The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-12-21
NEW YORK.
Good New. from the shipvara..

NEW YORK. Dec. 2O.-After interviewing the
various ship builders in and abouta this city,
the Herald reports large orders on hand and IA
vorable prospects for the revival of tho mari
time trade. The clouds sovershadowing the
shipyards for ten years are being dspelled.
A Wise Change in the Antiquased Jury
Law.
The new law relative to jurors, known as the
ju licial law, is in full effect, and its wise
provisions, whereby the fact that citizen has
expressed an opinion, shall not initiate against
his acceptance as a juror, have been fully and
satisfactorily exemplifed in the Stokes case.
Under the old law at this time there could not
have been single juror obtained.
Various Matters.
Mayor Hall will resume his law practice, and
it is reported that he is already retained to
prosecute seventeen suits in accounts against
the city, which Comptroller Greene refus to pay
on the ground of illegality.
The Tammany Hall General Committee last
evening passed resolutions declaring its disap-
proval of the present charter of the city, passed
in 1870.
The Legislature will be asked for authority
to remove the city prison, or Tombs, to some
other point.
The Times condemns the settlement with
Gould by Erie as compromising felony.
Only nine jurors have asyet been secured in
the Stokes case.
The steamboat Andrew Fletcher belonging
early this morning.
The Board of State Commissioners have COM
menced an investigation into the management
of the Lunatic Asylum at Wards Island.
The Irish Case.
In the anderson poisoning case to-day the
accused (Dr. Irish) was admitted to the
witness stand and testified that he never had
any improper relations with Mrs. Anderson;
also relative to facts of her husbands illness
and death and corfirmatory of the statement
that the arsenic bought at his store was by the
desire of Anderson himself.
Death Of George p. Putnam.
George Palmer Putnam, the well known pub
Usher in this city. died suddenly this evening.
He was born in Brunswick Me-, February 18th,
1914
Mr.. Putnam had been at the store the
most of the day aud seemed in remarkably good
spirits. He was in the act of exhibiting book
to friend when he fell suddenly to the floor,
striking his head in his descent upon project
ing shelf. A physician was at once summoned
who applied restoratives but life was extinct
The cause of the death was apoplexy.
Arrest of George Francis Train.
George Francis Train and Wesley Nichols
were arrested tonight on an indictment for
publishing obscene literature and lodged in the
police station house.
Trains Delayed.
PoRGHKEEPsIE, Dec. 20.-The morning pas
railroad coming west was detained five hours
at Boston. Corners this morning by snow drift
ten feet deep.
The Geuid Transfer.
AT Mr. Barlows Office to-day, Jay Gould de-
livered all the stocks and bonds which were
claimed from him by tho Erie Company
amounting to between five and six million dol
lars. These were brought to the office this
morning in large tin box and have been trans
ferred to similar box, in which they will be
taken to offices of the company.
Gould, it is reported, has surrendered uncon-
dtionally all his real estate in New jersey,
Pennsylvania and Rhode island, the Grand OPP
era House withI ten or twelve adjoining build
ings on 23d and oath streets, together with a
valuable lot of ground at the foot OF z3d street,
North River. He also promised to secure Mrs.
Lucy Fisk's interest in the Grand Opera House.
The Rhode Island property given up by Gould
is supposed to be his villa at Newport. The
New Jersey title comprehenGs his real estate on
the North River shore, and the Pennsylvania
property is said to represent the coal fields
House property would seem to indicate that
to retain her ownership had the suits been
pressed to trial The company have agreed to
settle with the estate of Col Fisk for Fisk
half of the Opera House and $500, 900 in cash.
This will leave Mrs. Fisk with less than $780,
000 The actual legal transfer of the real es-
tate embracing tracts of land in New Jersey,
Ohio and Pennsylvania may require several
weeks.
Denied.
Hon. VIM orion stated to-day that George