The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-01-28

John L. Harris was sworn in thursday as a
U. S. Senator from Virginia.
George Allen fell from building in Hart
ford, Conn, Thursday, distance of forty feet,
and is still living and likely to get we'll.
L. Schmidt. Consul General of Baden. has
been refused ticket to the Prince Arthur
dinner in New York.
Charles Langley, one of the crew of the sch.
Annie May. had both thighs broken off Block
Island, by being struck by spar.
A theological student named William Ira
Wis has swindled the citizens of Kingston. N
Y, out of $4,000.
The "Michiganders'' resident in Washing
ton celebrated the SD anniversary of the ad-
mission of that State into the Union. wednes-
day evening.
The new provisional government of Hayti
has sent two commissioners to the United
States to represent that government at Wash
ington in place of ex-Minister Tate.
A meeting called at the fremont House, Chi
cago, Wednesday evening, to form vigilance
committee, was turned into broad farce by
those who responded to the call, and it ad-
journed without accomplishing anything.
Mrs. Head, of Devilda, 10 Davies county,
Illinois, recently became insane on religious
matters, and on Tuesday morning, in the alb
sence of her husband, obtained a razor and cut
her throat, when her daughter snatched it
from her and ran towards an clubhouse to hide
it. The mother overlook her daughter and af.
ter a struggle regained the razor and was
about to draw it across her throat second
time, when another daughter, fifteen years old,
| placed her hand there and received terrible
cash. The mother then succeeded in cutting
her throat from ear to ear, dying Immediately.
An Havana letter announces the completion
of a new survey for a ship canal across the
Isthmus of Darien. The work was underta-
ken for Paris company, by NJ. Lucan de Pu-
| gott, French engineer, and he has succeeded
in laying out short, safe and easily and spec.
| Oily constructed route from the Atlantic to
the Pacific ocean. The line is outside the lin
| its of territory over which the Panama Rail-
road Company holds right. The cost is esti-
mated at seventy millions, and the time re.
quired for the completion of the work from
| three to five years. An effort will be made
Immediately to raise the money from Ameri
can and European capitalists, if the Colombian
| government will grant the loan. ,,.. %
leave about the 18th February for St. Thomas
| and other West India ports. The Spanish au-
thorities at Havana do not expect to quell the
| rebellion until 1871, and they assert that Pres
| ident Grant will in no case accord belllgerent
rights to the Cubans. Up to the 22d inst,
| nothing had been heard of the Spanish General
Pueblo. A conspiracy among the ne yroes on
several plantations near Cienfuegos had been
discovered. They intended to burn the plan
tatlons and join the Cubans. Five were exc
cuted. James G. Hill, a photographer, who
was passengers from New York to Havana
on the steamship Columbia, under passport
from the Spanish consul as British subject
was not allowed to land, the authorities claim
ing that he was an agent of the Cuban Janta
and he returned in the steamer Cholera was
raging at Puerto Principe, thirty soldiers hay.
| ing died in one day.
A New York paper states that all the bro.
kers against whom suits were instituted in the
United States courts by Assessor Webster
have paid the amounts of the penalties i'm.
posed on each case. Now the government Of
hcers are making preparations to prosecute
another and more important class, the brokers
OF Wall street. Among the latter are August
Belmont & Co., Brown Brothers & Co., Mr..
Lockwood and others. Belmont, it is claimed,
| can and does use millions of dollars belonging
to the Rothschilds without paying one cent OF
tax to the government on his capital, or ON
| that of the great English house of which he is
the representative He returns capital OF
$3.50, 900 to the assessor of the district but the
business he transacts amounts to millions. -
Brown Bros, Mr.. Lockwood and Jay Cooke
monopolize much of the business of the street,
and the profits of their transactions are enor-
nous; but they have not yet discharged their
| obligations to the government. The great
| house of Jay Cooke pays tax on a capital of
only fifty thousand dollars.