Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-02-05
NEWS BY MAIL.

London people continue interested in our
claims before the Geneva Board of Arbitra-
ton. ALI the newspapers are eyoting their
attention to the same subject.
Daniel w. Voorhees, will probably Be the
Democratic candidate for Governor of In
diana, SO leading democratic journals of that
State say.
Inspector General James A. Hardee has
succeeded in replacing nearly all the evil
dence collected in support of the Montana In
dian claims, which was destroyed in the Chi.
cago fire.
During January the disbursements of the
Treasury Department for war, navy, interior,
and civil purposes amounted to ST., 846, 024.
Cardinal Cullen has issued letter in Great
Britain against wakes and crowded funerals
during the prevalence of small pox, 'as they
frequently end in riotous excess and are a
sure means of spreading contagion."
Mrs. Isabella Beacher Hooker of Hartford,
who has been in Washington for several
weeks, leaves this week for Connecticut to
participate in the democratic State conven-
ton, and in the subsequent campaign of that
party.
Major James G. Benton, commandant at
the Springfield, Mass, armory, has been as
signed to the duty of experimenting the arm
ament of the forts along the coast from
Charleston to Mobile.
The United States Senate was not in ses-
sion Friday. In the House, the Indian ap-
preparation bill was passed. The educational
fund bill was debated with a good deal of
,r;t md no erb,oot
The session of the House to-day will be for
general debate only.
The House Committee on the judiciary
has authorized Mr.. Peters of Maine to report
a bill extending the provisions of the act of
1869, continuing the salary of retiring
United States Judge to Judge Sprague Of
Massachusetts,, who retired in 1865, and to
Judge Ware of Maine, who retired in 1866.
Connecticut resolves not to allow any such
brutal displays as dog fights inside her tor.
ders. Thursday a party hailing from New
York and Boston, bent on Witnessing one Of
these shameful scenes, were taken into Gus
tody by the authorities of Hartford. They
are to be held for trial.
The French assembly by large majority
passed bill authorizing the government to
notify England and Belgium of the termina-
ton Of the commercial treaties between
France and those counties. motion for
the return of the assembly to Paris was re-
jected.
| A barbarous attack has been made upon
the Jews ia'Ismail, on the Roumanian from
tier. Several were killed, many were wound
| ed and all who could fled from the place to
save their lives. The fugitives were kindly
received in Constantinople.
Texas has not yet accepted the situation
1t is stated almost daily in the Southwestern
press that murders of innocent people, whose
only fault is the erection of negro school
houses and adhesion to Grant and the repub-
lican party, are very common. People are
murdered now, as they were during the war,
because they are loyal to the Government.
| One correspondent who has lived some time
in Texas, goes SO far as to say that at least
five thousand persons, white and colored,
have been sacrificed to rebel hatred within
the last five years; yet, he adds, not a single
traitor has been arrested