The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-11-29


broker, was arrested Friday On complaint
charging him with having given brides to the
amount of $4,000 to two weighers for the pur-
pose of procuring false returns of weights of
coffee imported by firm for which he was
agent. He was committed to Jail, and it il
said to be the intention of the authorities after
the prosecution for bribery, to bring a civil &C.
ton for the recovery Of the duties.
Mr.. Edwin Belcher, a colored man and an
assessor Of the Third Georgia, (Augusta) Dis
trict, writes to the Internal Revenue Bureau
in Washington that James B. Wilson. an as
sstant collector in Taliaferro and Wilkes
counties, has been driven from his Office nv
note, somewhat in the order of the warnings
issued by the late Kn-Klux Khan, ordering
him to leave the country. His Office was brok-
en- open, his books and papers stolen and the
note left on his desk.
A little girl nine years old was outraged by
a man named Schepmons, near Ellenville,
Ulster county, N. Y. on Saturday evening.
She was found by her father and his neighbors
about midnight, terribly mutilated, but still
living. On Sunday the news reached Ellen
vile and divine service in the churches vas
stopped to enable the enraged citizens to hunt
the villain. He was finally captured, confess
ed the crime, and on Tuesday was sentenced
to fifteen years in the State Prison at Sing
Sing.
Stockwell Ill, and Indianapolis, Ind, were
astonished by heavy thunder and sharp light
ming during snow storm on Sunday noon.
On Saturday morning about 4 o'clock the stu
dents at the University in Charlottesville, Va,
were startled by two successive peals, as if of
thunder, though very much louder, proceeding
from some unknown cause. The top of Doctor
Maupins chimney was knocked off, and the
inmates OF the house were very much alarmed.
| The effect of the shock was felt in different
parts of the town, and the scientific jewellers
at the University could not explain it.
The subject of persons holding two offices
at the same time is again under consideration
by the Departments, and it is not improbable
that the heads of bureaus will unite in asking
Congress for the passage Of law prohibiting
United States civil officers from holding official
positions under State or municipal laws. 1t is
held that the practice which has so largely OBJ
tanned lately works great injury to the Gov
eminent business. The subject has been again
brought up in consequence of the number Of
revenue officers, especially in North Carolina,
who hold State positions which divide the at
tention of the officer.
Vincent Collyer, the special Alaska Commits
sioner arrived at Omaha from Sitka on
Thursday, performing the journey in twenty
two days, and touching at all the principal
points. He travelled over 5000 miles along the
coast of Alaska, and found the Indians to the
number of over 10000. They are of very SUI
perior order; have large droves of cattle; raise
crops to some extent, and live in villages with
well-constructed houses. They are all peace
full, and partial to America. Mr.. Collyer has
visited over two-thirds of all the Indian tribes
in the United States, starting ON his tour last
February. He was everywhere received by
the Indians with kindness. He thinks the
purchase of Alaska a judicious measure.
Gen. Jordan of the Cuban army has been re-
moved from the command of the Eastern De-
partment and made Chief-of- staff, is warmly
defended by his friends from tho charge of
desiring to abandon the patriot cause. A Gu
ban writing to the New York Tribune says:
"The change of duty from the command of the
Eastern Department to his present position of
Chief-of-Staff was a promotion, and accom-
plished in order that his great talent for or
ganizing could be availed of at Headquarters.
He was made Chief-ofStaff in Juue last, and
the SANDER was started last month. The peo-
pie of the United States may rest assured
that the Cubans love, esteem, and have every
confidence in Gen. Jordan, and trust he may
live to be in our history what Lafayette was in
yours
Mr. Richardson who was shot, Thursday, in
the Tribune Office, passed comfortable night
Friday. Although the attending physicians do
not conceal the fact that he is in the greatest
danger, they give reasons to hope for favora-
BILE result Mrs. Mcfarland and her mother
came on from Charlestown, Mass, Friday, and
are attending him. A telegram of cOndOlement
has been sent by Colfax, Ben; Perley Poore
and others. Geo. Francis Train telegraphed-
Assassination cannot stop destiny. God spare
you, my dear Richardson" McFarland's coun-
sci publishes card, saying:
Thursday. at 3-45 o'clock, Mcfarland was at
my office lAlreadful state of excitement Dor
dering on insanity and there with tears inform
ed me that his wife had obtained either in In
diana or Illinois a divorce without his knowI-
edge, and had married Richardson, and they
were living together as man and wife in New
Jersey, and that Richardson was selling his
real estate there, so as to avoid the execution
that must be issued on the judgment for DANA
ges he expected to recover against him in their
pending suit for damages, and that he under
stood that Richardson meant to go to Califor-
MIA and live there.