The Portland daily press., 1871-03-13

IscWs w AuAtSG M aus.
One hundred and twenty hands were thrown
out of employment Friday BY the burning Of
Morgan & McGrath's hemp factory at Licking
ton, KY.
DIR. W. NJ Wiley, of St. Louis, has com.
menced a suit seainst James Brewster for
alternating his wife's affections from him, in
ducing her to sue for divorce and subse-
qaently seducing her. Wiley claims $4,000
damage.
There was $4,000 fire in Petroleum Gen.
tire, Pa, Friday morning.
The shipments of specie from New York
| Saturday were $685. 900.
| Workingmens National Convention was
held in New York Friday by talking men who
claimed to represent every State. Thomas F.
Gilmore appeared for Maine. After taking
over the coal strike the Crispns' strike and the
| Chinese convention and nominating Gen.
Grant and "Colonel Gibbons for President
and Vice President, the Convention adjourned.
The schooner Hope has been sunk near Glas-
gov and all on board lost. Schooner Northern
Star was wrecked near Wexford, ireland, and
it was thought all her crew persisted. Bark
Daring was also lost, London dispatch says,
and several lives lost.
The New Hamburg disaster came near be-
ing repeated at Newark Bay bridge on the
Jersey Central Railroad Friday. The p.opel-
Ter Seth Foster ran ags inst the drawbridRe in
| the morning and dislodged one of the columns
supporting the bridge. The employees on the
| road, in their excitement, forgot to warn the
| Pennington express train due and the train
| entered the bridge while the boatmen and
| I.:l IT. ofIa Tba
| engineer fortunately perceived the crowd and
| whistled down brakes and terrible disaster
| was avoided.
Three young men named chopper" Connors,
John Dillon and "Pop" Brown, confined in
| jail at Albany, N Y, on a charge Of burglary,
! made their escape Friday morning. They were
confined in one CELL Some persons had fur
nished them with wrench with which
they were enabled to remove the lock- On
| emerging from-the cell they seized the watch
man, and threatening to take Lis life, made
hole in the outside wall of the Jail, which they
accomplished after three hours hard work,
the Waterman all the while made dumb by
| their threats and Witnessing their operations.
| James Logg & Co.'S wooden mill at Bur,ll
Vile, R. l., containing eight sets of N achnery,
| was burned Friday. Loss $4,000.
Secretary Boutwell, will demand the interest
on the subsidy bonds of the Pacific Railroad
companies and press the matter to q conclu-
sion in the Courts as Congress failed to instruct
in the matter.
After four ships, now loading at San Fran
cisco, sail, it is estimated that California has
still twenty thousand tons of wheat to spare
for export. a
Disturbances occurred Saturday morning in
the Jesus Church at Rome. There was con-
| siderable fighting but no person was wounded.
Order was promptly restored by the interposi-
ton of the authorities.
The female school teachers in the public
schools of New York are to hold mass meet
ing this week to urge upon the authorities to
pay them the same rate of wages as male
teachers receive. As it is now the females re-
reive $500 per annum and males $1,000 to $1,000.
There was furious snow storm at st. Paul,
MIMI, on Thursday. Severe thunder storms
have been frequent in that locality of late.
Private letters from Lake Superior report
that the prospects of an early opening of navl-
cation are fattering.
During heavy wind storm at about noon
on Thursday frame building in course of
erection at Easl Liberty, Pa. was blown down
and one man was killed and another seriously
injured.
A brakeman on the Fort Wayne road named
Andrew Davidson, was run over and killed at
Columbus, Ohio, Friday. His wife, upon
learning of the sad fate of her husband, be-
came deranged, and at last accounts had not
recovered her senses