Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-08-01
GENE kAL NEWS.

Utah has less than ., 500 Gentles.
The Chinese only pay their physicians
when they are in perfent health.
Sir Morton Petro is in Hungary, superin-
tending the construction of railroads for the
A ist.ian Government.
The Peruvian Government favors the col
onizaton scheme OF A. ID. Piper, an Ameri-
can, and Bolivia has granted him large tract
Of land.
The recent massacre in Pekin, it now ap-
pears, was Intended solely to injure the French,
although several foreigners Of other nation
alities were slain.
National banks which have gone into liqui-
dation, have now onlysa short time remain
ing with which they may settle their accounts
with the Treasury, and prevent their bonds
held as security from being sold.
Mr.. Orange Judd. of New York, has inser-
ted clause in his will bequcathing $4,000
for a new professorship at Wesleyan Cniver-
sity at Mid,lletown. He places the sum at
interest so the chair may be Immediately fill
ed. Added to this for the Scientific Hall,
this makes his donation to the institution
/ SlO0, 900 within year.
! Since the nomination of General Maxwell
ty the gentle citizens of Utah as a delegate
to Congress, the Mormons have been bellig-
erent and threatening. Two prominent Gen
tile citizens were attacked Wednesday, one
them being seriously, and the other danger
ously beaten. General Augur has established
military station at Pioro City, forty miles
/ south of Salt Lake City.
Benz. Nathan, formerly prominent Wall
Street banker, was assassinated in his resi-
dence in New York last Friday night The
stock exchange has offered $4,000 reward
for the assassin.
Friday evening in New York, Gen. Franz
Sigel was run over on Broadway by car
riage, and two of his ribs were broken. His
physicians declare that he will recover in two
weeks The accident was caused by fast dri-
wing, and the driver was promptly arrested.
! Cochituate lake is becoming SO low from
the dry spell that Bostonians arc beginning to
| fear short supply of water.
General w. T. II. Brooks, a distinguished
officer of the United States Army. died on
the 10Th inst, at Huntsville, Ala. General
Brooks commanded brigade in the Army OF
the Potomac during the first years of the re-
bellion.
Mr.. A. G. Moslcy, of Charlotte county
Va, was burned to death on Saturday week
by the explosion of a barrel of kerosene oil,
which caught fire from lighted candle he was
carrying.
| Some recent pardoned convicts from the N.
J. State prison, at Trenton, are represented
by an enthusiastic ''local' of that city, as
having ,ft with good characters and cheer
full faces"
Kansas for the last year or two, has been
receiving larger relative Immigration than
any State in the Union, and it is believed that
the next census will entitle her to four mem
bers of Congress, instead Of one, as at pres
ent.
Gen. Starr, Col. Thompson and Captain
Manix, the imprisoned Fenians, have been
assigned TO the hospital department OF Au-
burn prison, and will have comparatively COM
Portable positions. They are treated as politi-
cal offenders, and not as convicted felons,
conse equently they are allowed to preserve their
hair and whiskers in tact, wear their own un-
der clothing. &c.
General Judson Fitzpatrick will return home
from Chill about the last of September His
friends assert that he will attend entirely to
private business and will take little part in
politics.
! At the fire in East Boston the other day, a
/ frantic man threw melodeon from chamber
window. Its not further stated whether he is
/ the same VITO carefully carried the shovel and
toags down in his arns.
4 Secretary Cox orders that hereafter all pro-
motions in the Interior Department shall be
based upon merit. and that candidates must
svb<ait to competition ibis is good step.