The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-07-08


shocks recently felt in the West agree in set
ting it down as an extensive one. 81
Ann J. Hoffman has confessed to poisoning
whole family in New York city, by putting
arsenic in bread. No fatal effects followed.
By proclamation the celebration of the open
ing of the Suez Canal is postponed until Nov.
18th. II tflW ff fHx3f
Our new minister, Nelson, has arrived in
Mexico and begnn the duties of his Office.
The State Unitarian Conference is in session
in Belfast. M s..s ssals fess
A Mr.. Crawford, tradesman in Lee, N. H.,
was shot dead by his son, with whom he quar-
relied, on Tuesday. $40
The Pacific Wood Preserving Co. of San
Francisco, lost $4,000 Tuesday by the burning
of their works. 1t is reported that some lives
were lost.
rumor is started in Washington that the
Conservatives Of Mississippi have solicited
Judge Dent to run for Governor on their
ticket e 7t4te9
Pennsylvania politics assume an interesting
phase, and the Democratic papers are assert
ing that Judge Hoar must give way to Penn
sylvania politician in order to save that State.
But there is nothing tangible to any Of the ru-
mors about cabinet changes. .s.l., sl,.o ~.
James Wandall broke his arm in a prize
fight with Pete Maley, on Sunday. in New
Jersey. They were both coal miners.
Tammany Hall resounded with cheers for
sChase for next President" on the 9th, which
is pointed to as democratic straw. e' ~
The Bostonans now hunger for Brookline
and desire TO embrace her in municipal
arms 9bnsf tL bae ianauaf e 8a
Ex-senator Wade and James Brooks have
sent home the following dispatch from San
Francisco, which explains itself: "We have
been over the two Pacific Railroads from Oma-
ha to Sacramento, almost all by daylight, at
the rate of thirty miles an hour. or more, and
we find them as good as any new roads ever
made in this country, Where, they are not
perfect, as from Echo Canon to Humboldt,
hundreds of laborers are now perfecting the
work as fast as possible We are satisfied that
all has been done in good faith"
The German element in Boston is terribly
excited over beer seizures, and their talk is
something more than shalf and half siisa
1t is now asserted ia Washington that Minis
ter Sickles is authorized to Sound" the Span
ish government in relation to the purchase Of
Cuba. But there is absolutely nothing definite
about the matter, SO far as really good authori-
ty is concerned. sts .;f .s.,..r s.,....4 s,,4
Gen. Butterfeld, Assistant Treasurer at
New York, has been granted leave of absence
until further orders.
On Tuesday night the dead body of Capt.
Temple, of the ship Intrusive, was found near
Quebec. He was shot through the head with
pistol ball. His person was not robbed, and
the occasion of the affair is all conjecture.
p The court has refused new trial in the
Sprague- Craig Chicago divorce case, but cut
down the damages to $4,000, as we learn from
an exchange. 1t appears to have been a sort
Of compromise to get speedy settlement
Winfield Price attempted to poison his fell
low domestics at the United States Hotel in
New York, Tuesday night, by putting lauda'
nun in the sauce for the servants table.
The Boston papers evidently think the poliT
ticians who passed the new liquor law are go-
ing to the wall when their turns come round
State Constabes are prevalent in the State
generally. ,5t.e.e sfsae =
A Mrs. Allen, of New York, accuses her son,
an Episcopal clergyman, of sending her to an
insane asylum, when she was not crazy, and
the affair is being investigated.
The next meeting Of the Army of the Poto-
mac will be held next year at Philadelphia
Prince Arthur sails for America on the 14th
of August, and it is rumored that the Empress
Eugene is coming to this country next year.
Frank burst was killed by lightning at Hum
ter's Point, Monday. ,g. ioI s,1 sls
Hon. Richard Fletcher, late of Boston, der
ceased, left 100000 to Dartmouth College.
N. P. Banks sails for Europe o-day.
The Harvard International crew sail for
England on Saturday from New York, in the
steamer City of Paris. hss -
The Partisan subscription to purcha.e jeff
Davis house amounted to $3.50. a-'
several Irishmen sent to arrest him, and then
took tug and departed for Cuba 1t is easy
to understand what kind of a tug he took, for
when Greek meets Greek then comes the tug
of war. rs ,s,f e5--t
Spectators are passing through the State
of Maine, buying up all the old spare hay at
ten to twelve dollars ton.
An exchange says God intended women to
be beautiful, as much as he did the roses and
the morning glories; and what he intended
they should become they would if they would
obey his laws, and cut Incidence and corset
strings and indulge in fire. edom and fresh air
For girl to expect to be handsome with the
action of her lungs dependent on the expan-
sive nature of a cents worth of tape is as alb
surd as to look for tulips in q snow bank, or
full-grown oak in a little fower-pot. 9-