The Portland daily press., 1869-11-30

The News
Gov. Hoffnan has rsr,-eu TO pardon Owen
Hand, sentenced to be hanged Dec 9th for
murder, at Brooklyn.
Mr. Richardson Of the Tribune was intend.
ing to go to Chicago to take charge of the Re
publican before he was shot.
Counterfeit Sos, an excellent imitation Of
the genuine, have made their appearance in
Boston.
European letter states that the Austrian
Government is steadily crushing out the in
surrection in the Dalmatian provinces.
The ball was extracted from A. D. Richard
son Monday morning His condition is very
precarious.
A man named Kelly, arrested by the New
York police while in a state of intoxication
Sunday, was found dead in his cell few hours
afterwards.
Cornelius A. Stahl German, was muir
dered in shocking manner at Newark, Nj,
Sunday morning Five persons were arrested
but the supposed murderer escaped.
jeff. Davis is engaged in preparing for the
press, with the aid of an ananuensis, his YER
sion of the political affairs in which he has
been prominent figure.
Nathaniel Lord, well-known citizen of
Peabody, Mass, was knocked down in the road
and robbed Saturday night. 1t is feared his
injuries are fatal.
Joe Coburn has challenged Tom Allen to
fight him for So 900 or not less than S25OO
He will pay Aliens travelling expenses to Cal
ifornia.
The boilers from the Republican Convention
held recently at Richmond, called upon the
President Saturday and made all urgent plea
for the early re-admission of Virginia to the
Union.
Early Monday morning a boiler in the shoe
mandatory of John Curtis, in Woburn, Mass,
exploded Barnes, the engineer, was danger
ously scalded, and one or two other employees
somewhat burned.
The Springfield Republican predicts that an
other serious railroad raid will be made upon
the treasury OF Massachusetts, before the
coming Legislature. The Massachusetts, Gem
trail alone demands $4,000, 900.
Among the topics to be discussed at the
meeting of the National Board of Trade at
Richmond this week isa proposition to es-
tablish new department of government to be
called the Department of Commerce.
Paymaster w. G. Morey, of Mare Island
Navy Yard, is a defaulter in the sum of $14,-
600, according to the estimate. He has turned
his property over to the government, but it
will by no means cover the amount of the de-
falcation.
The bark Scottish Bride from Bordeaux,
arrived at New York Sunday. She reports
that in lat. 38.16, long 74.8, saw two sea ser
penis, one about fifteen or twenty feet long,
and six or eight in thickness; the other five
feet long. They looked about the color of a
sage land snake.
Referring to the reservation of reporters
pew in new caurch in Boston, the SPRING
field Republican remarks that "as the churches
persisten'ly refuse 70 make the Gospel free to
everybody, they ought 10 welcome the aid of
Inc newspapers IN maklns it cheap to the
masses, and probably most of them do
The citizens of Gloucester have prepared a
petition to Congress for the esection of a
breakwater on Dog Bar, at che entrance to
their harbor, which is signed by all the ma
rlne insurance companies of Boston, and by
twenty-five hundred citizens of Gloucester
and masters and owners of vessels frequenting
the port.
Three new hotels are to be opened in Wash
lngton this week. The city will then have
the Arlington, Wizards, the Ebbitt, the Kirk.
wood, the st. Cloud, the Seaton, the National,
the st. James, the Rugby, the Metropolitan
and the. Washington, each claiming to be first
class, besides several at which rates are
cheaper
A firm of sharpers in New York, calling
themselves Totten & Co., succeeded in swind
ling about $50 laborers out of five dollears each
under the pretence of furnishing them passage
tie New Orleans, at which place they were to
be set to work at 1915 per day On Satur-
day, the day of sailing, their office was closed
and Totten & Co. failed to put in an appear
ance.
The Washington Chronicle of Sunday comes
out editorially against the admission of COL
pred children to white schools, holding that
The law is explicit on the subject. There is
much feeling among the whites, and a few
children have been withdrawn from the schools
Where the controversy originated. The col
red people, as general thing, it is said. care
title for change. -
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