Daily Kennebec journal., 1873-04-17
these lands largely represent the business

these lands largely represent the business
men and wealthy private citizens Of San Fran
cisco. The land thus held, is estimated at
$32, $50 900 by the State board of equaliza-
ton.
Ex-Governor Seymour, of New York, is
credited with remarking, during his recent
Southern tour, that "When Southern States
men were in power we had pure and glori-
Gus government; but that in their exclusion
from Office, crime and corruption have come
in like q food" He is also credited with
saying that "If slavery was an evil, it bred
the best race of men and women the world
ever saw
Another female physician is to locate in
Springfield, Massachusetts,, and the Union of
that city says ''She will be gladly welcomed
by DR.. Sarah J. Williams, who. since she left
the city physicianshIp, has all the practice she
can attend to. DR.. Mary L. Wadsworth, who
was the first educated female physician to To-
cate in Springfield, and who went to Con-
stantnople three years ago, leaving host Of
friends in this city, is now physician to the
Sultan Of Turkey and his court"
jeff Davis is to visit Galveston, Texas,
shortly and one of the local papers says
there is a growing feeling among the citizens
in favor of giving ''this eminent American"
public reception.
Four men have confessed to the murder of
a girl named Clausen, at Ethan, England, in
April, 1871, and asked the favor of being
hanged for the crime Yet all of them have
been proven to have been distant from the
scene of the murder at the time of its COM
mission. The English police now find their
duty Of convicting criminals changed for the
necessity of preventing lunatics from sacri-
ficing themselves on the altar.
Forty years ago a revolutionary soldier de-
posted 500 pension money in New Hamp-
shire savings bank and in each of the two
following years added Sl5 more. Neither
principal nor interest has ever been drawn,
and the amount now is 81 ,22S.Sl with share
in an extra dividend about to be made. II
the revolutionary soldier had lived long
enough, he might have been rich.
The widow Of Hon. Ichabod Washburn, o.
Worcester, Massachusetts, has recently giver
81, 900 additional to Washbufn College, a
Topeka Kansas.
Good Portland young men, instead of going
2 out to drinking saloon for morning and even
ing refreshments, are now putting the money
; in boxes for the benefit of the Maine Genera
/, Hospital Fair.
Miss Anna Dickinson is sued by St. Loui:
/ lecture committee for breach Of contract.
The Attorney General OF New Hampshire
, requested the newspapers not to publish the
testimony taken at the inquest in murder
, case, because it would be hard to find jury
who had not formed an opinion. The news
papers do not seem to regard the matter from
his standpoint.
Boston girls delay the street cars by stop
ping to kiss friends good by, to the double
aggravation of the gentleman passengers.
Mrs. Abby Hutchinson, of ''the Hutchinson
Family" has just been married in Minnesot
:. to Mr.. S. G.. Anderson.
Lieutenant General Frederick Caldwell
Adjutant General of the Imperial Brazilian
army, recently died at Rio Janerio, of fever
at the age of IS years. He was of Europea,
= , parentage; though protesting the Roman
. Catholic religion, he ordered to be buried will
him in his coffin the Book of Common Praye
of the English Episcopal church.