Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-25

The total loss by the Boston FIRE, according
to the latest estimates, was Ssl, s41,14 One
half Of the whole was owned by fifty seven
persona, trusteee, or corporations.
Canada wants name for newly Uncover
ed island 10 one Of its unpronounceable lakes,
which Is said by trappers to swarm with
beavers enough to supply the fur trade for all
time.N
The Worcester (Mass.,) Spy says that Mrs.
Isabella Beecher Hooker, of Hartford, sister
Of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, has become
-Universaiist and preached in the Universalist
church at Bridgeport on Sunday. Il rs
The last fashionable kink is pop corn par
ties. 1t is claimed that they not only keep
young men from another kind of corned par
ties, but they are very suggestive Of ques.
ton they ought to pop. -
An Oregon youth is accused of dressing up
straw woman and giving it a sleigh ride
through the town, after his bashful approach
es had been rebuffsd by the genuine articles
among his female acquantances.
The body of woman supposed to be Mary
Ann Gilman of Clinton was found near Wor-
cester Friday morning. She had evidently
lost her way and died of exposure during the
storm Of Thursday night
After fifteen years experience, the Omaha
publishers have come to the conclusion that
the newspaper business is legitimate one,
and they have cut off their dead heads and
given notice that free putting has also ceased.
All they ask is to pay and be paid like white
folks.
There is a sensational rumor in Washing
ton that the mission of Generals Belknap and
Sheridan to the Southwest squints at the an
nexaton of some of the disatfected Mexican
States of the IONA Libre.
New York provision dealers are very much
exercised over prospective ''corner" in pork.
A Chicago firm is engineering the matter, and
are reported "long" of an immense amount
of the greasy commodity. One house in New
York is holding from 10000 to 10000 barrels
for the Chicago firm.
The Secretary of W ar has selected Rock
military prison, and has appointed a commits
sion Of three officers and three civilians to
examine the site and prepare plans. When
completed the prison will be in charge of a
commandant.
A discovery has just been made near the
small town of Volbron, in Russia, of an i'm
mense quarry of photographic stone. M.
| Hickman, a merchant of Berlin, is said to
have purchased it for 100, 900 francs.
This is the way the Iowa code commission
ers declare the list of exemptions from execu-
ton: Fifty sheep, six stands of bees and
the wool thereon" The jovial farmer will
have shot" time trying to shear these latter
pets, andiwil probably go home shorn.
Next session of S. w. G. Lodge of Good
Tempars will be at London, England.
In the Senate Friday, the discussion of the
Caldwell case was continued by Messrs.
Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Howe of
Wisconsin, Morrill, of Maine and Stewart of
Nevada. Mr.. Ferry moved to amend the
committees resolution by another expelling
Mr.. Caldwell. A resolve was toffered and
laid over instructing the finance committee to
inquire what measures can be adopted which
shall give to the country q currency convert
able into gold at the will of the holders.
There is trouble between the Dominican
| authorities and the British Consul at Porto
Plata, growing out of the lease of SANTANA
Bay to the American Company. The Consul
sheltered some insurgents who proposed an
attack on Porto Plata.
Daniel Z. johnson has been appointed mas
| ter carpenter on the second division of the
Maine Central railroad, in place of r. w.
Weld.