The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-10-04

Ex-Presdent Pierce is quite ill and his re-
covery is considered doubtful. .
A heavy shock of earthquake was felt at San
Lorenzo, Cal, Friday.
Collector Grinnell is making more Custom
House removals, and cutting down exnAnsAs-
Twenty thousand five hundred dollars have
thus far been subscribed in New York for the
Avondale relief fund. .-......
The failure of Adams, Kimball & Moore and
Palster and Raymond were announced at the
New York Brokers' Board on Saturday.
Ill health is Mr.. Bigelow's explanation for
resigning the editorial management of the
Times.
George w. Curtis receives $4,000 year
from Harper's three periodicals, and several
thousand more for lectures
The late rains have so filled the Croton river
that New York has no further fears of scar
city of water. -a s
Chas w. Eliot, the new President of Har-
ward University, will be inaugurated on the
10th inst.
Hartford opened skating rink on Friday
that cost $4,000 Gilmore's Band of Boston
assisted.
Jay Tirrell, of Roxbury, Mass, was swindled
out of his money in New York Friday by the
envelope game" .-.a
The California Pioneers have put VIM HI.
Seward up to snuff in gold box of fabulous
value, and have added cigar case, the cost of
which renders the snuff box migratory.
Arizona advices state that the Indians in
the vicinity of La Pare have gone into the
mountains to hold council with the Mohaves.
Their actions are regarded with suspicion.
A dispatch from Norwalk, Ct, says that the
robbers of the bank there obtained some $7O,-
600 belonging to private depositors, besides the
$4,000 belonging to the bank. VI t
United States Senator Kellogg of Louisiana
has published card, in which he pronounces
the statement telegraphed North that there
were frauds in the New Orleans custom house
during his administration as Collector, as false.
Judge Bellows, the new Chief Justice of
New Hampshire, took the oath of Office at La
coma, where he is holding court, on Friday
The bar gave him an elegant dinner in the
evening. ... t
Ex-Governor Charles A. Wickliffe of Ken
lucky is dangerously i'll in Baltimore. He has
been totally blind for several years, and went
to Baltimore intending to have an operation
performed upon his eyes,
There is reason to believe that our govern
ment has adopted all the necessary measures
for capturing or obtaining possession of the
steamer TELEGRAPH, now or recently engaged in
committing depredations on American com
merce. g..
A libel suit against the Baltimore american
is being tried in the Superior Court of that
city. 1t grows out Of the publication of a state
ment relative to attacks made upon passengers
in October last, Immediately preceding the
Pennsylvania election. Damages amounting
to $4,000 are claimed.
The committee of fifteen appointed to pre-
pare the outlines Of plan for an Information
al Industrial Exposition, have made report
declaring it practicable in 1871. An executive
committee consisting of the President, Chief
Justice, Heads of Departments, Governors Of
the several States, &C., has been appointed 1t
is proposed to establish q capital stock of 81
100000, in shares of $50 each.
1t is reported that influential citizens of
Rhode Island have organized new political
party, the objects of which are to secure the
adoption of universal suffrage, to oppose une-
quail taxation, to reform abuses in the govern
ment of cities and towns, and to prevent the
undue political influence of individuals or of
cliques --"e 't- . .i-tl-