The Portland daily press., 1872-03-14
NEW YORK..


New YORK., March 13.--A pretty young
widow by the name of Ross who keeps FASH
ionable boarding house on Fifth Avenue, after
being taken to the police station on Monday
night in male attire, charged with disturbing
the audience at Woods Museum, sent for Hank
Smith, the Police Commissioner, and was soon
after released, her name was erased from the
police books and she was not brought before
the court to answer the charge of disturbing
the peace preferred by the manager of the mu-
scum. 1t is understood that she offered to paw
$500 to the officers to keep her name out of the
newspapers I-f
CRIMINAL, tl
Honora Bryne drove her husband out of the
house last night and then hanged herself
Mary Vorwitz shot herself in her own house
yesterday afternoon. Her suicide was caused
by disappointment in love.
A druggist named Latham was censured by
the coroHer's jury for selling poison TO Harriet
Martin with which she committed suicide.
THE ERIE RAILROAD MATTER.
The affairs at the Erie railroad offices have
settled into the ordinary quiet. Gould said to-
day he was glad to be out of the Erie PEST
deney, the salary of which did not pay for the
perpetual harrassing which came with the
office. He will soon return to Wall street,
Sherman and Field are retained by Barlow as
associate counsel for the Company. 1t is I'M
derstood that no action will be taken in refer
ence to Lanes alleged contempt of court in de-
stroying Judge Ingraham's injunction,
THs SICK JUROR IN HALLS CASE
1t is feared the illness of Clark, juror IN the
Hall case, will terminate fatally and it is be-
liened a new trial will be ordered Friday.
THE CENTRAL NATIONAL BAN#,
The Commissioners have named to receive
Subscriptions to the capital stock of the pro-
jected U. S. National Bank, in all the principal
cities of the country. Among them are E. B.
Morgan, Henry clews and Henry F. spalding
of Providence; c. B. Hall and H. A. Rice of
Boston: Frele;ick Smyth of Manchester
and Sidney Perham OF Augusta, Me, Hon
Freeman Clark, late Comptroller of the Cur
rency, has consented to accept the Presidency
of the Bank. and H. H. Martin, late Cashier Of
the Albany City Bank, the Cashership. Sub
scripti4nn hooks are already open at the banking
house of Henry Clews, for capital stock not
! exceeding S2O,0OO,OOO. > EsW8
MORE AoGIBENTs Az SEA,
| The brig Clara Jenkins of Bangor, from Car
barian, lost her jibboom and all attached in a
| gale. She spoke on the 4th, the bark India
from Rotterdam, go miles from New York with
| her rudder and jibbOom gone
RoGUEs ARRESTED,
Alexander Elder, letter carrier, has been ar
! rested for delivering letters addressed to bogus
firms in the gift enterprise business. Freeman
Cornish, the principal in said firms, is also in
custody.
WHOLESALE POISONING,
John Hurlburt, white man, has been ar
rested on charge of poisoning four children of
colored woman named Tibner in East New
York. Two are dead and the others dying
Hurlburt is believed to be crazy
RAILROAD LEGISLATION,
ALBANY, Mach lathe Erie bill was pass
ed to second reading, by the Senate to-day,
section was amended to restrict the repeal OF
the classification act to the Erie road The
second section was amended by striking out the
Chief Justice as the person who should appoint
to the Governor, Attorney General and Comp
troller providing that all proxies pr9perly ah,
thprized by law shall be good, thus preventing
the passage Of any bylaw, prescribing q par
ticuiar form for proxies and that the Directors
must be residents Of the Vnited atates: