The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-11
The News.

Granville A. Demerritt, a Boston photo.
| grapher, poisoned himself last night.
| There is rumor in New York that the Gu
bans intend to burn the Spanish gunboats
and the guards have been doubled. a
An action against the New York Tribune fcr
libel in the publication of a regular court re-
port has failed
Two children of Daniel Sullivan. bow of
four years and a girl OF three months, were
smothered in fire in Chapel Place, Boston,
Friday morning. e6 5a
Vaughan's spice mills on Dorrance street,
providence, were burned Friday morning.
Loss $4,000; we'll insured. Other parties in
the vicinity suffered slightly
George Peabody's remains, it is now report
ed, will not be brought to Boston, but probably
to Portland, as the harbor is considered easier
OF entrance of the heavy vessels of war, than
Boston or New York.-Boston Traveller.
A serious confagration occurred recently in
the town of Jenisseika, Siberia, which con-
sumed 1900 houses, and caused the death of
upwards of 1000 persons. The district bank
was destroyed with all its contents.
A shocking catastrophe is reported to have
happened on the Rhine. A vessel coming in
contact with bridge in course of construction
at Mayence, brought down the whole struc-
'ure and caused the death of forty workmen.
The crew of the schooner E. B. Ketchum.
lying In the harbor of st. John, N. B., were
sutocated in their berths Thursday night. bv
the gas from coal fire. Their names were
Dern1er, captain, Irving, Mcfarland and Hays.
On the 18th the Princess of Wales gave birth
to daughter. Her Royal Highness and the
infant princess was reported by the medical
attendants as doing well. There are now two
boys and three girls in the family of the Prince
of Wales
A Pacific Slope editor had the impudence
to say that a man named Smith broke down
telegraph poles. He was waited upon by all
the Smiths within fifty miles, and was tod to
retract his assertion or point out ''the" Smith
alluded to,
Calvin Chisholm of Nova Scotia and Sars
Nilsson, a Swede, left Portsmouth, N. H., in
whale boat Monday for the isle of Shoals The
boat was picked up and taken to Holiness
Hole, with Nilsson, who is saved alive, and the
remains of Chisholm, who was frozen to DEATH
An Havana letter states that the Spanish
troops have been instructed to war against the
'"ni'iies OF insurgents as we'll as the insur-
genus themselves Three hundred Spanish
Soiuiers are guarding the five confiscated es-
STATES Oh Albania, President of the New York
Junta, for fear his slaves may rise.
The London Times of Friday has an ed;to.
rial on the Alabama claims. The writes homes
the American government will appoint sneb
men as George William Curtis to state
law and facts of the case. That PAPER thinks
good results would certainly follow so wise |
selection.
Mr. jenkins playfully remarked to his
wife that in her he possessed five fulls. "Name
hem, my love-" "You are beautiful, dutiful, |
youthful, fruitful, and an armful.' "You |
nave the advantage of me, my DEAR "How |
10, my precious?" 81 have but one fool" Mr..
Jenkins made no further injuries.
A letter is published from Edward w. Tul-
idge, one of the apostles of the Mormon re-
orm and a leader in the schism in the Nor
non church, on the cause of pending trouble
among the Salt Lake saints He SAYS the peo-
PIE nave been reduced to a temporal bondage
" .ne power of Brigham Young, and that the
"'uai OF Mormonism has died out of the
'nu.on' Inc reformers propose to revive those
Phi.ual doctrines. They war against Brig
lam foungs policy but not against himself
One morning last week citizen of New
'ort, r. l., arose from his bed, and went to his
tove to prepare it for fire, found the oven