The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-02

revolution in Peru was suppressed and the
lead n beaten to death.
Business is dull throughout Peru. The banks
are REFUSING discounts and several firms have
suspended
Change of Gauge.
TORONTO, Oct. l. Friday and Saturday next
the gauge Of the Grand Trunk railroad between
Stratford and Montreal will b.. changed to
make it conform to the standard of the Amer
lean gauge. 1t is expected that the en- ire
change will be effected in time to allow regular
communication on Monday next. The distance
from S.ratford 10 Montreal is 43 miles.
Finished Up.
OTTAWA, Oct. 1.-The royal commission
closed their sittings to-day.
MINOR TELEGRAMs.
The public debt statement shows a reduction
of S1,y01, 467 during September.
Political aft ,rs in the vicinity of Panama
still continue 10 disturbed and unsettled con-
dltion. Men are kept uuder arms in couse
quence of tn presence of large party of reb-
els near tile city.
A man named John sack was found d cad
yesterday morning near Basket, Sullivan
county, N. Y. on the Erie Railroad. tits sup
posed to be case of murder
The stockholders of the bingham, Mass,
National Bank have voted To reduce their
capital stock aud continue business. Loveift,
the defauter, is confined to his house by ILL
ness.
John b. Baldwin, Speaker of the rebel House
OF Representatives, died at Stanton, Va, Tues
day.
The Cincinnati stone cutters held a meeting
Tuesday night and protested against having
the stone for the new government building cut
and dressed in Maine.
Capt Buhlington's and First Engineer Schu-
man'S publishe accounts of the death OF Capt
Hall or the Polaris, do not vary from those
already published.
A house belonging to the estate of the late
Calvin Wood in Fairhaven was burned by an
ineendiary Tuesday night.
The High School binding at Manchester was
bur ed by an incendiary Tuesday night. Loss
5000 Nothing saved but paul.
Base ball-Atlantics 6, BostonsS
Ex-Gov. Cox has been elected President of
the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad
Base ball-Washington ID, Philadelphias,
10.
The statement that soldiers invaded Mexican
soil is untrue. 1t probably arose from the fact
that guard of United States troops protected
the paymasler aud his funds. which were saved
from the wreck of the steamer Fleta ON the
Mexican bank of the Rio Grande.
The worms aud heavy rams have heavily
damaged the Texas Cotton crop.
A signal station On the summit of Pixies
Peak will he opened on the 11th last
The bark Blan he Thomas was wrecked on
Blanche Island. No iues were lost
The schooner Young Nova Scotia believed to
have been lost in the late gale while on her way
home fran Labrador, had a crew of thirteen.
The fever at Montgomery, Ala, is abatng
The first Ku-Klux trial before the State
courts of North Carolina. took place at tie
johnson County Superior Court this week, aud
res;:lteI IN the conviction of the parties for
murder aud sentenced to be Hanged on tue 18th
of November.
An rop-clad oath has been adopted by the
Mexican Congress.
The schooner Emma Baker was wrecked on
Tybec beach. Crew saved
The inter national exhibition at Buffalo, N.
Y, was opened Wednesday by ex-Presdent
Fillmore with an Grafton
The king of Saxony dangerously ill.