Daily Kennebec journal., 1873-01-17
NEWS BY MAIL.

Nearly $4,000 pounds Of old type have al
ready been sent in for the Greeley monument
The Japanese are considering the pro-
priety Of importing camels to replace the
cattle swept away by the plague
Postmaster General Creswel, while urg-
ing his postal telegraph scheme, is also quiet
ly advocating the forced prepayment of post
| age on all newspapers transmitted through the
mails or over mail routes.
BY fire in the library of the late Edwin
Forrest, Wednesday morning in Philadel-
phia, the greater part of the Shaksperan vol
umes were destroyed.
In the Kellogg Legislature at New Orleans
Wednesday John Ray was unanimously elect
ed United States Senator, to fill the term va
cant by the resignation of Kellogg that after
noon. The People g Legislature took bal
lot for United States Senator, long term
with the following result Warmoth 27, Mon
cure 20, Macdonald II, Bussey r. and
Blank II. Total 81.
Ex-Secretary Graham and ex-Congress-
men Craig and Smith of North Carolina hope
to have their political disabilities removed
soon. Mr.. Smith is member elect of the
next Congress.
The Presidents reception at the White
House Wednesday night was a brilliant affair
and the spacious apartments were crowded.
many of the ladies wearing elegant dresses.
When the cell in which Stokes was confined
prior TO his sentence was searched, bottle
was found in the corner, which, on examina-
ton by chemist, proved to contain concen-
trated solution of strychnine.
The loss of by the recent severe STERN and
cold weather in Minnesota was much greater
than at first supposed. Within a radius of
% miles there were about so deaths.
The Prison Commissioners submitted their
second annual report to the Massachusetts,
Legislature, Wednesday, recommending an
entire change of the county prison system.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska on We'd
nesday decided that the issue of bonds by
counties and precincts in aid of railroads was
void. This decision affects large number
of cases in various counties throughout the
State.
The Railway Committee of the Massachus-
sets Legislature, will soon report bill con-
solidating with the Boston Clinton and Fitch
burg Railroad the birmingham and Mans
field, Taunton and New Bedford, Middle
boro and Taunton and Taunton Branch Rail-
roads.
The first execution in Madrid since the
revolution of GS occurred Wednesday. The
crime of the condemned was a triple assas-
sinaton. The customary procession through
the streets was prohibited, but an immense
crowd gathered to witness the execution.
One of the persons who went from France
to attend the funeral of Napoleon, took with
him some soil dug from the garden of the
Tuileries, which he strewed over the coffin
after it was deposited in the sacristy Of the
chapel at Chselhurst.
| Bismarck's retirement from the PruSsian
Cabinet is ascribed to differences with Kaiser
William on the church question,
A cable despatch announces the laundering
of the ship Tuscarora Off Gibraltar, and that
the captain and ten men were lost.
Chiselhurst, where Louis Napoleon died, is
parish situated in the County of Kent, elev-
en- miles southeast of London.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. accompanied by his
daughter, started from Rome for Egypt or
the 18th ult During his stay in the Hol,
City he was continually surrounded by ths
elect of literature and art.
At Rome and Dresden, two of the favorit,
resorts of American and English travellers