Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-01
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Among the new police appointees of Newark
are two colored men, the first ever appointed
in the State.
The President has approved the bill re-
moving the political disabilities of E. j.
Harbie, Thomas S. Bacock and Daniel Trigg
of Virginia, and II. Reagan of Texas.
Capt. Joshua Bramhall Keeper Of Negro
Island Light reports that l3, 900 vessels have
passed the Light during the nine months he
has been stationed there.
1t is estimated that at least a quarter of a
million of dollars can be saved in Pension
Bureau estimates. This economy can be
effected by the reduction of expenses for
special agents.
Pauperism continues to diminish in London.
The number of persons receiving charity
during a recent week was $4,000 less than
during the same week in 1870, since when
there has been a steady decrease.
The forty -third Congress is remarkable for
three peculiarities. 1t is the largest legisla-
tive body that ever assembled in the Capital;
bers and it has the strongest representation
of ex-Confederates.
The cipher cable dispatches concerning the
Virginius have been translated, and will be
trans rnitted to the Senate on the first day of
Its meeting, with the correspondence with
Gen. Sickles prior to his resignation.
A proposition has been made to call togeth
er, at Worcester, the survivors of the Ander-
sonville Imprisonment. The reunion is to
include the loyal soldiers of any State or reg
iment who experienced the horrors Of a life
within the limits of the "dead line"
French author describes Mile. Nilsson as
follows: eliminated snow, with golden hair,
and with two polar stars under her wide brow
she has the grace of the reed, the charm of
heather, and of beam-a scrawny beam-of
the Ncrth's pale SUM-"
A man named Evans, recently lynched in
Kansas, is reported to have confessed the
commission of murder in 1867 for which
two men named William p. King and Abra-
ham Owen were executed at Franklin, KY, in
June of that year. Evans, it is said, was the
of the principal witnesses against the two.
Trout breeding on rather an extensive scale
has become an established enterprise at Hix-
vile, near New Bedford. A Matching house
has been constructed, with capacity of 4OO,-
600 eggs. The experimenters have small
ponds for nurseries, and larger ones in which
to place the yearlings, Of which they have
now about 10000.
The Consolidated European and North
American Railway Company has made over
$2,340, 900 in stock to the International Trans
portation Company Of New York in payment
of its debt to that Company. Noah Woods
has gone to London on financial business con
nected with the road.
The apprentices in political economy who
think that the paper currency must be in
creased with the increase of population, bust
ness or territory, are pointed to the fact that
the bank circulation in England has not in
creased dollar in forty years, although the
trade Of that country has, in the mean time,
more than quadrupled.-Ci Cincinnati Gazette.
The most generous man in Westf1eld is
thought to be the one whose son broke
through the ice on Thursday, and would have
been drowned had it not been for the timely
assistance rendered by young man who wit
messed the catastrophe, and at the risk of his
own life rushed to the rescue. The young
man then conveyed the rescued boy to his
irate parent. who thereupon gave the young
ster sound threshing, and presented his pre-
server with five cent cigar.
The value of the estate of the late Johns
Hopkins of Baltimore amounts TO $40, OOO, 900.
OF this amount $2,50O,OO0 is bequeathed to
John Hopkins University; $3,500,O00 to
John Hopkins Hospital; $4,000 to the Bal
timore Manual Labor School; $4,000 to
the Maryland Institute for the Academy of
Design; $4,000 to the Baltimore Home of
the Friendless; $4,000 to the Baltimore
Orphan Asylum; and the rest to his children
and relatives.