The Portland daily press., 1871-04-26
News by Larest UIails,

RS. Stevens, general manager of the Missouri
Kansas and Texas railroad, accompanied by
| officers of the company and party of gentle.
men from New York and Kansas, are examir-
ing the road. The company has twenty-five
miles ofiron laid in Indian territory and nine
ty-five miles graded. They Will lay about
nine miles of track per week during the next
few months and will be south of Arkansas
river by,July first
Miss Ella Knapp, of Clinton, near Prescott,
Wis, accidentally shot herself few DAYS since
and died instantly.
The British minister has presented claim
to the Spanish government for Naturalization
for the ransom paid by Rankin, who with his
wife was seized by the brigands outside the
town OF Denia, in Alicante, and forced to pay
$1,000
secretary Boutwell, has gone TO Chicago. He
Will De absent about a week, and Assistant
Secretary Richardson will act as Secretary un-
til his return.
A table prepared at the census office shows
the total population of Washington city to be
O9.199, of which 81, 391 are colored. The total
foreign population is 1857.
There was heavy frost throughout Ken.
lucky Sunday morning with ice in some places
an inch thick. Reports from different sections
sap that fruit of all kinds is seriously injured.
The DEGREES granting to foreign vessels the
privilege of engaging in the coasting trade Of
Venezuela have been recalled which causes a
great commotion in The mercantile commune
ty.
N a ali
shoe dealer of Lebanon, N. H., shot himself
Tuesday forenoon. He has been deranged for
some months.
MIR. Andrew III. Dorr, a teamster of Salmon
Falls, N. H., was found in the river at that
place Thursday afternoon. He was last seen
Wednesday night on the Berwick side of the
river, under the influence of liquor, and may
have walked into the river in the darkness.
Mr. Dorr was about fifty years old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson lectured in San
Francisco Monday night on "The Immortality
of the Soul"
Col. b. T. Morgan entered upon the duties
of his Office as Assistant Postmaster of New
York Monday.
Six colieriesl;n the vicinity Of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, have resumed work and majority of the
Wilkesbarre Coal and Iron Co., and the War
rior Rum Co. Mines will resume work next
week upon satisfactory terms Considerable
coal is now being shipped.
The articles of incorporation OF the Lake
Erie, Evansville and South Western, and the
Evansville, Charlottesville, Kokowa and Tole-
do railroads have been filed. The former Will
be built from Evansville to the Ohio State line
xrx.x Al r
and South Western railroad.
tits reported that the steamship Queen of
the Thames, from Melbourne bound to London,
has been lost and that large number of per-
sons we drowned
Peter Schwab has been arrested at Hamil- |
ton, Ohio, charged with stuffing a ballot box |
at the Congressional election to elect Camp |
bell, also for committing the same effense at |
The spring election.
In the House of Commons on Monday the |
vote on Mr.. Dixon's motion 10 reference to the |
tax on matches resulted favorably to |
The government.
A policeman at Gettysburg, Pa, claims to |
nave arrested Forester, the Nathan murderer,
Ind says the man answers to the description |
perfectly and has asked that officers be sent to
IDENTIFY him.
Three men entered the house of an old man |
named Murren near Bedford, Pa. Saturday |
night and while one held him down by sitting |
IN his head the other threw the Goals of the |
ire on his leg compelling him to tell where his |
money was concealed. They obtained $75, ty- |
ng the old man to the bed set fire to the house.
he released himself and extinguished the fire. |
No arrests were made.
The N. Y. Sun claims to have discovered a /
gigantic fraud, and asserts that Victor Place,
French Consul, with one Hector Chauvitean
md some prominent parsonage made large |
amount illegally from the French govern
nent by exactions OF commissions and over |
charges on arms and provisions purchased in /
his county. One operation in beef alone is /
said to have Melted the ring 100000. The to-
tai contracts amounted to over ten millions on |
which two per cent. com mission was levied |
The Sun adds that fifty to two two hundred |
per cent profit was charged on large amounts |
Of guns purchased of the United States gov |
and that profit of $25O,00O was made |
On 35 batteries of guns alone. A committee of |
inquiry has been ordered to investigate all the |
The N. Y. Tribune and World strongly con-
1emn the forthcoming decision of the Supreme |
Court declaring that the legal tender act is con
Ititutional.