The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-05-12
General News.


In the fight for the championship of the
world near New Orleans last Tuesday Mace
was seconded by Jim Cusick and Jerry Dono-
van: and Allen by Sherman Thurston and Joe
Cobun. The umpire for Allen was Dad Ky
an, and for Mace, John c. Heenan. heleree'
Rufus Hart, of New Orleans. Inc men ap-
peared in GOOD condition. AT the 1lrst round
Auo, went down in the centre of the ring.
Mace drew the first blood in the second round.
Ten rounds were fought altogether. The con-
fest was spirited, and some very hard lighting
was done. AT the end of the tenth round Mace
was deciared.the winner. Aliens shoulder was
dislocated, while Mace had not mark or
bruise on him.
The sub commitee on the decline of Amer
lean commerce have agreed to report Wash
burns bill to establish five steamship lines
one from Boston and Portland to Glasgow and
Liverpool, New York to Liverpool Philadel-
phia and Baltimore to Southampton and Bre-
men, New Orleans to Hamburg, and New Or
lean to Rio Janeiro, allowing a subsidy of
S75o,OOO for each line. They decided to re-
duce the subsidy 10 China to $350O00 instead
OF S500,OCo, as proposed in the bill.
New York has a very bold preacher in the
person of Mr. Pullman, who declared in a
sermon that the Richmond catastrophe was
not due the hand of God, but to a rotton
guider
A dispatch from London says the great
yacht race between the American yacht Sap
pho, owned by Mr.. Douglas, and the English
yacht Cambria, owned by Mr.. Ashbury, which
took place Tuesday off the Isle of Wight, has
resulted in complete victory Tor the Sappho,
she having reached the point of destination
far ahead of the Cambria. The course taken
was southerly one from the Nab Light, the
distance being sixty miles.
A great movement towards Colorado is in
progress in New York, under unusually favor
able auspices. A large number of the Work.
ingmen's Colorado Association left on Mon
day, to be followed by another detachment in
a few days. These people propose to colonize
on Cache la Poudre river. about fifty miles
from Denver, and the town which has been
projected is 10 be called "Greeley."
Recent fires 10 the woods in Orange, Dutch
ess, Ulster and several other counties in New
York State, have been the most extensive and
serious ever known. The forest of the Shaw
angunk range of mountains were in flames
during all OF last week. At one time the en-
tire backbone of ridges for several miles seerL-
ed almost one continuous pathway of fire.
Pillars and clouds of SaOke hung over the
| district by day, aud lurid seas of flame glared
| upon the darkness of the night, making the
| valleys below like some vast fiery furnace. The
| loss of property, from present indications, will
| be over mill of dollars. One family had
a narrow escape from a horrible holocaust
The fire gained so rapidly that almost before
they were aware of it their dwelling was sur
rounded and but one narrow strip Of open
ground along the roadside left as an avenue of
escape. The fire fend pursued them so close
| ly in their fight that their hair was sinsed
and their garments and shoes shriveled. A
| party Of four gentlemen also came near per-
lsh;ng in the confacration. They had been
| trout-hshing along the mountain brooks, and
had set their camp for the night. A fter watch
| ing the glow of the flames, which appeared
| still TO be some considerable distance away,
| they went to sleep having no apprehension OF
| danger. One of their number awoke about
midnight and found that the ground in the vi
cinlty was perfectly alive with snakes, which
Lad Iourr aiftvrn there by the devouring flames.
A moments glance revealed the terrible fact
taat they were hemmed in by walls of fire
which made such rapid Roadway upon them
that they were compelled to abandon every
thing and run for lite down the hill sides, es-
Gaping with their faces and hands more or less
biIstered and their clothing nearly destroyed.
Inc 1lres are still smoulderirg, and large par
Ties OF men are out endeavoring to prevent
| their fnrther spreading.
The Philadelphia papers of Monday are
flied with the details of the damages of the
terrific ha.!s;one of Sunday. A shower of
rain began at half past two O'Clock, but did
not last five minutes before the hail succeed
ed. Fine at first, the haistones came down
larger with every moment, and within quar-
| ter of an hour Of the storms commencement,
they fell with terrific force, and so thicky
| that the atmosphere presented an ashen hue.
1t was as though canister and grape shot
were being fired from the battlements of heay-
en-; indeed, had the hail been of lead and iron,
it could not have produced a more deafening
clatter upon the roofs of the houses, and the
STONE pavornont,. ---------
! For twenty minutes this terrific fusilade
continued, the hailstones during the greater
| part OF ii varying from the size OF a peach
stone 10 hens egg. They tore through the
| shrubbery, breaking off branches, covering
the ground with leaves and buds. They
crashed through the windows, no glass appar-
emily being too thick for them. From the roofs
OF houses they scraped both shingles and gray
ell; awnings were as thoroughly ventilated as
though buckshot had been fired through them.
INA twinkling the streets were cleared of all
pedestrians, who made for the friendly shell
ter wherever they could find it.
During the storm, curious phenomena oc-
cured. The large kaiIstones were apparent
ly minute bombs, which, in striking an object,
exploded with loud and sharp report, and
not only by the taste, but by the smell, was
the presence of sulphur detected.
The storm ended almost as suddenly as it
commenced, and high sun came from be-
hind The bank of leaden clouds to d;spel tue
gloom.