The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-02-02


and large part of the town inundated. Many
persons were drowned. The precise number of
victims is unknown.
Government bought two millions of bonds in
New York Wednesday at 1OS SO to 10S.77.
Hon. j. X. Strong and Hon. S. w. Kellogg |
have been nom;r ated for Congress by the Con- |
necticut Republicans.
There is bill before the Missouri Legisla- |
ture to consolidate the city and County OF st.
Louis. by extending the jurisdiction of the for
mer over the whole county
A Constitutional Convention is talked of in
Missouri.
The New York tnrnverein is going tt Dui'a
$50 600 club house on $67 900 lot.
The New Jersey druggists were in conven-
ton Yesterday to urge the Legislature to pass
a law regulating the licensing OF druggists and
their clerks.
Mr.. Long, the colored Representative from
Georgia, made his first speech Wednesday in
opposition to amnesty measures.
Letters from the officers of the United States
frigate Guerrier eat Lisbon report very rough
passage ont and that the Guerrero and Brook
Ign after making the needed repairs will re-
main in the Mediterranean until fairer weather
when they will proceed to the English chan
mel, North and Baltic Seas.
A memorial to Congress against steamship
subsidies is being extensively signed in New
York.
Miss Catherine Beecher denies that she now
| favors woman's suffrage.
Small pox has broken out at st. John, N. B.,
and is exciting considerable alarm. Vaccina-
ton has been generally neglected by large
portion of the population.
| The Massachusetts Supreme Court has de-
cided that Harvard College property in Boston
| is not liable to assessment for benefit derived
| by widening streets. The decision is based on
| an old law providing that all estates in Massa-
chusetts appertaining to the College shall be
free from civil taxes and rates.
| Balls statute of John A. Andrews has been
placed on its pedestal in Dorc Hall, Boston
State House.
Gov. Alcorn of Mississippi has laid us under
obligations for copy of his annual address in
pamphlet form.
One of the best designated and most elegant
ly printed calendars for the year has come to
us from the Manchester, N. H., Mirror office;
and as a specimen of photographic work is a
| credit to anybody.
John Hanlon, the murderer of Mary Mohr-
| man was executed Wednesday in Philadel-
phia. The law limiting the number of wit
nesses was strictly enforced.
George Smith was shockingly mangled and
instantly killed Tuesday in Sudbury Mass,
being caught in machinery betting.
The Massachusetts State Senate hos restor-
ed the appropriation of $4,000 for the State
Constabuary.
John Ware has been convicted for murder in
the first decree at Campden, Nj. for killing his
| father
An order has been isued at Washington lin.
iting the staff of commanders of departments
to an assistant adjutant general, a medical d.
rector and the authorized number of aids de-
camp for the commanders grade.
bill has been introduced in the New York
Senate DISTINGUISHING all persons convicted Of
bribery, larceny or any infamous crime OF
who bet on elections ), or attemprsto buy or in
huence for valuable consideration any eectol
in giving his vote, or deter any one from vot.
ing.
The Arkansas Senate, by vote Of 16 to z
have stricken from the roll the name of Brooks
who was sworn in by the Lieutenant Governor
in spite of the opposition of the Senate and his
credentials were referred to the committee
The House indefinitely postponed the articles
ofimpeachment against the Lieutenant Gov.
ornor.
The obsequies of James Haggerty, slaugh.
tered in New York by William Varley, took
place in Philadelphia, on Saturday last He
was followed to the tomb by crowds of mourn
ing scoundrels, who lamented the loss of the
biggest bruiser of then. ALL The unpleasant
popularity of their affection is that not one OF
them was, probably, made better or wiser by
the awful example before him; and it is within
the bounds of probability that some of the
| selected of them may either shoot somebody or
be shot themselves within the space of Il siugI lie
month.
The subject of the seizure of American fish
\ ing vessels in Canadian waters was before the
Massachusetts Legislative Committee on Fed
eial Relations Wednesday. Testimony in re-
which have been published, was presented to
the Committee.
Hon. John boss, member of the Dominion
Senate, died a6 his residence near Toronto
Tuesday. He was President of the Grand
trunk railroad ten years, a prominent pOlIti-
clan and member Of several governments.
Rev. DIR. Skinner, professor in the Union
Theological Seminary at New York, died
Wednesday, aged 70.
A Washington despatch says that Hon. R.
L. Butler, of Tennessee, intends to institute a
suit for libel against the Chicago Republican,
for an article which appeared in that Journal
December 2O4h, aud claims $4,000 damages
ABOUT four o'clock Tuesday morning a
| young and beautiful French lady, richly dress
ed, was found struggling in the water at Pier
3, New York. She was rescued by police Off
| GERS. She gave fictitious name and stated
that she fell in accidentally. For some days
past she has been stopping at the Commercial
Hotel.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
recently gave that paper circumstantial &C
count of the drowning of man at Sandhill.
Kentucky, while being Baptized in the river.
The story turns out to be false-whieh fact
makes the Gazette tearing mad. When that
paper browns a man, it wants him to stay
drowned.