The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-01-24
The News.

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The total shipments of specie from San Fran.
cisco east for the year, is estimated at Sal 900,
OOO
Direct intelligence from DR.. Livingstone has
been received up to July last. He was then at
Ujiji.
A purse of $1,000 has been made up the Meth
odist society of Mamaroneck, N. Y. for the
family of Rev. Mr.. Cook.
Small pox is raging in New York; 200 cases
having been reported since the 1st inst. in a
single ward, of which 81 were fatal.
The London Times discusses the French
from the need o5as oso ana demonstrates there
About 1000 troops have been SEM.
Cronza, France, to prevent disorder am ong the
striking workingmen there.
Frauds on the Pension Office have been dis
covered at Albany. Helen Shaffer has been
sent to prison in consequence.
There is much anxiety in England caused by
the statement in the Lancet that the Queens
health is very infirm. She is afflicted with
neuralgia.
The State Constables have created conster-
nation by visiting the hotels and a number of
large liquor stores, and selling large lots of
liquors or gathering evidence of sales in New
buryport.
Ihe Archbishop of Paris preached Wednes-
day before the Ecumenical Council. A petit
tion against the excuses of laymen who edit
religious journals has been presented to the
Council.
The Committee for the District of Columbia
was visited by nearly 200 women Saturday
delegates of the Women Suffrage Convention,
recently held in Washington. Mrs. Stanton,
Mrs. Hooker and others urged the right of fe-
male suffrage in the district.
1t is now thought that the three Wyble chill
dren who were reported lost in the woods on
Wynooskie mountain, N. Y, and who have
not yet been found, were murdered, and grave
suspicious attach to Mr.. Wyble and a son of
Wyble by former wife.
Henri Rochefort's trial was brought to an
en- to-day. He was convicted and sentenced
to six months imprisonment and to pay a fine
of 1000 francs. This sentence does not dis
turb his position as deputy in the Corps Leg
islatif.
Millions of feetof logs and sawn timber are
lying in forests of northern New York and the
northeast, awaiting the fall of enough snow to
enable them to be hauled to market. A foot
of snow in that region just now would be worth
$30.OOO,0OO.
The last dates from Paraguay (Asuncion)
say that great distress exists there, and that
many Paraguayans were dying of hunger in
streets, so dear was food and SO poverty-strick-
en- the great mass of unfortunates who have
crowded into Asuncion for subsistence.
RQfprrinr IN fha .
the State Prison from Sing Sing, the NY.
Herald hopes the new location may be "easy of
access from that city; which on the score of
economy for the rascals who succeed in slip.
ping out of the New York prisons. is desira-
ble
Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister. has ex-
pended five millions of dollars in gold in the
United States the past Six months He has
purchased four million stand of arms for the
turkish government, together with the ma.
chlnery necessary to convert them into breecb-
leaders.
Ellis B. Pitcher, prominent citizen of Paw.
Eucket, II. l., committed suicide Friday night
BY shooting himself through the head. Family
Affections and the failure Thursday of a firm
or which he had endorsed to the amount of
9Zo,ooo or $4,000, stripping him of his proper
y, IL Is supposed unsettled his mind and led to
.he sad result.
Inc hndinss Of the naval court martial in
The case of r. d. Bogart, paymaster's clerk. ara
printed. He was tried and found gniltv of
tealing money of the United States, of fraud
md OF desertion, but the Secretary of War was
obliged to remit his sentence of three years i'm
'risonment. because his resignation had been
ccepted by the Department six months before
egal proceedings had been commenced.
The train from Jamaica for Hunters Poip.
n the Long Island railroad was thrown from
ne track on bridge over meadows Saturday |
y collision with cow. George Jones, bag
age master, and VIM Hanning, passenger,
Tere seriously injured. The stove set fire to a
ar put was extinguished before gaining head
ray. There were one hundred and fifty pas
engers on the train and their escape was mir
culous.
"A tram on the Long Island road was Satur-
ay morning thrown into Newtown creek by
ne breaking OF the bridge across that stream,
ne tlmpers OF were absolutely rotten, The
ngine and four passenger cars plunged in
fortunately, however, the water was verv
Nv; otherwise scores of lives might have been
'crlficed. AS it happened some twenty pas
'ngers were badly bruised, many seriouslv.-
he ears were badly smashed being precipitat.
one upon the other.
A conspiracy against the Gear has been
scovered. The centre of action was at Odes.
i, and the pupils of the universities were the
incipal promoters. 1t is stated that the con-
traitors, in order to carry out their object had
solved to tear up the rails during the journey
the Emperor from Odessa to ST. Petersburg,
It the rigid surveillance exercised over
whole line prevented them from carrying
their plans. The conspirators are all, WITH.
exception, Russians, and considerable sur
Sc is felt that not a single Pole has been
md in their ranks. A revolutionary plot
J been discovered at st. Petersburg, but it
described as mere boyish scheme without