Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-12-23

under State law, more than twenty-six mil
lions of dollars for all purposes.
The Home for the Frendless in Indianapolis
has been victimized by the officials, and is the
subject of an Investigation.
Mobile had street-fght the other day
which was participated in by two white wom-
en-, one negro woman, two goats ard three
dogs.
A petition signed by 10000 names, asking
that the monarchical form of government be
restored in France, has been presented to the
Assembly.
An old lady of Jackson, Tenn, has asked
the city authorities to exempt her from city
taxes, as she seldom walks over the side
walks or pavements,"
Bills of indictment against seventy striking
printers, members Of the Pittsburg, Pa, Ty-
biographical Union, have been brought in by
the grand jury, and the law is to be tested in
their cases.
The Jesuits expelled from Mexico have been
appointed parish priests in Havana in viola
ton of law, which forbids the comforting of
such charges on foreigners or Jesuits.
Connolly, Tweed's partner, laments the
tendency Of Grants administration toward
Caesarism, and bewails the universal corrup-
ton of the republican party, from his retreat
in Ireland.
There are 800 men employed OF the Port
land and Ogdensburg Railroad, between Up.
per Bartlett and the Notch, working on a
ledge 65 feet deep and AGO feet long. The
work will be completed within a year.
The coroner's inquest on the remains of
Thomas Armstrong, found floating in the Sta
ten Island ferry slip, develops the fact that
the deceased "was bewildered with excite
ment consequent upon approaching mar
rage"
The Pacific Division of the Northern Pa
cifc railroad, lis miles in length, was fin
ished Thursday. This completes rail connec-
the Puget Sound terminus.
Sweetness prevails in the church at Sims
bury, Mass, the ladies Of which lately gave
honey festival, the dclicacy which furnished
the name being supplied by a swarm of bees
which for some time has been hiyed in the
church steeple.
The passengers on an eastern bound car
were much amused one afternoon lately at the
calculations of the good-natured conductor
when told by dead-b that he had nothing
wherewithal to pay his fare. "No ticket :!
No money! You just bounce right out at
the next station; poorhouses all full down
east."-Boston Advertiser.
A few days since an inmate of the Michigan
State Asylum for the Insane, who had es-
capped some time ago, returned of his own ac-
cord. He said he had found no place he
liked SO we'll as the Asylum, aud seemed to
be in great trouble lest DIR. Van Deusen
made him welcome.
Wisconsin newspapers say the probable
successor of the late Bishop Armitage will be
the Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, of Christ
Church in New York. Mr.. Thompson lived
formerly in Madison, Wisconsin, and has
long held the position of President of Nasha-
tab College in the same State.
In pursuance of the terms of the deed under
which the endowment of the Penikese school
was effected, the deceased professor before
his death, nominated his son. Alexander
Agassiz, to succeed him as the president and
director. A better augury for the future sue
cess of the institution could scarcely, in the
absence of the professor himself, have been
given, says the New York Evening Post, since
there are few men in the country upon whom
the mantle of the father could so aptly have
fallen as that fathers son.