The Portland daily press., 1871-09-15

There were forty bids for government g0l'
Ib New Yolk Thursday. amounting to S9,oio,
O00, from 1925 to ia 06 The AWARDS Were
ioaf miiil1us at 113 SO 10 ia O6.
'Iravts & Browns rag and paper warehouse
win several adjoining frame dwellings IN Al
baby, was burned Wednesday. Loss $3.50 600
| insured for one half
| Maaame Agatha States and her opera troupe
saded tor New Z-aiaud and Australia by the
steamship Mosss Taylor Thursday.
Commordore Case. chitf of the bureau OF
| day.
Brig Jenny cleared from New York We'd
nesuas with cargo of arms fol Venezuela.
=. me Swedish friga,e Josephine will remain
ana probably Portland.
, plIty of men put off horse car in New
loIh " ednesday night for dis urbance thre "
STONES through ihe windows, ipjuring several
passengers.
The sxoress office at Ellis, Kansas, was rob-
pea OF S23OOO Wednesday night.
Inc Taylor -Winship crew have challenged
Ihe ward brothers or any othe crew they have
met thls season. to six-mle race round a
sahe poat and return at LachDe on the 4 OF
October, for $500 side.
Steamer ii. NJ Crane, with Lowell, Mass
pose compa ON an excursion, has arrived at
Fortress Monroe
morse car driver has been convicted of
cruelty III New York for carrying an excessive
load OF passengers.
Inc accounts of Delleher, Treasurer of the
rhiiadeiphla mint, are found 10 be correct.
Phlladelphia detective has captured the
muidtreTs OF Gamble, for whose ARE SC re-
ward OF $4,000 was offered.
A. the National Association of Spiritualsts
IN Troy, N. Y, Mrs. Victoria g Woodruff was
nominated tor President and has accepted.
Twenty-three horses were destroyed in a fire
on Percy street, New York Wednesday night
Loss $4,000; insurance $1,000.
About hundred young thieves and roughs
were captured by the New York police in rand
on a low concert saloon on Catherine street.
A plaster train ran off the track and down
an embankment near Windsor, N. S., ou Wed
nesday. The fireman was instantly killed and
six persons injured.
Buckhont, the Sleepy Hollow murderer,
made desperate attempt to escape from the
county jail at White Plains, N Y, Wednes
day. Sheriff Ford alter long struggle secur-
go Buckbout and dragged HIM back 10 bis CELL
A well sharpened knife was found on his per-
son. Buckhont will remain irOned and chain
ed TO the floor until Friday, when he will be
executed.
Deputy Paymaster Hodge, of the Army, in
his letter OF confession 10 Paymaster Ge neral
Brlce, acknow lodges that he owes the eovern-
ment about $3.50 900. He offers DO excuse or
nit CATION of his CRIME, and proposes to take
the tall consequences. He turns over all his
property TO the government, but begs that some
small sum may De left to his " ife aud children,
The Northern Railroad Commissioners ex.
press themselves perfectly satlsf d with the
western termous and route selected.
In San Francisco names of obnoxious can
ddates Were expu0ged from the ballots with
nitrate Of silver, which did not show until sew.
eral hours after the voses had been cast
Flournay's sash and blind factory, Waldron
u Taylor's box fictory and other small build
i gs'a. Richmond, Va, were burned Thursday.
Loss $50 600; insured.
The members of toe Distilers' Association
in Ohio produced last July 27453OO gallons of
liquors, while outsiders ia all the States pro-
dnced pul 9SS,S0O gallons.
The attempt to put the Indianapolis, Gin
einnati aud Lafayette railroad in bankruptcy
has iailed.
The total taxable wealth of Missouri is $571,-
166 523
Postmaster General Creswell il the only
member OF the Cabinet in Washington. Sec
retary Belbpap is expected to-day (Friday) and
the othels soon.
Horace Greeley delivered an address before
the North Western Agricultural ASSOCIATION
at MINNEAPOLIS, Mum, on Thursday, to an au-
dieuce OF 1900 people.
The Democratic State Convention of Mime.
sofa unanimously passed resolutions commen-
datory OF Gov. Hancock as soldier and clti-
zen.
An oil train on the Erie railroad was burned
Greenwood, n. Y. Thursday.
Keller was arrested in Wilmington N.
e., Thursday. for offering tor sale $40 900 reg
isttred $40 bond OF the issue OF 1865. and
which had been canoe led by the Treasury De-
parinent.
Detective John III Richards who was shot
in Baltimore Angus 31st, by Daniel S. Miller,
whom he was arresting, died Thursday. Miller
shot himself Immediately alter woundiLg Rich
ards.
Rev Smith Baker of Orono was installed
pastostof the First Congregational Church,
Lowell, Mass, Wednesday e9ening. The ser.
mon was by Prof Barbour, d. D., of Bangor