Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-20
GENERAL NEJyS.

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Fifty negroes, who were induced to 60 to
Liberia last year, have returned to Richmond.
The planning mill Of the Burlington Manu-
featuring Company at Burlington, VT, was
burned on Tuesday morning.
Some of the Texans are killing their cattle
BECAUSE the hide will bring more than the
whole COW on foot"
The defence in the case Of King for the
murder of O'Neill will be insanity.
Sailors at San Francisco oppose the new
law relative to the Shipping Commissioner,
and at a meeting Monday night voted to de-
mand $50 month on foreign voyages. Five
ships there are waiting for seamen.
Memphis has an auctioneer who possesses
such a voice that the churches of the city are
compelled TO suspend their evening meetings
until the close of his sales.
Nicholas Eischen was fatally shot about Eve
o'clock Tuesday morning in Chicago, by one
of two burglars, who entered his boarding
house, and whom he was trying to capture.
The very best way to clean stained steel
huiie Is " tul u soiiU pptdio III Two, UP oHe
of the pieces in brick.dust, such as is usually
used for knife. cleaning, and rub the blade
with it.
The female students oil a Western college
are said to be ''holding their own" Which
means, probably, that none have married and
changed their names.
A failure to combine the producers and re-
finers of coal oil. in the interior of Pennsylya-
MIA, has caused break in prices, as might
have been expected.
Newport, r. l., Tuesday voted by $50 ayes
to 40 nays to expend 10000 in connection
with the exception Of the Rogers bequest Of
500, 900 for a high school.
The New York Board of Emigration now
has under its charge two thousand Italian i'm
migrants, many of whom are entirely desti-
tute.
The Secretary of the Treasury has sent to
Congress the draft of a bill providing that
vice, may be placed on the retired list, and
tina. those incapacitated from active sea duty
may be transferred to land duty, aud receive
full duty pay.
The National Convention of the Engine
and Machine Manufacturers Association met
at Cincinnati Tuesday and adopted consti-
tuition, and continued the officers chosen at
the last meeting in Office until the third
Wednesday in April, the day fixed for the
annual meeting. About 80 delegates were
present.
William Johnson, who claims to be resi-
dent Of New Brunswick, is under arrest at
Manchester, n. H., for passing spurious bank
notes of the denomination of $50, and which
National Bank.
The Springfield Union is the paper which
gives Senator Sumner the sharp dig of saying
that while The is anxious to obliterate all
traces of our late unpleasantness, and to that
end proposes to mutlate the army register,
expungng the records Of battles fought in the
war Of the rebellion, the statue of the late
Chief Justice fancy is not allowed to be
placed with those Of the other Justices Of the
Supreme Court, on account of the objections
OF Senator Sumner. His objection is that in
the bred Scott decision he gave an opinion
adverse to that Of the distinguished Senator.
That is crime far more objectionable than
TO drench the country in blood in the mad at
tempt to establish a slave empire
FOREIGN NEWS
Three Carlist bands were defeated and dis.
persed by the Spanish Government troops on
the 10th.
General Van Room will act Professionally as
President of the Prussian Council Of Minis
tiers, the Emperor having granted Bismarck
request to be retired
Several of the ringleaders in the late riot
at Stockton, England, have already been sen.
fenced to long terms of imprisonment
The canvassing Of the municipal returns at
Matamoros, Mexico, was interrupted Monday
by party of armed roughs, supposed to have
been instigated by Cortinas.
The stories concerning Carlyle's poor
health are untrue. The old gentleman is
very robust, and manifes,s the creates, anger
against the catch-penny photographers who
have manufactured the old hero into an inva.
lid.
The Honolulu Advertiser says that the Chi