Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-12-23
Condensed TELEGRAMS.


on Long Island.
General e. =. Mattocks declines the APP
pointment of Yorktown commissioner for
Maine.
S. s. Cox is better.
British steamer Lumley Castle. from New
Orleans, has sunk on Horn Reef Crew saved
Floods in various parts of Belgium are re-
ported.
1000 Oldham and Ashton (Englsnd)
golfers are on strike.
The governor general of kharkoff states
that during lsst year 1000 inhabitants of that
province died of diphtheria, and 5 800 during
the first ten months of 1880. Tvphus fever
is increasing in the south of Russia.
An effort is to be made in Missouri to cap
ture the notorious desperate Jesse James,
who is robbing stage coaches. He will not
be taken alive.
A large number of cases of diphtheria are
reported at Buffalo. Public schools have
been closed.
The storm smashed 80 columns of the iron
pier at Long Branch, Tuesday night, doing
$50, 900 damage. An unknown vessel is
ashore at Monmouth Beach
Over 81 900 have been subscribed for the
families of the six victims and the sufferers
by the late FIRE at Buffalo.
John Toole of New York, stabbed Satur-
day night by Joseph Trainor, died yesterday.
Murderer not yet arrested.
District Attorney Phelps is critically i'll at
New York. His wife died Tuesday.
After five hours struggle, at l.35 yester-
day morning the wrestlers Bibby and Whistler
closed and the match was drawn.
The Austrian ambassador has demanded of
the Porte release and reinstatement of
Prince Miridites. who was arrested with a
chief of the Albanian league.
Gaspar Tachman, exiled from Poland for
participation in the revolution, and brigadier
general in the Confederate service, is dead,
aged So.
Hyde Park, hamlet on Cony Island, was
destroyed by fire yesterday. The entire
business section, with exception of the silk
factory, is in ashes.
David Provost of Plantagenet, Ont, has
confessed to having murdered in September,
Pierre Brunei, at the instance of Brunet's
son, who stood by while his father was being
choked to death.
VIM. X. Porter has been found guilty Of
sending lottery circulars through the mails.
Penalty is $500 fine.
Jno. G. Weston, Grin c. Whitney, and
Chas. II. Perkins of Chicago. guilty of de-
frauding government in the celebrated match
bonds case, were sentenced to one year with
hard labor in the penitentiary.
Hon. A. Lakeman died yesterday, at
Gainesville, Ga. He was attorney general
! in Grants first term, and leader of the re-
publican party in Georgia
| The first trial of the electric light as n
means of illuminating Hoosac Tunnel, was
made Wednesday, with fine success.
| serious fire at Bamberg, small town on
the South Carolina railroad, has destroyed a
/ large amount Of property.
I I Mattress of London Ont insurance and
/ steamboat agent. has absconded. Liabilities
heavy.
/ The snow storm ceased at Long Branch
Yesterday morning Snow drifted to depth
! of 20 inches or more and roads are almost i'm
passible. Damage done TO ocean pier is
SIC, 1000.
The board of engineers who had under
consideration the feasibility of cutting safe
| channel through Sandy Hook, have reported
that the plan of sea wall outside the chan
mel. to be depth of 40 to II feet below the
surface of the water at mean low tides, will
not improve navigation over the bar or secure
a hsrbor of refuge for any class of vessels.
The executive committee of the World $
fair commission has decided to recommend
the Inwo0d site.
Emile d. Giradin declares he is so dis
rusted Nth French politics and with Rocliefort
and Laisant, that he will resign the editor
ship of lie France and retire to private life.
Josiah Caldwell, formerly of Boston,
speculator in Italian railroads. has failed.
Liabilities g, 500, 900.
ChAs. Wilson and Edwin Hall were arrested
at Cincinnati, yesterday in the act of counter
feiting silver coins. The paraphernslia was
captured
The boiler of tug Martha exploded al
Wilmington, bel, yesterday, destroying the
boat and killing the engineer
Lightning has destroyed the cable between
Victoria and the main land. Communities
ton is now had by steamer
/ Fire yesterday in the picker house Of the
Chicopee( Mass Mfg. Co.'S No. mill caused
$50. 900 damage.
/! WEIGH Bacon of Albany, Ca. genera
warehouse merchant and bank business, ha.
failed. Liabilities $3.50, 900.
The 18th anniversary of the New England
Society of New York city was held last night
Gen Grant, Gen. Sherman, Rev. DIR. Storrs
Postmaster Gen. Maynard, Rev. Dr. Weston
: of Bowdoin College and . large number o
distinguished guests we're present. Letter
of regret we're received from Gen Garfield
Gen. Arthur, Secretary Evarts, Secretar,
Sherman. Secretary Ramsey, Attorney Gen
Devens, Mayor Cooper and many others
. The prime minister has sent to representa-
tives Of Greece abroad, instructing them .
decline the proposal for European arbitration
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