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The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03
ENGINEERS: STRIKE.


PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2-Though no strike
has occurred here by the PENNSYLVANIA en-
poyes, the transportation of freight westward
is greatly impeded by the blockade of the roads
in the Western States owing to strikes there.
Trains of empty cars are being despatched from
West Philadelphia for points beyond Pttsburg
but no loaded cars are leaving and trains are
leaving regularly as also the usual freight
trains for Pittsbnrg and intermediate points.
The Strikers Hold Out.
COLUMBUS, Jan. 2-Tne strike of engineers
here holds out. The authorities have given no.
tce that all who want their engines had better
apply at once.
red the excitement to the freight depot but no
outbreak.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2.-Consderable excite
ment existed in the city to-day relative to the
action of the railroad engineers. owing to the
reelection Of wages BY the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company kilograms are constantly re-
crlved here inouiring as to what action was
taken in the conference reported TO have been
held at the Continental Hotel to-day betwee n
the delegation from engineers aud leading off,
cials of the Pennsylvania. No conference was
held in which the railway officials took part.
This morning the councillors representing the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of coun-
ellis belonging to tie Western division, the Pitts
burg division, the Middle division, the Altooua
and Philadelphia division, Amboy division and
New York division arrived in his city and held
a meeting of conference. A committee of three
from the New York Central Railroad were also
present. 1t is understood it was decided uuan-
mOusly to submit to the reduction provided the
company will restore the old wages in three
months The Pennsylvania officials state that
the strike is practically eneed and that the men
are resuming work und the new rule They
say that the reduction of wages had been fore
ed at all hazards.
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

California reports excessive rains
A collision on the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton Railroad took place Thursday night.
Several persons were injured aud number of
cars mashed.
A Philadelphia despatch says tnat the eugin-
eers on the Amboy division of the Pennsylva-
MIA road have decided to accept the reduced
rates aud are now OH duty.
Joseph Isaacs, New York butcher, has been
arrested for shooting into crowd of boys whom
he alleges were trying to rob him. Michael
Murphy was fatally wounded in the head by
shot.
james Parker of Springfield Mass, for thir-
tv years a conductor on the Boston & Albany
Railroad, and for the last year Superintendent
of the NV York aud Boston Express line, died
Friday morning after an illness Of five weeks.
Mr.. Parker was member of the Massachusetts
Legislature IF 1872. and was member elect of
the next Legislature.
Tuesday the town of Morisania became
part OF New York city, and the fire apparatus
was turned over to the city. The local tiremen
didnt like it and stove up the machines
Thirteen conductors on the Hudson River
Railroad were discharged from employment
Thursday, owing to their refusal to com ply with
the general orders reducing salaries.
The opera house building in Wikesbarre,
Pa. was destroyed by fire Friday night. Loss.
$8O,OOO.
John Logue, the Republican candidate, was
elected Mayor OF Memphis by about 800 major
ty Thursday. The white vote was very light.
The public debt has increased So, ,453, ,172 dur
ing the past month.
No fears are felt at the Navy Department
concerning the steamer Franklin.
In pursuance of the decree of the u S. Dis
trict Court, the Marshal sold at Newport the
steamer Plymouth Rock for $41 900, to s. 7.
LathrOp Ut Boston; the stea mer Jess Hoyt for
$29, 800, to Charles Eaton of Boston; the steam
er Fall River for $78,0O0, to s. 7 Lothrop Of.
Boston.
The extension of the Boston. Lowell & Nash
ua Railroad to Greenfield. Mass, was celebrat-
ed Thursday with much enthusiasm.
Before the Chicago fire there were nine fire
insurance companies in Hartford, Conn.,, with
$13, 3,237 1865 total assets. That fire carried down
cago and Boston fires there were, January 1st
seven companies doing business, with assets
amounting to $12, All 958.
A Havana despatch says that the prices of
bread meat and other articles of prime neces-
sity have advanced immensely since Thursday
The interes. on the Louisiana State bonds was
not paid Friday. The fiscal agent says he has
no money belonging to tn interest fund.
Gen. Cortina was installed Mayor of Mata-
moras. Mexico, yesterday without disturbance.
Several Of his opponents left for the Texas side.
The man arrested in Philadelphia Thursday
as Starkey, the ESCAPED murderer of New York,
proves to be another fellow.
Thursday night two intoxicated men in st.
Louis got into an alteration, when one knock
ed the other down aud plunged a hnife through
his forehead, breaking off the blade.
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03

