The Portland daily press., 1869-03-19

poker. ticks his wives and breaches the Cos
pei"
The ad coates in Nova Scotia of annexation
to the United States have enlisted the services
of Robert J. Walker as pamphleteer.
A Chinese laborer not long ago murdered a
whole family of seven persons in Peru. He
was arrested, and while the parties who had
made the arrest were taking him to the judi
cial authorities he was rescued from his guards
by the inhabitants of the town of Guadalupe.
They took him to the public square OF their
town, covered his body with kerosene oil, and
then burned him alive in fire which had
been prepared for the purpose.
1t is said that Cape Cod is gradually wash
ing away. Thirty years ago the salt mills
along its shores were where salt water did not
come. Within that time they have been NOV
ed up on shore once or twice, and now at high
tide the water is around them, or what is left
of them. Several sand bars that once were a
protection to harbors inside of them, have
washed away, and the former site of Billings
gate Island light house is now covered at hall
tide. An old gentleman says that when he
was boy he went huckleberrying where the
Bishop and Clerks light, house now stands on
few bare rocks.
The New York papers make much of ru-
mored quarrel between Grant and E. B. Wash
burne-whch will no doubt be found to have
just as much and Just as little foundation as
that between Grant and Badeau. The cause
of the alleged GOODNESS is that the President
did not expect Washburne to qualify for Sec
Rotary OF State and that his doing SO prevent
ed the acceptance of the Office by Hon. James
Wilson of Iowa.
Professor Lockwood, a veloepedst, who
has been keeping school in Waterbury, Ct
announced grand closing exhibition last Sat.
urday in which Miss Clara Louisa Warren
the champion velocipedist of Boston would
appear. When the time came, the Professor,
who had shaved off his beard and donned fe-
male apparel, appeared in that character, 1t
was not till he had left town, forgetting to pay
his bills, that the imposition was discovered.
The Women's Rights women say that Mis-
sissippi must be the first State that "shall
have the honor to invest woman with the right
of suffrage" and that Wisconsin will not long
withhold the right. We shall see,
A new ARCTIC expedition is talked of with a
view to the discovery of the magnetic pole.
DR.. 1. I. Hayes is the leading spirit in the
movement.
Charles O'Cor or has been elected President
of the Law Institute of New York, in place of
James T. Brady, deceased
Wednesday night, in San Francisco, while a
salute was being'hred on board the river steam
or Al,
ton of military company from Sacramento
city, keg of powder accidentally exploded
and some Is or 20 persons were injured. The
boat was considerably damaged.
Frank Moore, the new Secretary of Lega-
ton at Paris, is the editor of the Rebellion
Record.
Two tons of mail matter, showed up for
three weeks on the way from San Francisco
was dumped at the New York Post-ofice Sun
day.
The ministerial crisis in New Brunswick is
over. The debate on the reply to the address
closed Wednesday night. The government
was sustained by maj GRITTY of eight. Mr..
Cudlip, of st. John, moved annexation resolu-
tons, but found no person to second them. A
dispatch from s.. John, N. F. says union res
olutions have passed both Houses of the Legis-
lature.
George b. McCarter has been appointed by
the Secretary of tn, Treasury chief of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and Geo.
Rice Superintendent of the Treasury Build
ing. William A. Richardson, of Boston, has,
it is said, accepted the appointment of Assist
ant Secretary OF the Treasury.
Ex-President Johnson, Mrs. johnson, Judge
Patterson and family left Washington We'd
nesday for Greenville, Tsnn.. The ex-Presi-
dent has accepted invitations of the citizens of
Lynchburg to partake of Inequalities He
will remain there tomorrow.
There was revolt in Sing Sing prison We'd
nesday night. Two of the keepers were gag
ged and five convicts escaped One of the
keepers has since died. Six men attempted t.
take possession of a lumber sloop at the prison
dock Thursday afternoon. Guards were called
out and three of them shot and the rest cap
tured. Two of the convicts who escaped have
been recaptured, and it is expected the other
three will be.
g. r. Phelps, President of the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company, and we'll
known to insurance men throughout the coun-
try, died in Hartford, Ct, Thursday morning
at the age of 81.
The impression prevails in New York that
Moses III. Grinnell has been chosen collector of
that port.
Two negroes confined in the Helena, Ark,
Jail, were heard the other day discussing the
murder of Gen. Hindman. Upon being charg-
ed of the crime one of the negroes acknowledge
ed that he was one of nine who murdered
Hindman. Three of sthe party had gone to
Hindman's house for the purpose of burning
it, he having prosecuted the negro who was
hung. One of the number seeing Hindman
sitting at the window, levelled musket at
him and fred, killing him. The others beeom-
ing frightened fed and abandoned the plot to
burn TIE town. Five of the nine have been
arrested and are now in jail.
Resolutions have been introduced in the Ar
kansas Legislature deposing the Speaker, Gen.
j. Price, on various charges They have not
yet been cted upon
Capt. Armstrong, of the ship James Foster,
recently from Liverpool, died yesterday at his
residence in Brooklyn, N. Y, of fever caught
on board OF his vessel. The mate together
with eighty -four of the passengers are still i'll.
The disease has proved an avenger of the
wrongs of the victims of that horrible emf
grant ship.