Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-06-03
GENERAL NE VS..

The Jews of Cincinnati propose to estab-
lish great Jewish university in that city. A
prominent Israelise Of Indiana offers dona-
ton Of 10000.
Lieut. Frederick D. Grant, while in Mos
COW on the 18th inst, was presented to the
Gear Alexander, who happened to be in that
city on that day. +.- .-s
The Secretary Of the State Agricultural
Society Of Minnesota proposes to invite every
editor in the United States and Canada to at
tend the next annual State fair.
| The Young Mems Continental Union
League have concluded their convention in
Washington. W. b. Wedgewood of New
York was elected president. They nominated
Grant and Colfax.
Red Cloud, the great Sioux Chief-now in
Washington with a party Of braves-is de-
scribed as small in size and unpretentious in
manner, fond Of seclusion and meditation.
In dress he is neat and simple, wearing no
adornments.
1t is the intention Of the District Attorney
of Salt Lake to bring the violators Of the act
of Congress of 1862 against polygamy before
the grand jury, and prepare test cases for the
United States Supreme Court.
About two hundred coal hesvers in Chicago
are on strike. The efforts of the employ
ers to compromise the matter having failed,
the places Of the strikers have been supplied
with other men.
A los ,f A ft,,ro
implements have lately been shipped for
japan.
| The St. Louis Democrat gives formal no.
rice Gin reply to certain unauthorized reports)
that Ex-senator Henderson will go for
Grant, and has united Republican party at
his back in the State of Missouri"
George Opdyke, ex-mayor OF New York,
one of the jurymen recently fined $3.50 each
for non attendance at the United States Cir
cult Court, having failed to give any excuse
for his non-attendance, Judge Shipman has
directed that the fine be enforced.
Our seven million dollar slice, Alaska, bids
fair to turn out profitable purchase after all.
We are told there are diamond fields there
which will richly repay investigation, and now
Mr.. Charles Bryant, special agent of the
United States Treasury Department at Alaska,
says the Uuited States derives over two hun
dred thousand dollars revenue annually from
the seal fisheries alone, and that the amount
is yearly increasing.
The supplemental apportionment bill,
which gives New Hampshire, Vermont. New
York and other States an additional member
in the Forty third Congress, and constitutes
House of 293 members, being ffty.,hree
more than are in the present House, and ten
more than were provided by the general law
passed earlier in the session, has finally
passed both Houses.
A city of Mexico letter states that the rev.
oution is over and the leaders in other States
were rapidly disbanding their forces and fee
ing to the United States. Gen. Rosecrans is
adapting his railway system for adoption
throughout Mexico.
A letter from Havana states that the Span
ish authorities there demand that Bembemetta
one of the Cuban Revolutionary Commission
ers who was passenger of the steamer City
of Mexico from Vera Cruz for New York, be
given up, and that Capt. Zimmerman refused
as he was under the protection Of the Ameri-
can flag as a transit passenger. The American
Consul coincided with Capt. Zimmerman.
A Honolulu letter states that Capt. Meade
of the gunboat Narragansett had made a
treaty with the kings and chiefs of NavagitOrs
Islands by which those Islands are ceded to the
United States, and he has formally taken pos
session of the Island of Turtrala as naval
station of the United States.