The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-29
News and other Items.

One report says that Stokes is seriously ill,
another that he is shamming sickness
All fears of yellow fever at New York are
now over.
Greeley is preparing for another raid on New
England
1t is radical majority, after all, that the
Spanish elections have given.
A Washington restaurant keeper was fined
$1O0 and had his license forfeited Tuesday for
refusing to sell liquor to a colored man.
General Ord says that the Indian troubles in
Utah have been much exaggerated, and that
there will probably be no trouble
Connecticut has finally settled on a uniform
license rate for liquor selling throughout the
State, to take effect on and after Sept 1.
The French authorities are cooperating with
the Spanish government to check any insurrec-
ton by Carlists OF other infammable Span
iards.
Senator Chandler addressed large and en-
thusastic gathering of Republicans at Man
chester, N. H., Tuesday evening.
1t is reported that the two hostile wings of
the Republican party in Louisiana have adjust
ed their differences and will henceforth act as a
unit.
The parties charged with having robbed the
Blackstone Bank in Uxbridge last July have
been committed to Jail in Worcester to await
action of the grand jury.
Lynch law received another exemplifca ton
in Ripley county, Tenn, Sunday night, when
twenty armed men took from Jail and sum
marily shot man who had recently murdered
his wife. tt
1t is asserted that the Geneva arbitrators
have now settled the question of indemnity,
and it is believed that the amount Of damages
to be awarded the Uniled States will be be-
tween 100000 and e3,0O0OOO. On Thursday
the payment of interest on the sums awarded
will be considered
Some freight cars laden with oil on the
Junction road in Philadelphia fell with .
bridge upon the track of the Reading road
Tuesday, where another train struck them.
wrecking twenty coal cars and a locomotive.
conf1agration of the other cars ensued, and
the loss is estimated at $25O,OO0.
The Congress of the American Scientific As
ISOLATION closed its session with its fifth day,
at Dububuque, Iowa, Monday. Papers were
ASe'u W AAoi' w Hiuuou VI SOucOrQ, MASS,
Thomas G. Hilyard of the Coast Survey, and
othoro, "na San Francisco is selected as the
next place of meeting. Prof t Lowering OF
Cambridge were elected President for the en-
suing year.
A collision between the through freight from
Boston aud passenger train going to the
camp meeting near Lyndeville, VT, occurred
Tuesday noon, near St. Johnsbury, Vt.
In New Jersey, recently, colored man came
out fer Greeley But the next day he took it
all back, and entered, in mitigation of censure,
the plea of drunk. IS l..s..Yg5. ns}
A Democratic editor in Michigan says he can
eat "boiled crow" this fall. but somebody must
furnish him lots of good gravy for it before he
begins.
Arrangements are just completed for furnish
ing excursion half-rate tickets to the Louisville
Convention, from New York, Boston and Phil
adelphia. A special train of palace cars will
leave Jersey City on Friday evening, at seven
o'clock. or ,.T--,..
The receipts of grain at the five western lake
ports Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Milwaukee
and Chicago, have been this year, up to and in
Guiding August 10, little less than 81, OOO, 900
bushels. three millions in excess of last year to
the same date, and fifteen in excess of 1870.