The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-10-06

| News Items.
Five Philadelphia policemen have been hele
each in $4,000 bail to answer to the charge O
misdemeanor. melting breach of the peace
assault and battery and rioting. 1t is alleged
that they had threatened the lives of the ca n
vassers of the stolen books of registry voters
One man was discharged FIR want of evidence
At the quarterly meeting of the Nationa
| Bureau of Migration, in New York, Wednes.
day, the executive committee reported that the
eight principal land railroad companies having
land for sale have offices in the same building
with the Bureau. so that they might be repre-.
sented there by their agents. There Was a
good attendance, but no business of importance
was transacted.
large number of government clerks are
leaving Washington for Ohio, to vote at the
election next Tuesday.
There has been a convention of tobacco men
at st. Louis to devise means for encouraging
an increased production of tobacco in the Sec
tons of country tributary to st. Louis Reso.
lutions were adopted urging the planters oil
Missouri, Illinois and Kansas to make efforts
to induce Congress to repeal or reduce the tax
on this article, and favoring the offering of
$4,000 in premiums on the crop of 1872.
well known druggist in Providence named
Pardon Sheldon, died suddenly Wednesday
evening of hemorrhage of the lungs. He was
about 80 years old.
A letter from A. s. Piper, United States In
dian Agent, dated Canada, Almaso, Sept Both
states that the famous Apache chief, Cochise.
and party, came in on the 18th and went
through the ceremony of making peace. He
hoped that this would Go more toward settling
the Indian troubles in New Mexico and Arizo-
ma than anything for years.
Mr. Wines, the gentleman deputed to invite
Switzerland to participate in the International
Congress shortly to convene in London for the
purpose of consultation on the subject of pris-
on discipline, has arrived in BerLe.
The Civil Service Commission will meet in
Washington again about the middle of the
present month, and endeavor to agree upon
some plan which will substantially carry ont
the will of Congress as express ed in the Ia W
creating the commission. Such members of
the commission as are now there express the
belief that Attorney General Alderman s opin-
ion will not embarrass the labors of the com
mission to very great extent, at least to such
degree as has been generally supposed
The small pox is spreading alarmingly in
Brooklyn, N Y.
A private dispatch from Raleigh, N. G. says
"OVer five hundred indictments are pending
against the Ku-Klux there. Fifty-three of the
Khan have been convicted or submitted, and
many sentenced"
tuesday afternoon a reception was given to
Mile. Christine Nilsson on bord the Swedish
frigate Josephine, now in New York harbor.
Among those present were Mr.. Bass, Swedish
Consul; Gen. Frink, N. Y. S. N G.; Gen.
Gilmore, U. S. A.; Commodore Wan Orten
| of the Josephine, and number of others.
The Lewis Barnard will case came up again
yesterday before Surrogate Hutchins Sever
al Frenchmen were called as witnesses, who
were at various times fellow boarders with
Barnard, and testified to his frequently lex
pressed belief in the doctrine of transmigra-
ton of souls after death. This mania was the
| cause of his leaving large portion OF his es-
tate to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. The claimants allege the will inval
| i'd because the deceased was affected with man
| I'll when he executed it.
The small pox is reported to have broken ou
| in Bow, N. e. The first case is that of the
| man who carried the French woman, sicl
| with the disease into Suncook, where she hal
| since died.
The Third Auditor of the Treasury, durin,
the month of September just passed, issued t,
| the Commissioner of Pensions certificates O
| service of two thousand two hundred apG
eighty three pension claims, allowing pension
to the soldiers of the war of 1912 and thei
| heirs.
Rev. T. Willard Lewis died at Charleston,
c., on Sunday and was buried there. He wa
minister of the Methodist Episcopal churc
"North, aud native of Massachusetts, and
member of the New England Conference. H
had been in Charleston ever since the war, Ia
boring among colored people,
An official letter to the Treasury Depart
ment from Cedar Keys, Florida, says that tb
yellow fever is raging fearfully there and tina
that place is entirely deserted by all who ar
able to get away.
Mr.. Abel Wood of Concord, N. H., died
Tuesday night at the advanced age OF ninet,
seven years.
portable steam saw mill at Hollis Centr,
N. H., owned by William Worcester, was de
stroyed by fire Monday afternoon. The fir
caught from the engine. Loss $4,000
The Triennial Convention Of the Protestan
Episcopal church, which commenced its SEES
ion in Baltimore yesterday morning, is mao
up OF 800 delegates, four clerical and four !.
from each of the forty dioceses represents
All the Bishops were present. The only clel
! cal delegate from Maine present yesterday W,
: Rev. c. S. Leffingwell.
An extraordinary scene occurred in front
} Copestake, Moore & Co.'s diapers establis
A ment in Bow Churchyard, Cheapside, Londo
l on the night Of the 10Th OF September. Abo
200 of the hands employed by the firm havir
been at work from seven o'clock in the NOR
0 ing until midnight, assembled in front of Il
o warerooms and loudly demanded a secor
supper. They had received supper at half pa
seven o'clock, but nearly five hours havi
: elapsed since that meal, they desired anoth
before going to bed. This not forthcomir
the employees refused to retire to rest, and co
tinued until long after midnight outside t
: warehouse, hooting, yelling and crying out
: | supper. to.,4.n