Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-07-21
NEWS BY MAIL.

Col. Charles G. Greene positively declines
TO be considered candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts,.
There was $4,000 fire at Matte on Fri
day morning. Cir,
An explosion of ship torpedoes at Westfield
Friday evening caused $4,000 damage,
killed one man and injured another. sgf
New York has yellow feyer in the lower
bay since the first of June. AZ
1t has been decided finally to arm the New
York police, and eight hundred breech-load
ing rifles and one hundred and fifty swords
have been ordered.
Unexpected difficulties are troubling the
contractors who are building a bridge eve
the Piscataqua at Dover Point, for the Ports
mouth and Dover Railroad. Piles driven at
one point stike ledge of rock, and it is
thought that truss ofabout $50 feet must be
made to span that part ofthe river. aia
The pension agents in the large cities have
been instructed to forward their quarterly re-
turns to the Treasury department by express
instead of mail The postage on the return
from Boston amounts to Sl35, while the ex-
press charge is only three dollars The same
return forwarded from New York, Chicago,
ST. Louis. or Cincinnati would require over
$500 postage. @
\ dispatch from Green Bay, Wis, says that
two men who committed some robberies at
New London were caught at SbawaFnos last
night. A vigilance committee of sixty took
them from the sheriff, put a moose around
their necks and hung them till they confessed
where the stolen property was secreted.
Judge Smell of the Washington, d. c., po-
lice court, who has been awaiting the decis-
ion OF Judge Blatchfofd in regard to the ma
tiona jurisdiction Of that court, has left for
six weeks vacation
AZ yet no postal cards have been received
at the postotfice department which in paper or
execution are such as the contract calls for.
The Postmaster General expects that three
months will be necessary fully to discover the
fruits Of the abolition of the ranking prv-
lege. He is confident that the postal reve-
nucs will be so increased as to make the Post
Office department self-sustainiDg. He is Of
the opinion that the stamp appropriations will
be exhausted long before the expiration of the
fiscal year, and in some cases before Con-
grcss meets. The order directing the free
transmission of the supplies for the Postoffice
department. at which the other departments
80 mneh complain, was made in accordance
Win the instructions Oh the HOUSE, COmtultte0
appropriations. 1t was the understanding at
Tie time the law passed that those supplies
should go free. #982
The managers of the New Hampshire Ag-
ricutural society will introduce very novel
feature at the State Fair, which is to be held
at Manchester, commencing on the 30th Of
September next premium consisting of
silver service of the value of one hundred
dollars is offered for the finest baby under one
year. The exhibition will take place at
Smyth's Hall, and the judges will be Gov.
Straw. exGovernors Weston, Stearus. Har
riman, Smyth and Goodwin, and Hon. Daniel
CLARK, Judge of the L. S. District Court OF
New Hampshire, and Hon. }. h. Sargent.
one Of the Judges of the Supreme Court.
Several entries have already been made.
The Society have offered premiums amount
ing to over eight thousand dollars.
TO force the owners of mansard roofs to
have them removed this year and replaced by
less nflamable roofs, the board Of under
writer's has adopted resolutions levying adj
ditional premiums of one per cent. upon all
mansard roofs after January l., 1874.
1t is stated that the grand jury have found
indictments against the brokers IN New York
who recently INDUCED in a duel and their
friends who were preset. @ A