Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-27
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Weather.
New YORK. March 26. A heavy easterly rain
storm continues.
The Amerique.
The steamer Amerique last nghr moved four
hundred feet south and fifty feet east. The wreck
ers feel confident of getting her off in few more
such high tides. The wind is still north east,
gale, and it is raining hard.
Retirement.
The Rear Admiral Almy will be retired the oath
Of April, on account of long and faithful service.
His retirement will promote Commodore Thomas
II. Patterson TO grade rear admiral.
Missing.
At this date there are six persons missing from
this city, namely: Oakley Hall, Lawyer McNal,
q Frenchman named Delapierre, Prussian named
G. A. Adolph, Hugh Smith, and Emma Studer, q
girl of years. All but the last had considerable
sums of money with them.
Frank Hogenboom, an Albany druggist has not
been heard from since last Monday, when he left
hotel to make purchases. He had considerable
money with him. =
A Fiend.
Alfred Pickard quarrelled with his wife on
Houston street last night. He bound her to q
chair and rubbed vitriol into her face and then
fled. The poor creature burst her bands and fed
to an apothecary, where physician applied ale
WAITING liquids, but the flesh was nearly eaten off
her face. She probably will die, Pickard has not
yet been found.
Horrible Crime.
Joseph Stahl while asleep Friday night in the
boiler room of the Guttenburg brewery, Hoboken,
was covered with kerosene oil and then set on fire
by some unknown human fend. Although the
men threw blankets around the victim. he was so
badly burned that he died in a few hours in awfal
agony.
Report.
10 Wn,L 10 xu,u IL.
straighten cut the books of the navy department.
and the Sun gives q long account Of the scandal
Gus and unfinished condition in which the frieate
Trenton was hurried to sea before lew admins
tration was inaugurated.
Freshet.
The high tides have caused the North and East
rivers to overflow, and considerable damage has
been done along the docks by the storm.
The ROckaway Disaster.
The officers and icIew of the wrecked steamer
Rockaway arrived this evening on the steamship
Wyanoka, which was towing the new vessel to
New York. They narrowly escaped death and
saved nothing but what they stood in, boarding
the Wyanoka by the life boat of their own vessel.
They report that the Rockaway is broken in two,
and is rapidly going to pieces.
The River Open.
ALBANY, March 90. The ice barrier below the
city has given away, and the river is open to New
York.
Arrested.
Sup't of Police Wslling received word to-day
from the Chief of Police at Montreal, saying that
arrest had been made of Hastesd and Mccain,
alias Thompson, charged with participation in the
hand diamond robbery.
Detectives have gone to Albany and Washing
ton for requisition and extradition papers.
Legislative.
Gov. Robinson to- night vetoed the bill for the
appointment of Sup't of Public Works, in conse-
quence of the Senate's rejection of his appointee
Gen1 Mcclellan, for the faithful performance of
whose duties the Governor was responsible This
leaves the Canal Commissioners in Office, and they
are proceeding with the work of preparing the ca
mails for the openings. 1t is hardly possible that
the bill can pass over the veto.
Mail Robbery.
ROCHESTER, March 26. An attempt was made
tonight to rob the mails on the train from the
East. The robber, who had evidently rode from
Albany, got into the mail section and was caught
riding the bags by Gallup. one of the mail clerks.
After struggle, in which the robber cut Gallup
the arm, and the latter shot at the former with
out effect the other clerks were attracted to the
spot and the robber jumped from the train. The
mails were saved.