New WORK. Jan. 3 Bornino.- Money at per
cent Coll at ilot. Sterling Exchange. long, 4s3;
Noon-G ,vsrnments strong and firm. Money-No
loans; per cent bii; nothing doing; State bonds
quiet and nominal. Stocks active prices little bet
ter.
NEW YoRK Jan. 2-Erenia1.- The first business
Of the day Of 1874 opened wits activity has
been observable for ling time and the buoyaucy
continued to the close. A large business was trans
acted in securities both for investment and specua-
tion, and the prices in most the highest
since the panic. This is the tural result Of the
disbursements with the exIece further emission of
legal tenders In the future. Notwithstanding he
advance to-day the uay securities sold much below
the prices previous to the panic which will doubt
close OF the day the buoyancy was still on The top
move AMI the dealings IN the Exchange were attend
Ell with much animation.
Money was easy IN the afternoon and closed at 6
per cent on call From this time the supply of loan
able funds is likely be largely Of the wants
OF brokers' Prime discounts were easy at q IL per
cent Outstanding legal tenders $37S, 400 0UU, in
crease of 81 ,G35, 600.
The following is the Clearing House statement
$3.50 563; gold exchanges, O52; gold balances
S2,215.531.
Gold closed at 11Os after selling at lloA a 11oa
per cent. The Assistant rreasu er pal out to-day
S120,O0O on account OF interest, and 5000 in re-
dempiion OF 5-2o bonds. The total payments in coin
TO daie by The Government account of the Janua-
ry interest are S6,964, 900.
The days business al the Gold Exchange Bank
clearances, S37, ,249.00O.
Foreign Exchange closed up dull at 1921 a. 4s3 for
prime bankers 20 days sterl ng and 1851 q 4S7 f r
demand. The Customs receipts TO day were $685.
0OO. State bonds sreadv. governments firm with
fair demand. Central Pacific nds closed at 90 a.
"a; Union Pacific at 50 g s2s 70 frsts 75I a IS Tor
land grants, 7ti q III fjr incomes The business at
the Stock Exchange to-day was quite heavy and
prices advanced. The creates improvement was in
North Western, Rock Island St. Paul. Waoash Pa
cifc Mail, Western Union, indiana Central, Union
Pacific, New rk Centr.il, Lake Shore, and Ohio &
Northwestern common reached $50. and preferred at
7Ia On large business. New York Central ranged be-
tween 9s5 q 1905, Lake Shore77s q 7ys Union Pacific
30a g 3ls. The general market closed strong at
nearl, the best prices OF the da-.
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03
MASSACHUSETTS,.
The Case Of Jordan, Marsh & Co.


BosToN.In the United States District Court
to-day, Judge Lowell made the following or
der
N. w Bingham, complainant, VS.. Jordan,
Marsh q Go. 1t is ordered that only such of
the books and papers seized in this case are to
be examined aud retained by the Collector of
customs, and the officers appointed by him to
inspect the same as relates to the frauds charg-
ed in the complaint on file, excepting that the
books and papers seized may be examined SO
far as NAV be necessary to ascertain whether or
not they relate to said charges; and in this last
have leave TO attend the examinations by an at
torney at law of this court, to be appointed and
paid by them and to be approved by the court,
II they shall be advised, and until and subject
to the further order of this court; and that the
United States may be represented in like
manner
The Boston Herald's Washing on correspon-
dent telegraphs that Special Agent Nudge de 4
MES that jackson the confidential clerk of
Jordan, Marsh & Co, was in the employ of the
United Stairs government. There is no dOubt
however that he furnished the information to
bis brother, II: S. Jackson, the Treasury spec
lat agent, and has been the principal mover in
The case. The Treasury officials say thai but
for the honesty of II. s. jackson the amount
for which the firm is liable to the government
would have been much larger than it is.
Change in the Law Relating to Inferm-
Petitions in circulation in Boston asking
Congress to repeal the law providing for the
distribution of fines and forfeitures to inform
ers and others, ard for the seizure of books,
papers and invoices in cases of alleged fraud
upon the customs.
Bold Robbery.
As Daniel Lawrence was holding conversa-
tion with clerk in the office of Brewster,
Sweet & Co.. BANKERS, to-day, a $1,000 bank
note was seized from his hand by we'll dressed
youth who escaped.
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03

