Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-12-29


Beven Bros. Manufacturing Cos lath
and finishing shop. East Hampton, CT, wa
burned Tuesday morning. loo hands ar,
thrown out. Loss $1,000.
In ST. Petersburg the opinion of competen
judges is that Russia has made ample con
ccssions in the Chinese question. The coun.
ell of the empire has approved the addition
Of 10 per cent. to import duties.
1t is reported that the grain commission
house of w. p. McLarne 4 Co., Milwaukee,
has failed for Slo0.0O0.
Steamship Champlain of the Beaver line.
from Liverpool, the l4th, arrived at Portland
Tuesday morning.
Steamer Persian, New York for London,
has returned leaking
Telegraphic communication with Newport.
r. l., has been resumed. the damage by the
recent storm having been repaired.
Catherine Driscoll Of Maiden, Mass, con-
victed of killing the child Mary Credon, was
sentenced to five years in the house of cor
rection.
The Canadian meteorological department
reports heavy gale in the maritime prov
inces. with snow and rain.
John Phair. barber, of Glen Falls, n H.,
was killed Monday evening by pistol ball,
while seated in his shop, by an unknown
assassin.
Col. Prejevalky, Russian traveller and ex-
plorer, has returned safely to omosk, after
two years of dangerous exploration in Chi
nese Mongolia.
George Roddick, letter carrier, arrested in
New York for robbing the mail, confessed he
had been doing il for year.
A woman was garroted and robbed of SO
in the streets of New York, Monday evening,
by q rough. who WAS arrested
At III O'Clock Tuesday four participants in
the Ennis l30 hour tournament at Boston
were on the track Fitzgerald had
scored ITO miles and Wilmot and Pegram
each so.
Score at midnight; Lacouse I5s, Fitz-
gerald lbs, Pegram lS7, Wilmot lsl.
Several cars were wrecked and number
of passengers and the engineer injured by
ditching of a passenger train on the Michigan
st. Paul railway, at Lincoln, last night.
A Washington special says that the dem
ocrats are disturbed by the recent declaration
of Senator Edmunds that the Vice President
will in any even, count the electoral vote.
They propose to hold a Joint caucus imme
diately after the recess to devise a plan Of
action.
During drunken row in dance hall
Robinson Camp, Col, a man named Neatly
McElenry, who was attempting to arrest the
disturbers, was shot in the foot. Several
others had bullet holes in their clothing.
Mr.. LeDuc, U. ). Commissioner of Agri-
culture. has completed arrangements for
establishing an experimental tea farm. The
location selected is twenty miles from
Charleston, aid ten miles from Summerville
on the South Carolina railroad.
The Independent church of Gloucester,
Mass, founded by John Murray, celebrated
Friday, oath inst, the Tooth anniversary of
the old Murray church.
The case of Senator Voorhs of New Jer-
sey, for slleged robbery of $1,000, is post
poned to April, on legal technicality.
Gale, the English pedestrian, who essayed
to walk $500 miles in 1000 hours, broke
down after completing 2.233.
The third farmers institute for 1880. under
direction of Plymouth County Agricultural
Society of Bridgewater, was held at Town
Hall, Hanson, Mass, Tuesday, by invitation
of the Hanson Farmers and Gardeners Club
of that town.
1t is estimated that the public debt state
ment for December will show decrease of
$3.50, 900.
The department of state at Washington
has received official information of arrival at
San Francisco of William Henry rriscott,
one of the Chinese commissioners, bearing
the treaty recently concluded. He will leave
for Washington. 1t is stated
that the treaty will be submitted TO the SEN
ate as soon as possible after its receipt. Until
it reaches that body it is the intention of the
department not to make its contents public.
A statement has been issued by the census
Office showing the population of 32 States
and Territories, according to the census of