Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-28
NEWS BY MAIL.

Large quantities of grain are purchasing at
Prince Edward Island for shipment to France.
In a case before Judge Cox, few days
ago, it was decided that where persons give
local reporters items for publication. which
prove to be untrue and libellous, the informer
is liable.
Central Park, Broadway and the uptown
avenues in New York were thronged with
sleighs on Wednesday, the sleighing being
excellent and the weather moderate.
Judge Kelley of Pennsylvania, has pro-
posed to make the liquor and tobacco inter-
ests bear the burden of internal taxation.
Among the latest rumors is one to the eff
feet that President Grant will provide for
Senator Thayer by appointing him minister
to Portugal to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Shellabarger.
The Burns anniversary dinner took place
at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, on
Wednesday evening. The attendance was
| small. Mr.. Longfellow was present, and re-
| sponded to the toast of Poetry and the
Poets"
The first ballot in the joint convention of
| the Kansas Legislature for the election of a
U. S. Senator, resulted as follows Alex
| ander Caldwell 81, Samuel J. Crawford "a,
and Ex-Governor Shannon, 2.
A bill has been prepared, and will be intro
duced in the House in few days, taking pre-
| liminary action toward obtaining damages
| from the British Oriental Steamship Com
pany, for the loss of the United States steam
| er Oneida last summer.
American literature has lost one of its
| most distinguished ornaments, through the
nf Mr GnprUa xrt, atap
choly event took place Thursday morning
between and o'clock, at his residence in
Park street, Boston.
1t is now certain that there will be Re-
publican majority of 46, if not As, in the
House of Representatives of the Forty-S Sec
ond Congress. Three of the Republican
Congressman elect from Georgia have already
received certificates of their election, with a
contingent prospect of two more from the
Second and Fifth Districts. -Four more States
are yet to hold election, viz, California and
Texas in July, New Hampshire on the sec
ond Tuesday in April.
Small pox has been very prevalent in Lon
don. In the middle of December there were
six hundred cases at one time, and in one
| week there were torty-four deaths. But the
value OF vaccination in mitigation, even
where it does not prevent the disease, has
| been strikingly shown. OF the hundred and
| f1fty-three cases in the smallpox hospital,
| ninety eight person had been vaccinated and
| forty three had not OF the former, two died,
and of the latter fourteen died, showing that
of those who had been vaccinated one in forty
| nine died, and of those who had not been
vaccinated one in three died.
| In the Senate Thursday the pension appro
priation bill was passed without the amend
| meut to provide for the increase recently au-
| thorized. The bill repeating the income tax
| was then taken up, debated and passed-26 to
%, In the House communication from
Commissioner Pleasanton concerning the in
come tax was presented. A bill was intro
duced allowing an additional representation
in the forty-second Congress to certain States.
The Indian appropriation bill was discussed.
The investigation of General Buffers man.
agement of soldiers was continued Thursday,
General E. w. Hincks of Cambridge was be-
fore the committee. He testified that he was
employed by the board to examine sites for
| the eastern branch asylum; that he selected
and purchysed grounds near Augusta, Me,
of which institution he was governor for
year atler its establishment. The property
was an abandoned watering-place, on which
the former owners had spent 100000. The
price asked was 100000, and the amount
paid was 1000. The owner was Mrs.
Mckle of New York, who had received it
| from former husband, Horace Beales. The
evidence failed to establish any foundation
| for the story that Mrs. Nickle did not receive
| the whole amount of $50 200, according to
| the term of the contract,