Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-24
GENERAL NEWS.

A large bouquet of violets brought from
Paris was laid on the tomb of Napoleon III,
at Chiselhurst on All Souls Day.
The total number killed by the explosion
in the Warren Vale Coal Mine, Yorkshire,
England. on Friday, is twenty-four. Ten
men have been rescued more or less injured
Conversions of Catholic priests to Protes-
tantism seem to be popular just now. Father
Jacquemet, of Baltimore, is the latest exam
pie.
There appears to be party in favor of re-
pudiation in North Carolina, as 4 bill was in.
troduced in the House of Representatives of
that State Friday, to fund the debt contract
ed before the war, by re-issuing new bonds to
holders of the first class or old bonds at SO
l-3 per cent. on the principal, or in other
words, give one bond for three old ones with
the past due interest attached. All other
bonds are conveniently ignored by this
scheme.
Miss Anna Dickinson is responsible for the
statement that a short time before Mr.. Gree
ley's death he said to her that he intended to
bring the Tribune back to the Republics
party, acknowledging that he had been mis-
led, and that the balance of his life should be
devoted to repairing the mischief he had
wrought. f}s
One of the indirect advantages of an ami.
mated political canvass is instanced in the
case of candidates wife who bases her ap-
plication for divorce upon the accounts of her
husbands private character published in the
opposition newspapers.
The Secretary of War has authorized Gen.
eral Ord to Issue army clothing to needy suf-
ferers in the Nebraska grasshopper district,
and directed him to report by telegraph when
it will be most needed. This welcome order
will go far to relieve the wants of the men.
The women and children will still have to be
furnished by private contributions.
Shade Westmoreland, alias Shade Wood,
was hanged at Chattanooga, on Friday, for
the murder of William Emberling, near that
place, in May of 1871. The execution was
witnessed BY about 6, 200 people. Westmore-
land confessed the murder, but said that false
swearing had placed him in his present condi-
ton, and expressed hope of meeting those
who had sworn his life away in the better
world. The rope was cut at l.25 P. M, and
in ten minutes Wood was pronounced dead.
In fifteen minutes he was cut down, and his
remains inferred in the City Cemetery.
The retail grocery department of lions
Cooperative Mercantile Institution at Salt
Lake city, closed last Tuesday, and has been
dry goods department of the institution was
sold out not long since and passed into pri-
vate hands.
A despatch dated 18th, from Wilkesbarre,
Pa, says the reign of lawlessness in the coal
regions appears to be continually growing
worse. Since last Saturday six men have
been murdered, and four brutally assaulted,
and no arrests have been made.
The 1ongshoremen's strike in New York
and vicinity continues. Many green hands
are being employed at the docks. few un-
important disturbances have occurred.
A strike has been prevailing among the
coal miners in st. Clair and Madison Coun.
ties, ILL.,, for several weeks, and there has
been more or less apprehensions of riot for
some time past. acquisitions for arms have
been made upon the Governor. On Tuesday
the strike virtually ended, by the strikers re-
Stunning work at cents bushel.
Mr.. Benjamin Disraeli has written q letter
to Sir Henry Rawlinson announcing that the
government, in consequence of the represent
tatons of the Royal Geographical Society
and other learned bodies, has determined to
organize a Polar exploring expedition with
out delay.
October was even more like summer in
England than here; Strawberries bore . sec
ond crop, and rhododendrons bloomed. But
it was very unhealthy.
Before many years there will be q railroad
down the Euphrates valley, and direct COM
munication between Paris, London, and other
great cities and the centre of Asia. The
board of directors of the Romapian railways
has ratified the treaty with the Austrian net