Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-01-15
GENERAL NEWS,

In 1862, some workmen kindled fire in
Missouri coal mine to warm themselves, and
last week it was found still burning
Somebody has found out that the present
high price of butter is attributable to the fact
that farmers daughters generally prefer the
piano to the churn.
Goldwin Smith will return to England this
year. Our climate does not agree with him.
SO say the English newspapers.
President Grant has sent in his first veto
message to Congress. 1t was received with
merriment e..
Chief Justice Chase is said to have written
letters to members of the Ohio Legislature,
urging them to ratify the fifteenth amendment.
1t is reported from Washington that the style
of the St. Domingo negotiation is criticized
in some quarters severely, but the general
proposition to annex the Island is popular in
both Houses.
In addition to establishing several daily
papers, New Zealand now demands a monthly
line of mail steamers to San Francisco, which
is displaying new zeal and enterprise.
After examing authorities bearing upon the
subject, it is found that Speaker Blaine was
right in Withdrawing his vote on the Bingham
resolve, and those who were disposed to CEN
sure acknowledge their error.
Five thousand marriage licenses were gran
ted in Chicago last year. The divorce rec
ord is still ahead. The Chicago papers refuse
to publish it, pleading lack of room.'
Excursions to Egypt, the Suez Canal, and
Palestine, in forty days, are advertised in
England, for 100 guineas.
A thoroughly English act is reported by
cable. The Grown seizes a portion of the
Peabody estate because Mr.. Peabody was an
alien.
The editor of Kentucky paper claims to
have in his possession the tomahawk which
Tecumseh threw at Colonel Richard NJ. john
son, just before the latter killed him.
The Senate has confirmed H. NJ. Blodgett
to be judge of the United States District Court
for the North district of Illinois. ..,.-
Five children were burned to death in De-
troit on Monday night A house occupied as
Henry de Carissin, was destroyed. Another
child was thrown from an upper window and
saved from death, but had its leg broken.
The President of the Tennessee Constitu-
officer in the rebel army, is saidto be in favor
of universal manhood suffrage, and was one
of the generals who pledged themselves to
lend their aid to put down the Ku Klux Klan
and other conspirators against the peace.
Governor Hayes has begun his second official
term as the Executive of Ohio, In regard to
the proposed amendment of the Constitution,
he recommends that counties and municipal
corporations be permitted to aid in the con-
struction of railroads, and that judges of the
courts be appointed instead of elected.
A young milliner in Fort Edward, N. Y,
to whom her affianced lover, young English
nobleman, left SIT 900, 900 at his death, some
months ago, is a native Of Glover, N. Y, and
the niece of Daniel Gray, of that town. All
attempts to set aside the will have been aban-
doned, and she is informed by her agent in
London that an instalment of $5 ZOO, 900 will
be forwarded the present month.
The Bombay (India) Gazette, well-in-
formed journal, estimates the deaths from
want Of food in all Rajpootana at not fewer
than half million; and besides, pestilence
has, as usual, followed famine. For the last
two months the people have been cut down by
a most persistent fever and murrain, or SWELL
ing Of the limbs and face, caused by living on
grass seed. The people have lost heart, and
the mortality is saddening In some villages,
from 10 to IL per cent. of the inhabitants died
during the month of October alone.