The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-01-05

A man named Annis was found dead in q
shoemaker's shop at Baskerville Tuesday morn.
ing. supposed from heart disease.
The shipments of bullion from the White
Pine district, Nevada, for December, were over
half a million.
Another death from trichina has taken place
| in Marengo, Illinois. This makes four from
that cause, and others are now sick there.
Two men were killed in Virginia CITY. Ne
| vada, Monday, by the caving in of the upper
works of the Chollar mine.
The Providence Journal, one of the best pa
pers in Rhode Island, completed its fiftieth
year Monday.
The message of Mayor Kabfleisch states that
the city debt of Brooklyn is in excess of twen-
ty-seven millions.
Tne New York Commercial Advertiser, an
excellent paper, has been reduced in size, and
Will hereafter be sold at three cents per copy.
The State Prison at Windsor, Vt, is a finan-
cial failure, showing deficiency for the past
year of $6297.
The defendants in the Portsmouth libel suits
of Hatch v. Scammou, and also VS.. publishers
of the Portsmouth Chronicle, have been bound
over in $500 each for trial.
The Boston Herald began the new year in
an enlarged form, and in a new dress. The
Heratds speciality is neos and in it it cannot be
surpassed.
of the walls of the Tower of London. The last
appearance of this mysterious shadow was in
lS48, and no one knows where it has been since
The telegraph operators in San Francisco,
Sacramento and other Pacific cities are on a
strike, but enough have been obtained to do
the work.
A riot was threatened in Boston Monday.
the laborers on the Fort Hill Improvements
being indignant at the cutting down of their
wages.
The night letter-box at the Portsmouth, N.
III. post Office was robbed of about a hundred
letters Sunday night. As Sunday correspon-
dence does not usually carry much money
with it, the rogues were probably ill-paid for
their labor.
McFarland's trial is postponed till February.
1t is reported that Richardson's friends have
collected important testimony, which will not
only prove the utter falsity of much of the
published habeas corpus testimony, but occa-
sion reaction in public sentiment.
d. B. Story, the proprietor of Story's Hotel
at Hopkinton, N. H., his father, j. t. Story,
and carpenter named Hoyt were injured on
Monday afternoon by the breaking of staging
on building on which repairs were being
made, all falling upon the rocks below. Hoyt
had his hand, jaw and two ribs broken.
During the storm of Monday, at Bay Ridge.
Long Island, the large dry dock building of the
steamboat company was blown distance of
one hundred feet and dashed to pieces. A
large frame building at Rockanny, valued at
$4,000, was levelled to the ground. Other
buildings were damaged to the extent of $4,000.
Miss Abbie c. Newton had narrow escape
from death on Saturday evening at Westboro'.
In attempting to alight from railroad car she
made misstep, falling between the track and
pIatrorm, where she lay perfecuy quiet till four
cars had passed by her. She was then extri-
Gated from her perleus position, having re-
ceived no harm beyond having her skirt cut
by the car wheels.
The prospects of business for 1870 in
New York, appear good, and indeed bet
ter than was expected few months
ago. The failures during 1869 were not
much more numerous than in 1861
The aggregate losses were no heavier, if as
heavy, as in the last named year. There were
45 failures reported as occurring in December
last, and in December, 1868, there were A.
Last year there were about $40 failures, and
in 1868 there were $780, .