The Portland daily press., 1870-03-24
News bg ,he Latest Waits

Some efforts arc being made to effect the re-
moval of the Secretary of the Senate. It does
not, however, involve any question connected
with his official duties.
The steamship Merrimack, which arrived at
New York Tuesday night, reports passing on
the 21st inst. a large quantity of floating Joiner
work, sailors chests, &C., supposed to be the
upper works of some steamer. Were thew the
remains of the City of Boston?
A train going north from Concord N. H.,
Tuesday, was thrown from the track one mile
above Grafton by a broken rail- Both cars
went down the embankment seven feet Ten
passengers were slightly injured but none
killed.
1t is said that the trains on the Pacific Rail-
road are running regularly and have not been
delayed by snow during the last thirty DAYS.
Late advices from Rio Janeiro state that
commercial panic was prevailing at Buenos
Ayres. Several failures had occurred and it
was supposed that others would follow.
At the inquest at Ridgefeld, N. j., on the
nitro-slycerine explosion, the proprietors testi-
fed that ST., 900 worth of property was de-
stroyed Eight hundred pounds of pure nitro
glycerine packed for transportation was thrown
distance Of eighty-fve feet without explod-
| ing. The crater of the explosion was about
| forty feet in diameter. Half the factory was
totally demolished ard the rest was so much
damaged and racked as to be worthless. The
first explosion occurred in the factory. 1t is
supposed to have originated in the leakage of
some of the acid carboys. The breakage of
these broke the remainder of the carboys and
led to the second explosion.
Rio Janeiro advices give gloomy picture of
the condition of Paraguay. The country is
one vast ruin. Towns are depopulated, and
the people are literally starving. There are
thousands living upon roots and what wild
fruit they can obtain. Twenty thousand Wild
owed women are hanging about Asuncion
vainly trying to obtain a passage to Buenos
Ayres or Montevideo Gangs of deserters are
prowling through the country, robbing and
murdering. Lopez is safe in the mountains,
succored by the Indians: hut thu Brasilians
mold possession of the whole country with that
exception.
The man arrested on suspicion of being the
murderer of Miss Lumsford, at Mansfield
Ohio, is named A. L. Robinson, and is said BY
the New York SIM to be native of this city.
He is about 45 years old The strange manner
in which suspicion was made to settle on Rob-
inson is in keeping with the general mystery
OF the whole affair. 1t seems that on the arm
OF the murdered woman the marks of bite
were plainly visible. At the funeral the de-
tective observed that Robinson's teeth were
defective just where the marks of teeth were
absent on the wounded arm. He arrested him
and dentists made a cast of Robinson's mouth.
The model was applied to the arm of the MUIR
dered woman, and it fitted the impression on
the arm accurately.
Mr.. Gladstone denies that Mr.. Bright had
offered to retrocede Gibraltar to Spain.
The bill for the enforcement of the laws in
Ireland passed the House of Commons Tues
day night by vote of 425 to 10.
Lafayette Burns of Syracuse and James W.
Long of Brunswick, No., both postmasters
have been sentenced by the United States Dis
trict Court at Jefferson City, to ten years i'm
prisonment in the pententiary, for taking
money from letters.