Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-09-13
GENERAL NEWS.

Queen Victoria has presented sword to
each of the friendly native chiefs of New Zea-
land.
Late advices from Melbourne state that the
Australian government is expediting the land
Geographic system in order to connect with
the India cable.
Madame Lopez has received letters of ad
ministration in the matter of the estate of the
late President of Paraguay.
Amongst the passengers by the steamship
Australia, which arrived at New York from
Liverpool, is Mad. Seebach, the celebrated
German tragedenne.
The ladies of Wyoming, at the election on
Wednesday last, generally voted, III votes
being cast by them in the Cheyenne precinct
The city of Charlcstown, Mass, is invited
to furnish the granite base to the statue to s.
F. B. Morse. of electric-telegraph fame, to
be erected in New York. Mr.. Morse was born
in Charlestown April ~, 1871.
Colonel jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, form
erly of Baltimore, was reported recently to be
in command of the Tuleries, Paris. His
grandmother thinks he is the coming man in
France.
The little ship Ragusa, which is only lit
tie over two tons burden, reached Boston from
Queenstown after an eighty days voyage.
The President of Liberia is in this country,
trying to induce capitalists to invest in rail-
road enterprise in Liberia, Of which there is
much need.
The gale of Sunday week appears to have
had disastrous effect all along the Nova SEQ
tan coast. Many vessels are known to have
been lost, and there are yet many reported
missing.
1t is noticeable that, of three candidates tor
Governor before the New York Republican
State Convention, Messrs. Woodford, Greeley,
and Curtis all are editors.
Victor Hugo received a grand ovation at
the hands OF the enthusiastic Republicans on
his return to Paris. Among those who as
sembled to do honor to the exiled poet and
author were Rochcfort, Michelet Laboulaye,
and others.
Nathan Lord, d. D., ex-presidcnt of Dart
mouth College, died at Hanover last week.
DR.. Lord was born in 1892, and was conse-
quently seventy eight years old at the time of
his death He was native of Berwick, Me-,
and was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1909.
great manifestation of sympathy with the
French republic was made in Madrid on
the Sth. Twenty thousand citizens marched
through the streets with banners inscribed with
notices fattcring to France, and bands play
ing the Marseillaise. There was no disorder.
After the procession, mass meeting was held.
The late Emperor of the French, Napoleon
the Third, is at Wilhelmshohe Castle, near
Cassel, Germany, a prisoner of war, with an
immense train of attendants the ex-Empress
Eugene is guest of the Hoogvenn family,
at their Chateau of Meyose, near Brussels,
Belgium; and the Prince Imperial, under the
charge of his Governor, is at Hastings, Eng
land. The Empress, it is given out, intends
to visit her husband and then to rejoin her
son at Tasting.
On Friday last, in St. Croix county, near
Hudson, Wisconsin, Mrs. Lerchrue drowned
her two children, set fire to her dwelling
house and then took poison. The quantity of
poison she took acted as an emetic and thus
saved her life. She claims that her children
were drowned and her dwelling house set on
fire by man who came to the house and then
ran off, and that she took the poison under the
agony caused by the loss of her children, but
her story is not believed. Mrs. Lcrchrue and
her husband have always lived happily togeth-
err and she appears perfectly sane. Her rea-
son for the deed is, therefore, mystery.
The news is telegraphed from London that
the ron-clad turret ship Captain, of the Brit
al Lacf dorad OFF tho caast of Snain