The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-05-18

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port.
The News.
Last Thursday morning Thomas Hanson
died in Burlington, Iowa, and was buried in
the evening. When the sexton had partly f i'll
ed the grave, noise from the coffin was heard
coffin being unfastened, the eyes of the dead
man were found partly opened. The body
was kept until the next day, and, showing no
signs OF life, was again buried.
The dispatch which was lately sent by tele-
graph from San Francisco to Liverpool, thence
to Point de Gale, Ceylon, and thence by
steamer to Hong Kong, to intercept two swim
ding Cinnamon, who had cheated the San
Francisco dealers out of large quantity of
was successful in saving the merchandise, but
not in arresting the fugitives. The dispatch
arrived before the steamer, but the slippery
celestials eluded the officers and escaped into
the interior.
Vessels with the new French ocean cable on
board will sail about the 4th of July. The ca
BILE will be landed at this end at Cape May, by
virtue of the act passed by tae new Jersey leg
islature last winter, and number of New
York and New Jersey capitalists are largely
interested in the undertaking. Telegraph
lines will be run from Cape May to Washing
ton, Philadelphia and New York.
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Com
pany has obtained from the city OF Baltimore
the right of way necessary to enable that rail
road to form connection with the Northern
Central. This will enable Washington city to
obtain through line to New York without
the delays and exactions now imposed by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
A new lamp-post letter box has been patent
ed which contains a shelf dividing it into two
pivot as the cover, and when the cover drops
the letter falls into the lower division, to which
the shelf forms top by falling when the cover
is let down. The box is SO constructed as to
receive books and papers as well.
One hundred and twenty thousand copies of
the Globe with the. private letters printed by
Senator Sprague have just been put in wrap
pers at the Senate folding room, and sent to
Mr.. Sprague in New York, where he is said to
have opened some kind of bureau. The let
tiers cover thirty pages in the Globe in the fin
est type of that sheet. The papers sent free
by post filled thirty-nine of the largest sized
mail bags.
Geo. 81. Hepworth has resigned his charge
as pastor OF the Church of the Unity in
Boston. He goes to take charge of the socie-
ty of Dr. Osgood in New York.
Gen Badeau, second Secretary of Legation
at London, sails Wednesday. There is an
+I,o+ Tlol
sion abroad means more than is covered by
his present appointment.
A Washington special says that government
detectives report from various points along
the coast the movements of small suspicious
looking crafts, and there is no doubt that ex-
petitions are still being fitted out and arms
and munitions of war are still being transport
ed from the United States to the Cubans and
Spaniards too.
Advices from the Sandwich ISLANDS state
that the people desire annexation to the Uni
ted States.
A decrease of seven millions in the national
debt is predicted this month. N9s
Great news is expected from Cuba "within
ten days" The Cubans say it will be favorable
to them, while the Spanish confidently expect.
that the end of the instruction is near at hand
Minister Motley is said at last to have receiv-
ed his instructions. 1t is said Mr.. Fish is op-
posed to taking emphatic ground on the Ala
bama question, but is disposed to leave much
to the discretion of Minister Motley, who will
be controlled in some degree by events as they
transpire.
Admiral Porter is to be appointed Secretary
of the Navy ad interim to obviate the difficult
ties arising from the doubt as to whether Or
ders issued by him in the absence of Mr.. Borie
are legally binding.
The Delaware Indians have bsen "consoli
dated. with the Cherokees, and the Shawnees
are to be served in the same way.
The commission of Daniel e. Sickles as Min
lister to Spain, which was prepared at the State
Department Saturday, was signed by Presi-
dent Grant, Monday.
Reverdy johnson is to be entertained at
Southampton before setting out for this coun-
try.
The critical state of affairs in Paris is vari-
ously commented on by the press of London.
1t seems to be the general impression, howev-
er, that the French government has fomented
the discomfort and adopted repressive measures
to stay the disorder arising with view to some
Interior design.
The Commercials Washington dispatch says
Senior Roberts, the Spanish Minister says that
Spain does not propose to hold Cuba as de-
pendent by force of arms, but that in the re-
construction of the Spanish government the
Island will be reorgaHized as one or two prov
inces on an equality with the other provinces
OF SPAIN as regards representation, taxation
and self local government.
The Internal Revenue Supervisors through
out the country are in trouble, anticipating re-
| movals.
An intoxicated man in Providence took of
his clothes the other night and lay down in
the gutter, thinking he was in bed. 1t was
| just after the late municipal election.
Secretary Boutwell, has SO divided the labor
of printed bonds as to prevent the possibility Of
/ defrauding the government.
Quilp says that Senator Sprague is likely to
be worse than ever since providence itseli
has 'gone back on him.
| President Grant has accepted an invitation
| to be present with his family at ball which |,
to be given at the Naval Academy, Annapolis
on the night of the 4th of June. The officers
and different classes of midshipmen unite in
giving this ball, which is intended as parting
compliment to Admiral Porter, who has been
at the Academy during the past our years.
The fasting Welsh girr' who is alleged to
nave taken no food or drink for seventeen
months is pronounced great humbug by a
learned doctor who has recently made an ex-
animation.
Hayerhill, Mass, has become eity.
The first through passenger train from Sac.