Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-07-15
GENERAL NEWS


sailed last Wednesday for three months
visit to members of their family residing in
Switzerland.
The Pacific steamship Ecuador, employed
along the South American coast, has been
destroyed at sea by the explosion of her boil
err. She had twenty six passengers and seven
were lost.
At Conneaut, Pa, Tuesday morning, Ralph
Wright, farmer, sixty years of age, muir
dered his wife by splitting her head open with
an axe, set fire to his dwelling house and
then hung himself in stable. He was in
sane.
A Mexican piratical craft was lately attack
ed and destroyed by the United States steam
er Mohican. Ensign Wainwright and a cocks
vain were killed and FIVE or six seamen
wounded.
The present wheat crop in Virginia is re-
ported to be the largest and finest harvested
for years. From all parts of the country we
get about the same.
In New York, Tuesday, while the Orange
men were having picnic they by some means
got into trouble with the Catholics and the
result was a terrible riot, in which working
implements and firearms were used with fatal
effect. Several were killed and scores
wounded.
A married couple at Fort Dodge, Wiscon-
sin, wanting divorce, the woman consented
that the man should whip her before witness
es. The dodge succeeded.
Among the recreations allowed to the con-
victs in the Rhode Island State Prison on the
Fourth was jumping over a horizontal bar.
"You Jump very well, remarked a bystander
to an agile convict. sob, this is nothing"
replied the convict II expect to go over the
prison walls before get through"
The railroad from Terre Haute, Ind, to
the indianapolis and st. Louis road was open
for travel and freight a day or two since.
This makes two rival lines from st. Louis east,
both passing through Terre Haute. There
are indications of the liveliest competition.
George H. Wilson, for eighteen years Su
perintendent of the United States Marine
Hospital at Portland, died of apoplexy at his
home in Williamsburg, N. Y, on Saturday
An underground railroad route through
Baltimore is now the subject of discussion
among the railroads centering in that city.
The entire sum required to be raised is esti-
mated at 1888, 900 represented by bonds,
and $780, 900 by stock, and the important
point for consideration is the proportion of
aid that should be extended to by each of the
seven companies interested in the city of
Baltimore.
The Chinese shoemakers at North Adams,
Massachusetts, trade more freely and regu-
larly than was expected. Already they have
spent several hundred dollars in buying
clothing, provisions, boots and shoes. Con-
sidering their wages and their necessities and
wants, they will probably spend in the vii
lage as much of their earnings as others.
They are pleased with their quarters and
their employment, and are as unconscious
as children of the commotion which their adj
vent has caused.
James O'Neill was hung last Sunday night
on Browns Bridge, nine miles from Denver
by unknown parties. A placard was attached |
to the body with the inscription of "Cattle
Thief upon it.
General Howard has written letter Sc
white cadets at West Point toward the color
ed cadet; he says signifcantly off West
Point has not power enough to protect such
young man as cadet Smith-quick, able, hon
est, noble-spirited as he is-then West Point
will have a hard struggle against the return
ing tide of feeling that will break in from the
people,"
1t is very trying, after YOU have stated on
oath your opinion, surprising you are
lapdlady,--t certain corpse is that Of one
of your dodgers; and after it is buried, with a
verdict of suicide, and you've overhauled his
trunk, and settled with the Coroner, and
made up your mind to the loss, to have the
man himself, six months afterward, call in
upon YOU and deny the fact. Yet such was
the case in Springfield, Mass, one day last
week, and although the landlady has pretty
nearly gone crazy about it, Anton Ethnger,
the lodger in question, insists that he was
never a corpse, and neither the Coroner nor
any one else can for the life of him say who
it was that was buried as Anton Ethinger last
winter.
Washington correspondent says Our
new Police court under Judge Smell of Maine,
organized and began business Monday morn
ing. The people who wanted to see how he
would manage things were so numerous that
his rooms were completely packed. He
worked off about twenty cases, and the crowd
got an idea that he believes in high fines and
strong punishments."
The Hon. Bion in the Democratic State
Convention was exceedingly sweet on
few gentlemen outside his party whom
he styled "liberal." There is an old leg
end which relates that terrible giant in