The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-09-04


The iOurneymen hOrse-shoers of Boston and
vicinity are moving for an advance from $18 to
$40 4'lT -
Gen. Fordelli ard Col L. Canzi both for
merly officers in Garibaldi's army, fought a
duel with sabTes on Long Island. near Will
lanisburg, Friday. The duel lasted fifteen
minutes and ended by Cauz's laying Fordelli's
arm open to the bone from the shoulder to the
wrist e3rf
The leaders of the Democratic union party,
congressman Roosevelt presiding, met Friday
night and decided to give to the political re-
form meeting at Cooper Institute this evening,
and BY Offering the committee having charge of
the meeting the names of several prominent
Democrats as speakers.
An unknown man was killed in New York on
Y! street, near 4th avenue. Friday night, by
Edward King and James Valentine, both of
whnm We're arrested. f
The Missouri State Board of Education ha
brought suit to recover 200,0C0 acres of land
which they allege belongs to schools.
The body of Mrs. Teresa Perkins, of Lowell,
who disappeared Wednesday, was found in the
canal Saturday morning. 1t bore two severe
scalp wounds An inquest has been called
The deceased was 30 years old. -s-a
Unusual mortality among children is report
ed from Salt Lake City, there being ieeht
deaths Friday.
The American fishing schooner A. E. Harri-
son was seized off Nova Scotia Friday by the
Dominion cruiser Sweepstakes.
The profframme for the Montreal regatta
comprises nine races. The four. cared race is
for $1,000.
Squatte on land in the Indian territory de-
voted solely to Indians will be ordered to leave,
zoo having recently went from Kansas and
staked out claims.
The Kansas and Texas railroad is completed
to within five miles of Fl Gibson.
The cotton worm has appeared on the Red
River, Ark, and other crops are not SO prom
Using as three weeks ago. fEI
A new and rich silver mine has been discov-
ed near Prescott, Arizona.
Stock for exhibition at the New England
fair IS arriving in Lowell.
The number of emigrants from Liverpool last
month was 5000, greater than in any previous
month.
A 50 uare of wooden buildings in Meridian.
Mlsssslppi,was burned last night. Loss $780,
600. "'''
Deleminell Luiciell. Friday morning, shot
himself IN the left breast and subsequently
nung himself to ladder in an unfinished
building in Fifty seventh street, N. Y.
The excitement over the threatened Indian
raids in Southern California is subsiding.
The report that several vessels are auaran-
tined at Mobile with yellow fever, is declared
TO be false. There has been no yellow fever at
Mobile this season.
Eight crews are already entered for the four
cared race at Saratoga.
The general opinion is that the yellow fever
is dying out in Charleston, s., there being but
three deaths in two days. tef
Saturday. in Chicago, building numbers Al
43, 40 and AZ Canal street, was burned. Loss
about $47 900.
The planning mill of Bromhorst & Co., of
New York, was destroyed by fire Sunday.
T,,I, hall ocN NJ At
Yarmouth government has turned over the
State credit to tax eatherers and broker shaw
ers. 1t has plundered the State more in two
years than all the thieves in a quarter of a
century.
weather RepOrf-sept I'D p. NJ.
War Department, Signal Service U. S. Army, Di-
vision OF kilograms and Reports for the benefit of
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