir Charles Henry Fred
erick Augustus Lockhart Ross, Bart,
OF Balnagowan. on the ground of adult
cry, was commenced. A counter action
Of Sir Charles against his wife. on a
similar charge, will be heard in May.
Lady Ross testified that her husband
went to British Columbia, in April, 1896.
and that owing to information which
she obtained during his absence she be-
gan proceedings for divorce, and re-
fused to cohabit with him when he re-
turned to England, in October of that
year.
Lottie Callcott, an actress, testified
that she stayed at hotel in company
with the baronet in 1894, and that she
had afterwards met at intervals.
| The presiding Judge decided that the
charge of adultery against the baronet
WAS proved. but his lordship could not
give Judgment until he had heard the
ease of Sir Charles against his wife,
The annual Oxford and Cambridge
boat race takes place on April 8. The
Oxford crew is the same as last year.
with one exception. G. o. Edwards. at
No. g. has been substituted for E. g.
Sherwood, who occupied that seat in '96.
| James Il. Roosevelt, the retiring first
secretary Of the United States embessy.
whose resignation was announced last
week. will shortly sail for America. Mr..
Roosevelt has been absent from the en-
bassy since last October, and since his
recent return, the relations between
himself and the ambassador have been
very strained. This was evidenced by
the fact that at the recent dinner Mr..
Bayard gave to Nthe lord mayor, Mr..
Roosevelt was not invited, while Mr..
Carter and Commander Cowles attended