Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-03-24


first time in the history of Hapsburg dynasty
when one of its princes marries Protestant
lady.
Lord Napier says the Abyssinian expedition
cost 9oo,0oo,o0o pounds, though it was esti-
mated at 80, 100000 pounds.
The spring style of bonncts is described as
something like a un-fower on the peak of
a hay stack"
The cholera pcrvais in Africa to such an
extent that intended expeditions for the dis
coycry of the actual fate of DR.. Livingstone
will have to be delayed indefinitely.
Pierre Bonaparte has pleasant prospect in
view. Fifty Partisan radicals propose to re-
venge the death Of Victor Noir by shooting at
or being shot by the choeric Prince.
The New York Herald predicts the over
throw of the Democratic party in the next
State election, and with the loss of New York
the rapid disintergration and dissolution of the
party throughout the United States.
4 warrant has been issued for the arrest of
Miss Rose, teacher in the public schools, for
pushing down stairs pupil named Edward
Legg,a cripple. infcting injuries from which
it is feared he will not recover.
The Downicville (Cal,) Messenger says a
dozen Cinnamon lately organized themselves
into a pack train, and brought to town from
Sandy Flat safe weighing l,26o pounds
The safe was slung on long pole, and it took
1ay and a half to bring il down.
The fall in price resulting from the decline
in gold has increased the immense supplies OF
wheat stored at Chicago and other points
West. Western growers and dealers are now
being convinced, if they were never before,
of the folly of holding back grain.
The Chicago Tribune makes the pleasing
statement that the weakness which has existed
at the West in favor of currency imitation and
deprecated paper is rapidly disappearing, and
nearly all the northwestern papers speak OF
growing demand for specie resumption.
In the Superior Court of Boston on Satur-
day John Reed was convicted of snatching
package of money from merchants clerk on
the stairway of the First National Bank, and
sentenced to twelve years in the State prison.
In the British House of Commons Sir John
Packington said it was reported that the steam
ship City of Boston left New York loaded
twenty inches deeper than the underwriters
allowed, and he gave notice that he should
ask the Government to inform the House
if there was any truth in tins report.
The whaling ship "Truelove," now hailing
from Hull, England, is said to be the oldest
vessel afoat, having been built in Philadcl
phia in the year l7G4. Owing to a pecuiarity
in her model which those who are interested
in building ships for Polar voyages should
study, she has several times, when squeezed
by the ice, on occasions where other vessels
were destroyed risen up on the surface and
rested there till danger was over She has
made eighty voyages to Arctic seas and her
heart of oak is still sound. Her owners be-
lieve, with the poet, ''Trueove can never die"
The flood which destroyed the IIousatonic
dam at Birmingham, CT, dug out the passage
way TO depth of thirty feet which has been
filled in with rocks three quarters across the
whole space, and soon the entire space will be
filed, upon which rocks and gravel will be piled
until the whole river is thoroughly blocked,
and the water turned off by the gateways and
locks on the western side of the river. When
this is done a Golfer dam will be pumped out
from the basin, and the work of laying the
main dam will begin.
The Fullerton trial ended in New York
U,Jp Nv tr;n 1,ft bn
accused. Ex-Judge Porter made the closing
t appeal, and asked the court to charge the Jury
that there was no evidence to convict Fuller
ton. The Judges took that view of the case,
and the jury promptly returned a verdict of
not guilty. There was quite demonstration
over the result.
Last week, little daughter of Jacob Miller,
living near Osborn, Green County, Ohio, was
sent on an errand to the house. of neighbor
named Robert Krkwood, and, upon entering
the yard, was set upon by couple ofvicous
dogs. Her cries attracted the attention of Mr.
Krkwood's family, who fastened to her res
> cue but she had been so lacerated that she
died during the night in intense agony.
The lofty courage and resignation with
which Captain Williams of the Oneida, clung
to his ship, were not the first manifestations of
high principle he had made in his nautical ca
reer In 1858, when midshipman on the
: Decatur, he volunteered to take off the Off
GERS and crew of the British ship Cleopatra,
discovered in a sinking condition. lie sue
ceeded in saving every soul, at the great peril
of his own safety. A vessel of the same ma
ton refused to save him and his crew. when
: it was in their power.