Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-11
General News.

The capias upon which Paine, the Fall
River defaulter. is held in Jail has been
quashed. but the judgment quashng it has
been appealed from.
The New Jersey republicans having secured
control of the State Legislature. ex-Secreta-
nv Robson will be a candidate for the seat
in the L. s. Senate now occupied by Senator
Randolph.
Major A. s. IIcyland, late of the Royal
Artillery, who has a record of twenty years
service in the English army. was married
Saturday morning to Miss Clara 5. Jessup,
eldest daughter of Alfred ID. Jessup. the
millionaire paper manufacturer of Philadel-
phia.
Dr. George G. wilkins died at Pntsfeld,
\. H., Saturday morning. aged 90 years. lie
was native of Vermont, and had lived in
Maine and Massachusetts, but for the past
% years has resided in Pittsfeld. Three
brothers and two sisters survive him.
Mr.. Glflan. the United States Treasurer,
Is unable to supply the demand for small
gold pieces, and has requested MIR. Burchard,
the Director of the Mint. to set the mint to
work TO coming the ten, five and two and
half dollar gold pieces.
Several witnesses testified Friday at Mil
waukic to extreme brutality of officers of
House of Correction such gagging women,
beating them, and feeding prisoners on rotten
meat which dogs had torn.
Hanlan announced Friday night that he
expected to meet Courtney this fall to defeat
him in fair race. and that there is not money
enough in Canada to buy him. He intended
to 20 to England and row again for the
Sportsman's Cup, and also to Australia TO
row Trickett for the worlds championship,
after which he would retire
Rev Matthew Hale Smith died in Brook
lvn Friday. aged g. from the effects OF
cold He was well-known as a clergyman,
lecturer and journalist. For over 20 years,
he was "A correspondent of the Boston Jour
nal
Hon. Joseph NJ Blake, one of the oldest
members of the Rhode Island bar formerly
State Attorney General, died Saturday morn
ing, in Bristol. II. !.
II is now definitely known that Gen. Grant
will be present at the reunion of the Army of
the Cumberland, and it is quite probable that
he will perform the ceremony of unveiling
the statue of Gen. Thomas, which the Socie-
tv of the Army of the Cumberland has caused
to be made at a cost of sixty-thrce thousand
dollars. Several of the crack military or
CARNATIONS of Pennsylvania, New York and
Western States will be present.
empty liquor casks in Boston and sent them
to Tuftonboro', n. H., to be filled with cider.
One of the casks was found to contain $1,000
worth of fur capes. and the owner is wanted.
The attempt of the Post Office Department
to exclude the business of lotteries from the
mails is said to have proved unsuccessful as
there is no authority in law for Withholding
letters addressed to individuals or for break
ing the seals
The Union Insurance Company of Buffalo
refused to pay its risks on the Washburn
Mill destroyed at Minneapolis in May, 1873,
on the ground that the mill was destroyed by
explosion and not by fire. The case was de-
cded Friday in the United States District
Court at Detroit against the insurance COM
pany.
The last trace of the s'IIalf Moon," which
for two hundred years was the most famous
inn in London, has disappeared. Shake
speare is said to have lived there, though the
same thing is said of every antique house
which is left in the city Certainly, however,
he drank sack there, and so did Ben Johnson
NARROW, Otway, beaumont, Fletcher and
Chapman.
The fish story season is about closed, but
before the seal is set upon it it may be fitting
to give publicity to a yarn that comes from
Canandaigna, n. Y. While party were on
the lake in a boat the other evening, a young
lady, " no delighted in towing with the waves,
was trailing her hand in the water alongside,
when she suddenly felt it closed upon by the
jaws of fish. Startled by the pain, she
jerked her hand quickly from the water
that the fish. large pickerel. was landed in
the boat. The bait was badly lacerated but
the fish had tie worst of it, fer he was taken
home and eaten at breakfast.