The Portland daily press., 1870-12-24

Bragley. resulted on Friday In coBvictibe
Wood of mauslaughter and sentence Of eight
years in State Prison. Sullivan was acquit-
| ted.
The warp mill Ut the Renirew Manufactur-
lug Company OF South Adams, Mass, was
damaged to the amount of $4,000 by the fire
THURSDAY night It was fully insured. The
origin of the fire was spontaneous combustion.
Fifteen hundred pounds of nitro glyce inc
exploded at the Hoosac Tunnel FRIDAY. blow
ing the superintendent, named John Velsar, TO
atoms.
Rev. Collins Stone of the American Asylum
Tor the deaf and dumb in Hartford, CT, was
killed by the cars on The Hartford and New
haven railroad Friday afternoon, and Rev.
James w. Strong, pastor of the Congreg atior-
al church at Fairbault, Minnesota, was badly
injured.
The Duke of Aosta is TO enter Madrid on
New Years Day.
Antwerp is so overstocked with importations
that it is impossible to find shelter for the N
and much merchandise is suffering from ex-
pOsure.
Twenty-Five hundred troops have arrived at
Havana from Spain.
On Tuesday next the payment of the Janu-
ary interest, without rebate, will begin at the
Sub-Treasury IN New York.
Wilmington, N. c.. had a very heavy snow
stoem and extremely cold weather Thursday
Jacob K. Bean, an escared defaulter firm
Nebraska, was arrested in Oregon recently and
sent back.
Ice three inches thick formed at Greepbrier
va, on Thursday. At White Sulphur Springs
the mercury was at zero at z O'CLOCK.
AT Denver there is GOOD sleighiug. At EIiz-
aOetnfown, New MexicO he Thermometer the
past week has been from 50 to 28a below zero
with eighteen inches of snow. In the noun.
tains there is hom two to three feet of snow.
An express train from New York to Boston
ran on the track at NewiDgtou, Conn. Friday
evening in consequence of misplaced switch
Inc wreck encumbered the track for several
hours. brakeman was slightly injured
Some OF the leading Democrats of New
hampshire met at Concord on Friday to de.
wise measures to heal the breach in the party.
union of the Patriot and People newspapers
under control OF third partv is suggested aud
committee was appointed to confer with the
proprletors of the two journals.
a blast containing $500 pounds of powder
WI De fred at the Blue Grand gold mines at
oiackos HATS, California, next week.
In the case of the Common wealth of Penn
sylvania W. tire Credit Mobier of America,
the Jury on Friday returned verdict that the
credit pay into the treasury of the Common
wealth $638,868 80, the exact amount claimed.
1t is feared now that the Atlantic cables
cannot be repaired until next June.
In New York coat thief has been sentenced
to five years in Sing Sing. There is some
hores of that city.
The Presidential canvass in Mexico is be-
coming exciting. Juarez has entered the field
10 earnest and is astonishing his opponents by
the youthful energy and vigor with which be
is conducting the campaign. The anti Ameri-
can, the Spanish and French parties are rally
ing to the support OF Lerdo.
Callicot. defaulting revenue collector in
New York, having been pardoned out of the
penitentiary by President Grant, has asked
for a writ Of habeas corpus on an assumed
technicality, but Judge Woodruff refuses to
issue it, saying that Callicot had been par
doned and If he refused to accept his liberty it
was not in the province of the Court to inter-
fere.