Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-07-04

which is to conduct geological and geological
explorations in the Valley of the Amazon and
on the coast of Brazil, left New York last
week in the steamer North America. The OBJ
servations of this party will it is confidently
anticipated, be of great Importance to science
at large.
Pennsylvania College at Gettysburgh gradu-
ated Is students on Thursday.
The State Normal School at Trenton, N. j.,
graduated SS pupils Thursday. Williams
College graduated 81 students, and conferred u
lot of ornamental titles on Massachusetts, men.
Cornell University, ithaca N. Y, gradua-
ted % students on Thursday, and gave Gold
win Smith the title of Doctor of Letters. Gen
Stewart L. Woodford of New York has offer
ed to Cornell University gold medal of the
value of 500 to the best orator every year.
Josiah Foster, uncle of William Edward
Foster, and Patriarch of the Quakers, died in
England, Wednesday.
The corner stone of the New Hampshire
College of Agriculture was laid at Hanover
last week.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte is said to be in San
Francisco on his way to the Tahati Islands.
Two colored regiments of cavalry are now
serving in Texas, aggregating two thousand
men.
In the I'd North Carolina District the as
sessment for May, 1870, shows an increase of
~, in
The friends of Horace Greeley and James
Gordon Bennett are seriously alarmed with
reference to their continued illness.
Peacham, VT, dedicates $4,000 monu-
ment to her AZ dead soldiers to-day.
The increase in the internal revenue re-
ceipts, for the fourteen months ending with
April, 1870, over the preceding fourteen
months, is more than fifty millions Of dollars.
1t is estimated that one thousand emigrants
per day are settling in Minnesota.
| Spiritualists report a rapid increase of be-
| levers in their doctrines throughout the State
! of Indiana.
Frank Thorne is to receive 800, 900 for his
leap from Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls
on the 18th of August next. His heirs are re-
ceiving congratulations.
General Nathaniel Lyon, who fell at Will
sons Creek, at the head of his little army, in
the first year of the war for the Union, lies
buried at Eastford, Conn, his native place
without stone to mark his grave.
| <,,.r,op 10 tho current tonic of tho
rewspaper world. The opinions are various
| .od =, -"IoEnatiOn vast ohere IL hiuch
[ roth and fury, but also a fair average of good
sense.
The Central and Western Pacific Railroad
Companies have consolidated under the title
of the Central Pacific.
Nearly three thousand persons have arrived
at Long Branch within the past few days.
Europe Just now seems to be full of brigands
and travel there is more dangerous than in
Georgia.
There are two Masonic lodges in Salt Lake
City, both under the exclusive control of the
"Gentiles."
In demolishing an old Episcopal church in
Newtown, CT, last week, a petrifed cat was
found under the floor near the pulpit. The
teeth, claws, ears, legs, tail and in fact the
whole animal, are perfect. The cat has prob
ably been dead hundred years.
Michigan about year ago established an
immigration Bureau and appointed agents in
Germany. Already the good results of this
policy are shown in the large number of in
dustrious and frugal Germans who are making
the State their home.
Indictments were found, the oath ult., a
Canandagua, against Gen. Starr, of Louis
vile, Ky, Col. Thompson of Albany, anC
Capt. Mannix of Malone, N. Y, for partci
patton in the Fenian raid. The trial which
was to have begun at Canandagua, has beer
postponed until the 18th inst. at the earnes
solicitation of the counsel for the defendants
The last of the State street ''rregularity'
cases, in Boston, arising out Of the financial
operations of Mellan Ward & Co., of that city
was terminated, Wednesday, by the sentence
of Z. Porter Dyer, Jr., the cashier of the
Newtonvlle Bank, to pay fine of $1,000,
and be imprisoned for six months.
L. NJ Holbr0ok Ex-Member of Congress
was 'assassinated at Idaho City, June Is.
Some time ago memorial was presented
to the United States Senate, asking that the
good offices of the government might be ex-
trcised to procure the release of Madame
Jaracho, a second niece of General Pulaski,
and her husband who were banished to Sibe-
ria for participating in the Polish movement
of 1860. The request was communicated to
our minister at St. Petersburg, who, in reply,
has informed the State Department that it has
been granted on the condition that they leave
| for the United States.