the ignorance or want Of correct irformi a ton
on the part of the Spanish officers was never
mole apparent than in this instance, as it was
known here that the Edgar Stewart was still
at Baltimore with 10 immediate prospect of
leaving Tor any port or destination.
Various Matters.
An appropriation BY Congress of yearly ST.
100000 IL gold, will BIZ required in satisfaction
of the claims allowed by the late United States
al British commission.
The Secretary OF the Navy, this evening. re-
ceived telegram from Admiral Scout at Key
West announcing the arrival of the steamship
Franklin at that port.
The vacancy in the office of the First Deputy
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, caused by
the death of Gen. Sweet, will be filled by the
President.
Indian Ousrases.
Capt. Charles c. Hood of the oath Infantry
stationed at Fort Mcintosh, t. xas, reports TO
the Headquarters of the Army that on the
nlght OF Nov. I'd ps riy of 40 COmanche In
diauS attacked Mendioas' sheep camp and
wounded Mendolas so badly that he is not ex-
pected to live. On the Both of November the
same party were at San Diego, 70 miles from
Corpus Christi, where they commenced opera
tions by hanging seven sheep herders and left
twenty-six persons dead in the vicinity of the
rancho. Among them were some of the best
and IN st respectable rancheres in that
section Proceeding due west the savages
threw two men into a well at Boryas ranch.
One had his neck broken by the fall On Sala-
do ranch they killed sbeperd and wounded
another another man. A company of citizens
started from Laredo in pursuit of the Indians
and gave them a hot chase. The indians
wounded a young man named Bell, and Mex
ican at COchina rancho. At Ben Meals ranche
they stole eighty head of horses, As there was
no cavalry at the fort no force was sent ont to
assist the citizens
First Lieut. Hudson of the 4th Cavaly, sta
toned at Fork Clark, reports that he left that
post with company of forty men and six Sem
mole scouts, lee. 4th, in obedience to orders
and Dec. 10th found the Indians on the South
SlanO River and fight ensued. The Indians
stood about twenty minutes when they ran and
were very slippery. Owing to the rain the coun
try was very unfavorable for cavalry. In the
pursuit 81 ponies and mules were captured, to-
gether with lot of saddles, brides and blank
cts. Nine Indians were seen dead on the field
and others were known to have been wounded
but got away. The men of Lieut.. Hudson's
command behaved with great gallantry.
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03

lDonsesasc Markets.

NEW YORK. Jan. 2-Evenins.---Couo on dull; sales
so5 bales; Middlins uplands at 1slc Flour is quiet
eru at 50 g i o. Wheat quiet and fe lower; sales
%sasee s NJ sSng t So wns MIL
Michigan IS. Corn uuiet sales 5000 bush: new
Mixed Western at rs q soc for old s2lc in store; 81
Mixed 6l'; Western Mixed at 81 a sc; White Gil
& Sse aoat Beet is quiet Pork js steady; sales 800
Sols new mes S 90 Lard stsadier saes 70 tss
State at 80 g 45c. Whiskey decidedly lower; les
800 bbls; Western free IS q SIC, chiefly 96 a 963.
filming u q 7sc. Coffe-Rio 25a q 27. Naval Stores
SpIrts Turpentine firmer at Il q acc; sin dull
at As q 20 for strained. Petro cum is duh crrie
sales sou, 900 lbs at Il q 7sc.
Freigtts !" Liverro0I are steady; Flour per steam
49 s;Grain per steam IL q l2sd; Cotton per steam
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-Flour is steady; extra Spring at
$50 g S7t. Wheat dull, unsettled and lower; No
Spring at I2o; Nn2 spr, at l1i on spot or seller
~; rejected l %. Corn opened firm and clio ed
dull and lower; No Mixed at 53l e sssc on spot
o at ac Oats S
lower; No at sss on spot; seller for Feb 31.c Rye
quiet and weak; No2 at nc. Barley at 4o @l As
Ter No Fall No Spring nominal at II a. 13.-
Provis ns-Pork advanced and in fair demand at
IA 50 CASH IA e5 seller Feb; Is 25 seller Mar.h. Lard
steady at 81 spot; 81 Ter February; for seller
March, Bulk Meats are in COED demand and ailvsnc-
ed; shoulders 5ac short rib middes 7sc; short clear
mitdleS loose On spot 74c. Gretn .sleats a in fair
demand and advanced shoulders sic; short ibis at
7c Hams active aud higher at SIC for l6 lbs av.-
Dressed Hogs are in good demand at 40 a 49,
Whiskey frmer at 93c.
4eceipts-9OOO oOs flour, 15O, 900 bush wheat. 49,
600 usb corn, 81 900 bush oats 5000 bush rye, IL,
900 bush barley.
Shipmepts 10000 obls four, 1l9co bush wheat, s.
900 nash corn, $1,000 bush oats 000 bust rye 6O60
bush barley.
CISCINNATl, Jan. .-Provisons-To-k ia firm and
held at 10 so. Lard is quiet; steam at 50 a S4c ket
tie at Sac. Bulk Meats are quiet: shoulders St; Gear
ders at 7c clear rib ,d 7ic; clear sides Sc Green
me It's nothing doing. Hams at SIC for 1GA lbs aver
age. Live H. gs firm rang ing from 40 q 80; the
bulk of sales al As q 55; receipts $500 head ship
ments 1000 head. whiskey is in good demand at sic.
MILwAUKEF, Jan. 2.-Flour quiet and unchanged
Wheat steady; No at 20; No 9 at III for No
Spring. 20 seller Feb. Oais steady at SIC for No @
Corn Is steady; No2 Mixed at SIC. Rye is steady
at 754c for No I. Barley firm at Al for No Spring.
Provisions Pork IA 75 Hams in pickle at 8 "a 99c.
Dry sated meas-shouldeIs at 5lc loose; b xed mid
Tic. Lard-kette rendered SIC; steam 81 a skc.-
Live Hogs steady at 5 25 a 625
Receipts-1O0OO bbJs -four, 1855 900 bush wheat 600
hogs.
Shipments $1,000 bbls -four, Al 900 bush wheat.
CHARLESTON. Jan. 2-Couon quiet; Siodlipg ut-
lands Is q 15sc.
SAVANNAH Jan. 2.-Cotton nominal; Middlng
uplands at 15t q 15tc
MOBILE, Jan. 2.-Cotton quiet; Mid Hing uplands
15lc.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2.-Cotton quiet; Middling
upands at 16c.
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03

