Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-19
NEWS By MAIL.

MT. Ieters VI hdiHe presented the petl-
ton in the House on Tuesday, of +. B.
Trickey of Maine, for pension
The Boston Sewing Circle are now send
ing boxes of clothing to the destitute women
and children of France.
Seno Ribolo has been elected President of
Paraguay.
The Cuban agents in New York do not be
leve that any disaster has happened to the
Hornet or her cargo.
Al committee has been appointed by the
Methodist Book Concern investigating COM
mittee to mediate between DIR. Lanahan and
his accusers and bring about settlement
Daniel Waffngton's cotton mill at the Falls
of Schuylkill, PENN, was burned Tuesday
morning. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The Easton, Penn, post office was robted
on Monday night of $500, and an express
messenger was robbed at the railroad station
there last night.
George S. Kinds hay, -four and grain store,
at No. l75 Canal street, Providence, was
damaged by fire Tuesday evening to the
amount of $4,000 to $4,000. Incendary.
Mr.. Motley writes that he will leave Eng
land for Holland to commence his literary
work of completing the history of the Meth
erlands,. on the Goth of. the present month.
During the past year the Supreme Court of
the State of New Hampshire, have had before
them for consideration three hundred and
thirteen applications for divorce. OF this
number two hundred and twenty-five cases
have been decided, and in one hundred and
tfty-seven instances divorces were granted.
Both houses of the Missouri Legislature
Tod al, G., I,,t
Tuesday afternoon, with the following result
In the Senate-Blair ~, Henderson III two
were absent. In the House-Blair 81; Hem
derson AZ.
The democrats of Connecticut have made
the following nominations; For Governor
James Il. English; Lieutenant G overnor-
julius Eotchkins; Secretary of State-Thom-
as M. VALE; Treasurer-Charles M. Pond
Comptroller-Seth S. Logan.
St. John, n B. dispatch states that the
schooner Enterprise, Captain Thorpe sailing
under British register in the name of Jaseph
Patch of Campobello, but owned exclusively
by her captain and Payne Brothers of East
port, was seized by Captain Belts of the Do
minion steamer Water Lily, while lying in
Bliss Harbor, n. b., on Wednesday last. |
Captain Thorpe owns to having taken one
hundred and twenty thousand herring to the
United States last week, and at the time the
vessel was seized was preparing nets to fish
again. The offence is making use of a Brit
ish register to evade the law, being at the
time owned by American citizens.
In the Senate yesterday, constitutional
amendment was offered concerning eligibility !
for the Presidency. Bills were introduced |
concerning life insurance companies and
American steamships lines to Europe. The |
remainder of the session was spent in debate |
on the bill to repay States for expenses in
CURED during the rebellion. In the House
of Representatives bill was introduced au-
thorizing the appointment of three commits
sioners on the question arising from Secre-
rotary Boutwells decision concerning the |
Pacific railroads, Bills were passed allowing
vessels which arrived December 81 the bene-
fit of the new tariff, and to prevent cruelty to
cattle to transit from one place to another.
In committee of the whole, the motion to in
crease the salaries of circuit judges was de-
bated and finally rejected. The appropriation
bill was finished and reported to the House,
as was also the West Point Academy bill.
Tuesday says the Boston Advertiser, was
the great day of the year for Senatorial elec~
tons. 1t was the time appointed by the act
of Congress in no less than ten States of the
Union. The action of most of the legisla-
lures was ueclueu III advance by party caucus
es have not reached us. In Maine, Cover
nor Morrill,, who has represented the State
with dignity and ability for ten years, was
reelected, as he well deserved to- be- Massa-
chusetts returned the Hon. Henry Wilson,
who has for a still longer time served his
State and the country faithfully and we'll.
General Logan attained the long desired hon
or of a seat in the Senate at the hands of the
Illinois legislature. Governor Clayton saw
the consumation of his schemes by the stuff
RACES of the Arkansas legislature, and Mr..
Ferry Of Michigan, like General Logan, will
leave vacant seat in the House to be con-
tended for by a new election. The Senate as
it is to be during the forty-second Congress is
now nearly, or quite, elected, and when the
full lists are made up we can count the losses
and gains, which are, however, small on eth
err side.