Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-23
GENERAL. NEWlS

Robert Bowles has been released from New
gate Prison on $4,000 bail.
New York bank robbers agree 10 return
stolen bonds for 80 per cent, Of the funds and
no questions asked!
Under the heading Happy Thoughts the
Petersburg. Va, Appeal says that more sick
ness prevails in that city than for many years
past
A Connecticut creature went hunting, the
other day, with double barrced gun and a
blue cotton umbrella.
Senator Sumner was not able to be present
at the meeting of colored citizens in Washing
ton called to press the Civil Rights bill, but
5 Mt a kindly letter
Boy presents dollar bill in Hartford
bake shop. Little girl, who is acting chief
clerk: 'My father is very perpendicular
about taking torn bills.
ST. Louis editor who in moment Of al
straction wrote an item cf news, has been
peremptoriy discharged, says the Courier
Journal.
4 large meeting was held in Cheyenne
Wednesday night at which great numbers of
citizens protested against Acknowledgement Of
Wyoming Territory.
The Vermont Legislature did one good
thing at their late session; they made it
msdemeanor for any one to point gun or
pistol, or any kind of fre-arn at another,
even in sport
4 petition to the President protesting
against the reappointment of L. Nj. McCook
as Governor of Colorado is being signed gem
orally by Republican, throughout that Terri
tory. The petition asks the appointment of
some citizen of the Territory more in sympa
thy with the people and their interests.
The female convicts of the Maryland peni.
Tertiary are being taught to do plain sewing
of all kinds, done on sewing machines, in
place of the old trade of box making. Sew
ing gives them reader means of support
when once more left to depend upon them.
selves.
Another effort is to be made to raise funds
for a statue to Stonewall jackson. The New
York Academy of Design has been commits
stoned to paint three picturns of the General,
and from these chromos will be made, in the
hope of an extensive sale.
country paper says: cone of our resi-
dents. about to depart West, desires to sell a
sitting in one of the most eligible groceries in
town. The stove is one of the most power
full in the market, and the cracker and sugar
barrels are within easy distance.
Since Carl SEIZURE remarked the other day
that the recent campaign has played out the
Democracy as a party, it is observed that the
Democratic papers have ceased their raptur
Gus culogies of the ''wonderfal German"
The town of Essex, Vermont, is called up.
OF TO foot heavy bill, which the Selcctmen
refused TO settle, although it might have been
done at one time for $500 After going
through the legal mill it has come out of the
Supreme Court against the town, which stands
I a Al. g
tax of nearly eighty cents is required TO
pay the bill. This is costly wisdom, but per-
haps it will pay in the long run,
On the arrival of the morning Pullman
train from Portland at Lynn Thursday pas
senger, named William II. Hornkeith, who
was on his way home from Maine to Philadel-
phia, left the train at the central station in
that city for minute and in attempting to re-
gain the car stumbled over a butter tub which
stood upon the platform, and fell against the
car. His right foot lay upon the track and
was run over, all the toes being crushed. He
was taken to the Massachusetts General Hos
ptal in Boston
Our Western exchanges all speak OF the
immense supply of hogs in that section of the
country, and estimate the ''pork crop at
twenty per cent. over last year. The New
York Mercantile Journal says that the num-
Der Of hogs to be packed IN the West this sea-
son will not fall mach short Of six million
head. OF this number only about ore half
to two thirds will be required TO supply the
home demand, and the remainder must con.
seqnently be shipped abroad or kept over I'M
i'll another season. The condition of affairs
ia far from being encouraging to producers or
packers.
POLITICAL.
1t is rumored that a two-cent morning dali
ly is shortly to be started in Cincinnati with
Whitel.w Reid at its head.
The Louisville Legislature has postponed
the election Of United States Senator until
January, the time set by the Constitution of
the State for the regular meeting of the Leg
Stature.
The Albany Journal says the New York
Express did nothing to break the Credit Mo-
bilier SANDER against Wilson, Coltax, Blaine
and others. But when Mr., Brooks is him
self dragged into the pool, he denounces
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