Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-21
FROM NEW YORK.

New ! ok, -. 1t Baro. Office to. day,
Jay Gould delivered all the stocks and bonds
which were claimed from him by the Erie
Co., amounting to between five and six mil
lion dollars. These were brought to the Office
this morning in large Tx box, and have been
transferred to similar box, in which they
will be taken TO the office of the company.
Daring the counting of the securities and
signing OF the receipts there were present
part Of the time, in addition to Mr.. Watson,
who attended throughout Mr.. Duncan, Mr..
Shearman and Mr.. Traverse. 6ir. Gould, it
is reported has surrendered, Internationally,
all his rec! estate in New Jersey, Pennsylya-
Ria, ard Rhode Island, the Grand Opera
House with ten or twelve adjoining buildings
on Esd and 26th streets, together with a valn-
able plot of ground at the foot of 23d street,
North River. He also promised 10 secure
Mrs Lucy Fisk's interest in the Grand Opera
House.
Judge Orr of South Carolina, has accepted
the Russian Mission, and expects 10 sail for
Europe about the middle of January. l. is
thought that he prefers not to encounter the
regions of St. Petersburg climate before the
middle Of March.
Only nine jurors have as yet been secured
in the Stokes case.
L
10 the quarantine department, was burned
to-day while lying at the government dock at
the quarantine. Loss, 25, 900 Cause Of fire
unknown.
The Board of State Commissioners have
commenced an investon into the manage
ment of the lunatic asylum at Wards Island.
January 9th has been appointed for the
new trial Of Duth Heinrich.
Richard Brandon has been arrested, and
has confessed to robbing the post office OF
$500 mail bags. He says he has no accom-
plices. and was committed to Jail for trial.
In the Anderson poisoning case to-day, the
accused was admitted to the witness stand,
and testified that he never had any improper
intercourse with Mrs. Anderson also relative
to the facts of her husbands illness and
death, and conirmatory of the statement that
the arsenic bought at his store vas by the de-
sire of Anderson himself
Geo Palmer Putnam, the we'll known pub
Usher in this city, died suddenly this evening.
lie was born in Bruins lex, Me-, February
9Th, 1914. Mr.. Putnam had been at the store
most of the day, and seemed in remark ably
good spirits. lie was in the act of exhibiting
book to friend, when he fell suddenly to
the floor striking his head on his descent up
on projecting shelf. physician was at
once summoned, who applied restoratives,
but life was extinct. The cause of his death
was apopiexy.
The American Geographical Society have
undertaken to collect for the Vienna inter-
national exposition, maps, Photographic
scenery, geographical and other reports, and
information which may best represent the
true condition of the country, aud to make
the collection and export it.
Steamer w. p. Clyde, of Philadelphia, for
Providence, put in here to-day with the loss
of her smoke stack.
Col. John Hay lecturcd to night at Asso-
citation Hall on ''Daybre in Spain Civ
ing a sketch of the progress OF democratic
institutions in that country. The audience
was large and the lecture well received
George Francis Train and Wesley Nichols
were arrested to night on an Indictment for
publishing obscence literature, and lodged in
the police station house.