Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-25
GENERAL NEWS.

Senator Sumner lost about $4,000, it is
said, by the Boston fire.
Considerable shipment of silver bullion is
being forwarded from the Nevada mines
There was killing frost on Friday last at
Charleston, S. c., ice being formed half an
inch thick, and many pumps being. frozen.
Two horses in Trey, n. y, have become
crazy from the effects Of the prevailing dis
ease. They are so wild that no person lares
go near them.
Additional telegraphic facilities between
England and New York arc soon TO be accord
ed.
| Two thirds of the business portion of Gaivi
Henry county, H., were destroyed by fire
Thursday morning. Loss 100000.
The great portrait Of Franklin, painted by
| Madame Lebrun in 1888, has been brought to
New York from Paris.
Two Baltimore gentlemen" Of high stand
ing had an alteration Wednesday, during
which one was fatally stabbed, and the MUIR
derer, John w. Fitzsimmons, has been arrest
ed.
The Third Auditor OF the Treasury has sued
Colonel Forney of the Philadelphia Press for
libel, that paper having charged the Auditor
with corruption in connection with the North
Carolina election.
The Presbyterians are celebrating the ter
centenary of Presbyterianism at the Penn
Square Church, Philadelphia, which is appro-
priately decorated
The Supreme Court of New Hampshire has
decided that no action can be maintained
against town where the school committee
exclude a pupil from public school for mis-.
conduct.
The Light House Board has given notice
that the new lighthouse at Wood End near
the entrance to Provircetown harbor, Cape
Cod, Mass, was Illuminated for the first time
Wednesday night, and will be illuminated
every night hereafter from sunset to sunrise.
James II. Graves, an Englishman, who
shipped on board the II. L. Hedges at Proyi-
dencc, was fatally shot Thursday morning in
saloon at Hudson, n. Y. Geo. Butte, a
hand on the same vessel, was shot, but the
wound is not dangerous.
The New York police continue their 'raids'
on the Broadway concert saloons, and, for
once, it looks as though there was TO be an
honest and determined effort on the part of
the authorities to break up these vile resorts
special from Washington says that Mr.
Dent, father OF Mrs. Grant, is confined to his
I ~ Al
He is 81 years old and it is feared cannot re.
cover. lie is unable to move without assis-
lance.
Albert Smith shot Charles Sackett and Jen
ME Bates at Wcstfield Wednesday evening,
but not fatally. Jealousy was the cause. He
has been arrested.
Barqu9 Samuel Larrabee, Of Savannah
and barque Lanericast, of Baltimore, have
been lost at sea, and all on board persisted.
Washington specials state that the control
Ter Of the currency will recommend contia-
uance of the present currency reserves. and
the repeal Of the section OF an act requiring
circulation to be withdrawn to the amount OF
! SO 900 600 in those States having an excess
and rc-dislributcd in States having def
cheney.
joint commitce Of citizens and the Board
OF Trade of Buffalo reported resolutions
Thursday, which were adopted by the Board
OF Trade unanimously, fayoring the widening
and deepening OF the Erie and Oswego canals
from Buffalo to Albany, and asking the Legis
tott IN frn,, a.
Nearly 300 Italians are now at Castle Gar
den, defrauded of all their money by band
of emigrant swindlers. 1t appears that they
were induced to leave home by stories of ad-
yantages awaiting them in Buenos Ayres.