The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-11-23
GENERAL SUMMARY.

81 The New York Herald says tina,
Gen. Sherman has been sent TO Mexico to
mainly to watch and not to direct matters.
II There are twenty-five agents Of hes
ton wholesale houses in Lewiston. Maine.
jn one day last week, selling goods by sam
'ple.f = b. T. =, ' 4 : y
81 A correspondent Of the New York
Herald says that, the full dress Of native
lady Of Colombo is hair pin aud garter.
VAt an Irish cobcert in Montreal. 20
Thursdsy night Of last week, Hon. Darcy Nc
Gee. . member Of the Government, announced
that the Fenians Sondsmas1- =. Iosss.o, would
not be executed.
~ Franz s.hSyssf s.rI: ss. into tn.
votes given after sunset. aud which Il has been
decided are proper to be counted, Mr.. Brans
comb gets the seat BARS shsncts, for the U.
s. Senate are telescopically distant and micro.
scopically SMALL 70 y ~. "I'H ~.
GA Washington despatch. says the
Secretary of the Treasury in the foriicoul.
ing report will repeat. bis Recommendation
regnhiing die CURRENCY, and will ask au.
shorty TO issue long 5 per cent bonds to be
exempt from taxation. 70 20 .'r.FI
-iH A party from Dorus gold mines, Alb,
beville b. G. represent discoveries wl,itil
promise large result. An old mill utd bat.
terry. after "a hours'Hork, gave PIT penny
weights Of gold from less than ton and a
quarter Of reduced ore. 'i1il nHr ~ WV
~ A dispatch from Washington, claim.
ing to 10 authoritative, states that President
J,Iarez intends to order an election for Pres
ident and members Of Congress, in Mexico
as soon as, practicable. General Diaz re:
ports that he Ind defeated column of 300
Ahstrians, capturing POO prisoners, a can
non, and other munitions OF war. .s,lng
1n To Baltimore Yesterday. Mrs Geo. Cloug, In
1T Of insanity, attacked her own ohildren and
those Of her sister, Mrs. Charles Eichman, with
common table knife, and cut the throat Of .
son Of Mrs. EichmAn, Rced Eve Years. and then
attempted to take the life of her youngest child.
.nunding Il severely. She Then endeayored to
kill her eldest child, but II escsped. The par.
ties ere highly respectable. 10 2I' - Of ,"
II The remains of the coolest inhabi.
tant" have at last been found. The fossils
recently dug ub ut Cohocs. N. Y. hre pro.
nouhced'to be the .bohes Of u female mas
todon which must have existed over ten
thousand years ago, or four thousand be-
fore the appeatahce OF nlan'upon the earth !!
LIZ The Doysr Observer says moro Than
fly tons OF. supplies have gone forward
from That point iir ild use of hrnbermen
at Moose Head Lake, ,thd coming winter.
1t is said there will mo greater amount of
numbering ,Ihe present winter than has been
known for tho last tlirtyryears.,c ,"r11ar
Ell r7- The publishers of the Kennebec
Journal viii publish, curing tho session of
the Legislature, dhily and thrice weekly
newspaper, containing Il faithful report of
the Legislative proceedings and general
news The price will be the SHINE rs here
tofore, 50 Rir tho daily, and 81 for the
thrice weekly, for the session. i should
have large patronage. /" =. r Co.,. ..'
II The Goysrnor Of North Carolina, In his
message to tho Legislature, places himself In
opposition to the ratification Of the amendment
to the Constitution, and to negro suffrage. lie
recommends the removal of freedmen to the
Northern States. The Governor Of Florida, In
message to the Legislature of that State, also
opposes the smendment.
WThe Mobile Ga-site, Of which Semmcs
was the editor. has ended its brief exist
enco. In the issue Of the 18th, Capt
Semmes says:
"We announced, some ten davs ago. that
unless our fellow citizens Of Mobile extended
to us fair share OF their advertising patron.
age, we should be compelled to suspend the
publication of the Gazette. Our appeal has
fallen upon apathetic or unwilling ears, and
this number will consequently be the last issue