Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-12-06
GENERAL NEWS.

A Cincinnati juror was fined the other day
| for going on duty intoxicated.
The New York Board of Education has I'M
der consideration the question of corporal
punishment in schools.
| Gov. Leslie of Kentucky in his annual mes
sage protests against the Ku-klux outrages
which he is impotent to prevent.
Nearly all the incoming European steamers
report stormy weather.
| A raid by MeAicans and Indians on ranch
near the Texas border was made on the lst
inst, and seven persons were killed by the in
vaders.
Gen. Howard having rendered his resigna.
ton as President of the Howard University,
Prof Langston has been appointed Provisional
President.
Marquis de Noailles, the French minister to
this country, is to be transferred to Rome,
and Due de Rochefoucauld sent to the British
court.
George William Curtis, in Harper's Week
ly, reminds the universal Yankee nation that
"the pothouse clamors for war, bu. the home
pays for it,"
The great phenomenon at Jackson, Michi-
gan, is a lawyer who eloquently defended in
Court, the other day, negro who had stolen
from him an overcoat. l....
Mr.. William Merritt, for twenty-eight years
in the service of the Boston s. Maine railroad,
is mentioned to ill the vacancy in the direct
orship, caused by the death of Mr.. Cyrus
Wakefield
Anna Dickinson has bathed in the waters of
Idaho, and according TO the Cincinnati Times,
she says: Girls, it's like the rapture you
feel in your lover. tender clasp"
A notable innovation in the hotel life Of
Washington is said to be the admission of col
ored guests to the same privileges as white
men. This occurred on Tuesday at Wizards
for the first time.
A Chicago lawyer told jury that he seemed
to see a band of white-robed angels lowering
about the head of his client, who was up for
horse stealing. The jury brought in a YER
dict of guilty.
1t has been discovered that large tract of
land hitherto supposed to belong to Clinton
county, Mo, belongs to no county at all, and
persons desiring to commit crime can do it
there with impunity.
| John B. Cough has be n in the lecture field
thirty one years and has lectured during that
period seventeen thousand times, an average
of two hundred and twenty.six times
Chief Engineer King, Of the United States
Navy, late head of Bureau Of Engineering
has arrived in Philadelphia from Europe He
has been absent eight months on tour of in
speeton of the dockyards and ronworks of
Great Britain and the Continent.
The Kentucky Court of Appeal has decided
that the cashier of the Mechanics Bank of
Louisville, which was robbed by daylight in
1870, is responsible for money thus taken, the
court holding that he did not use due diligence
in the care Of the property.
The Indiana Historical Society has ap-
pointed a committee to consult with Governor
Hendrick upon the expediency Of removing
the remains of President William Henry Har-
tle-ground.
The Saratoga Monument Association pro-
pose TO ask Congress for 100000 to aid in
the erection of monument on the site Of
Burgoyne's surrender on the Plains of Sara
toga 1t is to cost $500 600, and will be gen
orally of the obelisk form. so feet square at
the base and 10 feet at the summit and 2S0
feet in height; accessible TO its top; contain
ing conveniences for the erection Of commem-