Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-20
NEWS BY MAIL.
An Imperial decree in Japan abolished all
edicts directed against Christianity.

An Imperial decree in Japan abolished all
edicts directed against Christianity.
Information has been received of the loss
of the steamship Tripoli, from Liverpool for
Boston. The TripOh went ashore on South
Tusker rock, of Cainsore Point on the Irish
coast. The crew and passengers were all
saved, but the vessel will be total loss.
Little of the cargo will be saved.
Mrs. Simmons of New York, a midwife,
has been arrested charged with causing the
death of women by malpractice.
Representative Wilson of Indiana has
prepared general bill to regulate the issue
Of land patents to RAILROAD companies, which
he will introduce at the earliest opportunity.
1t requires all companies claiming land to file
their applications and proofs with the Secre
tary Of the Interior, who, within ninety days
and after advertising in New York and Wash
ington papers, shall hear the case, the gov.
eminent being represented by the attorney or
solicitor general, and within thirty days after
if there is no sufficient reason to the con-
trary, issue the patents.
Well executed counterfeit fifty cent notes
have lately made their appearance at the
Treasury department, coming it is believed
from New York. The coarseness of the en-
craving of the Stenton vignette is the best
guide to their detection.
The panic in the stock market in San
Francisco is subsiding. 1t has already
caused heavy losses to operations.
Among the class which will graduate at the
National University Law College in Wash.
ington on Thursday evening, are g. A.
Whitcomb and c. E. Besle of Maine. b. N.
Tilton and II. B. Moulton of New Hamp-
shire, A. +. Shurtleff and II. NJ. Bennett of
Massachusetts.
Owing to the threatening state of affairs be.
tween Honduras and Salvador, all the able.
bodied citizens of the latter State are being
organized into militia.
The New Dominion Parliament has passed
to second reading by vote of l2l to IS
the bill giving effect to the treaty Of WASH
ington.
The senate has confirmed Captain David
Ammen as commodore, and Thomas Fl. Cole
collector of customs at Saco, Maine.
The report of the cases of contagious dis
ease in New York for the week ending May
IL, is: Fever-typhus, 4 typhoid, 4 +; scarlet,
ll3; measles, so; dipthera, 20; small -pox,
llS.
Red Cloud, with twenty-five of his tribe,
left Pine Bluff, Utah, on Friday, for Washing
ton. They are accompanied by DR.. Daniels,
Indian agent, and interpreter.
The Democratic editors OF Louisiana have
resolved to await the action of the State and
National Conventions before committing
themselves to any line of policy.
Late intelligence from these Territories
states that the Apaches still continue to trou-
BILE the residents. They recently made raid
at Rio Mimbres and carried off a number of
horses and cattle. The removal from Canada
Alamosa to Tularosa, now proposed, is dislik-
ed by Cochise, and will, it is feared, result in
a general Overrunning Of the southern part of
New Mexico. Gen. Devin is in charge of the
removal and has organized force at Fort
Craig for that purpose. Gen. Granger, Indian
Superintendent Pope and Gen. Devin, recent
ly conferred with Cochise and other chiefs, but
precautions are being taken, in view of the
possibility that removal may be resisted. Gen.
Howard appears to have made favorable i'm
preston on the Arzonians. He was recently
in conference with Gen. Crook, and latest
dates report him on his way to Tucson. The
Apaches have quite recently attacked the
mail and guard.
In the Senate Friday, the habeas corpus
suspension act was taken up and discussed,
and it was agreed that the session of Tues.
day should not end until the bill was disposed
of. The conference report on the Indian ap-
preparation bill was agreed to. There was
some discussion on the army appropriation
bill. In the house the conference report on
the naval appropriation bill was agreed to.
Work on the tariff and tax bill was advanced
a. far as the internal revenue section.