The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-11-25
PHOTOGRAPHIC ITEMS.

| A proposition was made in the city council OF
| Louisville, Ky, to give all the taxes collected
from the negroes to the negro schools
| Surgeon Christian, at Fort Hayes, Kadsas,
| committed suicide on Saturday t. H&
| A mass meeting is proposed in New York to
take action to secure decent gas-light at reas-
enable price.
| Mrs. Norton drlivered a lecture at Newark
| Wednesday evening, denouncing female suff-
| rage as fraud.
| A lad named Dusenberry was killed at Mar
| ion, Ark, Wednesdasday, by the explosion of
flask of powder which his father was filling
| near the fire. se
The government has ordered two hundred
thousand rations to be supplied to the sufferers
by the Wisconsin fires. The rations will be for
warded in a few days.
Missionary Vasseur in lecture on China in
New York Thursday evening stated that the
only way to prevent Chinese immigration was
to prohibit the sending back of dead Cinnamon
to their own country.
Wilson, Hawksworth & Co.'S Heaton &
Drukla's and A. B. Shepleys hardware stores
in Philadelphia, were burned Thursday. Loss
$4,000; insured
The subscriptions to the Chicago fund at the
Mansion House in London during the present
week swell the total to $40 600.
The Times editorily declares its belief that
Grants reelection to the Presidency is certain
because he brought about reconciliation of the
United States with England and effected re-
duction of the national debt ri.-. Z g
The committee of canvassers of the city of
New York vote have decided in favor of Alex
ander Frear, Tammanyte against Fred Kill
liam, Reform Democrat, for the Assembly.
Alderman Miller of New York, Tuesday, won
a foot race of 10 miles, from Broadway to Bay
side, L. l., beating John c. Heenan for a purse
of $500. fte
Charles S. Perley Friday recovered in the
Supreme Court of New York $500 of the Hud-
sou River railroad for the loss of a trunk at the
New Hamburg disaster. The case has been
long in litigation and is considered important
as test proceeding il
The Canadian Colonization Society of New
York, Thursday evening passed resolutions IA
yoring the annexation of Canada 90 the United
States, and took measures to act in concert
with similar bodies in other cities.
1t is now ascertained that II lives were lost
by the loss of the steamer New London. The
bodies of 16 have been recovered.
e. ID. Armstrong postmaster at East Liver
pool, Ohio has been held to bail i'll the sum of
$4,000 for withholding money order frauds
Morgan Jones, the oldest Tammanyite in the
city, says of Tweed that if he does not retire the
old members will enforce his retirement.
Escaping gas in the boiler room of Harper
Brothers building, New York, exploded Fri
day morning, blowing off the glass roof of the
building and badly burning fireman. Loss
slight.
Forty-five colored persons passed through St.
Louis, o., Thursday en- route to Lawrence
county, Kansas. They are the advance guard
of about five thousand who will soon follow.
There were sold los, 200 acres of land in Kansas
and Colorado to actual settlers during the past
year.
Gen. Schofield has issued stringent order
concerning military operations against the
Apache Indians of Arizona, the effect of which
will be to compel them to go ON their reserva-
ton and remain there where they may be pro-
tected and fed or take the alternate of being ex-
terminated.
Senator O'Brien at a serenade denounced
Tammany, and said that the Committee of Sew
enty Were office-hunting foges, and looked to
the Reform Democrats for the rescue of
the State from bad men.
"A San Francisco despatch says the weather
continues extremely hot and dry.
In Cork Thursday, there was Fenian demon
stration in which 5000 took a part. The pro-
ceedings were orderly and the police who mus
tered in force had no occasion to interfere
The Independent Beige says that is has rea-
son to believe that the French government has
notified England of its intention to terminate
the International commercial treaty.