Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-31

Orders were issued on Saturday to prepare
for change of the gauge of the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad to four feet nine inches.
Thursday night, near Florence, KY, John
Houston was attacked by three highwaymen.
shot through the head and robbed of 800.
FIJI. ROLAND, city editor of the Cincinnati
Leader, has sued Frank Leslie for $4,000
damages for publishing story of his (Rol-
land's) being whipped by the women.
The barque Kate Smith of Yarmouth, No.
va Scotia, was wrecked off the coast of New
Jersey on Wednesday night, and her captain,
pilot and seven men were drowned.
The London Observer supposes that the
conference will be adjourned on account of
the capitulation. Turkey is opposed to Aus
tria's Introduction of the Danubian question
in the conference.
Miss Nilsson was seriously i'll at Cincin-
natl, on Saturday. She appears to have been
threatened with fever. 1t is not known when
she will be able to resume her concerts.
Percival B. Spear has been committed to
answer for the forgery of names to lis bond
for the performance of his duty as Indian
agent at Cheyenne. The appointment was
obtained by false representations, and has
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The complimentary banquet to Colonel J.
w. Forney, on his retiring from Washington
journalism on Saturday night, was attended
by 3G journalists, representing all shades of
political opinion and newspapers in all por-
tons of the country.
The trotting mare Village Maid, on Friday
evening ran away with her owner, w. Low
ell, and, dashing against the New Haven train
on Fourth avenue, New York, was instantly
killed. Lowell had been offered $4,000 for the
mare by an eastern man that very day.
The United States Senate was not in ses-
sion on Saturday, and the House met for gen.
eral debate only. The investigation into the
alleged frauds in the Indian bureau was con.
tinued on Friday.
The Special Committee of the Senate on
the condition Of affairs at the South has sum-
moned several Internal Revenue officers in
North and South Carolina here, to testify
concerning their respective districts. Gov.
eminent has information from these officials
that the spirit of outrage and resistance has
now taken the shape of absolute defiance OF
United States laws, which cannot be enforced.
In several instances State Courts, sympa-
thizing with the violators of the laws, freely
lend their aid to embarrass their officers and
defend their men engaged in fraud
Mr.. Hooper, the chairman of the committee
of ways and means, says that the action of the
House in passing the resolution returning
Senator SCOTS bill to the Senate with in
structions that the Senate with instructions
that the Senate in passing it had infringed up
on the House privileges, is no indication of
what the latter body will do when the propo-
sition to abolish the income tax is brought
properly before it.
Official advices from Cuba state that Cap
tain General Valmaseda is granting permits to
loyal planter to introduce Mexican colonists
under the same indenture system as Asiatic
coolies, which is virtually slavery. There are
reasons for believing that this is but step
ping stone toward the introduction of African
colonists, or to speak plainly, revival of the
slave trade.