Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-09

John Ii. keyser has made an assignment to
the committee of seventy to make good what
ever money he may have received illegally
on account of the new courthouse at New
York.
report from North Carolina states that
Ku-klux outrages are reviving there in con-
| sequence of report that the United States
Government will not prosecute any more of
| these cases at present. 1t is also stated that
witnesses in the late cases at Raleigh have
been compelled to leave the State to save
themselves from being Ku-Kluxed.
The walnut crop throughout Connecticut
will be very large this season.
State of Iowa, will be in operation in ten
days.
The death rates of Paris, London and New
York show the former to be By far the most
healthy CITY,
Russia is to have national fair lasting
eight weeks as soon as the weather gets cold
enough.
Stomach pumps are to be placed, it is said,
in the Richmond, Va, police stations for the
benefit of would-be suicides.
| Miss Vaustry of Nashville, has secured
| cool ten thousand, as the price of damage in
ficted on her affections by recreant lover.
A Philadelphia lawyer was rebuked by the
Court for insulting witness, last Saturday,
and the rebuke was emphasized by fine of
twenty-five dollars, with threat of imprison-
ment if the offence is repeated.
The Illinois State Fair was a failure finan-
cially. Horse racing has been the recourse
of most of the agricultural Fairs for the past
six years, and that has become to common
to be very attractive.
The sentence of Major Hodge, the default
ing Paymaster, it is understood, will be to be
cashiered, forfeiture of all pay and allow
ances due him, and to suffer five years inn
prisOnment at hard labor.
An absent husband received the following
comprehensive letter from his wife in Ban
ger: My dear husband-I have washed and
baked, and had a boy baby; get through at
2 80. Think I'll rest q week. Affectionate-
| ly your wife. M %
Jack Frost, a few days since, destroyed
about fifteen tons of grapes at the West
| borough, Mass, Reform School, valued at
$1,000.
and has handle which pulls out and forms q
fan, and can also be detached when the glass
| is not use.
Columns of hot water 800 feet high are
among the wonders of the Yellowstone VAL
| ley in Wyoming, They surpass the geysers
of California.
The Provincetown Advocate says the cod
| fishing fleet has been unusually successful
this season, but prices are SO low only lew
vessels will make profit.
| A Miss Nichols, of Plaistow, N. H., has
been presented with an elegant gold watch
| and chain, as a recognition Of the fact that
she is "model christian woman"
| young lady who has been engaged to an
officer in the navy for tire years, and writes
TO him every day, begins to look upon the
whole thing as sad waste of good letter
paper and postage stamps.
There are twenty eight gravestones in the
Laramie cemetery, and on nineteen of these
the epitaph is simply "kllled."
The New York correspondent of the Bos-
ton Journal speak of the appearance of May
or Hall under arrest as follows: He rode up
to the Police Court in Harlem on splendid
Arab horse. He was daintily dressed, with
fine kids and glossy beaver. A great crowd
assembled outside and a hundred Milesisn
voters offered to hold his Honor's horse.
He appeared in court with his button-hole
garnished with a good-sized bouquet and
snilingly answered to the Indictment, waiv-
| ing an examination and offering bail. His
own recognizance was taken, and bowling po-
litely to the Judge, he departed. The huzzas
of his friends attended his mounting. In
spite of all this nonchalence the Mayor is
mortified and troubled. A committee of
practical workmen are examining the public
buildings, with view of having Tweed, Con-
molly, and Sweeney arrested. Developments
more startling and criminal than any that
have yet been published are soon to be made
known. The charge of Judge Barnard, Just
on the eve of his nomination for reelection,
is very startling. There are probably 10000
men drawing money from the City Treasury
at this moment who have no just claim to the
money. The Judge promises that this shall
be broken up, with repeating, straw bail,
putting dead men on the pay rolls, false vof-
ing and the other crimes for which Tammany
has become so infamous. We shall havsA
| lively season this autumn.