The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-01-17

| speaker blalneS hrst public reception took
place Friday night, and was largely attended.
Bishop Chase of New Hampshire isvery i'll
and is not expected to recover.
Rains have prevailed for several days past
throughout the Pacific States.
The town of Laporte, Cal, was nearly des-
troyed by fire on the 18th inst.
AT Montreal Friday the thermometer stood
at % below zero.
Mr.. Clapp, the Congressional printer, denies
as false and malicious the report that $15O,OO0
| of the appropriation has been recklessly used
The latest Mexican advices state that the
revolution is extending AID threatens to over
throw Juarez.
The Boston Advertiser says tha. the project
OF canal through Cape Cod dates back to
1876, when the Puritans first proposed it.
Stocks confectionery store in Delaney
street, and Reynolds hair store on Dey street,
New York. were. burned Friday night Loss
$6000
Rev. DR.. Amos Blanchard, of the Kirk ST.
Congregational Church at Lowell, Mass, died
suddenly on Friday night, aged 63. He had
been 2 settled clergyman in Lowell for forty
years.
News from Rio Janeiro via Lisbon confirm
the flight of Lopez and the termination of the
war. Lopez did not retreat to Bolivia, but is
wandering about with few followers in the
Brazilian provinces.
II. G. L. Dorsey of Pawtucket, Rhode Is
land, has sent check for 1888 to the Superin-
tendent Of the Richmond (Va) Penitentiary,
to provide feast of roast turkey on the 31st
| inst, that being Dorsey's birthday
There is a rumor that the Ottawa Cabinet
has decided to abolish the system of licenses
to American fishermen and to fall back on the
Interpretation Of the treaty of 1918; and this
with the consent of the imperial government.
In the Spanish Cortes Wednesday, Senior
CASTELAR, introduced proposition excluding
forever the Bourbon family and all its branch
es from the throne of Spain. Debate on the
proposal will take place on Tuesday next.
Vincent Colyer stoutly maintains that the
| petition of the inhabitants of British Column
/ bla, asking for annexation to the United
States was not inspired by citizens of the Uni.
ted States, but that it was spontaneous ex-
| preston of their wishes.
| A minority of the Committee of the Illinois
| Constitutional Convention, on the Rights of
| Suffrage, have presented report providing for
an anne ndment to the State Constitution al
| lowing women to vote; and the report has
been made the special order toc Feb 10.
| Suits of eiectment have been begun by the
| executor of Frank Decatur Forest against
about two hundred defendants, for portions of
the Ranches de los Americanos, in Sacramento
County, California. The property is valued at
| $3.50 900. .r
Two boys were playing in the Dunnell print
works at Pawtucket, r. l., Saturday, when
one, having rope around the other. threw it
over the Skating, saying, "Now am going to
hang you" The rope caught on the shaftipg
aud carried the boy up to the ceiling, injuring
him probably fatally His name is VIM. Dam
iels, aged Il years.
Sylvester G. Smith, brakeman on the Bos
ton and Lowell railroad, was horribly maneled
Friday afternoon by being run over by train.
lie WIS found lying on the track with his bow
els opened, his right leg broken above and be-
low the knee, his left leg from the ankle to the
knee and one arm broken. After the train
passed he was discovered and attempted to
speak. He lived about half IN hour.
Tue commissioner of Internal Revenue has
ruled that all farmers who make it business
or occupation to sell in the market houses or
othSl pifsCSni pay tue retailers IL
cense, but if they merely, from time to time, sold
as an incident, prod uction of their own farms,
| they were exempt. He orders the greatest lat
itnde to be given SO that farmers may have a
chance, but those parties who do not produce
and sell productions of other farms as well as
their own, must be made to pay.
a priv ate letter from Savannah says party
OF four gentlemen arrived in that city on the
evening of the 9Th inst, from an interior town
on the line Of the Central Railroad. not far
from Savannah. Friday morning, bright and
early, found them across the river on the Caro-
lima side, where two shots were exchanged, one
OF the principals receiving a severe flesh
wound in the shoulder. Both gentlemen are
well known in Savannah. The difficulty orig
mated in private quarrel
The Melbourne (Australia) Ayuls reports a
horrible massacre at Fiji. A Mr. Latin. who
1t Is said, was formerly storekeeper in Mel
bourne, had shipped about $50 natives on board
the French barque Morea. Their ultimate des-
tination was it is believed, Queensland; but it
seems that the islanders rose en- n,asse and
mercilessly killed every white man on board
with the exception of the mate. They then
jumped overheard with the intention of swim
ming on shore, but only about 80 reached the
land, 253 having, it is supposed been drowned.
In the Georgia Senate Friday, Senator COL
lier, who took the oath on the 18th inst, hav-
ing made application to withdraw his oath.
setting forth that it was made under misappre-
hension and party pressure, was allowed to
Withdraw, and by vote of the Senate his name
was dropped from the rolls. Collier was Judge
OF the inferior court before the war and particle
pated IN the rebellion. Seventeen Democratic
members of the House and three Democratic
senators, who were in the old organization
and at that time took the oath declaring them
selves to be 'eligible," have made written an
plication to be relieved of their political disa-
b!ities to yield to party pressure and take the
oath at this time A meeting Of conservatives
was held at the city hall and resolutions were
passed declaring themselves to be true Repub-
licans and that their purpose in urging all
Democrats to take the oath and their seats was
to protect the State from the spoliation of the
radicals.
The Spanish Consul at New York received
on Friday news from Cuba that in a recent en-.
gagement the Cubans having lost so killed, five
officers ami 2000 insurgents surrendered at
Sancti Spiritus, $50 at Cuba, and 300 pegroes
at Cinco Villas. An Havana letter of the 9th
says Gen. DeRodas has rendered bis resicna.
ton to the provisional government, and it is to-
day rumored in official circles that he has re-
ceived telegram from Prim, giving some de-
tails OF the difficulties of the government and
requesting him to come home. His prccama-
ton on King day TO the Inhabitants of Cuba
looks very much as if he was preparing the
people to receive the news that be is packing
up Inc appointment of Talmazeda to Lieut.
enant Generalship at the urgency of the vol
unteers indicates his possible successor. A
dispatch from Talmazeda reached the Palace
yesterday reporting the arrival of Lopez Cam.
ara at Santiago de Cuba, completely routed.
ne hau morse Killed and lost a part of his |
staff and one-third of his men.
PersOna!.
Dumas has decided that Eve had hair.