The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-02-14
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

que hundred discharged mechanics have
Deen re-employed at the Charlestown navy
Haru 10 make repairs on steamer TicOnderOga
Two iron-clad Spanish frigates are soon to 60
into dock at the same yard
American silver is to circulate in the New
dominion hereafter at % per cent. discount
The Stafford Loom Co.'s works at Stafford.
Conn, were destroyed by fire Friday night.
Loss $4,000; insured Que half. johnson g.
Wheeden, cotton spool manufacturers, lost
$14, 900; insured for $S000 The fire was the
YORK of an incendiary
Rev. Robert Laird Collyer, of Chicago has
declined a call TO the Church of the UNITY. in
Boston, Mass.
A woman suffrage bill has passed the Utah
Legislature.
The crew of the steamer 1.-TWO Bows" which
was lost in the gale OF the 9Th, off Savannah.
have been picked up and brought to port.
The Colorado Legislature refused to pass the
woman suffrage bill
The Virginia House has resolved that it is
iHe4peafnent 70 eject persons to Office who are
disqualified by the 18th amendment
Three companies of cavalry have been order
ed to the frontier of Kansas to protect the set
tiers from Indians.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce con-
dennis the tariff bill presented to Congress by
the Ways and Means Committee.
Gov. Haight of California has vetoed a bill
giving damages to the owners of rebel news
paper destroyed by mob.
The latest news from Winnipeg is that ev.
erythipg was in fair way for an amicable adj
justment betweeA the Canadian government
and the Red River insurgents.
TIE body of the late Gen, Wyndbam was
received at Montreal on Saturday with all
honOrs.
Mrs. Emma f. Barton, of Congdon, n, H.,
committed suicide at Worcester, Mass, on
Saturday afternoon, by throwing herself under
the wheels of moving train.
c. H. Sturgis' tannery and Quicks' dwelling
house, at Saratoga, N. Y, were burned SUNDAY
morning. Loss $500.
Patrick Burns, a brakeman, was killed at
Chatham, N. Y, Saturday, by being knocked
from railroad car by bridge
Admiral Farragut favors the geyeral fea-
lures of Secretary R)beson's bill for the new
organization of the navy.
Halstead. Stiles & Co., iobbers of woolens,
in New York, failed Saturday. Liabilities
$4OO,0 600, which will be compromised at IS cts
on dollar.
A delegation from Montana had social in
tervleN with the President on SATURDAY., at
which the condition and prospects of that ter
rltory were discussed.
President Conley of the Georgia Senate
Speaker Tweedy of the House, and three other
members of the Georgia Legislature, had an
lntOrVleW Win the Senate judiciary Com it.
tee Saturday, They take a favorable view of
the present political condition and sustain
Gen. Terry.
The redemption bureau of the Office of the
Comptroller frequently receives 100 packages
of WORKOUT and mutiated currency per day
for redemption, and these have greatly in
creased the business of the office.
Congressman Bennett of the Buffalo, N. Y,
district, is about to begin proceedings against
the Buffalo Commercial ADVERTISER which some
time ago charged him with swindling grain
merchants out of $4,000. Gen. Boiler and
Noah Dsy yjs 1885, $50 s denies tie charges and
'a.e - the browning outrage of a lone
series he has been subjected to from the same
source.
Sch. Nevita, of st. John, N. B., was passed
water-logged Feb. II. The crew are supposed
to have been taken off.
The Pacific railroad is reported to be tree
from snow.
The National Hotel at st. joseph, Mo-. wa,
$6O00
Lucy j. Sanford has sued her husband, Benz
y. Sanford, for bigamy, in the United State.
Court IN Missouri, with damages laid at $50
OUO. she alleges that he claimed to be a SINGLE
man when she married him, but he had a WIFI
in st Louis " III
William Hay, formerly prominent member
of the Saratoga, N Y bar, dropped dead on
entering church Sunday evening, aged 80.