Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-20
NEWS BY MAIL.

The North German Lloyds Steamship Com
pany has contracted to carry a monthly mail
between England and Venezuela.
John Covington Burch, journal clerk of the
Senate of the United States, died in Washing
ton on Monday night, aged 81 years. 81
The Secretary of the Treasury has an
proved the regulations for the inspection of
steamboats, agreed upon by the board Of
steamboat inspectors.
| Ship Minerva, from Liverpool to Montreal
has been lost off Cape Breton. The passen-
gers and crew were saved.
ALI complaints against the New York po-
lice previous to the 18th have been dismissed,
for meritorious conduct on that day.
General Parker the Indian commissioner,
it is understood will return to the practice of
engineering, which was his profession before
the war.
The Brazilian senate has authorized the
government to contract loan of four million
pounds sterling, and has also passed bill
providing for an imposition Ola tax of four
per cent on imports.
nolle pros. was entered Tuesday at
Washington in the case of Joseph Segar, who
made an attack upon w. G. Lincoln with q
heavy cane about year ago, as he was leav-
ing the Baltimore and Ohio depot. ds
The executive committee of the New Eng
land Agricultural Society have just made
their special premium list for the best run
ming, trotting and p acing horses, to be ex-
hibited at the great fair which is to be held at
Lowell, beginning on Tuesday, September g..
There are eleven purses, and the premiums
amount to about $500, for matches open to
all horses ia New England. ~
u The Internal Revenue Bureau is concen-
trating the revenue collection divisions in all
of the collection districts of the country as
rapidly as possible, and the number of off,
Gals is reduced In every instance where the
cost of collecting is disproportionate to the
amount received. This expensive branch Of
the service will soon be trimmed down to q
proper margin.
On Sunday, July 9, the steamboat Oliver
Bascom passed through the great draw-bridge
at Rouse's Point, N. Y, and entered Lake
Champlain with raft of timber of enormous
dimensions in tow. This monstrous append
age contained 1901 900 cubic feet of timber,
end was 2200 feet in length, the boat with the
tow line and raft stretching along the water
| full half mile. This timber came from
Ottawa, and was on its way to New York
city.
The st. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette of Saturday
gives the following particulars Of the death,
by lightning, of Mrs. Lowell and Mr.. Blake
more, during the terrible storm in that vicinity
on Thursday last. The house in witch the
two persons named were killed is situated
about five miles southeast from st. Joseph.
1t is three stories high, with three principal
rooms and hall on each floor. When the
storm commenced, Mrs. Lowell was up stairs
in back room reading from the bible to her
little daughter. The window Of the room
having been blown open, she took her chi
dren, ran down stairs, passing from the hall
into bedroom, put the children on bed,
and kneeled at the bedside. In this position
the lightning struck her, causing instant
death. Mr. Blakemore was in the hall and
the same bolt killed him. Several other per-
sons were more or less injured. Mrs. Lowell
was the wife of John S. Lowell, of Warren
County. Virginia. Her husband is now in
Virginia City, Montana. The two daughters
with whom she was kneeling in prayer are
aged respectively nine and six years. They
were uninjured.