Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-02-07
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Arkansas is in want of school-teachers and
blacksmiths.
Four thousand citizens of Memphis want to
be policemen.
The Fifteenth Amendment will give Mis-
souri, 90, 900 colored votes.
A license has been given for the perform
ance of Victor Hugo's dramas in Paris
a Knoxville paper wants the Republicans to
look out for the '.hand wrighting on the wall"
The Commission of Agriculture is unable
to supply the demand for seeds, plants etc
The trains on the railroads in Alabama are
crowded with emigrants for Texas and Louis
lana.
Income returns for 1870 will shortly afford
employment for the assistant assessors of in
ternal revenue.
A bill has been introduced into the New
York Legislature to sell the Sing Sing Prison
and locate elsewhere.
A Judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
has decided that a charitable bequest to an in
fidel society is void in law.
The California Assembly has refused to rati-
fy the Fifteenth Amendment by vote of to
81. As the Senate has already refused, the
State goes on record as against it.
A colored joint stock company has bought
farm near Augusta, Georgia.
Queen Victoria is fifty years of age EN-
press Eugene is forty three.
A seaman namcd Hartman, on board
schooner Entire, at Newport, fell from the
head of the maintopmast to the deck, on Tues
day, and was instantly killed. The deceased
belonged in Maine.
A correspondent of the Western Stock
Journal says if the hoofs and fetlocks of
a horse are well cleaned and then rubbed with
soft soap previous to taking them out in snowy
weather, it will prevent balls of snow collect
ing on the feet.
1t is estimated that the amount of money
deposited in all the savings banks of the Uni
ted States aggregates $500, 000, 900. Placing
our population at 10000, 900, this sum would
give $3.50 per head for every man woman
and child in the country.
In Cherokee county, Alabama lad named
William Dickson killed a playmate named
Wilcox, by filling pipe with powder and
tobacco, and giving it to him to smoke. The
explosion forced flame and tobacco down the
poor boys throat.
The Democrats in the Colorado Legislature
are disposed to turn tail upon all their antece-
dents, and go in for universal suffrage, colored
men and women alike. The way they get at
it is thus "Damn it, if you are going to let
the niggers and pgtails vote, we will ring in
the women too"
In Pennsylvania community rich peasant
died recently, and was to have been buried on
the 26th of Dec, but the clergy of the place
positively refused to allow the bells to be rung
as is the custom, or a sermon to be preached
over the corpse, because the deceased, when
alive would not pay his communal dues. The
peasant was finally inferred in the churchyard
of another village.
The National Baptist condemns the prevail
ing mania for ''fine churches" 'To build
equip and sustain these expensive edfices, and
furnish the requisite accommodations, gener
ally compels resort to very questionable
practices for the purpose of raising money.
More than this, our fine sanctuaries exclude
the poor; and the expense of building and sus-
tanning them leaves nothing for missionary
effort at home or abroad"
A Richmond despatch of the I'd inst, states
that information received there from the
Southwest reports that Mr. Charles Thomas
living some eight or ten miles from Floyd
Court House, was forcibly taken from his
home during the night and numerically
whipped by party of disguised men. 1t APP
pears that Thomas had been in the service of
the Internal Revenue as an informer, and up
on his reports several parties engaged in the
illicit distilation of whiskey, were arrested
and their property seized in that neighborhood.
To be revenged for this it is supposed the
friends of his victims administered to Thomas
the castigation. The unfortunate man was
stripped, bound and received several hundred
lashes, laid on by stalwart arms with strong