Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-07
NEWS BY MAIL.

The gas works in Newport, ENGLAND. ex.
ploded Wednesday night, killing several per.
sons and fatally wounding others.
The bill for the relief of the sufferers by ths
Boston fire, passed in the National House G
Representatives Thursday, is substantial.
the same as that passed for the relief of Chi
cago.
The President has sent to the Senate the
appointment of James T. Orr of South Caro-.
lima as Minister to Russia.
The Arkansas electors (Greeley) have de.
clared for Gratz Brown for President and N.
P. Banks for Vice President. They claim
right to meet, although the republican cleo
tors had previously declared for Grant.
Representatives of the two branches of the
Alabama Legislature-Conservati and Re.
publican-have come to Washington to find
out which is to remain in power.
The new house Of worship Of the Second
Universaist Church, corner Of Columbus
avenue and Clarendon street, Boston, was
dedicated Thursday evening.
The announcement of the arrival of the
Mediterranean steamer Delmatian at Liver
pool on Wednesday unfortunately proves un-
true. Nothing has been heard of the steam
er since the original report of her loss.
Gen. o. C. Maxwell shot himself in his
room at the Phillips House, Dayton, Ohio,
on Friday, dying instantly. The deceased
was formerly Assessor of Internal Revenue
in the Third Congressional District, one of
the most gallant officers from the Ohio during
the war, and wounded Ave times.
Alta meeting of the stockholders of the
Nova Scotia Telegraph Company Thursday,
the proposal Of the Western Union Company
to purchase the Nova Scotia lines was unani-
mously accepted. An arrangement for car
rying the decision into effect will be made
Immediately.
Another terrible railway horror is reported,
this time on the Pennsylvania Central road.
Thurday an express train about fifty miles
west of Harrisburg telescoped two Pullman
cars on the rear of passenger train, and up
to last account five dead bodies had been re-
covered.
The Reformed Church National Synod on
Thursday, at Cincinnati, suspended from the
ministry and from the church the Rev Henry
knepper of Illinois, on the ground that he
married after obtaining a divorce, which,
though legal, was not procured on scriptural
GROUNDS.
Secretary Boutwell, was before the Com
mittee on Ways and Means Thursday, and
them that unless the House took &C
ton in expressing disapproval of his funding
operations under the late Syndicate, he would
proce ed in a like manner to negotiate the re-
mainder of the loans.
Sir Bar,la Frere, OF the English expedition
for suppressing the African slave trade, has
visited Victor Emanuel at Rome, on his way
to Alden, and received from that monarch a
gold medal to carry to Livingstone, and pres
ent to him as mark OF the royal esteem.
Steamship Manhattan, which sailed from
Liverpool Wednesday for New York, took
out So servants, for whom positions have
been secured in the Southwestern States of
this country. These people go out under the
auspices OF the International Emigration So
ciety.
The first of the ames for the chess cham
ponship of New England between the play
ers Of Hartford, Conn, and Springfield,
Mass, Thursday night, resulted in favor OF
Hartford. Springfield played the Evans
gambit, and was mated on the sixty-frst
move.