The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-05-11

The prize fight between Mace and Allen took
place Tuesday morning at Kennersville, St.
Charles Parish, La, thirteen miles from New
Orleans. Among the party that witnessed the
mill were prominent lawyers and merchants
and officers of the Union and Confederate ar
miles, Mace whipped Allen in ten rounds
The battle was fought in "A minutes. Allen
was badly punished and Mace scarcely injur-
ed The first blood was for Mace and the first
knock down for Allen. Everything passed off
quietly.
The anniversary of the Five Points House
OF Industry was celebrated Monday night.
The new Democratic Central Park Commits
sioners of New York are going to erect mon
ument to Daniel O'Connell, a piece of folly
designed to please the Irish voters.
The New York Law Institute have re elect
ed Chas. O'Conor, President.
More burglaries are reported in Concord
The iIuuse OF john ross was broken into Mon
day night and gold watch and chain valued
at S225 and $25 in money taken. The Mayor
is to offer reward for the burglars wbe are
committing these depredations.
The report that the grave Of Lola Montez had
been desecrated is denied.
IL.
IT. WIS thrown from his horse in Lowell
monday, and had his leg broken and received
other injuries.
1t is thought the Treasury purchases ofbonds
this month will be increased to $4,000 900 on
account Of the heavy receipts from internal
revenue.
The Rev. S. II. Halliday, late Superintend-
enJ of the Five Points House of industry has
been appointed to assist Mr.. Beecher in the
pastoral work Of Plymo 18th Church. He will
do the visiting work and administer the chart
ties of the church.
The schooner Dresden, Capt. Smith, from
Nova Scotia, was run into Sunday morning off
Bartlett's Reef Light House, Long Island
Sound, by screw propeller, supposed to be
the Nepture of Boston. The Dresden arrived
at New York almost total wreck. There is
great indignation against the captain of the
propeller for not needing the cry of the crew
for aid.
Several riots occurred in Paris late Monday
night. They were not serious. Three or four
blrricades were erected in the Belleylle dis
trict, but they were feebly defended and the
troops carried them easily without firing a
shot. Shots were fired but not by the soldiers.
There was great excitement throughout the
night.
The revolution in Venezuela, once success
fully checked, has again spread over the whole
country. The town of Barcelona has been
captured by the revolutionsts and the govern
ment only holds the seaports of Coro, Maraca-
DO, Laguayra and Puerto Cabeo General
in If
and an attack was daily expected. President
Monagas will soon leave the country.
The gunboat Nipsic of the Darien exploring
expedition arrived at Aspinwall May LIST. The
route from Caledonia Bay has been surveyed
and pronounced impracticable. The expedi.
ton had moved up the Gulf of San Bias and
begun operations there, adopting the line of
River and intending to cross the
Cordillera and strike the head waters of the
Caepo or Bayamo river which flow into the
Bay of Panama
The May term of the U. S. Circuit Court for
New Hampshire began at Portsmouth, Mon
May, Judge Shepley presiding. There are |
great NUMBER or Gust, bofvre the grand Jury. |
In some parts of Maryland the local reguIa- |
lions impose property qualification in town |
elections Hence colored man OF Chester
own has just decided three feet nine inches of |
.round to each of forty-four of his brethren,
hus giving them franchise.
The Novelty Iron Works in New York have |
old off most of the machinery and tools. The |
Allaire Works are now occupied as stable
The Etna Iron Works have ceased to make ma.
inc engines. The Fulton Iron Works are for
ale. w. H. Webb's shipyard is to let Hen
y Steers yard is empty. The Continental
ron Works are almost deserted, and green
rass is growing in nearly all of the shipyards,
which five years ago were filled with work
men. This is striking illustration of the de-
line of American commerce
The instruction which lately broke out at
'iladelfia in the southern part of Italy was
confined to that immediate locality, and was
y no means formidable. The latest news an
LOUNGES the dispersion of the insurgents by the
government arms without serious difficulty