The Portland daily press., 1873-05-01
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

The annual meeting of the Western Unta-
rian churches is in session in Chicago
NO business has been done by the court in
Utah, as it is conceded that the marshal who
drew the jurors is not legal officer
A Washington special says the revenue from
manufactured tobacco in ten months of the
present year is only 100000 less than the en-
tire receiptof the previous year, notwithstand-
ing the reduced tax.
A Richmond despatch gives four instances
where sherffs and tax collectors report having
been robbed by highwaymen after having col
leeted large sums of money. Their reports sa-
vor of suspicious coincidence.
1t is reported that the Carlists in the Spanish
province OF Biscay have surrendered Bilboa,
which is almost defenceless.
The mother and brother of lieut.. Harris,
wounded IN the last Modoc massacre, have left
Philadelphia to join the wounded relative.
Richard Petit, a Philadelphia attorney, COM
mitted suicide Tuesday. He was to have been
married at noon Wednesday,
The shoe lhanafactory OF Lawrence, Board
man & Co., in Exeter, N. H., was burnt Tues
day night. Loss about $4,000; well insured.
The cause is unknown, but no doubt it was ac-
cidental
Gov. Dix signed the New York charter Tues
day morning
The Philadelphia banker Gambo fails for
$7OO,0OO with 100000 assets.
The body OF an unknown man, 80 years old,
was aS, found in the river at Lowell Wednesday.
0oNCiuti anu OUuUCll OF new dHmD-
shire have referred the question of power to go
behind election returns to the courts
Macklnaw Straits are nearly open for pavi-
cation.
Lizzie Heydgger of Kingston, N. Y, during
2 tit ct temporary insanity drowned herself and
babe Tuesday.
Base ball at Observation-Disclosures -. Ath-
leticS 10.
Jno; P. Thompson of the N Y Evening Post,
died Wednesday.
The Massachusetts Legislature Wednesday
~ ~ vote OF lO9 to "a, passed a bill annexing
Charlestown and Brookline to Boston,
hey. D. ID. Fuller of fremont Temple, Bos-
ton, has accepted a call from BROOKLYN, N. Y.
The New Hampshire State Convention of
young Mems Christian Associations meets at
Manchester to-day.
In Cincinnati, by the breaking of a cable
used in the railway on hill Tuesday, a stone
iaden tram went down the incline smashing a
mouse and throwing the stone among children
IN the yard, killing two and seriously iniuring
two Others.
-, A Halifax special states that the wreck of
the Atlantic was blown up Tuesday but no
bodies were recovered. 1t is probable that 200
corpses have been washed to sea or have been
ground up by the floating cargo. Divers are
rapidly recovering the cargo.
Late adviees from Jerusalem state that Sc.
we're ngnts have occurred in Bethlehem between
the Latin and Greek Monks, in which five of
the former and six of the latter were injured
a lilo Janerio letter of the 4th inst states
that owing to the late raius there landslide
occurred which crushed and threw down a mas.
sve stone wall on to building in the navy
yard, instantly killing twenty workmen and
wonnding some fifty others
The difficulty at Port Vincent, La, has been
amicably adjusted
The boiler Of the Sloanaker saw mill at Will
Transport Pa, exploded Wednesday morning
killing the engineer, Ezra E. Fancfier danger
ously injuring William Muncy, the Waterman,
and two others slightly