Daily Kennebec journal., 1872-12-18
GENERAL NEuS.

The Press Club gave reception to Mr.. \.
NJ. Stanley at the Parker House on Saturday
afternoon.
The lights on the Sandy Hook light ship
are to be changed from white to red
Mr.. Coifax has returned to Washington,
without having decided to assume the man
aging editorship of the Tribune.
There was destructive fire at Chesterville,
South Carolina, Sabbath morning, which de-
stroyed half the business part of the town.
Loss, $3.50 600.
An unknown schooner has been eapsizel
off Cape Ann, and four Of her crew are sup
posed to have been drowned
The creditors Of the Eighth National Danf
81 New York propose to bring criminal pro-
ceedings against the Directors.
The Cincinnati express train going west on
the Erie Railway from New York was thrown
! from the track Saturday at Basket Station.
Fortunately no one was injured.
Orders have been received hy the com
mandsnt Of the Brooklyn Navy Yard to fit
ont the storeshps Supply and Guard to re-
ceive such goods as the American exhibitors
may desire TO send to the Vienna Exposition
The Pennsylvania State and various city
Centennial Committee held conference Sat
urday and resolved to ask the Legislature for
handsome appropriation in aid of the Centen-
NAL Exposition.
The Chicago Post confidently expects that
Of the sixty five members of the Yale School
OF journalism, one or two may some time
gaze fooishly into the paste pot of country
weekly.
AT present South Carolina enjoys pract-
cal commercial monopoly of the natural phos-
phate deposits of the world, and the business
of phosphate digging there is rapidly ncreas-
ing. No other species of mining seems to af-
ford more certain returns on the investments
The artist world and all lovers of true ait,
will hear with profound pain of the death of
the excellent landscape painter, John Fred
erick kensett, which occurred in New York,
Saturday afternoon. Mr.. Kensett was born
in Cheshire, CT, March 22d, 1918.
The plan for fhc new lunatic hospital at
Worcester contemplates a building covering
an area of some 1900 by 400 feet in its ex-
treme outlines, and including central por-
ton with wings on each side falling back by
retreating angles.
Mr.. William II. Wadleigh, the defaultng
bookkeeper OF the Merchants National Bank
Of Boston was sentenced on Saturday to five
years imprisonment in Dedham Jail. Mr..
Wadleigh plead guilty, and the minimum pen
atty was decreed.
Archibald Mcclure, prominent as mcr-
chant of Albany, and equally conspicuous for
his activity in religious and benevolent
schemes, died a few days ego. He was Off
cially connected witl banking and insurance
corporations, Bible and tract societies, and
especially patron Of charitable and bcneyo-
lent institutions.
Commodore Vanderbilt has abandoned, for
the present at least, his project of an under
ground railroad through New York, and it is
said will apply to the next Legislature for per.
mission to extend the road to the next Bat
terry, where he expects to obtain from the city
a large tract of land whereon to build depots
ana warehouses.
Private intelligence from ST. Louis states
that Senator Frank Blair's illness is much
more serious than has been represented. and
that there is little if any hope of his recovery.
1t is doubtful, indeed, if he ever leaves his
room again his present condition being that of
helpless paralysis,
The Greeley will case came up Friday in
Westchester Surrogate Court, when the fact
was developed that Miss Ida Greeley had
! decided the half of the property left by her
! fathers last will 10 her sister Gabrielle mere
| ly reserving the right to superintend her edu-
cation and affairs during her minority. John
+. Cleaveland, uncle OF the young ladies', was
appointed administrator during the pendency
of the controversy