Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-01
NEWS BY MAIL.

The KuKlux and the Mormons are both
afraid Of packed juries.
North Carolina mountaineers are busily
preparing ginseng for the market.
Tweed has been arrested and held to bail
| in $500, 900, that twin prodigy of Tammany,
Erie, being his bond.
Hawkinsville, Ga, is puzzled to account
tor two different species of potatoes on the
| same vine.
A city man, who knows all about farming,
says the best way to raise strawb berries is
with spoon.
West Virginia on Thursday elected dele
gates to the Constitutional Convention, in
favor of which the people decided last
August.
Nearly all the available lodgings in Rome
for the coming winter are already secured for
families hailing from the United States.
Nantucket is being threatened with an in
vasion of whales Several have been seen
and caught there recently.
An English orator made the brilliant sug-
gestion that the Queens ailment was the con-
sequence of revaccinaton.
an alarming proportion in some parts of Ger
many and Belgium.
conclave of Cardinals, to consider the
action which the Sacred College should take
in the event of the Popes death, is shortly to
be held at some point in France.
Mrs. Fish arrived in Washington Friday
night. The Secretary will not keep house
this winter, having engaged apartments at the
Arlington House, where he is now presiding.
Prince Napoleon has arrived at Genoa,
whence he Will proceed at once to Florence.
The trial of Kelley, for the murder of Head
constable Talbot, began in Dublin Monday.
The prisoner was escorted to court by sol
diers.
The commissioner OF patents has refused
the application of +. G.. Wilson, of Boston,
for an extension of his patent for steam
guage.
The official statement show the total amount
of brandy manufactured in the United States
| from fruit distillation, during the last fiscal
year, to have been 2, 1919, 1873 gallons.
| Henry Whitlaw, a colored man, has been
| appointed steward of the White House, in
place of V. Melah. The President himself
went on the new stewards bond for $50 900
The official report of the Philadelphia
board of health shows that there were 50
deaths from smallpox in that city last week,
an increase of | over the previous week.
| 1t is thought that the assembly will remove
| its session from Versailles to Paris during
the winter, on account of the cold weather,
the means of protection against which in the
| rooms at Versailles is not deemed adequate.
| The President, at the request of Senator
Brownlow and Representatives Maynard and
Butler of Tennessee, has suspended under
the tenure of office act Colonel L. c. Camp,
for nearly three years under United States
attorney for the eastern district of that State.
Attorney General Alderman, who arrived in
| Washington on Saturday evening, came d.
| rectly through from Yorkvillr, $. c., in which
| neighborhood he had been for the past three
weeks. lie reports that the stampede OF
citizens from the counties in whicht the habeas
corpus is suspended have been greatly ex-
aggerated, and that instead of five hundred
persons having left York county since the
Presidents proclamation of the 18th, prob
ably less than one half that number have
gone.