Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-09-02
NEWS BY NAIL.

terrible tornado passed over Jackson
vile, H., Wednesday night, greatly damag-
ing property, but occasoning no loss of
lite.
The Ku-k lux cases in North Carolina de-
mand fresh and immediate attention.
ExMnister Curtin of Russia is danger
ously i'll at the residence of his son-in-law in
Brooklyn.
Thousands of cattle are dying, for lack Of
water, upon the Texan plains.
Francis Moroney, New York stone cut
ter, has fallen heir to $500, 900 in Ireland.
The labor refolmers are already hurrying
to Louisville. Letters have been received
from Chas. O'Connor heartily endorsing the
convention.
The straight democrats of Iowa, in con-
vention Wednesday night, protested against
Greeley and declared for Louisville.
Cholera is again devastating India. Thou
sands have already oeen carried off by the
plague, and the panic is universal.
The democrats and liberals of Louisiana in
coalition have declared for John McEnry as
their candidate for Governor.
Three men were killed by the explosion of
boiler in steam mill at Gallipolis, Ohio,
Wednesday.
Yellow fever is raging at Carthagena, and
our Consul will not allow American sailors
to land there.
The Improvement on the old order of things
in New York is well illustrated by the fact
that the expenditures for the current year
were sure to come within the appropriation
n. 1a nv he of
The dispatches from West Virginia con-
tinue to be conflicting, but they leave no
doubt of the election of Jacobs.
The Emperor of Russia will arrive in Ber-
lin next Thursday, and will hob-nob with
Emperor Wilhelm for five days. Great fetes
are TO be held at the new imperial palace at
Potsdam, in which the Emperor of Austria
will also participate.
The severe gale and rain storm of Thurs
day night and Friday morning did no serious
damage to the shipping along this coast.
Only one or two wrecks directly caused by
stress of weather are reported
There were some threatening demonstra
tons at Belfast, ireland, Thursday, on ac
count Of the discharge CT the City Solicitor
who was reported to have been concerned in
the recent riots, but no violence was resorted
to.
Burglars entered the United States bonded
warehouse at the Cunard docks in New York
Thursday night and carried off $4,000 worth
of silks belonging to A. T. Stewart & Co.
Evidence in the Court Martial uf Marshal
Bazaine, now in progress 10 Paris, is said to
show that he was traitorously corresponding
with the Germans before the siege of Metz.
Propeller Metis, of the New York and
Providence Steamship line, collided Friday
morning about four O'clock, during the storm
with a schooner, and b9ing broken up by
the waves, her lower part sank, while about
five miles from shore, off Watch Hill, r. |.
One hundred and four passengers ond forty
five officers, deck hands and walters, were on
board, and of these seventy are reported as
lost. The upper works, with forty to fifty
passengers clnging to them, floated ashore
near Watch Hill Light House. Eighteen
dead bodies were brought in Friday forenoon
by the United States revenue steamer Moe
casin, and other bodies were subsequently
picked up between Watch Hill and Point
Judith.