Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-05-30
GENERAL NEWS

The English House of Commons, in COM
mittee of supply, have agreed to the item for
the payment of the Alabama claims.
Col. DeBlanc, the Louisiana "conspirator,"
was discharged on Tuesday, his accusers fail
ing to prove anything against him.
1t is said that the Spanish Government has
resolved on measures which will considerably
reduce the interest on the debt.
A Louisville woman bought feather bed,
the other day, and found shot bag in it con-
tanning four hundred and seventy dollars in
bank notes,
Australia has some gum trees that are tai
Ter than the big trees of California. Over
four hundred feet in hight.
Major Forsyth of Gen. Sheridan's staff has
just returned from an expe ition up the yell
lowstone river. He represents the stream to
be navigable from its mouth to Powder river,
1856 miles.
The schools of the American Sunday School
Unions of New York on Tuesday celebrated
their anniversaries. Between 20, 900 and 3d.
600 were present in the different churches.
The Louisville Courier journal thinks the
sight of four able men playing croquet
is the sublimest apectacle an impoverished
| country ever beheld.
The Episcopal bishop in San Francisco has
excited much feeling by refusing to take part
with the other clergymen of the city in the
| funeral services over the body of Gen Can
| by.
The Prince Edward Island Legislature on
Monday, unanimously passed resolutions ac-
cepting the terms of union.
The New York Senate has concurred in the
Assembly bill to divide the crime of murder
into two degrees ard prescribe the punish
ment of arson.
Corn makes poor showing>in Eastern Tex
as owing to want ofrain, and cotton and vege-
tables are also backward.
The Sedalia Zazoo says the young and old
folks Of that town are at "Kroughkaigh."
The local had no dictionary to tell him how
| to spell croquet. He should have spelled it
| geographically, thus X. r O. X.
! monument for the grave Of the late
James Fisk, Jr., has been finished at Flor
ence, Italy, and is about to be shipped for
Brattleboro'. VT.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, on reaching his
| home at Concord Tuesday afternoon, was
| warmly welcomed by his fellow townsmen.
The Pittsburg Commercial thinks that while
there is doubt about Trains insanity, there is
no doubt about his being fool.
The semi-centennial of Trinity College,
Hartford, which occurs this year, will not be
celebrated until 1877, when its new build
ings, set in its new grounds offs acres will be
completed.
People down in Kentucky have started re-
port that Capt. Jack is son of Capt. Jack
Chambers, who was born near Frankfort, in
that State, went to California with party of
fortune seekers as early as 1916 or 1916, and
afterwards fell in with the Modoc Indians,
and married the daughter Of their head chief.
Four men were killed on the Boston and
Albany railroad on Saturday; one at Spring
field, one at Worcester, onei at Washington,
and one at Pittsfeld.
Two grandsons of the New Hampshire sign
ers of the Declaration of Independence, were
on board the steamer Kearsarge when she
sunk at Alabama-Capt, James s. Thornton,
and Ezra Bartlett.
Gov. Osburn, of Kansas, has added $1,000
to the reward for the capture of the Bender
family, or $500 for any one of them.
Writers of indecent matter on postal cards
are subject to fine Of not less than 500, nor
more than IS 900 for each offense.
Gov. IIartranft, of Pennsylvania, vetoed
eighty-six bills, and at his request over 100
were recalled and put in less Objectionable
shape.
A German constable attempted to serve
writ written in English, which he could not
read, in Wisconsin the other day. and was,
after his repulsc, arrested and fined to the
amount of $50 for assault. He paid up, and
said that he had had enough of that kind of
foolishness, and wouldn't play constable any
more