The Portland daily press., 1871-09-26

danobters when they we're married, committed
suicide in New York on Fridap. He applied
the day previous TO one of his children. who is
wealthy, and lives in Harlem.
for assistance, but was refused, and told never
to darken her doors again. He had been es-
pecially liberal to her, and being too old to earn
his bread cut his throat
A despatch from Calcutta announces the
wreck of steamer on the coast of India and
that 13S natives lost their lives.
LII Is announced that the Mont Cents Tun-
mel Will be thrown open for general traffic in |
the early part OF the month of October.
The French steamer Lafayette, from New |
York, which was totally destroyed by fire at
Havre, was Clyde-built vessel of 800 tons,
having been built by Napier & Sons, in 1865.
That was singular misrepresentation
Pittsfield, Mass, drunken woman labored I'M
der. When the portly constable appeared
bearing the keys of the dngy 1" lookup in his
hand, she cried out: GLORY, glory! Here
comes my Father to take me to my heavenly
home" She was disappointed when she woke
up next morning.
The Dominion Govern ment is going to give
st. john, N. b., extensive new PIERS repair
the custom house, and erect new post office
building there.
Some scroundel took from the stable of D.
Fl. Sabiu, in Wallingford, Vt, his fine horse
and chained him to the railway track the 9TH
err day. The horse was killed, but the train
was not thrown from the track.
The fourteenth anniversary of the Fulton
street prayer meeting was observed on Satur-
day by interesting religious exercises in the
| old church, several prominent clergymen par
| ticipating. The attendance was unusually
large.
| E3Miss King, who has tasted tea in every part
| of China, says Americans will never get the
best tea till they are willing to bid as high for
| it as the Russians, who now monopolize the
| finest growths.
A large vein of coal has been found in the
vicinity of Corning N. Y, which is some five
| feet in thickness. 1t battles the biologists, as
they have several times asserted that no coal
| could be found in that region.
| The Knights Templars again considering
| the subject of the completion of the Washing
| ton monument. 1t would require $1,OO, 900 to
| finish the work. The Monument Society is
| urging on Congress a grant of 100000 prom
ised long ago. 1t also has claim for an unful-
| filled promise against California.
| General Sheridan and party arrived at the
North Plata River yesterday morning, and
were conducted TO Fort Mcpherson by General
Emery, the officer commanding. General
Sheridan reviewed the troops, consisting Of
four companies of the Fifth cavalry. The par.
ty starts across the country to-day, guided by
the renowned Buffalo Bill, and expect to reach
Fort Wayne in ten days.
ga man lying on the railroad track between
Lynn and Swampscott depots was run ove1
and killed on Saturday evening. He appeared
to be foreigner, and is supposed to have beer
| drunk.
Of the thirty-six deaths last week in Lowell
fifteen were of small pox, and all, except one
we're among Catholics. Fourteen new cases O.
small pox and varioloid were reported yester.
day morning.
Milwaukee, Wis, despatch states that in
view of the course pursued by Bonner, relative
to Goldsmith Maids trotting, the citizens offel
to put up $4,000 to $4,000 that Dexter cannot
visit Milwaukee and beat the Maids time
They further offer to put up $50 900 that Dex
Ter cannot beat the Maid in a trotting match
at Cold Spring course, Milwaukee.
The Excelsior Circus in Davenport, Iowa
has been seized by the sheriff on account OF at
tachments amounting to 81, 900.
large number of people residing on and
near the South Atlantic coast, as well as on the
Gulf have become seriously alarmed on &C.
count of the prediction of tidal wave on the
/ 9TH of October.
| Frederick Piren, boy six years of age, re-
| siding tn Philadelphia, committed suicide last
| evening by hanging himself from a beam in an
alley adjoining that in which his parents re-
| side.
| A. Howard Smith, State Auditor of Ken
lucky, and Richard Crittenden and James Alb
hey, prominent citi zens, have been arrested Oh
charge of completely in the election riots on
the 7th inst.
Two soldiers and man named Taylor en-.
gagged in quarrel in Cincinnati, Ohio, Satur.
day night, and Taylor fired shot which killed
man named Montgomery, who was sitting in
a stable doorway.
The New Orleans papers mention a condi.
ton of the levees in that section which is very
unpromising, considering the rapidly advanc-
ing season. The upper line of the Carroltou
.levee has lost more 300 feet. Water discharged
at this point would sweep over the city, caus.
ing great disaster. Levees are caving in every
direction and causes great alarm.
strike is now being agitated among the
tailors in the larger establishments in New
York, which promises 10 become general. The
men demand increased wages, which the en-
ployers are unwilling to give.
Mrs. Luther Aiken, highly respectable
widow lady, was missed from her room and
residence on Sheaf street, Portsmouth, yester-
Jay morning, and is supposed to have commit
ted suicide. The watchnen stationed at the
Navy Yard say that at O'clock they heard a
splash in the water and scream IN the direc-
tion of the city. Her age was about As years.