The Portland daily press., 1870-05-21
General Nevs.


The diplomatic appropriation bill gave rise
to lively time in the House Thursday. The
debate was in the customary vein till mo-
ton came up for restoring the mission to
Rome which was abolished or years ago.
The Democrats then began their usual rho
domiade to bid for Catholic votes. Mr.. Dawes
tried hard to keep the discussion down to the
m arits of having minister in Rome, but they
were not to be cheated of their opportunity,
and number of them repeated the old
speeches and sophistries in the most energetic
manner. Mr.. Hoar of Massachusetts made a
pungent little speech in reply to half dozen
OF them, which so aroused the ire of Voorhees,
that he gave Mr.. Hoar the lie. The affair pro-
duced great excitement, and finally the often
sive words were written out by the reporter
and read. The Chair ruled that the language
used was rather pungent but not unparlia-
mentary, which was recorded with shouts of
laughter.
The funeral of the victims of the recent
Greek massacre was one of the most imposing
ceremonies ever witnessed in Athens. The SOL
emn service was held in the English Church
in that city, All the resident ambassadors
were present, the Archbishop of the Greek
Church, and the entire Synod. All the Off
GERS and ministers of the Greek Government,
AMI the King, who never minges with the
multitude, attended. After the services at the
church were over, they all followed the bodies
to the cemetery. The King and Queen led the
procession, and walked the entire distance, an
act unprecedented in the history of Greece.
About 5000 persons were collected between
the church and the burial-pace. The King,
in long military cloak and helmed cap, with
feathers, walked Immediately behind the COT
fins, which were borne upon the shoulders of
The marines, and covered with the national
flags. The heads of seven of the brigands
| killed by the soldiers during the encounter
were displayed, strung in line on a scaffold.
ing in the Camp de Mars, where crowds of
people went out to see them.
A most awful occurrence happened in the
Parish of Durquin, County Cork, Ireland, on
the 9th inst. A boat picked up at sea large
cask of parafne oil. 1t was brought to shore
into house, where they divided it, In so
doing it ignited and blew the roof off the
house. Four persons, man and three wo-
men were killed and their bodies burned to a
cinder.
The Manchester Guardian of May It'll sets
forth that the national steamer France and
the Inman steamer City of Washington have
just had tight race across the Atlantic to
Liverpool. Starting from New York on the
same day, passing Sandy within thirty min
utes of each other, they passed Crookhaven
together, and reached Queenstown within
| five minutes of each other. On the whole
distance the France was the winner by twen-
| ty-four minutes.
Three accidents have occurred on the Della
ware, Lackawena and Western Railroad, New
Jersey, within week, all of which were at.
| tended with fatal consequences The most
serious occurred on Tuesday, about ten miles
from Paterson. A long gravel train was pass
ing over testle work 400 feet long, crowded
| with laborers, when the treste work gave way
precipitating the train into the ravine below
The heavy bridge work fell with the cars, fill
ing the lavine with shower of broken bridge
timbers and broken cars. The men who were
unhurt soon escaped from their appalling sit
uation and commenced to dig out their COM
rades. Seven of the latter had broken limbs,
and one, a boy, had his back broken. An
eighth was missing and supposed to be under
the ruins. Two deaths have already followed
the disaster.