Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-04
NEWS BY MAIL.

The result of the election in Terre Haute
Tuesday was in favor of the republicans by
large gains.
The New York republican executive COM
uiittee has adopted resolution, forty in IA
vor Of the annexation of San Domingo to one
against.
General Cook has, by special order of the
President, been assigned to command the de-
partment of Arizona, in place of General
Stoneman.
The British high commissioners on Mon
day made a visit to the Great Falls on the
Potomac, fifteen miles above Washington.
No person or property on the Kansas Pa.
cifc Railroad has been injured by the Indians,
nor has the passage of trains been INSTRUCTED,
as previously reported.
The Ku-Klux act has been officially print-
ed, and the President will speedily issue a
proclamation inviting attention to its provis-
ions, and declaring his determination to en-
force them promptly and thoroughly with the
forces of the United States. Advices from
the South show that the law has already had
moral effect there, and that the Democrats
are at last exerting themselves to repress dis
orders.
The second annual reunion of the Alumni
OF Colby University Formerly Waterville
College) resident in Boston and its vicinity
was observed Tuesday evening by dinner at
the Parker House. Some fifty or more gen.
tlemen were present, among them some of the
most eminent graduates of the University.
Dinner was served at 8 o'clock, and an
hour was agreeably passed in its diligent dis
cussion, after which Mr.. Paine called on the
chairman of the committee appointed at the
last reunion to draft a form of organization,
Rev. DIR. Lamson, to report the result of its
action.
Da. Lamson then submitted his report, t.
the effect that the association be known as the
Boston Alumni Association of Colby Univer-
sity that its object is the promotion of good
fellowship and the preservation of college as
sociations; that it meet once year in Bos-
ton; that its officers shall consist of Presi-
dent, Recording Secretary and an Execu-
tive Committee of five.
The report was accepted and adopted, and
committee of three was appointed by the
chair to select list of officers under the new
constitution to serve for the ensuing year.
Rev. Dr. Lamson, A. II. Briggs, Esq. and
Prof. Hamlin were affirmed this committee
Subsequently they reported the following list
of officers:
President, Hon. II. w. Paine; Recording
Secretary, Rev. o. S. Stearns, d. d.; Ex-
ecutive Committee, A. H. Briggs, Esq, A.
X. Crane, L. Denton, w. Lamson, D. D., O.
5. Stearns, ID. d.
Mr.. Paine accepted the Presidency in a
pleasant speech, wherein he expressed graft
tcation over the absence of the reporters,
since such absence gave warrant for greater
freedom of expression.
Mr.. Bugs read letters of regret for nom
attendance and of sympathy with the objects
of the association, from Hon. A. G. Jewett,
Mayor of Belfast, class of 90; S. B. Page of
Ohio, class of 49, Hon. j.. S. Wiley, class
OF 80; Hon. c. r. Whidden, class of '43;
Hon. Albert w. Paine, class of 80; Gardi-
ner Colby. Patron of the University
Remarks of highly entertaing character
were made by Rev. DR.. Lamson, Rev. d.
Caldwell, Il. w. Woods, M. D., a resident
for thirty years of the Sandwich Islands,
Rev. DIR. Geo. w. Ellsworth of Haverhill,
class of 81, and others
The festivities were concluded at an early
hour. and the company separated with ex-
pressions of qualification over an evening so
pleasantly and proftably spent.