The Portland daily press., 1870-01-25

Henry Placide, formerly we'll known actor,
died on Long Island Sunday
A Washington dispatch says Mr.. Thornton
has decided to exclude reporters from his ban
quet to Prince Arthur. A wise precaution.
Henry Kelley, cigar maker, resident of
Charlestown, Mass, was killed Saturday night
by falling from Lynn horse car.
IA meeting of German liquor dealers on Sun
day in Brooklyn demanded of the Legislature
the immediate repeal of the excise law.
The Duke Of Montpensier has been elected
Deputy to the Constituent Cortes from the city
of Oveiro.
The Augsburg Gazette of Saturday prints
protest of Cardinal Rauscher agoinot papal IN
IufairfuIrty, winch is shortly to be presented
to the Pope
The cable takes the trouble to transmit the
views of the French Empress on suffrage Her
Majesty takes rose colored view of the future.
There was report in New York, Saturday,
that James Fiske, Jr, had shot John Morris
sey.
The Red River insurgent government has
been recognized by the Hudson Bay Company
as the only legitimate government of Winnie
peg.
A Utah letter says the Mormon army is 25,-
900 strong, we'll drilled but poorly armed, and
is imbued with the most intense hatred to the
United States
The steamer Centipede, from Philadelphia
for Portland, collided in He'll Gate Sunday
with the schooner Eclipse, and the latter was
beached to prevent her sinking.
During service at st. Joseph's chapel in
T,iVnrnnO1 q fo1sa o1orv,,
panic and rush for the doors. When order
was restored it was fonnd that fifteen people
had been tramped to death and a great many
badly injured.
A project has been introduced in London
looking to the establishment of steamer mail
route from Australia, New Zealand, Sc. to
London, by way of San Francisco, Cal, Port
land, Maine, and Milford Haven, Wales. 1t is
thought that the trip may be accomplished
through these points in about forty days.
A member of the Nova Scotian government
has recently held interviews with President
Grant and Secretary Fish, with view to con-
ciliatory measures towards that province for
purposes of closer alliance with the United
States. Among the suggestions were reduc-
tioa of the duty on coal for the benefit of New
England.
A letter from Mexico to January 9TH states.
that the revolt in San Luis Potosi, he AIDED by
Gen. Aguine, is spreading, and that the ievo-
lutionists had pronounced against the general
government. This movement, however. was
anticipated, the governors of several of the
States being ordered to raise troops to put
down the rising. Matters look serious.
Mr. Sumner said that in the twenty years of
his public life he had never seen more interest
manifested by a Congressional committee in
any question, or cause more ably presented
by its advocates than the cause of woman suf-
frage by the committee of two hundred ladies'
that waited on the District of Columbia COM
mttee Saturday.
A strange, unauthenticated rumor is begin
ming to circulate in Washington, that the late
ex-Secretary Stanton, instead of dying from
disease, perished voluntarily. The rumor
seems to have arisen out of the report tnat Mr..
Stanton's remains were not allowed to be
viewed by friends, and that no post mortem
examination was suffered to be held, and is
probably canard.