Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-07
GENERAL NE us,


Mrs. Wharton's trial for attempted poison
ing of Eugene Van Ness, began on Monday
at Annapolis. i
LYDIA Sherman of Derby, Conn, convicted
of the murder of her husband last April has
made confession of her life Of sin to her
lawyer.
Savannah will celebrate Gen. Lees birth
day on the 10Th inst, with an address by
Wade Hampton, parade Of the volunteers,
and great pomp and circumstance.
The body OF the second mate Mr.. Henry
B. Ballard, AMI four other bodies, from the
wrecked ship Peruvian, were washed upon
the beach at Cape Cod on Thursday.
Capt. Philip II. Ellis, U. S. America, is
on trial by court martial at Camp Douglass,
Utah, for striking an enlisted man under his
command.
Minnesota BARRIERS n'tkeep Sunday Who'll
IL, but they have the conscience to demand
double price from all who are shaved on that
day.
Iowells new painting of "Perry's Victory
was on Thursday placed on the walls of the
eastern stairway of the Senate Chamber at
Washington
The business outlook for Boston was never
more promising than ut the present moment.
The aggregated result of the business for the
past year surprises every one by il success
and amount, says the Globe.
\ saloon in Dubuque contains the follow
ing, printed on card board, encased in an
deliberately gilt frame, and hung behind the
bar: "Bostevely No-trust"
George II. Rabbit, is suing ARENAS Briggs
for alleged SANDER, fixing the damages ut Slj,-
900. Both are prominent mcn. residents of
Taunton.
4 rise in Rivere Des Peres undermined enc
of the abutments of the Iron Mountain rail-
! road bridge, crossing that stream, causing its
fall. Loss about $25 200.
The export trade of the Birmingham district
owing mainly to our home manufactures taking
the place of those it supplied. This is shown
in detail by a return recently issued by the
[ nited States consul at Birmingham.
The dry goods store of George j. Hart K
Co. of Milwaukee was robbed Tuesday night
of silk valued at from $1,000 to $4,000.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has instruct
ed the police to report every gambling house,
lottery shop and disorderly house in the city.
Senator Lyman Trumbull Of Illinois will
resume the practice of law after the 81 of
March, the day on which his Senatorial term
expires. He has been in the United States
Senate since lS55-seventeen years.
Daniel Gleason of North Adams who, it
will be remembered, confessed to the murder
of his wife and was sentenced to be hanged
some time ago, has had his sentence cormut-
ed to Imprisonment tor life.
General Cowan will ask for a full investi-
CATION of the Teton-Sioux matter. The
charges lately made public are not new at the
| department, and General Cowan some months
| since ordered that no further expenditures be
made from the appropriations till the whole
| subject was examined.
! The advantages California offers for the
silk industry have attracted three enterprisng
foreigners to San Francisco, where they are
exhibiting two looms in operation, producing
plain and figured goods. They consider that
the California raw silk is not excelled by any
other. What industry will the Pacific coast
not engage in ere long?