The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1867-01-25
GENERAL SUMMARY.
emp. Willis is dead. Aged GO.

TN.P. Willis is dead. Aged GO.
EThe name Of wa,crville College has
leen changed to ''Colby University"
HCincinnati has become the third man.
ufaciuring city in the world.
HA mans business capacity now n
days Is measured by the quantity OF his
advertising.
GA Washington special says General
Grant and family intend to sail for Europe
in April next, and will visit the Paris Ex-
position.
HThe project for supplying tho cities
and villages of New York State with gas
manufactured ut the coal pits and conduct
ell through mains is attracting considern.
bic interest.
VThc Court OF Admiralty has just CIV
en- final judgment in favor Of the United
States, in the Rappahannock case. This
makes the third steamer recovered by U, 8
Consul Dudley, in the Courts Of London.
~Gov. Swann's friends arc purchasing
his seat in the Senate by concessions of the
most h,imiliating character to the secession
lists in the Maryland Legislature, and it is
not probable that, If elected, he will be
permitted to take his seat.
TThc wound in Sec. Seward head,
received at the time Of tho assassinatian.
hns only closed over within recent peri
oil. Trepanning was impossible, owing to
its situation on the side OF the skull, and
now the brain a, that point Is only protect.
ell by thin armor Of flesh.
q Among the victims of the cruel mas.
acre at Fort Phil. Kcarncy was Harvey s.
Dcmming of Ellsworth, son Of the late DR.
Dcnming Of Mt. Desert.
sEThe price OF admission to tho Paris Ex-
hibiiion will be ono franc each.
81 johnson the laborer arrested on slis-
piciOn for the murder OF the two women
at Auburn, has proved an nlbi.
~ Three houses were blown down in
San Francisco last Monday by a whirl-
wind.
y On Friday.last IN explosion occur.
red ut the east end of tho Hoosac tunnel,
by which one man, Dennis KciA, was killed,
and three or four others moro or less in
jured.
wThe Indians have surrounded fourteen
men ut Spring Creek, near Fort Laramie,
fourteen miles from Mud Creek. Doubtless
they are the same Indians who drove off
the government herd few days ago.
~ Gov. o. r. Morton has bccn elected
U. 8. Senator from Indiana James w.
Nyo, (rs.clcctcd) from Illinois, and F. r.
Frclinghuysen, from New Jersey. All
Republicans.
~ The wheat received at Milwaukee
blast year amounted to l266i,4ts bushels;
at Chicago, li,oG0,90l. In 1861 the re-
ceipts were l593O7O6 at Milwaukee and
l7,639, 900 ut Chicago.
gDGarctt Davis has Withdrawn from
tho Senatorial contest in Kentucky, and
the Conservatives who supported him have
taken up one Harding. The Union mon
have dropped Attorney General Speed md
taken up Mr.. Bristow. Tie Democrats
stick to Powell, but Harding led both the
other candidates on Mondays ballots.
81 The Natl Bank Note Reporter snys
splendid five dollar counterfeit grccnback
has just made its nppearancc-it is one Of
the best yet put in circulation. anil is dated
March 10, 1862, In the counterfeit the
large figure five in the center touches the
shadow of the United States ; in tho gen.
uine Il does not. This is the only discrcp-
ancy by which the spurious note can DO
detected.
TThc reported instruction in Pam
gi,ay appears to he confirmed. A Para
guayan captain seized depot, tho garrison
fruternizing with him, and when Lopez
sent force to chas,ise him he retreated to
the mountains and bent off the troops. A
second attempt with 800 men and two can.
non was repulsed with the loss Of tho can.
non. At last accounts the captain had GOO
men, we'll victuullcd arh supplied with nu.
nitions.