The Portland daily press., 1870-04-09
Ne,r, bv The Latest Mails.


Several members of family named Gore,
living in Billerica, Mass, are i'll with unmis-
taxable symptoms of trichina, induced by eat
ing uucooked pork.
Mr.. Bancroft, the American minister at Ber-
lin, gave grand banquet Thursday evening to
+ McLeary Brown and the Chinese embassy.
Among the guests were Messrs. Thite, Simp-
SON. Moltke and other notables.
The north wall of the mammoth iron build
ing on Broadway, New York, owned by Wood
Brothers, carriage warehouse, fell with tre-
mendous crash at two o'clock Friday morning.
Nobody was hurt
The Francois newspaper reproduces the re-
cent opinion Of Prince Napoleon (Plon Plon)
to the effect that plebiseitum is the last alter
native of revolution.
A grand military review took place in Paris
on Friday. The streets were full of troops and
people. The weather was delightful.
The antiquaries of Parisare profoundly in
terested in the discovery Of great Roman am
pitheatre in the excavations now going on at
Mt. st. Geneve in that city.
By order of the Secretary of War, Generals
Wager Swayne, Alexander Webb and Julius
Hayden, unassigned, will repair to New York
and report to Gen. Mcdowell, President of the
Retiring Board.
A fire at Meredith Bridge, N. H., Thursday,
destroyed Smith s. Foss' block and the finish
ing mill of the Waukaman Mill Company
Total loss $4,000; about half insured.
George Hunneweil was pardoned out of the
Massachusetts, State Prison Fast Day, where
he was sentenced during life twenty-five years
ago for arson. lie is now 80.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. r. Mumford, living near Co.
Iona, Illinois, were murdered on the night of
the 9th inst, by two men, who sought to OBJ
tain $1,000 which it was known Mr.. Mumford
had received for his farm. Mr.. Mumford' s
head was completely severed from his body.
The murderers also knocked his little boy in
the head, but he afterwards revived. The
murderers got the money and escaped.
Mr.. Inman, agent of the steamer City Of
Boston, gives the opinion that that vessel did
not founder in agae as her sister ship, the City
Of Antwerp, encountered the same gale that it
was feared she was out in, but that the Boston
collided with one of the icebergs so numerous
northward of Cape Race, and went down when
only two or three days out from Halifax.
Sylvester Breen, otherwise known as Jack
Reynolds, who murdered William Townsend
on the 9th Of January last, was hanged in the
yard of the Tombs Prison Friday morning
Nearly 800 people witnessed the execution.
Reynolds said he was ready to die, and said he
was sorry for the deed committed by him. The
morning was spent in religious devotion, and
before being hung short prayer was made on
the scaffold. He hung seventeen minutes, ap
parently dying without much pain. His body
will be examined to see whether his brain wa!
diseased.
It is stated that there is an evident desire OF
the part of the British government to have tn,
Alabama claims question re-opened, but Lore
Clarendon wishes the first overture to come
from the United States, which will not bt
done, Secretary Fish adhering to his dis
patch of September last, in which he stated
that the United States do not propose to Sc,
any time for the settlement of the question
Within a few days, inreply to an enquiry from
Secre tary Fish, as to whether note from hin
| (Clarendon) to Minister Thornton, was intend
ed as official or not, the reply, although very
ambiguous, displayed disposition to re-oper
negotiations. The subject will be laid before
the next meeting of the Cabinet.