The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-08-01
News by the Latest mails.

Lady Franklin is guest of Henry Grinnel
in New York.
Oviedo, the Cuban hero of the famous dia.
mond wedding, is dead, and leaves million to
his widow and three millions to his forty-four
children, mostly illegitimates
Two companies of United States soldiers have
arrived at Louisville, Kentucky, and the Ken.
tuckans think they are sent TO keep order al
the election Monday, when the negroes vote
for the first time. sTa7 Is.
The Cuban volunteers dom like Senior Quin.
tero's remark in the Spanish Cortes, that they
are disgrace to the country. Quintero is g
deputy from Cuba.
Breyster, prominent Mason and Grand
COMMANDMENT. Chief of the Grand Consistory
of Maryland, is dead.
The rain which has been wanting in England
and France as we'll as the United States, this
summer, has all gone to Russia, Egypt and
1si'. Minor. where it has fallen in extraordipa-
~ amounts. 3.
The examination of Van Valkenburg in San
Francisco, for attempting to steal the Asso.
ciated Press dispatches, showed that he was
caught with paper and pencil in hand, upon a
balcony near the Western Union Telegraph
office, where he had copied the report. His
position brought him within sound of the in
strument in the office, the window being open
near him. He was discovered by e. L. Pier
son, an operator, who Immediately fired his
pistol in the air, stepped out upon the balcony,
and gave Van Valkenburg a few lusty kicks.
The punishment for the crime is fine not ex-
ceeding $1,000, Imprisonment not exceeding
one year, or both.
The coach for Corrine was stopped at II
o'clock Thursday night, by six men, nineteen
miles south of Pleasant Valley, Idaho. The
passengers whipped the robbers off and saved
the treasure. Charles Reynolds, a passenger,
was wounded in the neck, shoulder and foot,
and is not expected to recover. He is now at
Pleasant Valley. The driver was wounded in
the arm. About thirty shots were fired, and
the coach was riddled with bullets.
A serious riot occurred at Shelbyville, H.,
Friday, occasioned by the execution of Joseph
Meyers for the murder of Plebissa Calhoun,
two years ago. Hubbard Holden, who was to
have been hanged with Meyers for the same
crime, had his sentence committed Thursday
by Governor Palmer, which created great in
dlgnatlon, as it was declared that Holden
planned the murder and did the sbootiao TT
was feared Thursday night that tbe neonIa
would attack the Jail and release Mevets m
less Governor Palmer surrendered Holden 70
the gallows. Inc mob demanded that both
men should be hung, or that Meyers should he
released. Governor Palmer was denounced on
every hand. The Jail was guarded by armed
men. While the preparations were being made
to hang Meyers, several attempts were made to
tear down the fence enclosing the scaffold, but
the assailants were repulsed and Meyers was
executed. Ten minutes after the mob charged
the fence and commenced tearing it down, but
when they discovered that it was too late to
save Meyers, they dispersed, swearing eternal
enmty to Governor Palmer. But for the con-
speeches by several of the leading
bloodshed would have resulted.
THE HAPPY FAAILY.-The Democratic gem
eral caucus Saturday night appears to have
been about as harmonious as the State Con-
yention. The old-line hardshells took posses
sion of the caucus, and brought in q prepared
list of five delegates, which they attempted to
force through under the gag of yea and nay
vote. The young Democracy claimed two of
the five delegates, and offered the names of
two adopted citizens, but the old-line element
ignored their claims, and pretty sharp con-
test followed. The young Democracy were not
strong enough to get fair play, but they sue
ceeded in breaking up the slate SO far as to get
one of their men on the list The action of tbe
Is denounced severely by the Young
men; and the fact that three of the five de,o,
gates are residents of Ward does not nromoto
any sweetness of temper amor the rank and
file at large.