Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-28
NEWS BY MAIL.

The President Thursday morning appoint
ed Caleb b. Lord Assessor of Internal Rev.
enue for the first district of Maine.
despatch from Washington states tina,
the President will appoint Thursday, Nov.
%, as day of national thanksgiving. The
proclamation will soon be issued.
Another terrible colliery disaster occurred
near Newcastle, England, Thursday after
noon. An explosion took place in the Sea-
han mine, and thirty-three men were buried
in the pit.
William b. Stokes, an ex-Congressmap.
and now supervisor of internal revenue for
Tennessee, was ARRESTED in Washington
Thursday, charged with defrauding the gov
eminent to the amount of $50, 600
lecture on the Chicago fire was delivered
Thursday evening in fremont Temple by
Gen. James A. Hall of Maine, the proceeds
being devoted to the Chicago relief fund.
lie gave general account of the situation
and divisions of the city, and narrated some
incidents of the fire which fell under his own
observation. He believed that the fire was
the work of incendiaries for the purpose of
plumber.
The colored convention at Columbia, S. C.
nnally adjourned on Tuesday, having organ
lied national civil rights association, of
which Representative Elliott of South Caro-
lima is elected president, and Represe sentative
Rainey of the same State treasurer, with a
full list vice-presidents from each of the
southern States. national labor union
which will hold its first meeting in Memphis
next June, was organized, and resolutions
thanking Senator Sumner for his letter and
suggestions to the convention passed
Hon. Thomas Ewing, father-in-law Of
Gen. w. L. Sherman died Thursday at the
age OF 81. He was anative of West Virginia.
and, with his fathers family settled in the
wilds OF Ohio, about 1899, where he enioyed
the advantages of winter school and an
academy. He received the first degree of
A. b. ever granted in Ohio; and he studied
law and was admitted to the bar in 1916.
practicing with success in the courts of Ohio
and the Supreme Court of the United States.
In 1880 he was elected to seat in the United
States Senate from Ohio, where he remained
until 1887; he was member of President
Harrisoa's cabinet, as Secretary of the
treasury, in lS4l; on the accession of Pres
ldent Taylor to the Presidency in lS49, he
was invited into the cabinet, and took charge
OF the new Department of the Interior; and
IN 1900, he was appointed to a seat in the
United States Senate, where he remained un-
till 1851, when he retired from political life,
and resumed the practice of his profession in
Ohio.
The reportthat the German Arctic expedition
has discovered the open Polar Sea brings to
mind the second expedition of DIR. Kane and
his perilous overland journey to the point
from which he saw, in the inaccessible dis
lance, the waters of an open sea. This dis
covery, though met at the time with some
questions, is supposed to have been confirm
ed by the similar report of the German ex-
petition. 1t is curious to find that no less
than seven expeditions are now engaged in
Arctic research-two from Germany, one
from Sweden, one from Scotland under La
mont, one from France under Pavy, and the
expedition from the United States.