Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-12-09
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
1t is estimated that the gale at Toronto,
Canada, destroyed property to the value Of
Sl0O, 900.
Tweed, instead of dying, is bandaging the
lame and halt in the Blackwelrs Island Hos.
pital.
| A factory was burned at IIadfen, England,
Friday morning; loss $3.50, 900; three persons
were killed.
New Haven is vexed because Henry Ward
Beecher dared to say that at is not beauti
full city and its elms are its only attraction"
An extensive strike has occurred among
the employees of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway in consequence of a reduction
of pay.
| Coal has been found in the South African
bag of 200 pounds
The Salt Lake ladies are preparing for the
celebration Of the centennial anniversary of
the Boston Tea Party.
A Blondn brother and sister in Paris have
the reputation Of being the most daring tight
4 rope performers ever yet seen.
| Ingersoll, Harrington and Walwor,h, as
well as fifty other conyicts, were taken from
Sing Sing to Auburn Prison on Friday.
Vice President Wilson will leave the pre-
to Florida, where he will remain for several
weeks.
! 1t is proposed to make daily manual labor
compulsory upon the students at the Michigan
Agricultural College, and some of the kid
gloved young farmers protest.
Two hundred citizens of Cambridge have
filed their intention to petition the next Leg
islature for the annexation of that city to
Boston.
The typhoid fever is reported TO have be-
come epidemic in Montreal, at least in the
highest levels, and its prevalence seems to be
widespread in the surrounding country
Lieut.. Col. Crook of the Twenty. third L. S.
Infantry, for gallantry displayed in fighting
the Indians, has been promoted to the rank
of Brgader General.
An Irish nobleman attended by twenty-six
dogs passed through Indianapolis lately, on
his way to FLORIDA on a. hunting expedition.
He had a car attached to freight train de-
voted to himse elf and attendants.
A western newspaper tells piece of news
in this form: "The headquarters of the
Americas Club are removed to Blackwelrs
Island. None but Democratic statesmen
need apply for admission
A hat found in ''Crab Pond" in Fall River.
Mass, has been fully identified as one worn
by George H. Clifford the missing merchant
of Newport, r. 1. The supposition is that
Mr.. Clifford drowned himself.
| Seventeen delegates from Alsace and
Lorraine held seats in the French Assembly
when peace was arranged with Germany,
three of which continue to occupy their seats
from that territory, Notwithstanding the fact
that it is no more French province in fact
than Ireland
Pennsylvania will vote on the adoption of a
new State Constitution on the 10th inst. The
Philadelphia Press publishes lists of all the
papers which have declared their opinions on
the subject. Of these, two hundred and
eight favor and eighteen oppose the Con-
stitution.
William F. Crawford has been appointed
railway post office clerk between Boston and
Portland Samuel NJ. Richards has been
transferred from the route between Boston
and Albany to the line between Boston and
Bangor, and Charles c. Patee has been ap-
pointed railway post Office clerk between
Boston and Bangor.
A despatch has been received at Savannah
announcing the death Of Allen G. Jones, for
merly of Bangor, Me-, but more recently Of
Savannah, Ga, whence he fled last spring,
being a defaulter to tie Southern Bank of
Georgia, Of which he was bookkeeper, to the
amount of some $4,000. He was pursued,
and being captured by detectives at st.
Quentin, France, committed suicide.
Sacramento has a joker who has gone to
Jail rather than return a whip belonging to an
omnibus driver, which he hid for the thing.
The driver asked for the whip impolitely,
and that made the humorist obstinate. Then
the driver swore out a warrant, and the man
of mirth went gleefully to a cell, declaring
that people who can't take joke should be
taught lesson.
OF more value than the finest gold or the