Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-13
co Sc of the arrest of Jay Gould. 1t is gener.

allv belieyed, however, that he VIII never be
brought to trial on the charge upon which he
was arrested.
A citizen of Bedford county, Va, has in
vented a machine TO melt the snow and ice on
a railroad track, as the train. runs, by means
of flame Of sufficient intensity to produce
the result in.tantaneously.
Mayor Hall emphatcally denies that he
ever wrote, instigated or dictated a line edi-
torislly for the Herald, and says the story
that he was connected Herewith is a hoax,
The New England association of superin-
tendents of public schools will hold its next
semi.anaual meeting in Worcester on Thurs
day, December Goth.
They had snow down in Georgia the other
day, the first time for many years.
Philadelphia has 1000 looms engaged in the
manufacture Of carpets.
The stock and agricultural implements OF
the late Horace Greeley are to be sold at
ChappaQua next Saturday.
4. T. Stewart denies that It is his intention
to erect a building for the accommodation OF
young men of the working classes, on the
ground lately occupied by the New Uaven
Railroad Company, in New York city.
Miss Emily Faithssl recently visited the Sol
ders' Home in Milwaukee. She was greeted
with "God Save the Queen, and three cheers
for the British army.
The Philadelphia centennial commission
suggest that the coin of the United States
struck in the year 1876 bear such device and
inscription as will recognize the great event
then to be COMMUNICATED.
During panic ia Richmond theatre, one
night last week, caused by an alarm of fire, a
man named Charles Doherty fell back and
died, being overcome by the excitement.
Arrangements are making to build a narrow
gauge railroad from Salt Lake City to Echo
City, OF the line of the Union Pacific, dis
lance Of forty five miles The chief project
or is one Of the sons of Brigham Young.
The American reading tour of Mr.. Dick
ems extended from December %, to April &c,
1868. The number Of readings given was &C..
These assemblages averaged 300 persons !;
the net receipt $4,000 night.
Gen. Burt, postmaster of Boston, in let
ter TO Massachusetts, congressman, states
that nearly twenty members of The Fire De
partment Of that city lost their lives, or were
permanently disabled, By the late couhagra-
ton.
lively young woman applied to the City
Clerk in Worcester on Monday for her ID
vorce papers," saying that the minister who
married her said she could get them there.
She was told where to go, ard that it would
take several months to get them. Then
said she, ''Ill divorce myself, without both
ering the Courts about it; I've had bother
enough with the man without that"
a Minnesota youth Of twenty five, who
married maiden Of iorty-two, sues for d-
yorce because the partner Of his joys and
sorrows chastises him.
Rob. Anderson claims TO be king Of the
highway in Colorado, and has robbed thirteen
coaches to prove L.
Handsome new carpets Of American man
ufacture have been placed in the East Room
of the White House, and in the halls on the
main floor. The East Room carpet is Of very
heavy velvet, and Of handsome pattern. The
cost is said 10 have been eight dollars yard.
The ugly carpet presented by the Sultan Of
Turkey, which has covered rather than adorn-
ed the floor OF this room for year past has
been cut up ard used for the halls on the up
per floor.
New York divine IS reported IA having
referred in his sermon last Sunday to Bene-
dict Arnold, as 'the man who shot Alexander
Hamilton and became prescribed ever sitter"
This is equaled by the clergyman in this city,
Ga temporary sojourner) who q Sunday or
two since, referred to Martha Gusts as the
mother eff George Washington.- Boston
Journal
diabolical attempt was made to tllyow the
midnight Pullman train, from Boston to Port
land, off the track Tuesday night about half
a mile this side of Portsmouth. large
beam, or plank had been placed across the
placed. The cowcatcher struck the stone and
threw it to one side, and the train luckily
threw off the plank, so that with the excep-
ton of the shock, the villainous plan was
frustrated, no one being injured and the train
remaining on the rails.
During a high wind Tuesday forenoon the
salt storehouse Of the Gloucester Salt Com
pany on Parsons wharf, East Gloucester
containing 10000 hogsheads of salt, fell
through the wharf into the dock, demolsh-
ing the building. They estimated the loss at
from $50, 900 to $50 900.
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