Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-13

largest and finest, and what is also very
strange, no other varieties of fish seem to be
affected by the apparent distemper
Seventeen factories in East Kilingly, Conn
have stopped work, owing to the prevalence
Of smallpox.
Gov. Dix has near 800 bills before him.
the legacy of the late New York Legislature,
and some of them doubtless will never bear
his autograph.
Arrangements have been completed and
bonds filed at the PoSt-office Department for
the establishment of nearly one hundred and
fifty new money order post-ofices, on the
first of July, most of which will be in West
ern and Southern States.
Chief Justice Sir William Young is men
toned as the probable successor Of the late
Lieut. Gov. Howe of Nova Scotia. Sir Will
liam is one Of the most distinguished members
of the Liberal party.
The formal opening Of the Nashua, Boston
and Acton Railroad was celebrated on Tues.
day by an excursion from Nashua to Provi-
dencc, which took about GOO passengers.
John Francis Kearns, sentenced to fifteen
years confinement for treason-fe felony, in con-
nection with Fenianism in Ireland, has just
died in an insane asylum at Cork.
There is crusade in Salt Lake City against
the liquor dealers.
By the explosion of fire damp in coal
mine near Shamokin, Pa. yesterday ten men
were killed.
Horace Maynard of Tennessee is in Wash
ington and would be the next speaker, if he
could
The revolution in Panama has virtually
ended Disturbances are feared. however, in
Guatemala and Honduras.
Quite number of employees of the Fitch
burg Railroad have been arrested for stealing
from the freight cars.
Two men have been arrested near Black
Creek, Ont, for placing Instructions on the
railway track
Stamford, Vt, boasts Of a .'happy mother
OF ten sors and sixteen daughters, all living
Early visitors to the White mountain region
this summer, will find a greater amount of
snow about the ravines than has remained un .
til so late date for many years.
One result of the Postmaster Generals re
cent visit to the South will probably be an
increase of the postal-car service.
A Nevada paper reports that the servant
girls Of Helena have struck for SG6 month,
two silk dresses and the privilege of the par
lor every Sunday.
The Iron Association met on Friday, in
Pittsburg for the purpose of fixing the scale
of prices. 1t was agreed to leave the prices
for manufactured iron unchanged, and to re-
duce the price Of nails fifty cents per keg on
all sizes.
High Church English clergyman at VOL
verhampton has just gone over to the Greek
Church.
| Western editor recently rode sixty miles
on COW catcher, and failed to catch the COW,
after all.
The Indian superntendencies of Montana,
Oregon and Arizona are abolished, and those
Of California and New Mexico, Washington
Territory and the Southern SUPPLEMENTARY
are retained.
| The Auburn, n. u, Theological Seminary
has accepted Col. Morgan's offer of $500. 900,
and will transfer itself to Aurora unless the
| citizens of Auburn raise 1925 900 within sixty
days.
Gen. Georgs b. Mcclellan has accepted an
invitation to make the formal presentation to
the New York Sixty-ninth regiment of the
flag which has been sent as gift to that or
ganization by the people of Tipperary, Ire
land. The presentation will be made at
Bellevue Garden on the Fourth Of July.
The force of habit is fully illustrated in the
case of retired milkman, who says he never
sees can of water without having an almos,
irresistible desire to put some milk into il.