The Portland daily press., 1872-10-07

MINOR TELEGRAHIs.

D. 5. Storys hotel and stable, at Hopkinton
N H., were burned Saturday morning at five
o'clock. Loss $4,000; insurance $1,000.
The Laundry in Fall River, Mass, owned by
j. P. Prentss was totally destroyed by fire
Sat- morning. Loss 2,000 insurance $780,
Rodney L. Adams, late proprietor of the
Geneva, N Y, Courier, and one of the oldest
editors in western New York, died Saturday
morning.
A dispatch from Yokohama, datod Sept %,
announces that two-thirds of the treasure lost
by the burning of the steamship America has
been recovered.
The report that the Spanish government has
resolved to submit to council OF European
powers its claims against the United States, for
damages inflicted by filibustering expeditions to
Cuba, is pronounced untrue.
A London dispatch says that one Collins, alb
scOnding with 10000 of stolen money, took
passage on the steamer Southampton for Balti-
more, Monday last. The police have been uoti-
fed to arrest the culprt on his arrival ct Balti-
more.
A Washington special gsays that the State
Department. has advices from the Northwestern
Boundary Commission which state that little
progress has been made in locating the thirty
ninth parallel. The expedition will soon return
to the United States for winter quarters.
Late advices from Bombay report the cholera
disappearing.
A Paris correspondent of the London Times
telegraphs that the Russian ambassador in that
city has received note from Taneief secretary
of the emperors prlvy council, withdrawing
the congratulations which the emperor had ten
dered Theirs, and expressing the dissatisfaction
of Russia at the aggressive attitude of the rad
ical city of France.
The loss by the fire at Patterson, N. j., Fri
day. will, it is estimated, reach S350,000. Three
hundred employees were thrown out OF employ
ment.
E,to@ 4l,o4 Al,
| Indians of Honduras made another raid on the
British settlers at Orange. Walk, near Corosal,
| Yucatan There were were about five hundred
of the raiders. The British garrison made a
| gallant defence, killing few of the enemy and
| wounding some others. Two soldiers were kill
ed and sixteen wounded, and one civilian was
| killed and seventeen wounded. The Indians
pilaged to the extent of $780, 900 or $4,000, and
retired.
Brazilian advices state that the Argentine
tronble is still unsettled, but it is generally be-
| lcved the actual dispute will be compromised
in some way, while the vital question will be
arbitrated by war at some future day. The ques-
ton is whether Brazil has pursued the right
course toward Paraguay since the close of the
| war
The Tailors' Union in New York has voted
$1,000 to assist the talors a strike in Phila-
delphia.
The Xavier Union, Catholic Society, in New
York publish an address Of sympathy with the
Jesuits and other religious orders expelled from
Germany.
Horace Greeley has been invited to make
another Western tour.
A large number of persons alleged to have
been registered fraudulently in Newark, n. D.,
are summoned to appear before the Grand jury
to-day.
The East Chester, N. Y, National Bank
closes JAM LIST. 1t is said to be i'll consequence
of oppressive local taxation,
Ex-Gov, Curtin spoke again In Philadelphia
Saturday night but did not allude to national
politics.
The Capuchian friars expelled by the Gaute
malian government sailed Saturday for Europe
The Grand Jury at Concord, N. H., brought
in q indictments Tuesday for the sale of Ii
quors, two being for the sale of cider.
The Exposition at Cincinnati closed Saturday
the receipts being 100000.
In San Francisco, Saturday, there was a rae!
between Goldsmith Maid and Lucy, in which
the former won in three straight heats. Time
225, 2.184, 222. The admission was So