The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1867-05-10

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A boy seventeen years Of age has been
arrested in Lexington, Miss, charged with
five murders. -
Mr.. Peal,ody's visit cost him over four
millions of dollars. A liberal expenditure
and well applied.
Chicago had just 27s deaths in the
month of April, last year, and the same
number the same .inontlitlis year. II
II we may credit tho New Hampshire
Statesman, George Peabody sawed wood at
tho Columbian Hotel, in Concorl, to pay
fora nights lodging fifty years ago.
A halcwited lad in IJndcrhill, Vermont,
sought to punish the house cat for sucking
eggs by covering her up in ihei hay lnow
and then setting It on fire. lie succeeded
% we'll as to destroy the barn and eighteen
head Of cattle.
Gen. Griffin, commanding in Texas, has
ordered that Mr.. Barrows, planter in Leon
county, bc compelled to support the fami.
lies Of the freedmen who were recently
murdered on his plantation.
A little SON of ID. Merrill OF South Paris,
was drowned on Thursday by falling from
boat and another boy at Rockland, named
Judson Frye, was drowned in the same
way ON Wednesday, r..
The petition Of Jeffer,on Davis, through
his council, Mr.. Shea, for writ Of bubcas
corpus, sets forth the fact Of his long inn
prisonment, and states that no knows Of no
reason for his detention without trial. i
rccitcs briefly tho efforts of Davis hereto
fore to secure a trial, and remarks that i'm
prisonment has impaired his health.
An orderly attached to one Of the New
York city institutions has been brought up,
charged with having gougcd tho eyes out
of an old man named Grny, patient in
the hospital, and afterwards strangled him
by means of linen cloth. The prisoner
was remanded pending further investiga-
ton Of the case.
Patrick McGrath, the last Of the Fenians
convicted at Toronto last winter, was last
week sentenced 10 be hanged on the llth
Of June. In pronouncing the sentence the
Judge remarked that he did not suppose 1t
would DO carried out.
The fact th,t Gen. S,en,imau's appoint
ments at New Orleans have been entirely
satisfactory to the Radicals Of that city, has
strengthened the rumor Of his willingness
to enter into full fellowship with the Re-
publican party.
The Belfast Journal says that Mr.. Hnra.
den, Of that city, had singular experience
in rat catching. lie set n common steel
trap in the store, and next day it had dis
appeared. That night he set another trap
OF different kind, and caught rat with
the frs, trap attached to one Of his hind
legs, The last ono finished him.
Brigham Young, Jr., during his recent
visit to New York, applied to a phrenolo-
gist for an opinion about his bumps, tho OPP.
orator not knowing his man. and was told
to closely watch "nlimentiveness" and
"amaiivcncss" and rcprcss his mutual do
sirss to cat too much aud break the Seventh
Commandment.
The total amount Of the National debt
on tho first day Of May, less the cash IN
the treasury. was So 500 $4,000 25. This
shows tina, by the wise financial manages
ment of Secretary McCuloch the national
debt was diminished over two and half
millions Of dollars during the month Of
April, although there was M reduction Of
the currency.
A girl only eleven years Of age coaxed
another one eight years oil to retired
place in Saginaw City, Mich, recently,
stripped her of most Of her clothes, AMI
then induced her to get on floating piece
Of ice in the dock, from which she slipped
and would have drowned bu, for a boatman
who happened to row that way AMI res.
cued her. The precocious liitls thief was
afterwards discovered at school with tho
stolen garments on.
The Washington correspondence Of the
Philadelphia Press, says Gen. Butler has
been actively at work In search Of facts
concerning the assassination Of President
Lincoln, and has obtained positive evidence
tina, isnever was the intention Of tho con-
spirators to include Vice President. john
son among their victims, and that The move
men,s Of Atzerott about the kirkwood
House. with the various circumstances in
dicating plot against the Ito Of Mr.. John
son, were purposely put forward as blind.
In the culogis,io notice Of tho late George
Evans, the St. Paul Press tells the following
story Of his successor, which is too good
to lose: "Janes w. Bradbury, Democrat,
was elected to take his place. Mr.. Brad
bury had the hariihood, few days after
his election. to ask an old farmer from a
back town how he thought he (Mr. B.)
would fIl Mr.. Evans place. Tho farmer
replied. .just about as a rats tail would gil
a boot Leg" and so he did"
Tho Victoria Colonisf. thu oldest and