Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-11-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Ex Governor Peter T. Vroom of New Jersey
is dead.
Edward X. Winship, a New York adven-
turer, is proclaimed defauter to the tune OF
$500 600
The Virginius arrived at Havana Tuesday
with much parade and show
! The Lachine canal is packed with ice, to
the CONSERVATION Of business firms. This has
not occurred so early for many years.
The French Assembly follows Scripture, to
some extent, in one thing, when the right
doesn't let the cleft" know what it does
LoreH Courier.
The Mercantile National Bank of New
York has suffered considerable loss by the
irregularities of one Of its Directors.
California papers say that some one has sto-
len the golden spike used in the "last rail' of
the Pacific road.
The Paris Patre reports that plot for the
establishment of Commune in Lyons has
been discovered and that several arrests have
been made there.
Reports from the English expedition against
the AshaEtees are that the natives have been
defeated and driven back with severe loss.
A German paper at Davenport demands that
German shall be made the official language Of
Iowa, and shall be spoken in the Legislature.
The construction of the Kansas City, Bur-
lington and Santa Fe Railroad is to be imme-
diately begun.
Paterson, N. j., is inaugurating an extern
sive system of street improvements to give
employment to its poor this winter.
Cuban bonds at 25 cents on the dollar are
being sold at Philadelphia to good natured
gentlemen with plenty of money.
During the prevalence of the yellow fever
in Memphis there was but one fire in that
city, and that one of a trfng character.
The Chief of Police of Memphis has taken
a census of the 'roughs, and finds that of
lo6, all but three survive the epidemic.
Mrs. James Brooks has rented her house
in Washington to the Government for an office
and with her daughter sails for Europe soon,
where she expects to reside for an indefinite
period.
As long as men pay $50 Il pair for silk un-
dershiIts, % pair for Balbriggan socks and
81 apiece for lawn neckties, New York
lady correspondent thinks the talk about fem
mime extravaganza a very impairment mas
cuine diversion.
| On the day Of Sir Edwin Iandseer's funeral
somebody hung wreaihs 10 the lower Jaws of
each Of the Trafalgar square lions, in Lon
don, ard what is more remarkable, they re-
NAMED undistutbed for a week.
The Dominion Government is reported to
have Information of serious disturbances
among the Indian tribes in the Northw st.
Some uneasness in consequence il fel. in the
settlements, and the more so because of sus-
| picion that the halt breeds are connected in
fomenting disturbances
Warren, the expert employed to investigate
the books Of the New York State Treasures
office, has filed an elaborate report with Gov.
Dix The amount of Phelps embezzlement
is between S3l0, 900 and s3i 900, and there
seems to be no chance of the State recovering
any Of the stolen funds.
Hon. James S. Frazer of Indiana, late of
the Mixed Commission under the Treaty of
Washington, has been appointed by Judge
Richardson to aid in the adjustment of claims
for payment of cotton arising under the act of
May 49, 1872