The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-03-27

Secretary Robson has confirmed the sem
tence of the naval court martial dismissing
from the service paymasters James s. Gerard,
WIN. G.. Marcy and Charles H. Lockwood, for
frauds and embezzlement of the public money,
but not that of fine and Imprisonment, on the
ground that the administration of these penal
ties belong to the civil tribunals. The sentence
of paymaster Robert Washington to dismiss
sion for similar offence, has been mitigated
to six months suspension from his rank and
pay, it having been proved that he did not ap.
p-opriate to his own use any public money.
james Well. No 2, one of the largest flowing
wells at Armstrong, Pa, Run, caught fire Sat
urday morning. The fire extended to the Mel
dren Reserve WELL consuming II tanks with a
capacity OF 5000 barrels The Meldren well
was flowing two hundred barrels, and is still
burning. The loss of oil cannot be ascertained
at present.
The cases of dry goods stolen with team
ton Pest building, we're found Saturday at the
Old Colony depot. with the address changed.
The team was found in Chelsea.
Charles Sumner has declined compliment
airy dinner offered by Philadelphia Republi-
cans.
The Fenian convention in New York has
voted to have nothing to do with the last batch
OF exiles
Coal at retail in New York has declined to
about what it was before the strike.
Steamer Granite State, from Hartford for
New York, was badly damaged Friday night
by running on the rocks at He'll Gate. The
passengers and baggage we're taken off safely.
new railroad, sixty miles in length, is
to be built from cleveland through the Ohio
coal, fields.
w. A. McClay, proprietor of the Memphis
Daily Sun, was attacked in the City Park Fri
day, by Henry E. Moore, Secretary of the Ty-
biographical Union, and Henry White, and was
shot twice and was severely beaten with revolt
vers, in consequence of difficulty growing out
of the recent printers strike. Both gave bail
for assault with intent to kill
1t cost three young sports in Lowell S2O.5O
each to disturb a religious meeting the other
day. We don't believe they got their money
worth of sport.
Charles French a prominent citizen of Prince
George county, Va, was murdered Friday
ASh't bSoA bio housc, Ny d Uduu VI u6STO6S,
who took him into the woods, where he was
found He liuad long enough after his tliseor-
cry to narrate the circumstances of the as
sault
There was white frost at Fredericksburg
OF Friday night.
Navigation has been resumed on Lake Erie.
Bolivia has sent plenipotentiary to Chill to
settle the boundary Of the republic and ar
range treaty of peace.
United States Minister Torbert has address
pote to San Salvador, in behalf of America
and England, asking that country to keep the
Honduras railroad from hostile operations dur
ing the war with Salvador.
Chill opposes the annexation of San Do
mingo The press OF the country urges the
government to protest against the movement
as the first step towards the annexation OF
Spanish America.
A movement has begun in New York TO cell
citrate the centenary of the great poet and nov
elist of Scotland, Sir Walter Scott.
Early Saturday morning meteor of differ
ent colors, seemingly one-third the diameter OF
the moon, suddenly shot into the atmosphere
at pontiac degrees south of the planet Mars.
The direction of the motion was southwest
The arc passed over 80 degrees, and the period
of visibility was one second. The immense
meteor cast the shadows of surrounding OBJ
iects, making the heavens ablaze with light
1t was especially observed in New York.
The grocery and provision store of Richard
Carroll and two tenement houses on a court
leading out of Sullivan street, South Boston,
were burned Friday. Loss $4,000. The fire
originated in an explosion of kerosene oil in
the store.
John Tappan died in Boston Saturday, aged
nearly ninety years. He was an honored mer-
chant and held the Office OF president and
treasurer of the American Tract Society forty
years, being also identified with foreign mis-
siOns and numeroua heneyolent snciaties