Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-12-10
GENERAL NEWS.

lWenIy-tWO railways III the OHlleu
are now in default on bonded debt.
An advertisement for teacher in rural
district concludes in this way IN. B. No
man need apply who wears a shawl"
Ex-Governor Weston of Manchester. N. H.,
has been nominated by the democrats for
Mayor.
Geneva finds that it is worth 81 ZOO, 900
more than 1t was before the death of the Duke
of Brunswick.
Senator Logan of Illinois has not lost by
the failure of the Texas Pacific Construction
Company. He had nothing to do with it.
Four men were killed and several wounded
by steamboat explosion on the Mississippi
Saturday night, between Shreveport and JEFF
ferson, La.
Eleven hundred people own l5,000,00
acres of land in California, which is an aver.
age of nearly $4,000 acres for each person.
Business at Lowell. Lawrence and Nashua
is improving. Mills are starting up and will
soon be running on full time.
Two railroad trains, one an express and the
other freight, came into collision at West
Albany, New York, on Saturday, and the
freight train was badly wrecked. Only two
persons were injured and those slightly.
An engraver in Springfield has cut the
Lords prayer into piece of copper less than
one fourth the size Of a silver three-cent
piece, and there is room in the circle for fif-
teen or twenty words more.
Rev. DR.. Tiffany is quoted for the state
ment that President Grant has entirely dis
pensed with liquor in the White House, and
that it is almost abolished from the fashiona-
BILE parties given at Washington.
The propeller City of Detroit sunk in Sagi-
nav Bay. Saturday morning. There were
twenty men aboard, of whom only eight have
been heard from, though four others left in
boats. 1t is feared that the other men went
down with the propeller.
The freight business on most of the New
York railroads has increased during the last
month equal to that of last year at the same
time. The roads & generally have not reduced
their expenses, as was contemplated month
ago.
William Reed of Dixon, ILL.,, lost his ticket
emitting him to seat in a Pullman car, and
though he proved the fact to the conductor
was put out of the car. He brought suit
damages.
Many car loads of potatoes are passing
through Portsmouth to the Western States
from Maine They are purchased for "a
cents per bushel in the lower part of that
State, and the jobbers realize a handsome
profit on their investment -Nemburyport
Herald.
The total amount of church property, in
the United States, according to the last CEN
sus, is 1854, 4s3, 5s4, which is very low est-
mate. The Me,hodisls hold the largest amount
about seventy millions, and they have over
twenty one thousand churches, or about onc.
third of all the church edifices in this country.
One Of the New York commercial papers
says there is now no doubt that several large
parcels of teas, which under the new English
laws against adulteration could not be sold in
that market, have been transferred to this.
Some of these consignments have already
been disposed of by public sale in New York,
and will shortly find their way into the family
tea pot.
The town record of Walpole, Mass, are be-
ing thoughly searched for party who expect
to fad therein some evidence of certain
marriage which if proved, will bring to the
heirs fortune of $l03, 00O, 900, now in the
Bank Of England, and subject to their order