The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-06-06

freight train on the Rome, Watertown s.
| Ogdensburg railroad ran off the track Friday.
Six cars filled with cattle are wrecked. Loss
$4,000. No human lives were lost.
Corinne is new place for ship news to
come from, but schooner has sailed from
there for the lower end of Great Salt Lake TO
bring back cargo of ores.
The President has appointed Beniamin "
Abbott of New York, Chas. P. James Of the
District of Columbia aud V. G. Barrenger of
North Carolina, commissioners to revise the
statutes.
S130,000 has been expended on repairing the
Church of the Pilgrims DR.. r. S. Storrs pas
tor, in Brooklyn, which was re-opened Sun
day.
Cbas. N. Griffin, a New York merchant, was
run ever and fatally injured by the cars at
Flushing, L. T., Friday.
The Madrid correspondent of the London
| Times thinks the scheme before the Cortes for
the abolition of slavery in the Spanish colonies
| will prove a failure.
| The mail service between this country and
France still excites much dissatisfaction in
| Paris
| Professor Winneda of Carlsruhe, has discov-
cred new planet.
| There has been a ministerial crisis in Swe-
| den.
| OF the seventeen editors connected with the
MdrSetttatse last December, one has been killed,
| twelve are in prison and four are awaiting
| sentence. Fines have also been paid amount.
ing to Il. al francs
| Superintendent Jourdan's plan Of stationipo
| policemen at the doors of gambling houses in
| New York, to warn the unwary from entering,
resulted in closing thirty-two the first week.
| The Stanton memorial fund amounting to
| $4,000, has been invested in fve-twenties
Mrs. Stanton accepts it as a grateful tribute
to the memory of her husband.
The ultramontanists deny that they intend
to withdraw from the Ecumenical Council at
ter the proclamation OF the infallibility dogma.
The deliberations of the council have been in
terrupted by the feast of Gregory XVI, who
| died in June, 1916 The session will be resumed
next Thursday. The Carmelte monk Hartzel,
| summoned to Rome to excuse his defence of
| Dollnger, refuses to retract and is kept under
| close surveillance.
The French money market on Saturday
| opened excited in view of the reported alliance
between Russia and Egypt A great many
| cannon, muskets and other war materials have
recently been ordered from Brussels and New
York on the Viceroy's account, and there is a
large increase in the armament at the disposal
ofEgypt 1t is suddenly apparent that the
Vlceroy is preparing for struggle against the
Sublime Porte, and Russia will tender him her
powerful assistance.
Hamlet will be performed at the Academy of
Music in New York this month for the benefit
OF the Dramatic Fund, with the following I'M
paraleled cast: Hamlet, Booth Laertes, Fech-
ter; Ghost, J. w. Walack; Horatio, Daven-
port; Polonius, Brougham; LIST Grave Digger,
Jefferson; King, Shewel; Osric, Lester Wal
lack; Second Actor, Barney Williams; Ophe-
liza, Miss Leclerque; Queen, Mrs j. w Wal
lack
Returned Fenians deny the report that
Tweed and Hoffman helped pay their expenses
home and say that Hoffman in reply to the
offer of the trustees of Malone to furnish the
Fenians food il he would furnish them with
transportation home, telegraphed, "Malone had
better take care of her own poor
Leopold A. Klein was killed in Central CITY.
Colorado, Friday, by Lem futile, an idiot
Klein had dug Glitch to keep Lem from his
garden. Tuttle was filling up the ditch when
Klein attempted to drive him away, and he
drew knife and stabbed X Elm fatally. Tut
tie had been supposed to be harmless, but was
in the habit Of carrying knife. He is now in
| Jail.
The heaviest spring storm of snow and rain
ever experienced IN Montana has lust subsidized.
Snow fell to the depth of five or six inches in
the mountains and the rain has been incessant
for five days throughout the whole territory
Ihe prospects for the placer diggings could not
be better, and large yield is expected this
| season.