Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-05
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GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS
The public debt was reduced last months
more than five and quarter million dollars.
The English frigats ironclad Raleigh was
launched from the government dock yards at
London. Saturday. ia
The ship Chacabuco, from San Francisco,
ran into the ship Torch, in the Irish channel,
both ships sinking, and with the former
"a liyes were lost.
The unusual spectacle of Sunday session
of the National Senate attracted large crowds
to the capitol and the galleries were filed
nearly to midnight. ss..
The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
the Assistant Secretary at New York to pur-
chase 81 900, 900 on the first and third We'd
nesdays and S500,000 on the second and
fourth Wednesdays Of March, and to sell 91,-
100000 in coin on each Thursday during
March. sE
1t is said that iron can be made cheaper IN
Tennessee than in Pennsylvania.
The Havana papers are carrying on u " arm
discussion over the Spanish republic.
They have first class fraud in Brooklyn,
New York, relative to street paying con-
tracts. mr
Maple sugar will soon be in order. The
farmers Of Indiana have commenced already.
Jenny Lind recently delighted the Ameri-
cans in Florence by singing in the Episcopal
chapel maintained by our countrymen in that
city.
A woman was burned to death, in Balti-
more, on Saturday, by the explosion Of
coal oil lamp.
The shipping tonnage of lake Superior is
to be increased twenty five per cent.
Flora Temple, the queen of the turf has
suddenly become very lame. Flora is twen-
ty.eight years old.
man in Michigan lately paid off his debts
to the utmost farthing and then hung himself.
long haired prophet is preaching at Dry
den, Michigan. who announces himself - the
| Saviour, and says that the world Is to tumble
! to pieces in November next.
They buyu all the Detroit papers received
at Lansing Mich, when the comments affect
lobby interests. SO that the legislative mind
may be kept serene.
The establishment of diet kitchens, from
which suitably prepared food may be issued
on the requsition of the dispensary physi-
clans, is charity's last project in New York
city.
A fine of 500 was imposed on lawyer
named Taylor, at Trenton, n. j., recently,
beside six months imprisonment, for taking
illegal fees from pension applicant.
St. Louis must be delightful place to live
in, The papers call the attention of the dead
animal contractor to the following dead ami
mails distributed over the city, which have
been there fer days: three horses, FIVE dogs,
three cows and four hogs.
A census is being taken Of the population
of San Juan, and the other islands lately in
dispute. A few months ago they counted only
800 or 400 inhabitants; now the residents are
said to number 2000.
Two thousand flags, the property OF the
Navy Department alone, have been turned
over to the use of the decoration committee
for the Inauguration ceremonies at Washing
ton, tomorrow.
At Geneva, H., on Tusday, Samuel c.
West, man seventy eight, years old, was
sent to the penitentiary for life, for the mur-
der of Clark Newbury, in September last.
The prominent features of the progress of
Californian agriculture are the extension of
the area in grain, the construction Of tule
dykes and irrigation canals, and the rapid
multiplication of sheep
The newspaper pIess of the South is unani-
nous in its expressions Of cordial wecome to
President Grant, in his proposed tour through
the Southern States.
The obsequies OF the late Rev Dr. Allen
of NorthborO were solemnzed on Thurs
day
Twenty thousand dollars worth of lace,
silk and worsted goods were seized Thursday
on board the steamship Siberia at Hoboken,
n. j., being the property of a passenger who
was endeavoring to smuggle them ashore.
freight conductor and a section master
on the Boston, Cln.an and Fitchburg rail
road wera killed on Thursday by jumping
from the locomotive on which they were rid
ing to avoid an anticipated collision.
The bankrupt bill recently passed by Con-
gress has been received in proper form by
the President and submitted in accordance
with the usual official routine to the Depart
ment of Justice for careful examination.
Judge Williams is carefully considering the
entire bill and arguments which have been
presented thereon before sending to the Ex-
ecutive his official views.
Rather queer suit 10 that against the city
of Troy by tie owner of Hudson river
barge that was sunk off the city, The claim
is based on the theory that the bar WAS caused
by deposit from the city sewers.
STATE NEWS.
The Temperance Reform Club in Cape
Elizabeth numbers one hundred families, and
it is a fact that no family in the village has
received aid from the town this winter.
The Camden Herald says that while Willis
Williams of Islesboro, aged Is years, was
out cunning last week, he accidently shot
himself. He had loaded his gun with heavy
charge of shot, for sea gulls. Returning
without game, he was walking along over the
ice using his gun as a cane, holding the mug
zle in his right hand, when he slipped and
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