The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-11

The 'lathers' of New York have struck for
An increase of one dollar per day on their
wages. Most Of the bosses accede to the re-
quest. ..e.
The New York Assembly has passed bill
appropriating $l,OOo,OOo this year and s1OOo-
600 next year to the Adirondack and .Osweeo
Midland railroad.
The shipment ofspecie from New York on
Saturday was $467 ,0Oo
Paymasters Charles P. Lock wood, James s.
Girard and William g. Morey have been dis
missed from the navy for scandalous conduct of
embezzlement Of public money
st. Brdgets Catholic Church at Pittsburg,
Pa, was entirely destroyed by FIRE on Satur-
day. Loss $4,000. .1
The Senate on Friday passed the bill au.
thorizing the payment Of the salary to General
Schenck as Minister to England during the
time he is engaged here as q member Of the
High Commission, but stipulating that he shall
draw no other salary.
In Chicago p. A. Leonard shot and instant.
ly killed DR.. s. E. Sctanland Friday evening.
The cause was domestic trouble. Robert B.
Treadway, merchant at $50 Kenzie street,
down hatchway at his warehouse last eve-
ming and was instantly killed. The distillery
OF Graft, Kunn g Co, was totally destroyed by
tre this morning. Loss $75OOO
The loss OF Weed, Parsons & Co. by the AL
bany fire is about $75OO0.
In Philadelphia on Saturday Edward Thorn,
Michael Troniblu and wm H. Webb were
each fined $1,000 and sentenced to fifteen years
in the penetentiary.
The Nevada, the first steamer of the Aus
s--y.x a. ~
day with a small cargo and thirty-six passen-
| gers, including U. 8. Consul Adamson and
family. ..
A party of Sonora scalp hunters killed forty
! and captured fifty hostile Apaches near the
border of Sonora and Arizona few days since.
The Mexican government pays two hnudred
dollars for each ecalp and the State of Sonora
the same. H
A vigilance committee Is threatened In
Hamilton, New, unless the courts execute the
laws more promptly.
Hutchinson, Hohl & Co. Of San Francisco
have purchased all the trading posts and goods
stations for vessels Of the Russian American
Commerce Co. in Alaska and on the Russian
Asatic coasts and islands. They have also
leased the Islands Of Rattan, Bhering and Cap
hor for twenty years.
Steamer Sam j. Hale, bound from Cincin-
natl to Memphis, burst her steam pipe Satur-
day morning near Golconda. Three white and
four colored deck-tands were killed and bulk
heads torn out No officers or passengers were
injured.
Ira H. Cartoons house and marble shop at
Milford, N. H., was burned Thursday. Loss
$4,000.
large body of miners and boys from other
mines congregated at Trips Slope, near Scran-
ton, Pa. Thursday afternoon, and assailed with
clubs and stones the men at work in the place
and stopping the work. 1t is reported that
four or FIVE hundred miners had been driven
out of Conneps mine and the mine worked by
Morris and Weeks. At the latter place they
| blew up the mouth of the slope with powder
taken from the mine, tore up the track and
committed other depredations Three men
| were killed and several wounded at Trips
| Slope.
During the past year the American Bible
Society received S73O,Oo0, and 95l, ,Oe0 Bibles
and Testaments were issued.
1t is intimated that Commissioner Pleassn,on
will soon issue an order that proof of loss Of
tobacco in shipment under bond will be rsceiy.
ed in abatement of the revenue tax.
Nine vessels are fitting out at San Francisco
for the Oshkosh fishery.
Wemyss Bros furniture factory at Charles
town, Mass, was burned Friday morning.
Loss 5000; insured for $4,000. Four firemen
were injured, not dangerously, by the fslling
root. Geo. Varney, night watchman, Is miss.
ing, and supposed to be bprned to death.
The congregation Of Tabernacle Church,
| New York, are very critical in the choice OF
| lady who shall sing the soprano part OF tner %
| praises to God. They have just called miss s
| Howard of Springfield to that posluon ana
| give her salary Of 5000 and two months vsca-
/ ton The music committee heard anu REJECT
| ed eighteen applicants
| Onebec derives $4,000 annual revenue from
| chimney sweeping
| r. q. n curious dilemma in one of the
| res i 81 Georgia. The son Of a murderer IL
Uour, oura,;c;tor General of the district in which
,he .he mnrJer was committed, and he insists up
on conducting the prosecuting. He and the
ATTORNEY General of the State were discussing
the question few ago days ago, when be be-
came enraged end hostile, and was at length
arrested and imprisoned.
The Buffalo Express mentions q family near
that city which has lost seven children by
malignant disease, the eldest seventeen years
cid, within the brief space Of four days.