The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-06-03

Last week Catherine Never OF Savannah,
Ga.' who suspected her husband, E. D. Meyer,
OF being unfaithful, had her suspicious unmis-
takably confirmed. She at once denounced her
husband in the most unmeasured terms, When
Meyer, becoming eXasperated strach nhs wy
a severe blow in the mouth cuteins ~ D"s
few minutes after son OF 1i'e i'"i ''e'
Mavo, owed obont eighteen, entered, and see
ing his mothers mouth Dieedlhs, 'eproacheu
b;s fotber for his inhuman conduct, whereupon
the latter grew very angry, and said, It'll kill
Won both" The words were no sooner uttered
than young Meyer drew his pistol, and fired at
his father twice, killing him instantly. He
then delivered himself up to the police. A
coroner's jury returned verdict that the de-
ceased had been killed by his son, five of the
Jurors adding clause, sin self-defence."
MAINE WESLEYAN SEMINARY.-The cata-
logue of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary for the
year ending June 81 SHOWS that this WELL
known school was never in a more flourishnq
condition than at present The whole number
OF students connected with the Seminary and
Female College for the academical year is 6o4
The annual commencement exercises commence
to-day (Tnesday) with prize defamation aud
reading. Wednesday the exercises of the liter
airy societies take place, President Allen of
Orono, delivering the Grafton, and Rev. Mark
Iraffon OF Boston, the poem. Wednesday
evening concert comes off in which Miss
Ada Cary participates. Free return tickets
will be furnished on the Maine Central
WOODS ON FIRE.-The large tract of wood
land on Crooked River, about three miles above
Edes' Falls, was found to be Oh fire Saturday
But little alarm was felt as twas thought that
the fire could be easily controlled. The winds
of Sunday famed the flames into a conflagra-
ton, and the result has been disastrous in the
extreme, for about 1000 acres have been burnt
over. 1t required the strenuous efforts of near
ly 200 men to obtain mastery over the flames.
The loss is very heavy as the tract was the most
valuable woodland in this part of the State.
News and Other Items.
Michigan will export over a million and a
half tons of iron ore this summer.
Gen. Grants father does not expect to live a
month, and has sent for him.
Ex-senator Hale, of New Hampshire, will
spend the summer at West Point
Gov. McEnery has issued an address TO the
people of Louisiana, advising acquiescence in
the Kellogg government until Congress assem-
bIes in December next.
The Gardner News says a wreath was receiv-
ed in that town from Ftchburg, Decoration
Day, for the grave of Lieut.. Ebenezer Munroe,
the first soldier that died in the Revolutionary
war.
a Liverpool woman who chopped her father
and pony has been sent to Jail three months
for the assault on the horse and two months for
that on the old man. Dogberry dispenses JUS
tice with curious discrimination.
The Montreal Witness declares that that city
is virtually ungoverned, the police force is
greatly weakened, while the authorities through
lack of energy and false economy refrain from
improving it. AS a natural result, crime is on
the increase.
The Vicksburg (Miss.) Times affirns that
formidable attempts at organization of the
State militia are being made, which are fraught
with danger to the peace, prosperity and hap
piness of the people II characterizes the war;
like aspect of the preparations as simple mad
ness.
The Iowa press excursion, which has become
an annual institution, will not take place this
year, owing to lack of dead-head tickets. They
were not applied for, the papers doubtless feel
ing that so long as they are making war on the
railroads it would be impudent to ask for free
tickets.
The Chicago Times, not long ago the leading
Democratic organ of the Northwest, says of
that party that it is an ''emaciated skeleton of
an old party that is covered from head to foot
with chronic sores, and distorted to the hide
Gus semblance OF Caliban by a political
rheumatism"
Vanderbilt's donation of half million to the
Southern University does not please his fam,-
ly. They think it is too much money to send
down South, and that the Commodore would
have done better for his own fame, and better
for the cause Of education, to have founded
university in New York, where he made his
money, and to which he owes SO much.
In letter to the Springfield Republican,, Eli
EUR Wright proposes that there shall be re-
vised common school edition of the Bible, from
which edition everything shall be left out to
whicha good citizen of any or no religious creed
could object Just such an edition was prepar-
ed by Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, and published
by Messrs Lippincott, Grambo g. Co.. Philadel-
phia, in 1852