Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-02
CENERAL NEH.N.

Secretary Delano received quite an ovation
at New Orleans. He left that city on Christ
mas eve for Havana.
a San Francisco man wants $50, 900 from
the Central Pacific road for killing his wife.
The New England Society of Charleston,
s. c., celebrated Forefathers Day on the o3d
inst, by banquet.
An odd trial of endurance recently occur
red at Newton, New Jersey, between five pam
cake eaters. The successful competitor de-
molished G8, and his nearest rival co.
The memorial to the late General Lee, at
Lexington, Va, will take the form of pure
marble sarcophagus, with full sized figure
oft he General, to cost $4,000.
The swedes of New York city ask the com-
missioners Of education to establish two even
ing schools, at which their countrymen may
be taught the English language.
Freeman Curtis is the name OF man in
Grass Lake, Mich, who, when his horses
were unable to pull heavy load out of the
mud, built fire under them. He was arrest
ed.
The epizootic has broken out among the
oxen in the Jurisdictions of Cardenas and
Cienfuegos. It is of malignant type, and
in many cases death follows iume dlately up
on the animal being attacked.
The weather at Fortress Monroe has been
the coolest since 1857. The Hampton Roads
are full OF floating ice, from three to FIVE
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both anchors down.
Mr.. Froude sailed for England Saturday,
from New York, or the steamer Adriatic, much
to the disappointment of the lecture commit
tees with whom he had made engagements.
A book agent was recently robbed and
thrown into the river at Omaha. Shortly af-
forwards he was knocked from railroad train
and fell from high bridge into the water
When les. heard from be was soliciting SUBJ
scriptions to new Illustrated edition Of the
Bible.
4 compromise has been effected in the case
of Mckee versus Weed, BY which Weed and
others will relinquish the entire establishment
of the New Orleans Times to the heirs of W.
II. c. King, its former proprietor. The pub
LEGATION Of the paper will be resumed Jan. /.
The Grand Jury at Patterson, n. j. has ad-
journed without finding an indictment against
William Collier, who was arrested for setting
his rolling mill on fire, or against the two silk
weayers, in jail for en- alleged conspiracy.
The accused were dismissed.
1t has been ascertained that eleven men
were buried in the Cottonwood slide, Utah,
some of them being strangers from the East.
Three bodies have been recovered. 1t is re-
ported that three more slides occurred on
Sunday last. One man was carried down
by one of them, but was rescued without
having sustained severe injuries.
General Francis A. Walker, has rendered
to the President through tho Acting Secretary
of the Interior, his resignation as Commits
LIST of January next 1t is understood his re-
signation has been accepted, but his success
sor will not be appointed until after the re-
turn of Secretary Delano from Cuba.
Dewitt Talmadge sends out general APP
peal to the religious people of the North,
South, East and West, and especially the
Young Mems Christian Associations, to help
his congregation to rebuild the tabernacle in
Brooklyn, destroyed by fire last Sunday. He
says that having during the past two years
built the tabernacle and sustained the lay
to meet the present disaster.