Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-09-23
GENERAL NEWS.

Chicago had another large fire Thursday
night, involving loss of $3oo,O
Terror stricken people are fleeing from
Memphis to escape the dread yellow fever
! Liberality consists less in giving profusely
than in giving judiciously.
| To call homeopathic physician quack
in New York State is adjudged to be libel.
punishable by fine.
BY order of the Shah, the Grand Vizier.
who accompanied his Majesty on ms recent
visit to Europe, has been sent to prison.
Sir Hugh Allan testified on Friday, before
the Royal Commission, relative to his part in
the alleged disgraceful transactions in the
Canadian Pacific Railway contracts.
The Great Eastern has returned TO Port
land, England, having failed to repair the
cable of 1865.
1t is announced that a firm of iron dealers
IN New York has received an order from
Liverpool house for 100 tons of merchant bar
iron.
| The grade of the Ogdensburg road through
the White Mountain notch will be about 100
feet to the mile.
President Grant, the Secretary of War,
and Gen. Sherman have announced their in.
tention of being present at the approaching
reunion of the Army of the Tennessee.
The Baltimore Sun gives notice that Mary.
land will spend no more money on the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Canal, and Congress will
be asked for a subsidy.
A New York woman being in want of a
needle, overhauled her old Pincushions, and
two of them yielded 447 needles.
Ladies are gradually discarding one by one
the little trinkets and cheap knickknacks
worn on promenade depending from the waist
belt. The umbrella and fan is about all they
can manage.
dispatch from Portsmouth, n. H., states
that information has just been received of the
loss of schooner Eldorado, of Cape Ann, with
all her crew of seven Kittery men, in the
late Nova Scotia gale.
On Wedne sday two fine colts, one an Ethan
Allen, the other Fearnaught, belonging to
MR. Il. l. Northend, were sent over the City
railroad to the farm of Harry Fairbanks of
winthrop, Me, to be wintered. -Neu5uyy-
port Herald.
Alexandra Palace, which was burned down
ie" months ago, is to be rebuilt at once. In
some respects the new building will resemble
the Crystal Palace, it having been decided
that IRON and glass shall be largely used in
the construction of the building.
Advlces from the Indian Territory say tina,
the negroes there numbering 10 200, former
ly slaves of the Indians, are moving to secure
q territorial organization for their own pro.
lection, and will soon hold a consultation in
the Choctaw nation TO consider the subject,
The Buffalo Express says that 'if some
smart Yankee would invent patent whipping
machine for the wholesale corporal punish
ment of vicious and idle boys, the community
at large of that city could well afford to vot,
him grand medal, besides giving him a large
order for his machines"
Several houses in Swampscott and Lynn
were entered early Monday morning, the oc
cupants chloroformed, and jewelry valued at
over three hundred dollars was stolen. In
one Of the houses visited the ruffian about 10
apply sponge to the nostrils of the sleeper,
missed his aim in some way and struck the chin
instead, awakening the lady who screamed !;
SO snatching what jewelry they could the
burglars fled precipitately.