Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-12-30
Condensed TELEGRAMS.

In Yorkshire, England, miners meeting
will be held presently, and 0,000 miners will
give notice to the masters with view TO
obtaining 10 per cent. advance.
The foot and mouth disease is spreading
among the cattle in all the large counties of
England.
Turkish diplomats advocate the creation of
a court of arbitration on the Greek question.
This court is to be formed of neutral powers,
such as the United States, Belgium and
others.
Count Won Montgelas. counsellor of the
embassy at Constantinople, has been dis
missed from the Austro- Hungarian diplomatic
service for gross official indiscreion in COM
municating diplomatic intelligence in a
private letter.
The French ironclad frigate Richelieu took
fire last night and sank. Several of the crew
were injured.
The roof of church at Saillans, French
market-town. fell during the service Christ
mas day. Seven persons were killed and
fifty injured.
Prince Christophe Ulrich, son of the heir
presumptive to the crown of Wurtemburg,
died Tuesday.
The condition of DIR. j.. NJ. Sims of New
York is improved.
District Attorney Phelps of New York
somewhat better.
The first session of the sanitary conference
will be held at the State department, Wash
ington, January 5th.
In New York tie prevailing snow storm is
developing great strength, and is likely to be
the heaviest for many years.
At Montreal, the Southeastern railroad
has begun laying rails across the ice at
Hochelaga, to connect with the North Shore
road.
AT Danville, Va. tremendous snow
storm commenced last night and is still
raging This is the third storm within
week, and the snow is very deep. blocking
the road 10 an extent unequalled for many
years. Thermometer 24'.
At Watertown, n. Y, Is inches of snow
fell last night and it is still showing. Trains
on all roads are delayed.
The Canada Guarantee company has en-
tered a suit against the Citizens insurance
company and their manager G.. Z. Hart, for
libellous statements concerning the Guarantee
company. The damages are set at $4,000.
The snow storm at Greensboro, q. G., has
been the severest for 20 years. Snow is now
Is inches deep and it is still showing. There
is great suffering among people for wood.
Put in at Norfolk, in distress, American
barque Western Sea, Port au Prince tor Bos-
ton, leaking and short of provisions, having
encountered unusually heavy weather.
Heaviest snow on record at Columbus.
Ga, Wednesday.
The vessel reported as having collided
| with ship Obern, and which is supposed to
have fonndered, was the Italian barque Gui-
scope. London for New York.
| The sale of the Virginia Midland railroad,
for 81, 500. 900. to a syndicate of bondholders
| of the road. is confirmed by Judge Keith of
the Circuit court at Alexandra, Va. Appeal
NAV be taken to the court of appeals.
The heaviest fall of snow ever known fell
at Montgomery, Ala, last night. Weather
intensely cold.
! J. II. Benton is arrested at Quebec for
offering TOR sale one of the L. s. 81 900 bonds
! recently stolen in New York. Benton was
remanded for three days, awaiting action of
| United States authorities. The prisoner also
sold $500 bond to a Montreal broker.
| The proposition to advance freight rates
from Chicago to the seaboard &c hundred,
was voted on adversely.
| Floods continue in the north and north
west of France. Some lives have been lost
and great damage done to property.
! The reported wreck on the Texas Pacific
railroad is a canard.
| Mrs. Dorcas Burchard of Francisco. Ind,
widow. last night shot and killed Thomas
Burchard, her bro,her-in-law, in quarrel.
| Business is almost entirely suspended at
Shreveport, La, on account of the intense
cold.
An inch and one-half of snow is reported
at Vicksburg, Miss.
|, Score a, midnight in the 100 hours go-as-
vou-please race at Boston: Fitzgerald 35I
miles, Lacouse $50, Pegram 2ll. Wilmot col.
The census Office has nearly completed the
first count Of the population of the L. s.,
which shows the aggregate to be little over
fifty-one millions.
Queensland colonial parliament will be
prorogued on the 9th inst.
The Potomac is choked with ice. Snow
fell all day at Washington. At Baltimore,
Nd. Wednesday was the coolest day fol
4 wears. Snow fell all day.
Thermometer at Sherman, Tex, Wednes
day, was degrees below zero; at Buffalo
n. T., below; at Elmira, n. T., II below
at Atchison, Kan, 20 below; at st. Louis
Mo-, Is below.
Menacing attitude of Greece is CAUSING
the porte to take precautions. Two ironclad
have sailed for Archipelago and fertilization
: of DardaneIles are being strengthened.
The South Boston Railway Co. carried tn
past year 1883, 10 passengers at profit o