Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-10
GENERAL NEWS.

The value of the present iron-ciad meet Oh
England amounts to fS,ll7,o0o.
The walls of Rome are covered with edicts,
proclamations and propositions OF all sorts.
Awestern editor is raving about the lam
bient pastines of boreal corruscations."
On Thursday night the head of one of the
largest counterfeit gangs in the United States
was convicted in Trenton, N. j., and was sent
| to the State Prison.
Boston paper locates the Maine State
Prison in Portland. There are some Bos-
tonians who have better acquaintance with
its location.
The Postmaster General will repeat in his
annual report his recommendation for the
abolition of the ranking privilege.
The yelled woman of Egypt and Turkey
are exhibiting dawning appreciation OF their
''rights" by demanding air and sunshine
There will be fifty-three Sundays in the
| year 1871, the year beginning and ending on
Sunday. 1t ought to be a good year and.a
happy one.
No action has recently been taken by our
| government in relation to the settlement OF
| the Alabama claims, nor has the British gov
| eminent made any new advancement in that
| direction.
The report of boy in New York religious
| ly inclined is considered hoax. This one, II
appears, committed suicide in order to see the
! mysteries of the other world, or to get away
| from New York
/ Mrs. Mary A. Marble, of Plaistow, ~ H.
was found dead behind the bar of her hus-
| bands drinking shop the other night, looking
4 as though she had been strangled; but Marble
/ SAYS he knows nothing about it.
Il General de Rodas is still Captain General
Il of Cuba and the report that he was about to
\ leave the island is pronounced erroneous.
/ Four democratic Congressmen-onei in Ono
| and three in Pennsylvania-were elected by
the "skin of their teeth" their aggregate ma
| jorities being only ZIG.
Il Ii is rumored in Washington that the Chief
i Justice is to resign and that Justice Carter,
II of the District of Columbia, is to succeed
him.
/ Mrs. Mary Ellet, who belonged to one OF
| the most distinguished families of the Revolu-
| ton, died in Philadelphia on Saturday at the
| age Of ninety one years.
The Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba has
issued an order for the arrest of Riel and his
companions wherever the officers find them,
and if they resist to shoot them.
A fiery volcano of large proportions has
suddenly appeared in the interior Of Mexico.
Whether its appearance had anything to do
with the recent earthquake in this quarter the
scientists have not informed US.
A series of sermons by evangelical clergy
men has been arranged to be delivered in Mu-
sic Hall, Boston. The course was opened by
Rev. Phillips Brooks, the popular Episcopal
preacher of that city. He had a large au-
dience.
Six students of the scientific department
in Dartmouth College have been given an in
definite vacation for ducking freshman I'M
der the college pump. The faculty express q
determination to stop all forms of ''hazing,
even if whole classes are lost from the insti-
J tuition.
: James Z. Whipple, young man, member
of he society of Friends and of the Univer-
sal Peace Association, was arrested in Mystic
5 CT, recently, and lodged in the Norwich jai
for refusngt TO pay his military tax, it being
: matter of conscience with him not to supper
war or forms of war;
Christopher Bush, who lives mile and ;
half from Parma Centre, N. Y. has not tast
ed food in thirty seven days He is eighty
four years of age, and is subject to fits of de
rangement. Thirty-seven days ago he re
fused to eat, and all efforts to persuade him Il
take any kind of food were unavailing. Fol
the frst few days after he commenced his re
markabe fast he drank water occasionally
but for the past fourteen days or more he re-
fused to drink.
Jack Baxter, white man, killed ALFRED
Granger, q negro, in Selma, Ala, the othel
I day, when the negroes gathered in large mum
DtTo, ttOh LdNltI iiOll INV oHtilh uuhs
him. General Pettus called out a company
who with difficulty restrained the whites from
retaiating, and prevented general riot.
: tits probable that The next Congressional
. appor,ionment will reduce the number Of Con
, gressmen in Vermont to two. This fact ha
; raised an interesting and curious controversy
BY the constitution after the present session
of the legislature, it will not meet again til
October, 1872, the month succeeding the cleo
| tons that year for Congressman. 1t is pro
posed to re-distrietthe State at the present SEES
sion, to save the extra session, but this rropo
sition is opposed on the ground that, if thu
State is re-districted it will hasten reduction
by Congress of the representation.
, Triton AND FULTON.
I The Boston papers say the Tilton Ind Full