The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-07-04
NEW YORK.
Lager Intoxicating.

Lager
New York, July 3-The excise commission
ers have adopted resolution declaring that all
malt beers are Intoxicating liquors, that their
Sunday sale is in violation of the laws, and the
board will cot grant license to any place where
music is introduced. Sunday the 18th inst, is
the date fixed for the enforcement of the law.
The effect will be to close up all gardens and to
Jersey City or in Westminster county fol
lager.
Two Fools.
A. Stahl and Bieler two youthful Germans
of Newark, in love with young wi ow, on be-
ing supplanted by a New York life insurance
agent, went to the woods, drank a bottle OF
laudanum between them and laid down to die
in each others arms. leaving the following let
ter directed to their friends: 'sWe two bid you
all goodbye and send our love to dear Barbary
1.-THE Christian name of the widow. We are
going forever; so good bye" They were found
Tuesday nearly senseess by party of pcnick.
ers. Stahl died but Bieler has recovered.
The Conviction Of Walworth- Moral Ef
feet of the Verdict.
Neither young Walworth's countenance mol
demeanor underwent any change after the de
livery of the verdict. The prevailing impress
sion here was that he would be acquitted The
tribune says that never within the memory Of
this generation has any great criminal ISSUE
been so promptly and satisfactorily tried il
New York.
The World says the severity of the verdict
indicated that a reaction of the mawkish pity
which for SO long time bore sway in jury boxes
has begun.
The Times says the moral effect of the yer.
dict was needed, and an acquittal would have
been an invitation to- every youth having dis
solute or tyraunical father to Stay him
After abiding to the array of prominent de.
Tenders of the prisoner and the scenes general.
ly attending the trial, the Herald says "The
wonder is that Justice herself was not bind on
this occasion, but society has to be protected
and however cruel or brutal, the trial was con-
Quoted in the most exemplary and dignifed
Manner
a Fire on Fifth Street..
Three large buildings on East Fifth street
We're burned this morning They were occu-
pied by Miller's saw mill, Hesse's cabinet shop
Pillmau's hobby horse factory, STRAUSS sugar
box factory, Quick's pattern works, aud a
stairbuilder's shop, Loss $4,000; insured. A
fireman was badly burned
GrOwI About the Pacific Injunction.
In reference to the injunction upon the pay.
ment of the int rest on the bonds of the UniOr
Pacific Road, the Herald says there is some
thing SO contemplate in this official pettifogne
business as to require the strongest condemna
ton. Had Wall street operator put his in
junction on great compan Y at the hour wher
its credit was most at stake, when thousands Of
honest holders of its bonds were waiting to be
paid their interest. no longer would he have
sufficed to express the just anger of the people
and the government only shows its weakness al
home and abroad by permitting its legal agent
to resort to such miserable device as thai
which the ATTORNEY General now attempts tC
palliate an excuse.
Kidnapping.
Three families bound to Chicago arrived here
recently from Germany, while in charge of the
Board of Emf grafton were Kidnapped and SEN
to North Carolna, where, after working 6
Sc
escaped and begged their way back here where
they found their tickets in possession of the of
ficers of the Board of Emigration, which haC
been sent from friends in Chicago. Mayor
Havemeyer is investigating the case.
The Pacific Pays its Coupons.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company is to
day paying its coupons due July LIST, of the frs
mortgage bonds of toe company. In order tt
comply strictly with the requirements of the
injunction which was srrung on the company
ON the eve of interest day, every person pre-
sent1ng coupon was asked the f)llowing ques
tions "Do the coupons which you now present
belong to either of the persons named in list.
Nos 1 and 2, and are they the coupons which
were distributed as dividends or allotments Of
the profits to shareholders of this company, di
rectls or by the trustees uuder the Cakes Ames
contract or the Davis contract or through OF
by the Credit Mobiier, and if so to whom dt
they belong?'
Various Matters.
Two thousand Immigrants arrived yester
day.
and inspected by deputation of thirty santa
ry police yesterday. most slckeniug cond
ton of affairs was discovered, and a general
cleaning out is to follow.
The brig Maurice, from Matanzas, reports
that June 18th spoke brig Mabel, of St john,
N. B., from Matanzas, W tn the loss OF the cap
tain, who died ON the 9th of yellow fever,
The weather to-day is extremely hot again.
There was large number of sunstrokes yes
terday.
Nearly all wholesale merchants have closed
business till Monday.
The Express says great indignation is ex
pressed against the government to-day by tile
Union Pacific bondholders, when they collected
their interest to-day.
Jefferson Davis is in town.
DOMAIN and Flood, convicted of Illicit distill
ing at Sping Valley, were to-day sentenced to
three years in prison and a fine of $1,000 each.
The heat to-day exceeded any day this sum-
mer The thermometer, during the afternoon,
ranging from 81 to So ia the shade.
The London Economist of the 21st ult. has a
leading article on the bill increasing the circu-
laton of the Bank of England, from which il
appears the British government cannot take
the proposed action without the consent OF
parliament.
Three officers of the custom house have been
arrested on the charge OF ai1ng lmposlerS to
defraud the revenue by means of the use of
revenue stamps The fraud was traced here.
Each officer is held in $4,000 bail for trial.
The weather to-day is extremely hot again.
There were large number of sunstrokes yes
terday.
Recorder Hacket to-day denied the motion
for new trial and sentenced VIM. J. Sharkey
for the murder of Robert S. Dunn, to be hang.
ed August 10Th.
Judge Daniels to-day in the Supreme Court
Chambers, reduced the bail in the order of ar.
lest against Stephen English, in the libel suit
OF Frederic s. Winston, President of the Mutu.
al Insurance Co.
Three large buildings on East 9Th street were
burned this morning. Loss $4,000; insnred.-
A firman was badly burned.
The Yellowstone Expedition.
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