The Portland daily press., 1869-03-24

The hostility between Butler and Schenck
has not abated, each charging that the other
belongs to the whiskey ring. Interesting de-
velopments are expected.
The Boston Aldermen have decided that a
building for the great musical festival shall be
built on the common, ignoring the representa-
tions Of the remonstrants. 1t is supposed that
the festival will bring $50, 100000 to Boston in
the way of trade.
One of the speakers at the press dinner in
New York Saturday predicted that the news
paper would shortly become hourly as we'll as
daily.
Thomas G. Gerrish, the defaultiHg city
treasurer of Lowell has been bound over for
trial to the June term of the Superior Court
He has been committed for want of bail. The
amount of his Indebtedness to the city is over
thirty thousand dollars.
The President maintains himself under all
the pressure, physical, mental and political,
with his customary reserve. amiability and pa
thence, though his patience has been severely
taxed by many people, who, after being grant,
ed interviews, never know when to end them
This compels him to draw the lines closely,
and to notify some people that their stories
must be shorter or they can't be listened to at
all. He enjoys a joke or story much better
than most people suppose, and can tell story
with point and effect His illustrations are
usually apt and in good taste. He made a
sharp comment on Alaska Saturday morning,
while the Committee on Territories were pay
ing their respects to him. He said he saw by
the papers that war had broken out in that
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If that proved to be SO, he said he thought the
best way to end it would be to withdraw the
troops, and there being nothing else there for
the Indians to fight, the war must necessarily
stop.
The English papers are still seriously dis
cussing the subject of giving up Gibralter to
Spain.
Horace Greeley has peremptorily declined
the mission to Spain and declares that he
wants no office in the gift of the President.
Nine women were lately tried at Montan-
ban, France, for infantioide. They were all
sentenced to the galleys, one of them for life,
another for ten years, and the others for short
er periods.
A half-witted BOY has confessed to having
murdered Murray Mcconnell of Indiana
few weeks ago. The boy says he had dis
pute with Mr.. Mcconnell about $11, and be-
coming enraged struck him on the head with
a hammer. The boy is left-handed, and it is
asserted that tho blows which proved fatal
must have been struck. by left-handed person.
Mr.. Robinson who is under arrest charged
with the murder, maintains calm AID con-
fident demeanor, and feels assured that he
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A Kentucky paper thus 'does" briefly ter
rible accident: "a mother and her child were
accidentally ground up in Bogg's sugar-cane
mill last week.
An individual of Quincy ILL.,, lately found
an express passage addressed to "Adam Sell,
Chicago He opened it, and 10, it was
one.
Fenian meetings were held in Cincinnati
and Detroit Monday night.
Monday night about 10 o'clock, the police
arrested Governor Wells of Virginia, 81. G.
Bond, Register of Bankruptcy, and L. E.
Dudley, Secretary of the Republican State
Central Committee, on charge OF purloining
from the post office letter written by w. H.
Samuel, Ex-Secretary of that Committee, to
Edgar Allen. The parties were before United
States Commissioner Cahoon Tuesday, and
bailed till Wednesday, to which time the case
was continued.
The ship Fawn from London arrived at New
York, Tuesday, short of provisions, having
been since the first December on the passage.
Several passengers on board the ship James
Foster, Jr, made afidavits Monday before
Coroner Jones of Brooklyn, in which they
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passengers, and the boatswain with the mur-
der of seaman. They also allege that the
other officers of the ship were implicated in
the murders. The first mate of the ship died
at his residence in Brooklyn on Sunday.
Mr.. Henry Bergh had up another turtle case
in the Jefferson Market Police Court, New
York. Monday, and one Charles Smith, who
was charged with cruelty to the animals was
held to answer in the sum of $500, at the Es-
sex Market Police Court. An agent of Mr.
Berghis society brought up man who was
dragging along bear by a ring In the nose.
The bear was in court; The man was compelled
to give bail in $500 to answer.
New York dispatch SAYS that Sunday night
a rufian entered the Jersey City and Hoboken
horse cars, where young lady and one other
passenger were sitting, and despite the resist
ance of the driver carried off the young lady
who has not been heard from since.
A white woman, named Mabb, was murder
ed by negro with whom she was living, near
Saratoga, N. Y, Monday. The murderer gave
himself up and is now in jail
The Committee on Elections Tuesday de-
cided on the order of business in the several
contested cases. In the case of Van Wyck
against Greene the committee decided to ex-
tend the time thirty days longer to take testi-
mony. The Louisiana cases are to be consid- |
cred on Wednesday, and the South Carolina
prisaa facie cases are set down for Thursday.
A Washington dispatch says that Senators
are of the opinion that Congress can adjourn
by the last OF next week, if the Judiciary Com
mittee succeeds in modifying the tenure of Of
fee act to the satisfaction of majority of the
Senate.
Governor Palmer of Illinois has signed the
bill passed by the Legislature, authorizing rail
road companies to divide their board of direct