Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-22
GENELAL NEWS.

Boston claims that within five miles in
circle of the hub there are 100000 people.
The regular term of Georgia court was
not held because the judge had sore Eyes.
A former slave of the Davis family has re-
ceiyed prize for the best bale of long sta
pied cotton delivered at New Orleans.
The Spanish Government still desers open
| ing the port of Barcelona. Rodriguez de-
clines the portfolio rendered him by Gen.
Prim.
| The rinderpest on the Continent spreads
with alarming rapidly. 1t prevails from Po-
land to the Atlantic. There is much con-
sternation among all classes of people.
The Government censor of the press at St.
Petersburg has been remov, Tor permitting
attacks by the newspapers Oh the King OF
Prussia.
The products of the manufacturing indus
tries Of Cincinnati the past year are said to
have aggregated Sll9, lac, oss, an increase OF
ST., las, 027 in ten years.
young girl only sixteen years of age,
Miss Ellen A. St. Clair, Of Maiden, has just
arrived at San Francisco, after n journy in
her own coach of nearly 5000 miles in the
Rocky Mountains and in the Indian country.
| Gen. Banks and Gen. Breckenridge met at
the Burnet House, in Cincinnati, the other
day, the first time in period Of ten years.
They were young members of Congress to-
gether fifteen years ago. The greeting was
cordial on both sides.
The remains of Ensign Charles +. Brown,
who was lost in the United States steamer
Oneida, off the coast of Japan, reached Wor-
c; ster on Saturday and were consigned to
their final resting place in Rural Cemetery.
''John," asked a physician of the apothe-
carys apprt ntice. "d,d Mrs. Green get the
medicine ordercd?" 81 guess so" replied
John, 'for l saw Grape hanging to the door
knob this morning"
Fourteen of the Emperor Napoleon's
horses, sold in England, brought only 400
guineas His travelling and baggage wagons
found no purchasers, probably because the
Imperial crest had been painted out on them.
The paying teller OF Winslow, Larner &
Co., prominent Wall street banking frm.
has absconded, defaulter to the amount of
$50 900, lost in stock specuiations. The firm
refuse to give the name of the criminal, and
are making no efforts for his arrest.
The battlefield of Sedan is covered by a
host of sight-seers. Not only does British
curiosity resort thither; America sends her
r, representatives., and either from or via Bel
GUM the investigating tourist wends his in
defatigable steps in search of new sensations.
The divers who visited the wreck Of the
ton haIbor, a short time since, say they found
the lutte torpedo-bo boat that was commanded
by Lieut., Dixon, lying alongside of her, and
having on board the skeletons of the eight
men who volunteered for the enterprise.
John l. Perry, man named Tyson, ID. 7
Mills and Samuel c. Lund, of Boston, have
all been arrested for large smuggling opera
ton iii 1863.
Daniel Mcfarland, lately acquitted of the
murder of Albert ID. Richardson, was Tues
day committed to Jail, in New York, for ter
DAYS, for drunkenness When arrested, he
was in a totally besotted condition; his heat
was covered with cuts and bruises, and his
clothes were torn and blood-stained. On the
trial, he produced large package of his
wifes letters, which the court declined tC
consider.