Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-04
GENERAL NEWS.

Dr. Phelps of Congress Hall, Avon n. Y.
struck large flow Of mineral water, Tues
day at that place
There was another heavy snow. storm in
Utah on Wednesday night, but the railroads
are not retarded. The weather is new clear
and cold
The latest love Of bonnet is called the
"Clarisse Harlowe' singularly inappro-
pirate title when women wear their char" 80
high as at present.
The preliminary report of the Commission
er of the United States to the International
Penitentiary Congress has been presented to
The President.
The New York papers keep man on sala-
ry to find new names for the horse disease.
He has run iiot through all the known Ian
guages and now mildly appears with his last
for the popular favor, "Hipporhinorrhea.'
4 second investigation into the Metis dis
aster has been begun at Providence, r. /.
The captain, mates and engineer ofthe Metis
are to he vigorously prosecuted.
Henry l.. Martin, a music teacher, and
salesman at McPhail & Co.'S piano rooms in
Boston, was arrested for forgery and embez-
element in New York Wednesday.
Five masked men tried to force an entrance
to negro's cabin near Normandy, Tennes-
see, Tuesday, bnt he wouldn't be Ku-Kluxed,
and shot one of whereupon the others
departed.
Henry Howard Brownell, private Secreta-
ry of Admiral Farragut at the time of the bat
tie in Mobile Bay, and the author of the Bay
Fight and other poems died in East Hartford
Conn, Thursday, aged 50 years.
A man named Brown of Jersey City, while
leaning out of a window on the Erie express
train, westward bound, Monday afternoon, rs
the train crossed the river at West Paterson,
n. j., was struck by the bridge, his brains
dashed out and his body thrown into the riv.
CT.
Mr.. Eben L. Childs, chief clerk in the Post
Office at Washington, died suddenly in Alba
ny, New York, Tuesday night, aged ~ years,
while upon his wedding tour. He has been
connected with the Department for some for
ty years.
The Attorney General has directed the dis
trict attorney at Providence to afford all as
sistance in his power to facilitate the trial of
the captain and two mates and the first pilot
of the steamer Metis.
The New York Tribune says that in ap-
pearance Tweed is little changed, but in man
ner and speech and voice, it is readily to be
seen he has broken down. Though at times
his old grOtesque hum0r irresistibly breaks
out in conversation, his efforts to conceal
that year of greater troubles and losses and
trials than usually fall to man, have embit-
tered and saddened him are vain.
Gold has been discovered on the Hudson,
near the Palisades. The vein 10 said TO be
5000 feet long and two feet wide, and the gold
is said to be superior to that of California
The discoyerer is to set two large crushing
machines at work at once.
The Savannah Advertiser complains that
ten citizens "were dragged from their homes
the other night, the offence of these highly
respectable young men being simply impl-
cation sin murder committed upwards of
eighteen months ago." Before leaving their
home, says the Advertiser, "they were dis
possessed of their arms"
A minister once told Wendell Phillips that
ii his business in life was to save the negroes,
he ought to go South where they were and do
it. "That is worth thinking Of" replied
Phillips, 'and what is your business in life ?"
ITO save men from hell,v replied the minis
ter. Then go there and attend to your bus
mess" rejoined Phillips.
Kansas has been visited by one of the hard
est and most destructive storms that has oc-
Cured in that section for over three years.
On Monday the weather opened warm, but
in the evening the thermometer began falling
rapidly, and Il furious rain storm set in. Dur
! ing the night bits Of solid ice, some Of them