The Portland daily press., 1870-12-12
TELEGRAPHIO ITEMS,

| A frightful explosion occurred at the cart.
ridge factory in Birmingham, England, Fri
day. Twenty operatives are reported killed
and thirty or forty wounded. ~
Rev. Horace Cook, who figured in an abduc-
ton case few months ago has been sent to
Blackwell's Island for six months imprisOn'
ment for drunkenness.
The election contest in Boston to-day will
be mainly between CASTOR Dem. and Car
penter lRep.) There are seven or eight tickets
in the field.
The river Neva is frozen over and navigation
is suspended.
The Crescent paper mills at Russell, Mass,
owned by Chaplin & Gould. were burned Sun.
day morning. Loss $14O, 600; insured sos 900
A new lighthouse is to be begun immediate
ly at the entrance of Peconic bay and Green
point harbor.
There is no prospect of an adjustment of the
Crispin difficulties in New York.
A sneak thief stole $4,000 in diamonds from
the residence of 7. B. Babbitt in New York
Friday night.
Last week 1881 emigrants arrived in New
York.
There is a movement to remove James Fisk,
Jr., from the command of the 9th New York
regiment.
The students at the st. Johns Catholic COL
| lege at Fordham have adopted a protest
| against the action of the Italian government
! towards the Pope.
| James Reynolds was fatally injured on Sat-
urday by falling down three stories through
| scuttle in the Lowell (Mass.) machine shop
The weather in England has been very tenn
pestuous, doing great injury to the shipping.
The National Board of Trade on Saturday
ADOPTED resolution demanding return to
specie payments. The subjects of the interna-
1erreditoithe executive committee pending the
correspondence between our own and foreign
countries 1.-THE next annual meeting will be at
st. Louis.
The Buffalo Fenians have recognized under
tne name of the Irish National Brotherhood
anu appointed committee to take charge of q
city. WIZ
The bonds issued for the New Philadelphia
taken up.
In Belvedere, III, Saturday, Rev. s. H..
HOT Universalist clergyman was arrested
ana lined $50 for making an indecent expos
ure OF his person in the ladies' waiting room at
the depot, which was filled with ladies and
their escorts. The revend offender narrow
ly escaped lynching.
"A Farragut Monument Association has been
formed in New York. Gen. John A. Dix is
President.
Friday night, in New York, GARNER defeated
Cyrille Dion 81 points in a billiard game of 800
Abdallah Chief, the famous stallion owned
by Peter NOorhees of New Jersey, is dead He
was valued at ,0O0
1t is probable that Buffum, the murderer of
John L. Seaverns of Newburg, N. Y. last An
gust, will plead guilty at the January term of
the court and be sentenced to imprisonment
for life. -
Price Peacock, the Archbishop of Limerick
Ireland, is dead. ,-
Jay Gould has notified the Delaware. Lack
awanna and Western railroad officers that if
they attempt to run their trains through the
Bergen tunnel as thep advertise, he will apply
to the courts for an injunction.
1t is rumored that the Camden and Amboy
and New jersey railroads have been leased to
the Pennsylvania Central for guaranteed div
ldend OF 10 per cent. on the capital. The
amount OF property thus transferred is about
The reported renewal of negotiations fer an
armistice is emphaticaly denied byaN Y.
World despatch.
Inc Liberal League of London at meeting
Friday night, protested most vigorously against
doWry to Princess Louise out of the national
money. They think the Queen, out of her i'm.
dren. An appeal was also made to the people.
educated and ignorant, to decide BY ballot
whether or not they should supersede the pres
ent cumbersome and inhuman system of gov.
eminent by the ESTABLISHING mt of Republic.
The Sultan of Turkey is ascertaining the
numDer OF irregular troops he can muster and
has called naval council to increase the
strength of the fleet
An anti-war riot in Berlin Thursday was
caused by an order drafting married men,
which would increase the army %. 600. The
military suppressed the disturbance
Beaumont, Massas and Beaugency have been
evacuated by the French. The Germans can
tu.ed HOO prisoners and six cannon.
Italy has replied to Gortschakoff's note that
before any change whatever can be made in
the treaty of 1856, by which the controversy
was then settled, an agreement of the consign-
atory powers is Indispensable.