Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-02-23

show that it was much more serious thar
assembled in front of the Captain General!
palace and demanded that the recent con
scription proclamation should be smodifed
They were willing to take the field as volun'
teer organizations, but were not willing to be
conscripted to serve under Spanish officers.
The Captain General refused to see the dele
CATION appointed to wait on him.
! Thereupon an incipent riot began, and there
were evidences of an outbreak in various
quarters. The troops fred upon the crowd,
killing FIVE persons.
Upon the following day, Martinez, an ex-
editor, and Father Castro, ex-cure of the Ca
thedral, were arrested among others, and it
is reported that they are already condemned
to death.
Americans just from Havana report the
city in very feyerish condition.
Thirteen hundred free m,als were sei,eu
by the Howard Relief Association yesterday
at the Second street police station.
Mr.. Benefits first soup house was opened
yesterday, and was besieged all day from the
other dispensaries were also kept busy.
Mr.. Beecher said in discourse last even
ing that a temperance revival was always in
danger of being short lived. If the present
movement could be transferred to the church.
es it would gain perpetuity.
Dan Mace the well-known horse jockey,
died here to-day, suddenly.
Buenos Ayres advces report the Asiatic
cholera is raging there with from forty to
fifty deaths per day. Fifty thousand peo-
pie have fled to the rural districts, including
President Sarmiento.
Dan Mace is not dead and the physicians
hope he will recover.
The Astor House ceases to be hotel May
first.
1t is rumored that warrant is about to be
issued for the arrest of prominent Of
fetal of Brooklyn.
Negotiations are making for the return of
Edron Bradley the bankrupt Broadway mer-
chant, who ran away to Canada from his
creditors in December with 900 in gold
II is expected he will be here this week.
Among his creditors are II. B. Claflin and
A. I. Stewart. 1t is said his offences will be
forgiven on his restoring the property he
took him.
Washington's birth day will be universally
celebrated here tomorrow. All the Courts
and public offices will be closed.
The Times Phipsburg special, says, that
some of the glass factories which have been
idle for months owing to trouble about wages,
will resume work tomorrow, and be run by
the employees, who guarantee the proprietors
six per cent. on their capital, the owners to
retain 25 per cent. of their wages as security.
A Philadelphia despatch says, the temper
ance crusade promises to begin this week.
Arrangements for series of temperance
meetings are working at Tolado, and temper
ance secret societies are receiving large ac-
cessions to membership. The liquor men
have organized to resist any efforts against
them.
Albany. 81. Rain has been falling here the
past fifteen hours and at this hour (nidnight)
continues. The water in the Hudson River
is rising and the ice may move by morning.
Rochester, %. The United States Hotel
at Avon with nearly all the business portion
of the village was burned this morning.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000
Port Jarvis, N. Y. An engine ran off the
track to-day at Uniondale, on the Jefferson
branch of the Erie road, between Susquehan-
ma and Carbonate. 1t fell down an embank-
ment of seventyfve feet, instantly killing
the Conductor, John r. Harding; Engineer,
Crane; Fireman Daniel Cramer, and Brake
man, Thomas Raf,er.
Newburg, 81 The river is open to point
two miles north of this city.