Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-05-14
NO. lib
One Of the coaches rolled a distance of 50

One Of the coaches rolled q distance Of 50
feet.
The bill prohibiting the manufacture. sale
and use of any article, device or invention for
the purpose of surrepticiously destroying
human life and injuring property BY explosion
or FIRE, was passed finally in the Pennsylvania
Senate. Wednesday, and sent to the House
for concurrence.
Rev. ]. N. Murdoch, the Corresponding
Secretary of the American Baptist Missionary
Union, says the reports telegraphed from,
New York of alleged discrepancy accounts of
the Union with its missionaries. are false and
misleading, and says that the charge that any
financial officer of the union has misappropri-
ated money is without foundation, as the
books of the the Union will show.
Base ball, Thusday: AT Cleveland, Cleve-
lands 5, Providence ?. At Chicago the game
between the Philadelphias and Chicasos,
which was to be played there, "wednesday,
was postponed on account of rain. At De.
troit the game between the New York and
Detroit clabs to have been played there,
Wednesday. WAS postponed on account Of the
weather.
At the auction sale of Jersey cattle in New
York the King of Ashsntee was sold for $500,
the largest sum ever paid at auction, to &.
Eas.hope of Niles. o.; Buttermaker brought
Slo25. paid by T. s. Stephens of Swansey,
Mass; Fancy Alphea. Sl650 to +. s. Cooper
of Coopersburg. Pa. Countess Fawkes, $1,000
to c. Easthope; Colts La Bicke, $500, t.
Theodore A. Havemeyer; Starlight Maid,
$500, to c. Easthope. In all 81 animals
were sold, netting $32,0S0
The paymasters and ex-paymasters of the
unitee States Army who reside in Washing
ton have extended an invitation to all pay
masters who served in the Union army during
the late war to attend reunion which will
be held in that city n connection with the
meeting of the Society of the Army Of the
Potomac on the 10th and 18th inst There
will be meeting Of paymasters At one O'Clock
ON Wednesday at the Ebbiu Hose, where
they will have their headquarters.
The Western Export Association Of the
Mississippi Valley met in Indianapolis, Ind,
on Wednesday. About so distilleries were
represented. 1t was resolved to restrict each
distiler after June to 20 per cent. Secre-
lucky alone must take IA, ,OOO,O00 gallons Of
whiskey out of bond-7 ,000, 900 more than
was ever taken out in any former year, and
many millions more than can be conveniently
exported to Bermuda or other points and re-
turned to bond.
The Internal Revenue Bureau is much en-
barraseed by the fact that the revenue stamps
throughout the country are almost exhausted
and large requisitions have been made for
additional stamps from all quarters. Great
surprise was manifested at the department
that this should be the fact. 1t was not
discovered until Wednesday, what the cause
for the remarkably sudden disappearance Of
the stamps was. The reason is that the large
dealers throughout the country have called
IN stamps from all their branch agencies and
obtained them in every other quarter posi-
BILE prior to the first of May, in order to
secure the rebate on them, and the stamps
are held by large concerns for speculative
purposes.