The Portland daily press., 1874-12-04
MINOR KILOGRAMS.

The American Association of Short Horn
Breeders was in session yesterday at Spring
field Ill.
One hundred women employed in the factory
OF the New Brunswick, N. j rubber compa.
ny have struck against reduction of wages.
A Herald special reports from Rome that the
Pope is perfectly well and outwa'ks every one
of his companions during his exercise in the
Vatican garden. ~ f
A Little Rock, Arkansas, special states that
Lieut.. Governor Smith and the former Secreta-
~ of State Wheeler, have quietly left for
Washington.
A Kingston, Jamaica, letter says that the
damage on that island by the late typhoon
reaches at least $850,000. --l-
The King of the Sandwich Islands visited
the San Francisco brokers' board yesterday
morning.
The people of Wilton, N. H., are discouraged
in consequent of the recent fire and other ca.
lamities within five years. which have lost the
town all of its manufacturing industries.
Three workmen were severely injured in
Philadelphia yesterday by tbs falling of a
house wall which they were demolishing s,i
NJ. M. Lofters Mayor of Scranton, Pa. was
arrested yesterday for perjury and admitted to
bail. vi d.5i..ss ..,ij
Rev. Thomas Cooper, an independent Con-
gregatiohal minister in the schools of Philadel-
phia, was arrested yesterday. for an alleged at
tempt to outrage the daughter of one of his
parishiOners, while pastor Of Presbyterian
church. -.j .' las-a
VIM. Sturgess, the board of trade man who
was recently tried for Illegal practices BY that
body, has settled with his creditors, and has
brought suit against the president of the
board for $4,000 damages.
The Herald's London special says: Our cor
respondent reports from Madrid that Frederick
A. Dockray, who was condemned to death by
the Spaniards in Cuba. but whose sentence was
c0mmuted to ten years Imprisonment in Spain,
has been pardoned." .--..- Ia. s-,,f,' IN
Senior CASTELAR, has been appointed Commits
sioner to represent Spain at the Centennial Ex-
hbtion in the United States. 7t'
The recent case of underyaluations which
has been discovered at the Chicago custom
house is in part Occasioned by the operations
of the system of transportation in bond. 1t
appears that in the importatons through Bos-
ton. New York and Philadelphia to Chicago
the proper officers have sometimes neglected to
add the commission and charges, which are an
essential part of the duty.
The Democrats of Lawrence have nominated
N. P. HI. Melvin for Mayor. stl .'t1.-
The Quebec Legislature assembled yester-
day. -.- at .rt-I r,--I ee-,'
The Warwick Railroad, from Warwick,
Rhode Island, to Providence was completed
yesterday. 'II
Queen Victoria was presented with four vol
umes OF addresses, thanking her and England
ior their service to the sick and wounded of
Franco IN the late war;
The trial of Won Arnm is indefinitely post
pOned. FIX, fO''
The "Calaboose" a. Pontiac, ILL.,, was burned
Wednesday night. Frank and Samuel Down
ing, confined in the Jail for disorderly conduct.
were burned to death. -
Prof. Morse and party have arrived at Cbey-
enne from the Black Hills, with two tons Of
remains of extinct tropical animals The In
dams troubled the party considerably.
The schooner G. f. Baird from st. John for
Boston, went ashore on Mt Desert, and became
a total loss IT'S supposed the crew was sayed.
A Washington special says that it is rumored
that the President, in his message, will recon-
mend the repeal of the legal tender act on the
ground that it would be the best plan for
resuming specie payments.
The schooner Sanderson, which cleared at
Chicago, Tuesday. for Buffalo, went ashore at
the lower end of lake Michigan. All of the
crew were lost. .,'...s. .........i
JamesiTurner has:been arrested for stealing
lewelry, ETC., from the store of the Sprague
Company at Baltic, Il. L. The property was
recovered. .H - ! : an
The Brooks prrty in the Arkansas muddle
nave arrived in Washington to present his
case.