The Portland daily press., 1870-06-01
News by tho --latest Mails.

One man was killed and several wounded by
| the explosion of boiler at Columbia Pa. on
Monday.
More than twenty persons charged with COM
plicity in the regcide plots in Paris were I'M
conditionally released on Monday and others
were to be liberated on Tuesday
The Topeka House at Topeka, Kansas, was
destroyed by fire on Monday.
The little steamer "City of Ragusa,'' 21 feet
long, left Liverpool for New York Tuesday,
The captain, one man and Newfoundland dog
will undertake the voyage.
10000 Brooklyn Sabbath School children
paraded Tuesday. The Plymouth Church
school turned out 1850.
The President sent secret message to the
Senate Tuesday proposing amendments to the
San Domingo treaty; also extending the time
for the exchange of ratifcations.
Dreadnaught won a race at the Union Course,
New York, Monday afternoon in 2.32 "a.
Steamship Ri sing Star has arrived at New
York from Copenhagen with small pox on
board.
Ga Monday 1914 emigrants arrived in New
York.
The story is circulated that our government
pean power, possessing only few seaports, has
offered to the Dominican government $4,000
for the Bay of SANTANA, in case the treaty now
pending between the United States and that
government is not ratified.
Paris is greatly alarmed at the rapid spread
Of the small pox. There were 900 deaths last
week. Among those suffering from the loath-
some disc Sc are Prince De la Tour d Anver-
que and the Duke De Grammont, the Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs.
A serious instruction has broken out in Lii
IBERIA. The President of Liberia appointed
Walter Good Collector and Postmaster at Pal
mas aud the people there, to whom the ap-
pointment was distasteful, threatened insur-
rection if he is confirmed.
The construction of the Sugar River rail-
road, from Bradford to Claremont, N. Fl j., was
begun at Newport Tuesday morning. with indi-
cations of rejoicing.
The graves of the Confederate dead in the
cemeteries at Alexandria and Arlington were
decorated ON Monday with flowers There
were no military guards as last year to prevent
such attention of the friends of the Conteder-
ate dead.
A London dispatch says the weather for the
past few days has been unseasonably dry and
warm. The growing crops are already suffer-
ing for rain and apprehensions of serious
drought are felt.
Daniel and Neill Mcleod, brothers, living on
the western frontier of Cumberland county, N.
c., were both murdered by three men on We'd
nesday morning. Neill McLeod's wife, daught-
er and son were also badly wounded. The
McLeods were peaceabe and highly respected
citizens.
While workmen were demolishing an old
frame building in Irvington street New York
on Tuesday, they discovered the skeleton of a
man boarded up in a niche between the
weather boards and chimney, with the appear
ance of having been there many years. A col
ored women living in the house the past twen-
ty-five years is ignorant of how the skeleton
came there.
The following Havana news has been receiv-
ed The yellow fever has broken out at Neuvi-
tas and Puerto Principe, greatly to the conster-
nation of the Spaniards. The Cubans have
been successful in several small engagements.
Execution of Cuban prisoners by the Spanish
authorities continue. The negroes of several
estates, including the Constancia and the Rosa
Mario have Joined the insurgents. Spanish
schooner was captured by the insurgents while
loading at the mouth of the Jatbonico river
The captain, crew and passengers, thirteen in
all, were killed. The schooner was burnt
with a load OF hides, wax and sugar; also three
warehouses on shore, together with sixty hogs
heads OF sugar, 5000 feet mahogany, etc.
Chs. Bright has already reached st. Thomas
to superintend the laying of the West Indies |
cable which will unite Central and South |
America with Europe. The Haytiens are per- |
picked over the discovery of large quantities of
counterfeit money and loud cries are made for /
a national banking system.
Inc revolution in Venezuela has triumphed. |
On the 9th ult. Caracas was taken by the |
revolutionary forces under Gen. Guzman
bianco, after sanguinary conflict of forty
eight bours. Five hundred men were killed
and much damage was done to the city Port
Laguayra surrendered without resistance
huperto Monagas appeared before the city