Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08
GENERAL NEWS.

| OurlnH the moving panic IN farls uas iusn
charged five hundred francs day.
General R. E. Lseis recovering. His ply
sicians say he will be out in day or two.
William II. Vesey, of the District of Co.
lumbia. has been appointed United States
Cousnl at Nice, France.
The divinity school at Yale College has
now more students than at any time for the
past twenty-five years.
Texas papers announce the arrival at Gal
weston of 200 recruits from Fort Columbus,
for the 18th Regiment L. S. Infantry, their
destination being Fort Conche.
Gen. Cordova is officially announced to sue
coed De Rodas rs Captain General Of Cuba.
The vomito has appeared at Tarragona and
Bilbao.
Young women will be admitted to the Uni
versity Of California, by late decision of the
board of regents, and there are several ap-
plications all ready.
A telegram from Shanghai says that the
North China Herald announces that treaty
has Just been concluded between China and
Japan for the expulsion of foreigners.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
holds that person who sells and subsequently
delivers books is a peddler, and not COM
mercial broker; and further, that each sig
nature to book agents subscription paper
requires five cent stamp.
= in
San Domingo, reports to friend in Washing
ton that the feeling for annexation 10 the
United States in that island is nearly unani-
nous, as the people can thus only be relieved
from state Of perpetual warfare.
At Christians, on the Nashville and Chat
tanooga Railroad, Monday night, the citizens
captured twenty gamblers and whipped them
They had been defrauding the white and black
employees of the railroad company.
The President has decided to pardon all the
Fenian prisoners who engaged in the late raid
and by the 10th inst they will all be free
GeA. O'Neill among the rest. This is done
by the President because he thinks they have
been sufficiently punished, and because they
promise to respect the laws of the country in
future.
President Woolsey, of Yale College, an.
nounces his resignation at the close of the
present college year. in July next. He has
held he presidency of the college twenty-t five
years. Professors Porter, Dwight, Thatcher
and Gilman, of Yale, the Rev. DR.. Thomp'
son, of New York, and President White, O.
Cornell Universities, are mentioned for the
succession.
Joseph Emerson Davis, brother of Jeffer
son Davis, died in Vicksburg on the 18th O
September, at the age of eighty-four years
He was native of South Carolina, but re-
moved to and settled in Mississippi at an early
age, where he has lived since, having become
possessed Of a large fortune. He took par
in the convention which framed the constitu
ton of Mississippi but afterward kept aloo
from politics.
Complaints in regard to the manner in which
the census has been taken in different parts o
the country are under investigation at the
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marshals are stopped in all cases where rea
son exists for supposing that the work ha
been improperly or imperfectly performed
The cases where substantial reasons for com
plants are shown are not, however, numer
Gus, and with the exception of New York
the almost universal disappointment of thu
larger cities has not lead to serious accusation
of negligence.
A correspondent at Madrid, writing on thu
2Sth ult, says The struggle between mon
| archy and republicanism here may last for /
, few months more; but it may be taken TO
, certain that if the Regent attains the power
| he demands and inclines the balance in favo
, of any particular candidature for the thron
he is lost. 1t is equally certain that if Prin
assumes the dictatorship we shall have civi
war lasting for year.
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