Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-18
GENERAL NEWS.


the Star.
A despatch says the Emperor of Brazil will
visit this country in September, and remain
two months.
Thomas Carlyle has been reelected presi
dent of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institu
ton.
a younger brother of Mr.. Thomas Hughes
NJ. p, is in St. Louis, on business for the
London house with which he is connected.
There is much excitement in ST. Louis
owing to the admission of negroes into the
city railroad cars.
The University of Kentucky has purchased
Ashland, the home of Henry Clay, for $780,
900.
The President has ordered the Ku-Klux
law to be enforced in South Carolina, and
l6 persons charged with outrages have been
arrested in North Carolina.
Snow has recently fallen in various parts
of the country, and the reporters don't know
whether to credit it to last winter or next win
ter.
There is now but one daily-pap in New
England printed in quarto form-the Spring
field Republican. There are but two or three
of that kind in the West.
The revised registration in Norfolk, Va,
gives the whites All majority, gain Of 230
over last year. Portsmouth shows white
majority of 733.
General H. A. Barnum, commander of the
New York department of the Grand Army of
the Republic, has issued circular order re-
questing general observance of Decoration
day.
An insane man entered the church of St.
Vincent Ferrer, New York, during mass
Sunday, and created disturbance. He
stabbed man in the forehead and then de-
Tended himself with an axe until arrested by
the police.
A despatch from Berlin announces that
twenty-eight archbishops and bishops of the
Catholic Church have petitiened the Emperor
of Austria to demand of Italy the restoration
of Rome to the Pope and suitable territory
TO insure his independence.
Over 1000 claims, amounting to several
millions of dollars, have been filed with the
southern claims commission, who will require
evidence, on all of over $4,000 in amount, to
be given before them in Washington.
Commander Henry Eben, Jr., with a de-
tachment of $50 men from the Brooklyn navy
yard, sailed on Saturday for Key West, to
take charge of the iron-clads which are to be
sent to League Island to be laid up.
Mrs. Arson Burlingame, widow of the late
Minister Burlingame, daughter and maid has
arrived at New York from Europe. 1t is said
that Mrs. Burlngame will reside in New York
permanently.
A Mississippi correspondent says that JEFF.
Thompson, who was known during the war as
a vagabond soldier and rebel rowdy of the
first rank, is now trying to raise cotton on a
small plantation in that State, with indiffer-
ent success.
The Emperor of Germany is reported to be
practical printer. All the members of the
royal family of Prussia are required tG learn
some trade, and William choose Typography
as the most desirable craft, and spent three
years at the case
An estate in Germany, valued at 81. 5OO,-
ooO is said to be seeking as one of the heirs.
Frederick William Keyser, who served as a
Union soldier during our war and who, VIII, n
last heard FROM was paroled prisoner, lying
seriously ill at Wilmington, N. C.
The most expensive coal breaker in the ar
thracite regions has recently been completed
on the coal land Of the Erie Railway Com
pany at Carbondale, Luzerne County. Its
cost was 100000. Schuylkill County has
breakers costing $500, 900, and the new break
err Of the Delaware, Lackawanna and West.
ern Railroad Company, at Scranton, cost
$3.50, 200.