Daily Kennebec journal., 1875-05-15
Rps,ia ba, made another gain in territory. this

Russia has made another gain in territory, this
time from Japan. The japanese have ceded the
Car portion of the island Of Saghahen. The
two Powers which seem to march steadily on in
the path Of empire and territorial acquisition are
Russia and England.
They had prompt case Of Justice IN Albany
the other day. A man named Smith visited the
penitcntiary in the morning to see friend; in
the evening he stole $50; next day he was tried,
convicted, and sentenced, and the same night he
larly i1itiated member.
Cheating is not confined to race, sect or preyi-
Gus condition. In package Of olium that had
not been opened since it left The shores Of the Le
want, received at a drug store in Alexandria, Va,
there was fou nd collection Of old bullets and
rocks which had been paid for at the rate of So.75
a pound
Dir. James Beale has placed in the State Libra
nv Of Virsinia portrait OF PocahoDtas, which he
saws is an exact copy, made by the elder SullY IL
1880, Of the original portrait Of the Indian rriE-
cess painted during her visit to England between
the years 1916 and 1911. 1t has been III posses
sion of the descendants Of Pocaho ntas up 10 the
present time.
There is in Grotcn, VI, 4 son of Timothy I'm
dry, who is reduced by long continued disease to
the merest skeleton. He is twenty-five wears old,
and will not weigh more than twenty-five OF thir-
ty pounds. lie was apparently healthy until
about nine years Of age, since which time he has
been gradually growing deformed; his knees arc
drawn up TO his breast and his hands to his
shoulders, and remain there immovable his
whole length is not more than thirty-three inches !;
excepting his face, he looks scarcely human.
film is grown over his eyes, and he is blind.
Chief Justice Lowe of Utah on Monday refused
to compel the payment of dd interim amony to
Ann Eliza, the seventeenth wife of brigham
Young, pending the proceedings for divorce, as
decreed by his predecessor, Judge Mexican, on
the ground that a valid marriage is necessary
condition to the payment of alimony, and because
the payment of almony in her case would be
stow apparent, if not indeed, real sanction upon
practice"-that is. polygamy-"which is hostile to
the civilization of the age, and which the penal
statutes of the land visit with condign punish
ment."
Mr.. Whittier says all the recent attempts made
to invalidatc the story Of Barbara Freitche as re-
lated in his poem come from dissatisfied persons
TO WlOm remembrance Oh tIc OCCuITtHCe Is us
tasteful. He declares his belief in the verify OF
the act to be as perfect and unshaken as on the
dsy in which he first formed it. His faith in the
story is founded not only on the testimony OF
friends who had learned the disputed facts in the
City Of Frederick, but by confrmatory and unso-
lcited evidence from numerous persons in the
South. He first heard the story from lady of
Virginia birth, now living in the District Of Co
lumbia, whose veracity is uDquest.oned. Other
authorities were Miss Dorothea Dix, Judge John
c. Underwood, late CT the United States District
Court of Virginia. and daughter of Stoncwall
Jackson, who wrote to the poet thanking him for
his tender mention Of her father. Mr.. Whittier
gave these facts to reporter Of the Boston Ad-
verser, with extracts from the letters alluded to,
and in closing the conversation added 81 a
little afraid The incident will stick to the cid lady
for some time yet