Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-05
GENERAL NEWS.

The trial of Hon. Plato Durham, prom-
nent democratic politician, under the Ku-
Klux act, began at Raleigh, North Carolina,
on Monday. Seven Ku-Klux prisoners
pleaded guilty and exposed the organization.
We have again accounts of several dread
full shpwrecks on the coast of England. The
year has been specially disastrous to shipping
and probably more on the English coast than
for many years.
For wedding invitations this season mhny
vitatious inscribed on it in script, and only
two cards, one with the name of the groom
and the other that of the bride.
Mrs. Phebe Lafeld, l04 years old, arrived
in Hamilton, o., the other day, on the road to
visit her sister, aged ninety-six. The old la
was hale and hearty, and not at all fatigued
with her journey.
The peril at which army surgeons pursue
their vocation in time of war is shown by the
record in the Lancet, that of the German
military medical officers in France, six died
on the field of battle, sixty-six after gunshot
wounds, two were accidentally killed, twenty
in consequence of imprudence. Thus seven
ty-two at least out of one hundred and one
surgeons who missed the number of their
mess, have met their fate in common with the
combative officers and soldiers who have gone
down before the enemy.
An elegant casket of California trimmed
with California redwood and containing a SUI
perb set Of table cutlery, intended a pres
ent for General Grant, reached New York
from San Francisco last week.
The French will have to rely upon foreign
countries almost entirely until the next har-
vest for their breadstufs. Large orders are
} now coming to this country to supply the de-
ficiency occasioned by the war. One firm in
New York received an order from Havle, on
Saturday, for 1000 barrels of flour.
The patent office received $40 800 during
September. The applications for patents
numbered 1852. Extensions granted, %.
young lady became so dissatisfied with
her lover that she dismissed him. In revenge
he threatened to publish her letters to him
every WE'LL" replied the lady ~ have no
reason to be ashamed of any part of my let
tiers except the address,"
The discovery has been made, by some
Jealous defender of Vermont's fair fame, that
the Green Mountain State never had slave
In the first census of the United States, as
published and hitherto accepted as correct,
Vermont is credited with sixteen as slaves
These were all charged to the account of
Bennington county. But, on reference to the
original returns of the Vermont census, it
was found that, in the column headed ''saves,"
not single entry had been made, either in
Bennington any other county. Instead,
Bennington returned the number of ''free
blacks in the county as sixteen, and these
sixteen were credited to the towns which in
the census, as copied, were charged with
slaves. Thus, after many years, the "truth OF
history" is ascertained, and Vermont's free
record found untarnished.
Women have taken the field as journalists
IN large force in Germany. Nineteen of the
EDITORS there are women
n Advice to mothers-A switch in time saves
nine.
Many people esteem the first time they saw
. John Il. Owens in Scion Single the manifest
evening of their lives.