Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-06-26
NEWS BY MAIL.

The Eastern Railroad extension 10 North
Conway. n. H.. was formally opened on
Monday.
Thirty deaths have thus tar occurred as the
result OF the Canadian railroad accident.
Isaac Vose, an aged resident of Keene, n.
H., disappeared Monday. and il supposed to
have drowned himself
The Paterson murderess, Libby Garrabrant,
has had her sentence committed from hanging
to imprisonment for life.
A decisive conflict is imminent in Mexico
Large numbers of Government troops have
been massed against the rebels. 9
The cabinet makers strike OF Philadelphia
has proved failure, the men returning to
work on their former terms of labor.
Suburbans will do well to give jewelry
peddlers wide berth. Two German Jews
swindled woman ut Lynn out of S16 BY false
representations, and were arrested Monday
The coroners jury in the case of the late
railroad accident on ths Grand Trunk find
that it was purely accidental; that the track
was in good eonaiton, and that the engineer
was sober, efficient ard careful officer, ard
died at his post.
Information received from a well-informed
source in Georgia represents great dissatis-
faction with the Greeley movement among
the old democrats of that State, and indicates
that in case he is accepted at Baltimore this
element will refuse to'vote.
The National Division of the Sons OF Tenn
perance terminated its annual session ar
Chicago on Sunday. 1t was decided to leave
all questions involved in the connection Of
colored persons with the order to the Grand
Divisions respectively in their several juris
dictions, subject to the review nnd control OF
the National Division at its annual session.
| For the first time since the administration
Of Andrew jackson the Federal officers will
not be requested to pay pro rata assess
ment on their salaries to the National fund
for carrying on the political campaign.
They, with all other Republicans, will be
requested to contribute such amounts as they
may be disposed to give; but there will he
no assessments or forced contributions.
The bureau of education will, in few
weeks, issue circular showing a comparison
of the death-rate between all classes of men
as shown by the census of 1860. and the 1922
of the alumni of New England colleges. Ac-
cording TO the census of 1869, as tabulated BY
DR.. J. NJ. Toner of Washington, there died
during the year preceding the enumeration
81, 406 males between twenty and sixty years,
of whom seventeen per cent. died between
twenty and twenty-five, fifteen per cent. died
between twenty-six and thirty, twenty seven
per cent. died between thirty-one and forty,
twenty-five per cent. died between forty-one
and fifty. nineteen per cent. died between
fitty-one and sixty. Fifty mine per cent. OF
these deaths occurred between twenty and
forty years of age. Of the 1922 alumni who
have died between the ages twenty and sixty,
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twenty five, twenty-seyen per cent. died be-
tween twenty-six and thirty, thirty nine per
cent. died between thirty-oEe and forty,
thirteen per cent. died between forty-one and
| fifty, three per ceut. died between ffty.one
and sixty. Eighty-four per cent, of these
deaths. therefore. occurred between twenty
and forty.