The Portland daily press., 1870-10-07
--latest News by MaiI,

i9e Thursday morning session of the Board
| OF Foreign Missions was occupied by reading
| reports of the several committees. The mis-
| sions were all reported fourishing. English
ritualists were giving trouble in Persia. A
new Protestant school for Turkish girls has
| been opened near the mosque of st. Sophia at
Constantinople. Resolutions from the Com
mittee on Indian Missions, praising the Presi-
cent and Indian Bureau and claiming that the
indians should be treated as the wards of the
nation, were warmly appiauded and passed.
At his trial in Hartford on Thursday, James
| wilson, the murderer of Warden Willard of
the state prison, desired to introduce testimony
as to the food furnished him by the warden
This the Court excluded, whereupon he aban-
doned his defence, and the case that afternoon
went to the jury who brought in verdict of
guilty, aud the prisoner, after remarking that
death was preferable to the Connecticut State
prison, was sentenced to be hanged year
from to-day.
Edward Higgins brakeman on the Hnd-
son River road, fell from his train Thursday
morning and broke his neck.
A comparative statement Just issued from
the Internal Revenue Bureau shows the re-
ceipts of internal revenue for the fiscal year
ending June 30. 1869 and 1870, respectively. In
the New England States there was an increase
IN 1870, except in the State of Rhode Island.
where the decrease was $401S 05, and in New
Hampshire, where the decrease was $1S,94O6 g.
The increase in Maine was $137 317 SO in Yer
L
oo4 ~; and in Connecticut, 1928, 971.19.
A committee of the Milwaukee Chamber of
commerce has reported favorably on the On
tarlo and Erie ship canal project
DE Witt Van Buren,, New York journalist
and editor of the Leader, died Wednesday.
breach of promise suit for $40, 900 has been
begun by the widow of the former against the
present editor of the New York Courier DIES
Etats Unis.
Cac,a4ar,, E,;sl, 1,.,:....
the consular appointments of the new Gov
eminent of Venezuela, and thinks caution ad-
yisable
The Republican Congressional Convention
in the Memphis district split and one wing
nominated white and the other black man.
All bridges on North river, Va, have been
washed away. Every building, eight in num-
portion of the island itself wsre carried off and
the stone causeway between Gibson's mill and
Island utterly destroyed The North River
canal from Lexington to Balcony Falls TWEEN
1.-TWO miles, has been so utterly ruined that it
Is feared that it can never be reconstructed
AZ Castleman's Ferry John G. Cockerill lost
$aooo in bonds which he had spread out on the
table to dry. va VIZ
oh havana correspondence gives details of the
shocking treatment CT Cuban ladies' nv the
sopaniards in that city. On the god MI If
r rMeIty prisoners, all women and children.
tba od do havana by railway and were led from
s .re au , 70 the female prison under guard
ana an trled: The children, only five and six
y A ns ssie Of of tbs IS saa oh
one was the daughter in law of President Ces.
pedes, the other was the daughter Of Gen oes
Figueredo recently garroted at Santiaao n1 Th
ladies were all members of the best faml;e. 10 10
the island. As the unfortunate craat"r y.
passed through the streets the Spanish mon
jeered and threatened them and in some in.
stances attempted violence.