Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-18

black eyes and q pleasing address. He is
just the kind of man to captivate a young
and artless girl, and it seems strange that
suspicious were not aroused on account of
the disparity between the ages of the pair
when they first applied for board. Sherburue
has been arrested on the suspicion of having
poisoned the girl.
A report is widely spread that the Emperor
of China is greatly incensed against foreign
ers. A story is told that on the Imperial
wedding day foreigner of Pekin presented
the Emperor with two enormous red candles.
Suspicion being aroused the Emperor ordered
the candles cut open, when they were found
to be full of powder and bullets. Another
version states that the candles were expert
mented upon in the open air, when one ex-
ploded and caused the death of many bystand-
ers.
Constitutional government was first estab
lished in Prince Edward Island in 1878, and
the residents of the island are now talking
about a celebration of the centennial anniver-
sary during the current year. According to the
statements given by a Charlottetown paper,
constitutional government was in force in the
island three years before the Declaration of
Independence, and for still greater number
of years prior to the adoption of any form of
Federal constitution by the United States.
Judging from the statistics touching marriage
and divorce which we find in the California
papers, matrimonial felicity in that State
seems to be improving. In 1850 the number
of divorces granted in San Francisco were
more than ten per cent. of the whole number
of families, being 10 in population Of 1000
families. In the year just past the number Of
divorces in that city were 23l in a population
nearly four times as large as that of 1856.
Of the successful actions the past year, more
than three fourths were brought by wives.
GENERAL NEWS.
William Hungerford, the Oldest lawyer in
Connecticut, died at Hartford on Wednesday.
The Newark Ice Company have on the Hud-
son river 40 900 ton ice house, two hundred
men,. twelve horses and a steamer at work.
John Early, his two children and span Of
horses were drowned in the river in jefferson
county, Wis, by the breaking of the ice on
which the horses ran on Monday.
A boiler in factory at Charleroe, Belgium,
exploded Wednesday morning, killing II per.
sons and woundipg q large number.
Ship Chillingham Castle was wrecked on
the voyage from Shields to Malta, and &c per-
sons were drywned.
The Spanish Government denies having had
any official correspondence with the United
States Government on the slavery question.
In one house in Pubinico, Yarmouth,
county, Nova Scotia, there have seventeen
cases of small pox, of which six were fatal
1t is alleged that the effort Of company
having its headquarters in New York, to pur-
chase SANTANA Peninsular and Bay from the
San Domingo Government have been sue
cessful.
The typhoid fever among the prisoners ir
the county Jail af San Francisco is so bad
that the sheriff asks authority to take away
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the purpose of relieving the over crowded
condition of the prison, and thus checking
the ravages of the disease.
The republican congressional conventions
in New Hampshire were held Wednesday
In the first district the Hon. VIM. B. Small
was nominated, in the second the Hon. Aus
tin F. Pike, and in the third General Smith G
Griffin
| Gen. N. T. Banks was introduced on
Change in Cincinnati Wednesday, and ad
dressed the merchants on the important rela.
tions sustained by the States of the Ohio and
Mississippi valleys to the Union with refer
ence to commerce, claiming that Cincinnati
held the key to the developments to be mad,
in large part of the State.
A little boy, named William Post, whil'
riding down hill on sled, in Kingston, N
Y, Monday, ran on Che track of the New
York, Kingston and Syracuse railroad, il
front of passing locomotive, and was liter
orally ground to atoms.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisor.
Monday night adopted a resolution express
ing the willingness of the city to grant the
Central Pacific Railroad Companies such ia
cilities on Mission Ray as are necessary te
bring the railroad cars and ships together
provided the company will withdraw the Goa
Island bill from Congress, and make Mission
Bay their permanent terminus.
AS Policeman Fairbrother, of Providence
R. l., on Tuesday night, was taking sailor
named Paory to the station, drunk and disor.
derby, Paoro suddenly drew sheath-knife
and struck the officer in the breast with suct
force as to break the blade against memoir
andum book in the officers pocket. The off
Ger then shot the culprit in the leg, and tool
him in. Neither were seriously hurt. The
book saved the officers life.
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