Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-10-15
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GENERAL NEWS.

The, Evangelical Alliance has passed into
history.
Halifax customs officers seized, Saturday,
$1,000 worth of watches struggled from Eng
land.
In Germany the telegraph wires are no long
err to be stretched upon poles, but will be laid
under ground.
The Mexican Congress has decrced the
separation of Church and State. The Jesuts
are ordered to leave the country at once.
Ex-President Johnson had $4,000 in the
First National Bank of Washington, but the
loss of the whole will not exhaust his re-
sources, it is said.
Elections Sunday in four departments to
fill vacancies in the French Assembly resulted
in republican successes.
A tailor has bill in his window to the fol-
lowing effect: "Wanted-several thin coat
makers" This is fine chance for spare
tailors
Richmond is about to utilize the Dutch Gap
Canal, and will place two beacons and keep
er's dwelling at the entrance at the James
River.
The cashier in the Office of the Union Pa
cifc Railroad at New York has absconded
with Slo,0 of the companys funds.
The dead body of the woman found dashed
to a schooner, picked up in Boston harbor a
day or two since, has been identified as the
wife of Captain Hopkins of the schooner
Sparta, of Frankfort, Me.
The recent gale in the West Indies caused
great damage. Among the wrecks those
! of Spanish steamer, with which twenty six
| lives were lost, and of the steamship Missouri
: formerly the Hammonia.
The conundrum which laid up three Osh-
kosh men, and sent three others to the hos
pital was all about the age of Christopher
Columbus, The argument was exhaustive,
but the disputed point was left undecided.
The report of the examiner of the National
Metropolitan Bank of Washington shows that
the capital stock is unimpared, that there is
a considerable surplus, and that the assets are
sufficient to pay the creditors.
Travelling along the sea coast of Florida, O
gentleman noting the barrenness of the coun-
try, asked native, "What do you live or
here?" olive on" replied the man "why
we live on fish and strangers.
The Evangelical Alliance held its closing
sessions in New York Saturday. After the
adjournment the American branch next or
ganzed permanently under the name of the
Omitted States Branch of the Evangelical
Alliance"
sea captain, invited to meet the committee
of society for the evangelization of Africa,
when asked, "Do the subjects CT the King of
Dahomey keep Sunday" replied, eyes, and
everything else they can lay their hands on
There is an active temperance movement
| going on i Kentucky, and its supporters
announce their Intention to urge upon tine
next Legislature the passage of prohbitory
liquor law. The Indiana law is much liked,
and copie, of it are being circulated through
the State.
| The decadence of hazing at Yale this year
is to some extent explained. In the fresh
men class there is a champion infant from
Pennsylvania, who measures six feet seven,
and the sophomores scarcely see the propriety
of putting him in their pipe and smoking him.
| Mr.. Jay, the American Minister at Vienna,
has written to Washington recommending
that provision be made for sending home
from Vienna number of walters, laborers,
and other Americans, who are now in this
city in destitute condition. Many travellers
who hold letters of credit on the suspended
banking. houses in the United States fnd them
selves without funds, and are compelled to
accept friendly subscriptions to enable them
to return home.
fract from n Letter of IIessrs.