The Portland daily press., 1870-03-16
News BY the Latest Hre,,s,

offers 10 play three An,es with Roberts. senior.
ex-champion of England, for the championship
of the world and $4,000. If Roberts chooses
the English game it shall be for 1000 points.
if the French game, 500 points; if the Ameri-
can game, 1900 points.
The rush to the San Diego gold digcings is
undated. The stages and steamers are crowd
ed daily. The Cinnamon have been driven
out of the mines and several killed. San Diego
and several other smaller towns in Southern
California are depopulated.
Gen. Prim was assailed by an anti-proscrip-
ton mob in Madrid Monday, but he succeeded
in makiug his escape unhurt.
Two hundred Canadians who had served two
years in the Papal service, passed through
Paris Tuesday on their way home. Thew have
a number of flags and medals presented to
them by His Holiness in consideration of their
faithful services.
An agricultural implement and carpenters
shop, livery stable and saloon, in Waverley,
Mo-, were burned on the night of the 9th inst.
Loss estimated at $4,000.
1t is stated that the Select Committee on the
cause of the reduction of American tonnage
have agreed to amend their bill so as to include
a rebate and drawback on iron and steel plates,
bars, bolts, beams and forging used in ship
building The provisO limiting the amount of
drawbacks will be stricken out and the amount
of the subsidy on iron steamships fixed at $3.50
per ton. A subsidy of So per ton to iron ships
will be allowed. The act is to be operative for
ten years from LIST July.
A steamship from Rio Janeiro at Lisbon,
brings later news from the allied army. Gen.
Lopez had retreated northward to point near
Miranda, in Malto Grasso, a province in Bra
iii. He was accompanied by few followers,
who were making an effort to cross the from
tier into Bolivia. Prince D'Eu the allied
commander, had made judicious disposition
Of his troops and entertained strong hopes of
capturing Gen. Lopez and his band before
they could escape from Brazilian territory
Now the war is practically over, the first divis-
ion of the army of Brazil had returned to Rio
Janeiro. They were received by the citizens
with the greatest enthusiasm.
Advices from Nuevitas of March 18th state
that Gen. Pueblo arrived at Baya on the 18th,
after having visited Guaimaro, Cascone and
| Sebanicu. No fighting is reported. General
| Goyeneche is fortifying the places above men,
toned. From GOO to 300 persons have present.
| ed themselves to the authorities within the
last few days. .......... ...
| A Jacmel letter of the 25th ult says a great
portion of the sentences of Salnave's adherents
have been committed from death to q few
years imprisonment.
A Laguayra, Venezuela, letter of the 18th
ult. states that revolutionary movements are
increasing and fears are entertained that the
Monagas government will not last long. The
roads between Laguayra and Caracas are in.
tercepted by guerilla bands, and stage coaches
have been robbed. Bands of revolutionist;
surround the city of Caracas, and the inhabi
tants are fearful of leaving their houses after
dark and the streets are deserted at night. II
the neighborhood of Puerto Cabelo skirmishel
are of daily occurrence, and the rebels allow
nothing to enter the city from the interior
President Monagas left the port of Laguayrs
on the war steamer Bolivia with one Thousand
troops, for Zorro, where Gen. Blanco has land
ed to lead the revolutionists.
Four years ago wealthy citizen of Prince
George county, Nd, named William Sayles
was murdered for his money by five negroes
two of whom were sentenced and hung at tn
time of the tragedy. 1t was known that on,
of the negroes, Minot Richardson, alias Thos
johnson, had fled to Massachusetts,. He re
manned at large until few days since, whel
he was discovered at boarding house in Bos
ton, where he acted in the capacity of servant
The man has been identified by the Maryland
officers and taken back to that State.
The Pennsylvania Central line proposes t.
crush out the Erie as competing line. TIL
main object of the English clique, it is alleged
is to secure possession of the fifty millions o
stock now owned on the other side, and afte
getting it transferred into their own name
dispose of the proxies to the managers of tn
two above named antagonistic corporations
which have recently secured the passage Q
laws authorizing them to purchase.
Michael Kelley, a stucco worker, was in
stantly killed Tuesday while walking on tn
track of the Stonington Railroad in Provi
dence, by an incoming freight train. He wa
crushed into shapeessness. Charles Rhoade
was killed early the same morning by falling
down stairs while going to his lodgings intoxi
Gated. A tramp giving his name as Johl
Brown attempted suicide in North Providence
Monday.
/ LOouS OOliluS, VIII pcEpcIrdtcu tuo tACAe v
gold at the City Treasurer's Office in Boston
has been sentenced to two and a half years
imprisonment in the State Prison.
Mr.. Burt, the attorney for the English Pro
tective League, who has telegraphed his resig
nation, it is said, acknowledges that his effort
to GUST Fisk and Gould from the management
of the Erie Railroad Company, was more dit
ficult task than he had anticipated, and says
man must be inancier as well as a lawyer t
cope with the Erie managers.
The device of giving specie in change to pu1
chasers is becoming more common in Ney
York, having extended from the candy shop
to those for dry goods and furniture, and hav
ing been adopted by some of the theatres TIL
price of silver in New York Tuesday wa
1894
At Mansfield, Pa, on Monday afternoon,
railroad employee named Thomas Reardon
who boarded with Mrs. Tabin, came into tn
house and demonstrated with Mrs. Tabin 70
whipping one of her children. Words passe,
between them, when Reardon, who is a mai
of violent temper, drew pistol from his poke
and shot the woman through the heart, killing
her instantly. As soon as he found that h
had killed her, he put on his coat and left tn
house and is still at large. Mrs. Tabin was al
industrious woman and the mother of eigh
children, who depended on her for their sup
port.