Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-15
GENERAL NEWS.

! GENERAL Ne MS.
Three hundred workmen were discharged
from the Portsmouth. y. H., Navy Yard
Tuesday.
Memphis is making war on the gambling
houses, and the Mayor himself has been ar
rested for lice nsing them.
A. s. White, prominent New York stock
and gold broker. has failed Cause. losses
by Boston fire.
Lewis Downing, the principal chief OF the
Cherokee nation. died at Tsllequah on Satur.
day last.
| Josh Billings dii not write a line Tor publ
cation until he was more than forty We years
of age.
| Considerable portion Of the paper money
and other property stolen from the Waterford
Bank in New York State has been recovered
| in Albany.
Exit Burns" old stand, in New York, has
been converted iuto home for fallen women.
All of the type foundries in Boston were
destroyed by the great fire.
A single California plantation has turned
out $50, 900 worth of cotton this year.
Two fruit.canning establishments of Ben
ton, Mich, give employment to Ave hundred
women, girls and boys. who receive ten cents
per hour.
The Vermont Legislature has appointed
| committee TO investigate the charges made
| against the managers of the Vermont Central
Railroad by the Boston Traveller,
| The manufacture of hemlock bark extract
promises to make every acre of hemlock land
in Northern Michigan more valuable than the
best pine lands have ever been.
An unknown negro, who was confined in
the Blandville, Ky, jail, charged with an in
famous crime. was taken from prison the
other night by party Of citizens and hanged.
The New York Commercial says if it hadn't
been for Mansard roof. and the epizoozy,
Boston might have been saved. mystcri-
Gus Providence, in conjunction with mys-
tarious passion for architectural fashions, did
the business.
The Philadelphia Trade Journal claims for
the City of Brotherly Love the honor of hav-
ing been the first to introduce street cars, in
the year 1853. Cincinnati followed her ex-
ample.
| The sewing machine and case mandatory
| of Thos. Vandyke, in New York, was des-
troyed by fire Monday evening. His loss is
$4,000. The Manhattan Brass Company
owned the building, worth $4,000.
The United States steamboat inspectors
have completed their inquiry into the Bien-
vile disaster, and made a long report, in
which they completely exonerate the compa-
| ny, Capt. Maury, and his crew from all blame
and highly commend the conduct of the
| captain.
Representative Negley of rittsburg arrived
| in Washington Tuesday to again urge the
Secretary of the Treasury to issue more eur.
rency. The advocates of this policy present
| the losses at Boston as another argument in
favor Of it, but the Secretary at present, at
least, refuses to comply with the request.
Washington specials state that the Prcs-
dent has recently received several enormous
letters, informing him that, in case he was re-
elected the writers intended to assassina,e
him. The letters, it is stated, give the Pres-
dent no uneasiness weatever, the writers be-
ing supposed to be insane.
A Clergyman failed to meet his engagement
to fill pulpit in Ward lG, last Sunday, be-
cause he had been working at the fire all
night; but he never preached better ser
mon on practical religion than by his COM
mendable absence. Though for once lost to
sight and hearing in the sanctuary, he will be
to memory dear.-Boston G}o6e.
The Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Rail-
road has purchased the New Bedford and
Taunton Railroad for one million dollers,
which the New Bedford Mercury says is less
by at least 800 900 than thirty Ave miles Of
road, the length Of the track of the New
Bedford and Taunton road, could be built for,
yet it Is satisfactory sale for the sliarahold-
ers.
Under the Internal Revenue law the force
of assessors aud collectors Of that office |
now numbering $50 Of each class, is to be re-
duced to eighty by tho first of January next,
and Commissioner Douglass will soon begin |
the work of consolidating districts in order to |
make the reductions. In some States there |
will be but one or two collectors assigned |
put in the larger States and densely popula. |
ed cities there will be sufficient force TO do |
he work without inconvenience to the bust |
lescinterests. An immense pressure is be- |
ng brought in favor of various incumbents