The Portland daily press., 1870-02-15
News by the Latest Mails.


station on the Red Sea.
aThere is report that Bismark is to prepare
a!protest against the Papal syllabus
The cotton mills in Lancashire which have
been compelled to stop on account of the de-
preston in cotton, are resumiug work.
The weather in England Sunday vas cold
and tempestuous. Many disasters are reported
to shipping around the coast.
The Cuban JuLta at New York continue to
| receive news by mail of Cuban successes and
| Spanish excuses in all parts of the island.
Joseph Bazely, OF Weehawken, was found
by the roadside Saturday with his skull broken
| and pockets rifed.
The London Times assumes that Secretary
Robson has admitted the utter worthlessness
of American iron-clads in comparison with
British vessels, and exults thereat
Rochefort has written a letter to the protect
Of police, claiming the right so furnish articles
to the MarseiAaise without submitting them to
the keeper of his prison.
-Four men, believed to be the robbers of the
Wilkesbarre bank, were captured Sunday
night, on mountain near Leighton, Penn,
by possee of armed constables.
Amelia Bourbon, formerly Miss Haml of
New York, who married Prince Louis Bour-
bon, gave birth to a princess in Havana last
week.
A temperance meeting in Grand street, New
York, was broken up Sunday night by rowdies
Many of the audience were robbed as well as
otherwise maltreated.
John Golding, New York politician, who
was kicked out of doors by Joseph Sennott for
meddling with his wife, has brought an action
of assault and battery against the latter. How
sensitive is New York virtue.
Dion Bourcicault has brought an action of
libel against the proprietors of the SATURDAY.
Review for an unfavorabe criticism on his play
"Formosa," wherein the editor characterizes
the author as an associate of blacklegs and
charlatans.
A Vera Cruz letter received in New York
represents the situation of Juarez as desperate
and predicts that he will not be able to hold
out more than four months longer. The splen-
dor of his entertainment to Mr. Seward is said
to have heightened the discomfort, and there
is suspicion that Mr.. Seward was not travel
ling merely for pleasure.
ry
Va, beat negro boy for losing some money
while returning from an errand. The boy
started after justice, but was followed by Le-
gume' who cut out his tongue and then cut his
Legume fed and has not yet been arrested,
Letters from ex-Secretary Seward states that
he soon proposes to visit Hayti, thence to pro-
coed to San Domingo and remain until Anril
IL IS believed that Mr.. Stewards presence in
the Dominican Republic will assist materially
IN settling the unsatisfactory state of affairs
there.
A Miss Stebbins took rooms at a hotel in
Jersey City late Saturday night, and was
found dead in her bed Sunday m orning. She
was en- route to France, and was quite wealthy,
having some $4,000 in money with her and
several thousand dollars worth of diamond
]ewelry. A man named William Bonifassi.
who was in her employ as servant, has been
arrested on suspicion as poisoning her.
ID. s. Voorhees,, killed Sunday night in
Brooklyn, was perfect stranger to Chambers
VINO murdered him. He was in distant part
OF the bar-room when Chambers, who is rep
resented as drunken bully, in drunken
frenzy proclaimed himself Fenian and fired
his revolver point blank at the group in which
voorhees, was standing The crowd at one
time threatened to rescue Chambers from the
police and hang him to lamp post, but he
was hurried to the station house. Mr.. Voor-
bees was very old citizen of Brooklyn. once
a city judge, and his life was insured for
$4,000.
A letter from Rome says it is certain that
much confusion prevails among members of
the council, and that two factions-the ultras.
led by Archbishop Manning of Westminster.
and the autonomists, by Archbishop Dupan.
loup Of Orleans-carry on an excited warfare
in the private sessions of the Quirinal. 1t is
asserted that not all of the American Bishops
are ultra. The Bishop of Savannah has ar
gued in the council against the opportuneness
If the syllabus, and suhdry other American
athers have refused their adherence to the
doctrine of papal infallibility.