Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-01-20
GEtERaL Ne rs.

The main building at the Centennial viii be dec
Grated with ten thousand silk flags
Pymouth's Advisory Council it is nov expect
ed will be an enormous affair ia point Of nun
bers.
The Tredegar Iron Company a. Richmond, Va.
have failed; FIVE six hundred employees are
thrown out of work.
The Cincinnati Commercial estimates that there
have not been less than 80 600 murders in the
Southern States since the war"
Western editor wants female orrespondent
-one, he says, who cling golden cleaning
over the sombre tints Of life"
Canals are no longer paying institutions in Hi
nois, railroads superseding them. 1t is stated that
even in Holland canals are falling into disuse,
owing to the increasing use Of the rail.
The SHOWS very deep in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, which form the Eastern portion Of
California. There have been several avalanches,
but the Pacific Railroad trains have not been de-
layed to any extent.
In Huntingdon, Penn, Mr.. Wesley W. Cary,
who has spent his entire lifetime in the study OF
magnets, has invented a composition which COM
pletely nullifes the power of a magnet when de-
sirable 1t is the discovery of an art long lost
An immense quantity of human remains has
been discovered in the hollow walls of one of the
wards of the old San Andreas hospital, at Lima
Between 1000 and 5000 skeletons have been count
ed and it is supposed that the bones belong to
victims of the Inquisiton.
There is some talk in Elmira of holding public
meeting to denounce the charges of Mr.. Hill con-
corning the treatment Of prisoners there during
the war Several letters written by prisoners to
Capt. g. l. Wilton, in 1864 and 1865, and thank
ing him heartily for his kind Heatment, are pub
lished by the Advertiser of that city.
A youngster while warming his hands over the
kitchen fire was demonstrated with by his father
who said: go way from the stove, the weather
is not cold" The little fellow, looking up de-
murely at his stern parent, replied; ~ amt
heatin' the weather, am warming my hands"
Mr.. Robert Dale Owen writes TO the Secretary
of the British National Association of Spirtualsts
that his late illness was due to oyerwork, and adds
"For two years and half previous to my illness
in May last had been sufferer from dyspepsia.
causing weakness and depressions. These by
rest, water cure, and milk diet, have been entire.
ly removed, and am now in excellent health,
better than have been for five years past.
The analysis of the vote in the House on
IIolman's resolution for repeating the act for the
resumption of specie payment shows the following
division Of parties
OF the ll2 votes in favor of suspendiug the
rules in order to pass the resolution l02 are Dem
ocrats but seren are Republicans, and the others
Independents. OF the Democrats, only three
phelps of Connecticut, J. II. Bagley, Jr., OF
New York, and OBrien of Maryland are from
the Eastern and Middle States, exclusive of Penn
sylvania, the affirmative votes coming almost
wholly from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
Missouri. Arkansas, Alabama Georgia. North
Carolina Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and
Kentucky. The Republicans voting in the AFR
NATIVE are Robinson, Cason and Evans of Indiana
Oliver of Iowa, Phillips of Kansas. Dobbins OF
New Jersey, and Kelley of Pennsylvania. o.
l5S negative votes, Sc are Republicans and 80
Democrats from the Eastern and Middle States
ten being from New York. The number of neg
alive votes from the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio
and the other strong affirmative States is Al
against l02 yeas.