Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-31
Telegraph News in General.


Newcastle, Del, 30. The steamer Pio-
neer, which drifted away with ice, has been
towed back.
Patterson, n. j., so. The grand jury has
adjourned without finding an indictme mt
against VIM. Collier, who was arrested for
setting his rolling mill on fire, or against the
two silk weavers, in bail for an alleged con-
fession. The accused were dismissed.
Memphis, Tenn, 80. The weather is clear
and soft. The river is still rising. 1t has
risen eight feet altogether. Nothing further
has been received concerning the gorge at
Randolph. All the cotton on the Belle Pike
has been saved.
Richmond, Va, 80. Col. Edward Lorraine,
chief engineer of the james River and Kama
wha canal, died to-day, aged 80.
Concord, n. H., 80. The $50 train drawn
over the Montreal road ran into an up train
which was waiting its arrival here in the rail-
road yard. The upright rod of switch
broke being full OF frost, when the engine
struck the rail and threw the train on the
track where the other train was standing.
The baggage car struck the engine and de-
| niolished it badly. The baggage ear and two
| other cars following were somewhat smashed,
but the Miller platforms saved the other
train. No one was seriously injured
Halifax, 30. The Interior & Annapolis
railroad is blocked with snow. No train has
passed Sackville for Halifax since Monday.
St. Louis, 80. A drizzling rain set in this
forenoon and continued all day, and tonight
it has increased to heavy storm. All the
snow has disappeared, and the ice on the riv-
er is rapidly melting. The tow boat Fisher
began to- night to break the gorge of ice in
the river below South St. Louis.
Chicago, 80. Edward A. Eyertt, an ap-
parently respectable man living in this city,
was brought before police justice on Satur-
day charged by Miss Shortwell with having
robbed her of 100000 in bonds of the Sell
man and Gulf railroad valued at $4,000,
which she had come intrusted with to deliver
to Gen. Roddy of Alabama.
Hartford, Conn. The stockholders of the
Etna Fire Insurance Company to-day unani-
mously voted to reduce the capital stock from
millions to 9 millions, and afterwards voted
to increase it to the original, and to assess
the stockholders SO l-3 per cent.
4 The total losses by fire in this city in 1872
have been only ~, 100 dollars. An efficient
paid fire department, and the watchful over
sight Of careful underwriters. may be, in part
credited for this small loss.
Several prominent citizens of this city, in
Guiding Gov. Jewell, Mayor Robinson, Hon
R. d. Hubbard, Hon. N. W. Eaton, Judge
Waldo, and Gen. Hanley, have signed {
paper concurring with citizens and otheI
towns, in an expressed desire for constitu
tional convention.
Senator Carl Schurz gave his lecture or
German. and France, tonight at the Git,
Hall, to an audenec wiiit which listened with ev
nj, o,I ;ptnv
sketching of the characterisiless>oi .ne wv
nations and their leading men, past and pres!
ent.
Memphis, Tenn, 30th. A steady rain fell
last night, which has softened the ice caus
ing large quantities to slough off and sink
greatly lessening the danger to boats. The
river is rising steadily and the floating ice
diminishing rapidly. The officers of the Belle
Lee, which arrived from below, this morning
report that they met large number of Goa
boats comparatively unnjured, and recover
ed man name Harvey, with his wife ant
child, from dredge boat at the mouth of St
Francis river.
Later. The ferry boat Excelsior has
sprung aleak and is sinking rapidly. She il
~aauva ? 900 dullars, aud " IA preS~Iiy hs
total loss. Uninsured parties who left Ran
dolph yesterday morning, state that the ict
gorge there is 80 feet high, and that fla
boat containing persons, was drawn unde
it and all on board persisted. This new!
causes great excitment here among steamboat
men. The river is rising rapidly.
New Orleans, La. A compromise has beef
effected in the case of Mckee vs.. Weed, b,
which Weed and others will relinquish tn
fine establishment of tine New Orleans Time
to the heirs of w. H. c. King its forme
proprietor. The publication of the pape
will be resumed January lst.