The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1868-01-31
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Recently at Harlem, at an evening entertain.
ment, two couples were married. In sport, and
found next day what they ought to have known
before, that the ceremony was legal, and bind
ing. The brides are willing to have IT, but the
grooms ignore the whole affair, and will appeal
to the courts Of Legislature for release, especial
ly As one Of them Is man Of great expecta-
TONS"
In the Atlanta Convention last week, . col
ored delegate grew excited. and said MAY
God have mercy" when no WAS raped to or
der by the chairman, who stated that "the per-
son the gentleman call upon was not In the
house."
At Aberdeen, a few days ago. child appar-
emily died, and two young ladies volunteered
20 watch the corpse. Ono OF them fell asleep
during the night, when the other pricked her
with . pin and cascd her TO scream. The child,
who had been only In sleep, awoke, and In
short time was running about.
General Cater Is on trial In Leavenworth
for the murder Of . private soldier named
johnson who, with s other soldiers ON foot and
six On horses, was In the act Of deserving.
They were overtaken by Lieut.. Cook, who.
finding them with loaded carbines prepared to
resist, fred upon them In accordance with Gen.
Clusters orders, and Johnson was killed.
This case Was one Of the causes OF Gensmi
Clusters conviction by court-martial, but the
probability Is that he will be acquitted In this
trial.
John Flagg, OF Royalston, Mass. rho died
0 few weeks since. confessed short time be-
lore that he murdered pellor, who strange.
~ disappeared some thirty years ago, and
whose name Is supposed to have been Nathaniel
Kies.
Il. - No. q Ipv s,,Is firm
In West Bridgewater were recently taken sick
with small pox the contagion having been COM
municsted, Il Is supposed, by some recently
imported goods.
At Lamoille, Tennessee, last Saturday night,
three colored men were seized by sixteen white
men, carried into the woods, stripped, tel over
log. and then whipped at intervals for the
space Of two hours. This was done for the
simple reason OF their having voted the Radical
ticket.
Anna Dickinson nearly fro1c to death on o
thirty mile sleigh-ride In Minnesota.
The FIRST Of the Southern elections will take
place In Alabama Feb. 4th.
Two black and two white mule thieves were
shot without ceremony near Memphis last
week.
Wall street was excited Tuesday by report
that Wood and Washburne had shot each
other.
The new Vienna opera house 10 TO he lighted
on the "Rsmpenbeleuchtung system" Glad
oft
The time for the second trial OF John II.
Surratt has been fixed for the 9th inst.
The New Merchants Mil In Fall River. Mass I,
Is to contain 1900 looms, and will soon be put
In operation.
The diminutive Commodore mt. and Minnie
Warren are to be married. Their combined
fortune Is Q cool quarter ola million.
Webster Hart Of Northfeld, VT. died last
week from injuries received by coming In con-
tact with the sled Of boy who Was sliding
down hill.
The Lynn papers report that there appears
to DO change tor the better In the shoe trade.
The State of Town Is clear Of debt. Alone,
OF all the States, she does not owe dollar:
This happy condition Is due TO the wise and
economical administration which the people vt
Iowa have insisted on. and which their State
officers have been able to give them. II Is In
deed, an enviable situation. which other States
grooming under debt and taxation mey look nj
with an admiring eye.
The general business depression In the city
| Of New York In the past six months Is indi
Gated by the internal revenue returns Of sales
sales Of Messrs. II. ID. Ciaain & Co., last year
were less than fly million dollars, and those
| Of Mr.. A. r. Stewart, In the Wholesale depart.
ment, were little more than thirty-two mil
lions,-s very respectable business certainly
In either case, but still showing falling of of
more than one-third from the sales of 1875.
Smaller houses feel the stagnntion ut course.
In the same proportion. The opposition will
OF course use these facts to make political capt.
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the misfOrtunes OF whatever party may be In
power that all the calsmities which oppress the
people, from taxes to earthquakes, are laid ct
its door.
On Thurslny morning. Henry Slade. en-
ployed In saw mill In Saudusky, Ohio, had
his clothing caught In the machinery, and be-
fore the engine could be stopped his leg WAS
caught and torn off between the knee and
ankle. The right side Of the head was badly
crushed and mang'ei, 30 that he had only
time to exclaim "George George ~ before
he was hurried to . horrible death. The de-
ceased leaves q wife and six children, the
youngest having been born only few hours
before the accident.
A correspondent travelling In Utah says that
the waters OF Great Salt Lake rose last year
three feet above their former level and are still
tlowly but surely rising. The lake drains m
immense district, and has no visible outlet.
1T costs over ssa3 900 to run the Fire depart
ment of New York City. The force Is COM
posed of 50I men, and there are % steam fire
engines costing $4,000. each. and l46 horses.
In the South Carolina Constitutional Cen
ventioa IL . man who was rebel, and his
former slave. The white man In Franklin J.
Moses OF Sumter District, son OF Judge
Moses. This young man was the private
secretary Of Gov. Pckens 10 1861, and one 10
whom At his own request. Was accorded the
honor saws q rebel sheet) Of raising the Con-
federate flag over Fort Sumter after its evacua.
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