The Portland daily press., 1873-01-27
NEW YORK.
Various Matters.

New YORK, JAN 25.-Mayor Powell and
VIM. Cullen Bryant made speeches at the
Burns celebration in Brooklyn, last night.
East River and He'll Gate are again filled
with floating ice.
Sulliqan's silk ware honse on Duane street,
was burglarized on Wednesday night of $4,000
worth of silks, shawls, etc.
Officer Ham of the Boston police, left for
Boston this morning with quasi, Rev. Mr..
Hutchinson, charged with being swindler,
whom he arrested in church in New Jersey,
yesterday.
A reported Cuban priyateer which left Eliza
beth, n. j., a few days since, was towed back
yesterday, disabled and her crew deserted her.
The World states that over 400 diseased sheep
have been sold in this city within a week.
The owners of the steamship Erie, lately re-
ported burned at sea, have received confirma-
tory dispatch from the purser Of the vessel.
A. B. Stockwell has been elected President
ofthe Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Co..
Owing to the absence of Judge Boardman
the bill of exceptions in the Stokes case was
not presented in Oyer and Terminer to-day
The United States Inspectors report that
neither master nor pilot is to blame for the
Bristol, in Newport harbor, last August.
Margaret Scott (colored) was found beaten to
death in 41ss street to-day. JOS Hood with
whom she has been living is believed to be the
murderer.
Washington dispatches predict the expulsion
ton already adduced.
Suits against the Atlantic Mail Steamship
Co., are reported to have been brought by the
stockholders dissatisfied with the manage
ment of affairs.
Mayor Havemeyer has written a sharp letter
to Judge Scott, censuring him for dischargng
sawdust swindlers.
The Samana Bay Company propose to pur-
chase several steamers at once.
There is heavy snow storm since midnight
HnjuFies from Burning
New YORK, Jan. 26-Mary Garvin, daugh-
ter of the late District Attorney, Samuel B.
Garvin, was badly burned about the lower
limbs Friday evening, by her clothing taking
fire while dressing for party. Her father was
severely burned on his hands and arms in en-
deavorng to extinguish the flames
The Murderers,
Ten days before the date appointed for the
execution of Stokes and Foster, two deputy
sherffs will be constantly on the watch to pre-
vent escape or suicide.
Embezxlemcnf.
Peter Geetschening was arrested in Patter-
son, N. j., Saturday, charged with embezzling
$4,000 from the firm of John Q. Post u Son,
builders, while book-keeper and cashier of tho
firm. 1t is said that a compromise was effected
in the payment of $4,000 due by Geetchening
s-s., .gr, 81 Wrecked.
The schooner Chas A. Grayer, from Port
johnson for Providence with coal, ran ashore
on the Gridron at He'll Gate, stayiug in her
larboard side aud filled and sunk. She Is
probably a total loss. .-s-
Disasters from the Freshef.
Accounts of the late ics foes and floods in
many tributaries of the Delaware River show
that large amounts of timber were carried
away and dams and roads obstructed by i'm
mense deposits of ice left by the receding
water. DR.. A. b. Maynard aud wife of San
singyille, and Mrs. Jennie Arlington of
HaInpden, were drowned by being swept from
a bridge over the Little Delaware River, neal
Hampden.
Richard Kelley, q colored boy IL years old,
in passing through Park street, was assaulted
by an Italian named Chauncey Levi, without
provocation. and stabbed in the right side. The
italian Immediately ran away and ten minutes
Afterwards stabbed another boy in the breast.
Both of the injured lads were sent to the nos
pital aud Levi was arrested. sa& "a
Fires.
fire snpposed to be incendary, occurred
this morning in the clothing store of Jacob
Solomon, No. 663 Sd Avenue, and inflicted
small damage. Henry Solomon was arrested
and held to await investigation.
At 1890 O clock tonight fire broke out IN
pratt's Astral Oil Works, occqpyiug a block
between North, 18th and 18th streets and lst
street and the river in Williamsburg, and was
almost totally destroyed. Loss between Soo,-
600 and $50, 900. The fire originated from a
leak in the still which communicated with the
furnace. The feed tank, containing 5000 bar
rels of oil, was saved by the exertions OF the
tiremen, and the gas house, situated in an ad'
| joining block, only escaped destruction by the
constant application of water The entire
amount aa5I OF oil consumed was nearly 5000 bar