The Portland daily press., 1869-11-10

Hon. Reverdy johnson and wife will cele-
bate their golden wedding at their residence
IN Baltimore on Tuesday, the 10th inst.
There is to be new hotel opened in Wash
ingOn, to be called the Mount Vernon. kept
on ole European plan.
The officers of the prvateer Hornet have
been brought to Brooklyn and put under $1,000
each t. answer before the United States Dis
trict Court.
Steamer Her Majesty, plying between Nova
Scotia AVID Lake Ontario, went ashore while
heading for Point Gulf in the ST. Lawrence,
in a fog, The vessel and cargo are total loss
The Executive Committee of the Massachu-
Sets State Temperance Alliance, on Saturday.
appointed committee to write an address to
the people Of the State upon the duties of the
temperance peeale in the present crisis.
The brakemen ssrike on the Erie Railroad
still continues, but tn. men are neaceab,v die
posed and have made Nv demonstration ond
the effect is that the yares at Port jarvis 10
blocked up with trains. Alarce pumbe, IF
the men were paid off and discharged yeste.-
day. Men are constantly arriving from New
York to take the places of the strikers. Jay
Gould says the company can manaoo the mat
tor. T-
Social order is not in very fourishing State
at Washington. The correspondent of the N
Y. Times says two men are missing and divers
strange scandals have recently happened -
Then there has been what is called "negro
riot" arising, ii appears, out of a revival in one
of the churches Two police officers were
beaten and cut about with knives and razors
One of these functioharies had jaw broken.
This is manifestation of brotherly love that
not even a revival can entirely excuse
Frank Searcy killed Eliza Burgess in Rich
mond, Ky, on the LIST insG. On the next Fri
day party of men went to Searoq's house to
| lynch him, but he fought them, and, it is said
| killed one and wounded others. On Saturday
Searcy was lodged in Jail in Richmond, and on
Monday morning before daybreak a body OF
| 80, .,,---.r IT m rho Jail and hung him. at
I lSchlng to his body placard th---sening
death to any one who emf s~wn his body be-
fore seven O'Clock. Searcy has killed four or
five men, and had bad character
A painter, who fell in Milford, N. H., on the
oi inst, from staging to the ground. dis
such force as 10 break fat stone, over an inch
in thickness, into several pieces, fractured his
skull, broke both legs above the kree. dislocat-
ed one bip, and shivered the bones of ono of
his elbows to atoms. Nevertheless he was
CONSCIOUS when taken up, was still alive at
last accounts and his physicians think it pocsi-
VIC that he will recover. We hope the Man
chester Mirror, which tells this story will NOT
make it necessary for us to contradict it,
baitbaza Lied, member of the CITY council
'f Cleveland, Ohio, was shot and badly wound-
I'd Monday afternoon, by VIM. Scbmit Tbev
we're drinking and chatting at Schmit's looor
'eer saloon, and when Lied got nm to leave
'chmlt went to the bar and got a pistol and |
deliberately fired at Lied. The ball struok
i'm below the under lip and passed through
nd crushed his jaw in terrible napier, but
id not prove fatal. Schmit did rot attempt
fire again, but rushed off snd swallowed
ome strichnine. He was arrested and LODGED |
Iall. Schmit had been a Lutheran minister,
ut quit preaching few months ago ard !
pened a beer shop. +
New ok IS threatened with a sensation of
re 'loudest" kind. On Saturday Mons d
'aiiieiert, who is continuing his blasting an
atons at He'll Gate, placed eighteen cans en-
inlng on pounds each of nitro-glyceriue uron
sunken rock known as the "hos's bach :,
ach can failed to explode by the electric lnt
ry, and the men employed refused to proceed q
tn any work in the immediate vicinity of o.
3 rock, fearing that the least movement II
uld cause the sunken mass to explode and a
w them to pieces. They refused to raise the IL
IS, and consequently M. Maillefert has de- j.,
ed to lower 800 pounds of guDpowder upon
top of the glycerine, when the concussion =,
the exploring gunpowder, it is expected, n
! cause the glycerne to explode, when there q,
those parrs,