The Portland daily press., 1870-01-04

The News
Diphtheria prevails to an alarming extent
over great portion of the eastern end of Long
Island.
The sessions of the Ecumenical Council are
hereafter to be held at the Quirinal, on &C
count of the bad accommodations at st. Peters.
CLosED.-Mayor Putnam yesterday ordered
the City Hall to be closed for all public amuse-
ments until after the reception of the remains
of Mr.. Peabody.
Rev. U. b. Frothingham's society have en-
dorsed his "manly and Christian course" I'M
der the attacks made upon him for his connec-
ton with the Richardson marriage.
Rev. Mr.. Pearce, Methodist clergyman of
West Hampton, Long Island, has disappeared
under sudden attack of arrangement. it is
feared.
Mr.. Lemus, the Cuban envoy at Washing
ton, Indignantly denies the report that the
revolutionists in Cuba have been advised by
the Cuban Junta to lay down their arms. He
says the circulation of the SANDER indicates
the weakness of the Spanish cause.
The woman shot at an designation house in
Brooklyn Sunday night was the wife of a city
merchant named Allemico, but she had Sc pa
rated from her husband some time since and
become the paramour of Bauman. Bauman
was married man, and had lost his position
as school teacher in Brooklyn. Both are dead.
A letter from the city of Mexico, dated Dec.
9Th, says there is serious crisis in the affairs
of the Mexican Republic. and there would be
a very serious revolution if the leaders of the
opp osition to Juarez should unite together
The opposition chiefs however lack money and
influence to concentrate their energies, and
Juarez and his cabinet are working with great
energy to put down all opponents
Morris faro establishment on Broadway was
robbed of $4,000 Saturday night; officer Sutton
was shot by rowdy Sunday night; Peter Rey-
nolds, notorious political rough was fatally
stabbed the same evening by Patrick Munday
in drunken brawl, and a boy named Gusta-
vus Bressen was SO badly beaten by Richard
Bosse and j. S. Long that he lies in a precari-
Gus condition.
An attempt was made Sunday night to rob
the birmingham, Mass. National Bank. The
robbers obtained entrance by breaking a pane
OF glass and christening a window. They OPP
Grated on the safe and succeeded in blowing off
the outer door, which fell in the passage way
in such manner as not to be easily removed ;
when the thieves abandoned the undertaking
without obtaining anything for their trouble.
The new city government of Lowell, Mass,
was organized Monday. In his address 1.-THE
Mayor states the total valuation of the city to
be WA .79O, 996, and the city debt $3.50 553. The
population is 10000, with 846S registered polls
and 1000 school children. The deficit of Mr..
Gerrlsh, the defaultng Treasurer, is $32174. 40,
winch may be increased by the decision of
suits now pending. Gerrish has been indicted
and is now under $4,000 bail for appearance
for trial
A letter from Mexico states that a small con-
gregation of Protestants who wo -shipped in a.
room in Puebla, were mobbed by large crowd
OF Catholics, their Bibles, tracts and other eff
fects were taken into the street and torn in
pieces and burned. The few Protestants pres
ent were shot and stoned and beaten, and two
are not expected to live. The police and mill
tary were called out and partially dispersed
the mob, killing one of the latter. All foreign
ers were the subjects of attack, and several
persons not implicated in the Protestant en-
terprise were badly beaten.
A great barbecue was held at Syracuse N.
T., Saturday, for the entertainment of tho
poor OF the city. 1t was provided by John
TreenWay. Thousands of persons from the
surrounding country came to town. and the
streets all day wore a holiday appearance
Clinton square was packed with spectators. es.
tinated at from 10000 to 80. 200 in numbar
Two whole beeves were roasted and another
cut up raw and distributed to the poor, togeth-
erwith 5000 loaves of bread The butchers
and bakers aided in the preparations, Several
ex-Mayors and other prominent citizens. wear
ing white aprons, waited upon the crowds of
applicants for food. The whole community
seemed to take great interest in the affair
Mrs. Norris, a female temperance lecturer
after delivering lecture in Astoria, L. l.. on
the night OF the 2S!h ult., was refused lodgings
IN Wilson'S Hotel of that place. One Lang, a
constable of the place, offered to escort her to
mouse, and was soon joined by an another ruff
nan, both outrageously assaulting and robbing
ner. she managed to escape and was protected
oy the laborers at the gas house. Upon enter
ing complaints against the rufians all the
sheriffs and their deputies declined to arrest
the criminals, alleging that their lives would
be jeopardized by so doing, at the hands of the
rest of the gang TO which Lang and his confed
crate belong. The District Attorney will have
to apply for officers outside of the county.
The new municipal government of Boston.
Monday, Newton Talbot being
chosen chairman of the Board of Aldermen and
H. NJ. ingalls, President Of the Common Coup-
Gill; Mayor Shurteffs inaugural address is of
great length, abiding in detail to all the i'm
portant interests of the city. The appropria-
ton authorized for improvements include the
following: Streets, $5,3200OO; school houses,
S607, 900; Chestnut Hill reservoir, S5OO0O0:
East Boston ferry, 1926, 900; water-works, Bos-
ION Highlands, $125Ooo; water to Deer Island
$4,000; engine house, $22 500; total, $6eo3OOO.
70 meet the interest on the gross debt on the
amount required to be raised by tax on the
capital of said debt, for the debt sinking fund,
will entail taxation in round numbers of up
Yards of $2,OOOoOO Total valuation of city of