Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-03
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Secretary Cox will resume the practice OF
the law in Cincinnati.
For the first time in thirty years, the New
Haven county jail is without female pris-
oner.
William Dunn. the supposed robber of the
Grafton bank, was discharged IN New York,
bv Judge Downing. for lack of evidence.
The President has appointed Robert W.
Jewell, of Mississippi, consul at Canton, and
Horace IL. Houghton, of Illinois, consul at
Pernambuco.
Canada Ross, prisoner in charge of some
deputy constables, was killed on Sunday
night, near Helena, Ark, while attempting
to escape.
josh Billings says; a lire man in a village
is like a case of itch in district school-it
sets everybody in it to scratching"
Hon. Ezekiel Hurd, formerly Associate
Judge of the Courts of New Hampshire, and
for the last seventeen years Cashier of the
Cocheco National Bank died at his residence
in Dover on Saturday evening last, aged
sevcnty-three years.
The Scandinavians of Boston will give Miss
Nilsson reception and serenade tonight at
the Revere House.
A mother recently addressed her daughter
thus: MY daughter, you are now fifteen
years of age, engaged to be be married, and
without freckle on your face. have done
my duty"
The coroners jury in the case of George
Twedle, killed while attempting to plumber
Agostine's gun shop in New York, rendered
a verdict censuring Agostine for placing
,rap-gun in position.
The unsghtly Notifications in the grounds
surrounding the Capitol building in Nashville
are being removed, preparatory to general
terracing and emDelishing OF the grounds
Mile Christine Nilsson gives five concerts
at Music Hall, Boston, on the coming Friday,
Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, and grand
matinee on the 18th.
The school visitors of Vernon, Conn,
soemnly aver that in their opinion the rising
generation can never learn to write properly,
unless they 90 back to the goosequill of their
grandtathcrs.
The damage from the hurricane at Matan-
zas is estimated at six millions of dollars
and within the jurisdiction of that city, twelve
millions Bodies are constantly washing
ashore.
Two fillibustering schooners from the
United States have been captured, near Nue.
vitas, by the Spanish authorities. They were
laden with arms and clothing for the insur-
gents Four of the crew were captured.
The Panama and West India Cable expe-
dition has sailed from Aspinwall. The pay
ing out was going on successfully, and the
signals were perfect.
In St, Domingo the dissatisfaction against
Baez is general, and a rising would have ia
ken place long ago but for the presence of an
American man-of-war. The loan with Hart
man K Co., London, proved failure.
new cabinet has been formed at Lisbon
under the presidency of Avila, as follow =
Avila, minister OF foreign Affairs; Bishop
Vizhi, of the interior and public instruction:
Caryaiho, of finance; Darigo, of war; Com
bel, of marine.
1t is said that, at the lowest calculation,
500 900 bales of cotton will be made in Geor-
gia during the present season, and that the
wheat crop is the finest ever gathered in the
State.
A large bed of porcelain clay of superior
guilty, which was discovered at Sharon
Conn, several years ago, is now being
worked 1t is used in the manufacture of
paper, and as a material for porcelain wares
it is unrivaled.
Rosa Bonheur has arrived in London, and
is coming to America to visit. our western
prairies and study the wild buffalo and see
the other wild animals of the prairies in their
natural haunts.
News from Venezuela is to the 10th instant
Maracalis still held out. The archbishop of
Curaccas was banished for showing favor to
insurgents, but President Blanco refused to
sanction the act and recalled the archbishop.
The apple crop in the interior of New York
is enormous. The estimated yield in Genesse
county alone is 1870, 900 barrels Prices range
from 81 to $3.50 barrel. The potato crop
is also immense, and parties are buying
heavily for shipment, principally to the West,
at prices varying from fifty to sixty cents
bushel.
The Japanese official commission of obser-
walton of the European war arrived in New
York city Thursday, by the overland route
1t is composed of fourteen young men of high
rank. All bnt two will soon leave for Eu-
rope with the design of spending four or five
years in the prominent capitals.