The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1869-09-10

now ~ N sSaso sP~&s>so"s - -
out at isast 10000 tons Of coal daily. The
shipments by canal are slightly retarded In
consequence oflow water. but there Is now every
prospect Of cheaper prices.
The last freak Of nature Is In the possession OF
Adams Abbottof Troy,vt Itoonsists Of four kit
tens, all perfectly formed and joinsd together.
two black and two white. Az joined, three arc
headed one way while the other win Be CON-
pellcdt to walk backward at least thrse-fourths
Of the time. At last accounts all were alive.
President Grant, In . letter to Hon. Roscoe
Couklins postponing his visit to Utica, pays
tribute to Secretary R,wllnsis labos for The
welfare and prosperity Of shs country.
Mr.. BROOKS, Q government detective, was
assasinaied In Philadelphia. At last accounts
he was still alive. but his wound e 90 serious
that Il Is feared he cannot recover.
The Kearsarge Cotton Mills at Portsmouth,
N. H., have reduced the pay Of their operatives
fourteen per cent ~.
Thursday forenoon Vim. Kimbsll Of Plymouth
engineer on the gravel train on the White Noun
tain extension, slipped from the tender and fell
through railroad bridge at Littlston, q dis
lance Of thirty feet. His spine was broken and
Il Is thought he cannot survive.
Evidently the illness Of Louis Napoleon Is
mortal. The dispatches show the anxiety pre-
vailng In Paris and, indeed, throughout France.
They seem TO be breaking the calamity to the
Empire rs tito prepare Il for q change Of rul-
ers. The CONSERVATION and apprehension are
evidently very great, and politicians are anI-
iously casting around for the successful aspir-
ant who will assume the place in the Tuilleries
soon to be vacated. AL Is uncertainty and
gloom In Paris. So completely has one man
held the yeins Of government that there are none
disciplined to the task. Frances position at
this moment Is severe commentary upon ABB
solutism.
Two babies were pitched out Of window at
Hartford, Thursday, by IN excited woman who
had discovered fire In the closet.
The application for the Communication OF pun
shment Of Pike, the Hampton Falls murderer,
Is resisted by the attorney-genenl, who sum-
moned the two sons of the murdered couple to
Concord to testify at the hearing before the ooun-
Gil. The general feeling in Rockingham County
favors Pixies execution and as he had been In
prison or under sentence more than half his life
since he was 10 years old, II would not seem
that Imprisonment for life would benefit him
much. ...
Gen. N. d. Forrest, once styled "Butcher''
who Is now experimenting the construction o,
the Selma, Marion, and Memphis Railroad, Of
which he Is President, has become 20 rcconcilei
to the "Yanks" that heis now trying to induce
Yankee colony to scttlc on 10000 acres o.
land on both sides Of the Buttahatchic, not far
from Grenada, Mississippi, on the line Of hi
railroad.
A young German has lost his eyesight by m
attempt to win bet to swim certain length
| Of time ON his back In the Scheldt, with hi
spectacles on. A hot sun acted on the spccta
clcs rs on a magnifying 6 lass.
Every school boy has read how Sir Isaac New
ton was led to discover the law Of gravitatior
by seeing an apple fall from tree; but II i
doubtful whether this pretty story has an,
foundation in fact. A manuscript letter from
Newton to Mr.. T. Folkes, the antiquary, ha'
just come to light. In which minute account
Of the discovery Is given, but nothing Is said
about the apple.
At Norfolk, Va, Wednesday evening, Mrs
Conoly, lady recently married. and late Of
Baltimore, was caught In the machinery Of Z
-four mill which she was visiting and crushed Il
death. ..
| A Panama letter states that Frank Ward,
son-in-law Of VIM. d. Astor, jumped overbosr,
from the steamer Sacramento near San Jose ant
was drowned. The cause Of the decd was NORTH
cation at not being able to pay the wine bill tina
he ran up on the steamer.
A terrible suspense Is hanging over the coal
region Of Pennsylvania concerning the fate Of
two hundred and one men and boys confined in
the Steuben shaft Of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Coal Company's work.. The only
means Of escape or communication Is blocked NJ
by forty feet Of debris and burning coal, ant
the means Of ventilation completely cut Of. Bu
faint hopes are entertained that any Of them will
reach the surface alive
A new issue OF postage stamps bearing The
familiar faces Of Washington, jackson, Frank.
lin, and Lincoln, are ordered to superscie the
late designs. ..I .
The disease which causcd the death Of Cen
eral John A. Rwlins was not. rs has been very
generally supposed, tubcrcular consumption,
but was an affection Of the lungs superinducci
by exposure during the yicksburg campaign.
lie was first attacked with pleuro-pneumonia,
followed by hydro-thorax and Inflammation
which produced cavities In the upper portions
Of both lungs.
Gen. Lee proposes to establish at the scat Of
learning over which he pres,des, In Virginia,
scholarships for the education Of young men In
the science Of journalism.
Fanny Fern has written fifteen years for the
New York Ledger, and the day Of the week as
signed for the reception Of her communication
has never passed without the copy being receiv-
cd. There's promptness for you
The 6re In Richmond, Virginia, on Monday,
burnci over great portion Of the territory set
ON FIRE and consumed at tho evacuation Of the
city at the close Of the war, and the loss will Be
$4,000, OF which IL insured s0o,ooo-one-
third in Northern Offices.
The report that tho Spanish Government Is
preparing to send 10000 troops to Cuba Is
doubted, because negotiations arc going on
with the United States with view 10 the indie
r.ndencc of Cuba and because Spain has nei-