Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-07-07
home as soon as the infallibility dogma is
officially promulgated.

home as soon as the infallibility dogma is
officially promulgated
Hans Christian Andersen, the story teller Of
Copenhagen, few days previous to the death
of Charles Dickens, had received and accept
ed an invitation from the latter to pass a few
weeks next autumn at Gad's Hill.
The President spent his Fourth of July at
Woodstock, Conn; Vice President Colfax at
Meadvillc, Pa, where he delivered an Grafton !;
and Secretary Fish at his home on the Hud-
son.
General Sherman and Lieutenant General
Sheridan are both apprehensive of speedy
and wide spread Indian war, and are making
preparations for the event
The people of Illinois voted, Saturday, on
the new constitution for that State, and the
returns, so far as received, indicate that it has
been adopted by large majority, and that all
the articles submitted to separate vote, in
GLIDING that providing for the representation
of minorties have also been adopted.
Judge Chase has rendered an important de-
cision in the United States District Court for
Virginia The case was this: +. S. Talley,
administrator for the children of John Starke.
deceased, having In his hands the sum Of
S., 900 belonging to said children, invested
the same, in the year 1868, during the pro-
gress of the late war, in Confederate bonds.
Judge Chase decides that the investment COM
planned of is imperative, and orders an &C.
At .l~co l. II
and the payment of such a sum as may be
found.
Eighteen thousand emigrants left Liverpool
in June for various American ports.
The two wild Australian children" that
constitute side show in Forepaugh's circus
are pair of Warwick county, Indiana, idiots
The Evansville journal says the children
were apprenticed to the sh owmen in that city
by their father not more than three years
ago.
The lay delegation question in the Meth
odist Episcopal Church is at length settled.
The German and Swiss Conference at Carls-
| ruhe, the last to vote on the admission of lay
delegates to the General Conference, cast all
its thirty nine votes in favor of the change
and the entire vote of the ministry of the
| church is 4, 946 for and 1859 against lay del
egation; a majority of more than the three
fourths required to sanction constitutional
REFORM the lay members of the church and
the General Conference having already voted
in favor of it.
Mrs Eliza II. Barber of Portsmouth, N.
H., widow of Jethro L. Barber, was burned
to death Sunday afternoon Her grandson
Daniel had left her about half an hour before
fire was discovered in her room she was then
sitting at a table near and back to stove,
eating strawberries. Shortly before o'clock,
Mr. David Marshal, neighbor, discovered
smoke issuing from the house and with others
entered Mrs. BARRIERS room, found it on fire
and full of smoke, the old lady lying dead
upon the floor, her clothes being burned off
and her body blackened and burnedto a crisp.
| The fire was speedily extinguished, and twas
found that the chair on which she had been
sitting was scorched anda closet door against
which she had fallen was badly scorched and
had some of the flesh from her face adhering
to it. Her body presented horrible specta-
Gle. No doubt the fire was communicated to
to her clothing by the stove. Mrs. Barber
was IS years of age, was lame, and feeble in
health; SO much SO that she probably had
not sufficient strength to raise her voice loud
enough to be heard by any one in the house
or on the street.