The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-26
News by Lntest Mails.

Richard Grant Whites valuable library il
being sold at auction in New York.
The yacht Cambria sailed for England Tues.
day afternoon.
A convention of Jewish Rabbis is in session
in'New York to prepare prayer book similar
to that Of the English Church.
The yield of the Pacific cod fisheries IS the
largest of any year since they have been prose-
cuted.
The U. S. Circuit Court at Cincinnati has
given judgment for 100000 in patent car
wheel case OF Whitney against Mowry. IL
will be appealed.
Two boilers in Mississippi planning mill at |
| ST Louis exploded Monday demoishipg the |
enone house and scalding and otherwise in |
| turing eight or nine men, some fatally.
Kansas city is to have a big depot for all the
railroads which may come there 1t is to be
| 500 by 1000 feet.
The gratifying intelligence comes from the
| moral city OF St. Louis that Mr.. Gallagher, a
pugilist, is not sick as has been reported, but
will be able to meet all his engagements.
Lieut.. II. A. Smith, qnartermaster OF the
United States Cavalry is missing. He had con-
| siderable money when last seen, and foul play
| is suspected.
The sailors of the ship Robert Edwards, now
in Jail in New York tell different story con-
corning the burning of the ship, when, II true,
will result with the captain ana oncers , cnamS
| edge of the scuttling, but say that they work
cd Steadily all night to subdue the fire, and the
officers finding the fire was gaining, began TO
| heat them with handspikes and ropes, and
charged them with setting the ship on fire,
and threatened to shoot them if they did not
confess On refusing to confess they were SO
cruelty beaten that one finally jumped over
board but was rescued The prisoners say
they were shamefully abused during the trip.
They were not allowed to leave the deck for
any purpose for fifty-fve days All of them
bear marks of iron, and their heads have seve-
1 1xryI,s Ahnryn t1n ncur1t nf
wounds they received from their officers at the
time of the burning of their ship.
The 9th regiment of the U. S. Infantry is
now on the way to New York from Charles
ton, s. G. Attorney General Alderman de-
: clares that all the power of the government
shall be exerted to enforce the election laws in
that city. A Washington dispatch says the
programme of the desperate leaders of the
9 Ring has been known there for days, and pre-
parations to meet it have not been lacking.
These warnings warrant any preparations that
may be necessary to meet and defeat the plans
/ of the "Ring" and its adherents.
t A burglar while attempting to break open j.
! Dagosti1's shop on 23d street, New York, Mon
u day night, had the top of his head blown off by
d a trap gun SO placed that it would be discharg-
| ed by any one tampering with the window:
Dagostin has been held to await the coroner 8
: action. He says his shop has been plundered
S three times within seven months.
+. A railroad train near Jersey City ran into a
herd of fifty cattle which had escaped from a
g cattle yard, Tuesday morning. The engine was
r thrown from the track and eighteen steers
killed.
The Exeter, N. H., machine shop and foundry
V near the depot were burned Monday night =
is The fire caught in the engine room in the ma
10 chine shop. One or two small shops belonging
~ to the railroad company were also burned. Loss
oi 100000; insurance $4,000.
y A fire in the building No. 20 Milk street
a. Boston, early Tuesday morning damaged the
Sc property of the Lyndenboro Glass Company
ID $1,000 and of Lothrop & Co., dry goods, $4,000
IS with other smaller losses. Insured.
IS In the Board of Missions of the Episcopa
Ia Church in New York Tuesday morning reports
u were received from Montana, Idaho Utah
4 Oregon and Washington mission. Referring
Re to the st. Marks church now being built al
10 money so that the church might be handsome
e and imposing in contrast with the Mormon
Ia Ecclesiastical barns Rev. DR.. Haight present
ed the yearly report of the missionary wOrl
e among the freedmen of the South. A report
is was also presented from the missions in Africa
:, China and Japan.
Senator Morton has formally declined tn
mission to England, because the Democrat
le controlling the Legislature of Indiana would
elect his successor from their own party. He
cordially thanks the President for this mark o
n his distinguished favor in rendering the mis-
r. sion, and the President has replied in term
= equally friendly.
- TheEHerald's Washington correspondent say
s, that the reason negotiations between our gov
lg eminent and the British are not commenced
= | in reference to the fishery question is that tn
IL President does not wish to commit to Mr.. Mot
SO ley the duty Of opening negotiations. Th,
ri ! British government is willing to make sucl
concessions to American fishermen as will pre-
III vent collisions and seizures.