The Portland daily press., 1871-03-30

The Scandinavian, from Portland, arrived
at Neville on Wednesday.
The brewery and dwelling of e. Max at
Norwich, Conn, were burned on Wednesday.
Loss $4,000; insured $4,000
A bill of exchange for $4,000 gold has been
received at the Treasury department from
States government
There was heavy frost at Richmond, Va,
on Tuesday night and it is feared that the
fruit crop is destroyed.
Between September Sd, 1870, and March LIST,
fourteen cargoes of fire arms, including 600, 531
guns and 117,082, 379 cartridges, besides rifles,
pistols, kDapsacks, ETC., were sent from New
York to Europe. Total value $13, 810,779.
The Royal Albert Hall of science and art in
London was opened Wednesday for pnblic use
by the Queen in the presence Of 10000 specta-
tors The Prince of Wales, Duke of SAKE Co.
bou Gotha, Prince Arthur, Prince Chris
tian, Princess Louise, the Msrquis Of Lorne,
Princess Beatrice and large number of the
nobility were in attendance.
At noon Monday the insurgent committee
retained important positions in Paris. The COM
mittee has dismissed % officials in the depart
ment of finance for disturbance. The erie du
people opposes the election of the commander
in-chief Of the National Guards as dangerous
and useless, and urges the deposition of the
assembly.
Tuesday afternoon shocking accident GO
Cured on the Morris and Essex rail
road, near Newark, N. J. Theodore Hartman.
a brakeman on train, in passing from enc cal
to another, fell through. The train passed
| over him. The head of The unfortunate mar
was picked up some or 10 feet from the hody
| and the latter was mutilated in horrible
manner.
Tuesday afternoon Tbos Heigier was ar
rested at New Brighton, Staten Island, on the
charge OF an attempt to murder his own son.
aged Ia. 1t appears that Heigler, while in
toxicatec, attempted to beat his wife. The
son interferred, upon which the father seized {
large carving knife, and threw it at the boy
with all his strength, the knife entering fully
three inches into the left side Of the boy. Tit
boy is not expected to live.
rfa Items.
A bill to pay the members of the Massachu
| sets Legislature $3.50 per session has passed {,
a third reading iu the House.
Preliminary arrangements have been mad,
| for social gathering of the descendants of tn,
Howe family throughout the United States il
| Boston in June.
Lapidarian query suggested by the festivities
| OF st. T tricks day Is the gem of the sea"
| real stone or shamrock?
The Tribune calls Boston "a whited sepul
| chre,' and thinks it is as bad as New York il
point of wickedness. New York is anythin.
| but "Whited'' sepulchre
An eminent British physician recently pub
licly stated his belief that death from drownin,
under the ice is one OF the most rapid of deaths
and is completed, he believes, with SO quick al
extinction of consciousness as to be actual,
painless.
THE Methodist Preachers Association o
New York entered upon general crusade
against amusements at their weekly meetin,
on Monday. Dancing was especially reprobat
ed as too fragrant to meet with the approval O
any good people or protested Christians, ant
the only way to overcome these indecencie
was to gently and kindly labor with the churcl
members who countenance them and endeavo
to persuade them to do their duty. Theatr,
going was a still more difficult obstacle for tn,
Association to deal with because church dsci
pine had become lax, especially in New York
Novel reading was characterized as compare
lively harmless if taken in the proportion o
five to one huhdred, like poisonous medicines
q little was very good and good deal very bad
Croquet was unobjectionabIe, but rafflss a
church fairs, we are glad to see, were con
demned as species of gambling and thu
church paid too dear for the money thus Oh
tanned. At the close of the discussion the Sec
rotary read a letter embodyIng the views o
the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Oh the subject OF amusements, as expressed a,
a full meeting of the diocese held in that city
May %, 1849. In the letter it was stated thai
the bishops believed all such amusement. al
dancing, theatrical and circus performances
and comical exhibitions, to be inconsistent witt
Christian character, destructive to vital piety
ruinous to the early religious impressions of ;
rising generation, and a hindrance to the con
uarsinn of lrrelieia,.a saA;<~li>.-e
ions: and any church member who par .ici pat
ed in such diversions, or in any manner coun
tenanced them, should be disciplined for VIC
lat,on of the general rules of The church. They
should be admonished in private by their pas
tor, aud be required to make suitable ack nowl
edgment, and II they Still persisted in the per
Bicious practice, should be brought to trial to
improper conduct. The letter was signed =
e jah Hedding, B. Waugh, Thomas A. Nor
ris, S. l.. Hamline and e. S. James.