Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-03
FROM NEW YORK.

New York, 2. Weather clouuy, cold, vino
east.
Rev. DR.. Fulton in lecture last evening
on the Congregational Council, said that hs
had from the fret considered it his duty &c
stand by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, whom
he considered the first pulpit orator in the
country, above reproach in public and private
life, and Christian ministers owed it to them.
| selves to trample beneath their feet the infa-
nous charges made against Beecher. The
council, however, had proven the necessity OF
proper church discipline, as minister is more
dependent upon his friends and supporters
than any other person, by reason of his pc.
| culiar position.
Deputy Collector Vanderwerken resigned
his position in the internal revenue office in
Brooklyn, yesterday, and Assessor Hawley
will probably follow suit to-day. Both were
indicted with Sanborn, for fraud, but were
acquitted
Society German saloon keepers voted tc
demand Of the mayor that one of their mum.
Der be placed on the excise board.
The Times compliments the Assembly fol
throwing out the alleged claim of $50 900
made by ex-healtl officer Swinburne.
Thutlow Weed has a letter in the Tribune
to-day warning legislators against certain DO.
que claims, including that of Swinburne,
which was squelched yesterday.
The N. Y. Free Medical College for women
last night conferred the degree of NJ. d. upon
/ lady graduates, including one from Maine,
Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
The widow of ex-President Cespedes Of
Cuba arrived here last night.
Statistics show that German immigration il
decreasing.
John II. Elliott, cotton merchant, has
suspended,
Both passenger and freight steamers have
commenced running to all points on the Hud.
son river.
The closing of the Security bank is due to
the abscoRding cashier and bad speculationi
by another of its officers.
A despatch from first Vice President Clark
of the Erie Railroad Company, now at Sus
Quehanna Depot, says:
"There is no trouble whatever on the line
now. Everything is working well. l am ir
full charge. Sent all the soldiers away yes
terday. Nearly 5000 cars have passed here
since noon Monday. We shall have no more
trouble. All the disabled engines are in
running order again. We have all the men
we want at present in the shop"
Steamship Edgar Stewart is still in the
custody of the L. S. Marshal at Baltimore
being held for trial at the June term of the
L. S. District Court, on a charge of violating
the navigation laws.
Another attachment has been issued az ain 5
Harry Genet's property, this time in favor o.
Henry Rogers.
Lathrex, the Hamburg defaulter, was mo-
arrested to-day and probably was not a pas
| senger on the Iansa. Other steamers are to
be watched.
District Attorney Phelps promises to push
the case of Dste ctive Leahy for the murder
| of Mcnamara, to trial as rapidly as possible
Fifty thousand dollars in money, raiaed 70,
the poor by theatrical benefits last eek, have
been handed to st. Johns Guild for distribu.
ton.
Robert Reyes, Conductor on one of the
Pennsylvania Railroad trains which collidet
Saturday, died to-day from scalds.
Cohoes, 2. The Tivoli Knitting Mills
owerd by J. G. Roots & Son, was totally des
| troyed by fire this afternoon. Loss 5000, 900
insured for $4,000.
The Knitting Mill of Gregory & Hitler wa.
partly burned. Loss unknown, but fully in
| sured.
Ogdensburg, .. The Osdensburg & Lake
Champlain Railroad Company have com.
menced an action in the Supreme Court o,
this State against John Gregory Smith, the
Vermont Central Railroad Company and
others, to test the validity of the agreement
of 1870, under which Smith & Co. have con.
troled the Ogdensburg road