TEMPERANCE ENTERTAINMENT.-On the
evening Of Jan. l t, there was New Years
entertainment and gift tree at the hall of Mys
tic Lodge. o. of G. T., which was we'll at
tended, many being unable to find standing
room. The literary entertainment consisted of
readings, recitations &C., by Mrs. Roberts,
Mrs. Sculley, Mr.. e. F. SWEET, and ethers, in
terspersed with very fine vocal and instrumep-
tai M sic by by the Aron Club, Misses Todd,
King and Booney. This part of the entertain
ment closed with an amusing scene from
country life" entitled The Bashful Lover"
the parts of which were excellently well sus-
tainsd by Mr. SWEET and Mrs. Scuiley. After
intermsson the gifts from the tree were dis
tributei and the entertainment closed with So
cial congratulations and happy new year wishes
Some SIS net were realized from the sale of
refreshments which go TO the benefit of the
late well-known temperance advocate, Mr..
Woodbury.
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03

PERsoNAL.-Mr. William E. Mcdonald, the
popular Clerk of the Preble House, was sur
prised by New Years preseut from his wife
about one O'Clock Thursday morning. 1t was
fine boy baby, weighing u pounds.
Capt. Enoch Knight delivered his instructive
and interesting lecture on t State of Maine,
to large audience at Biddeford, New Years
night.
Ex Gov. Washburn delivered his popular
lecture on the laws of success in life to an in
terested audience at Biddeford last evening.
Mr. Joseph Bonney, the popular manager of
the Preble House billiard rooms, was the recip-
lent of a New Years gift Thursday,in the shape
of $3.50 in gold eagles, fresl from the mint
DIR. Perley Of Naples, is passing the winter
in this city.
Rev. James Pratt, formerly rector of Saint
Stephens, was stricken with second stroke of
paralysis recently, while holding service at
st. Phillips church, Philadelphia.
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03

At the monthly meeting of this Association
held on Thursday evening, the Trustees Of the
School Fund reported that the bonds (S25, ,000)
were all paid. The bonds were presented and
ordered to be destroyed. These bonds were is
sued about sixteen years ago to furnish the pay
for the erection of the Mechanics building.
The lot of wild land obtained from the State by
the exertons of Newell A. Foster, ESQ.,. while
a member of the Legsla ture which was sold for
$1,000, was the nucleus from which the income,
slowly but surely, at last wiped out the debt.
The Association is now free from their money
debt. But they owe debt, under the resolve
which granted them the land, to carry on
school for drafting, drawing, modelling and in
structions in mechanics generally. This, as We
learn, they intend now to fulfill, having been
waiting for years to be put upon basis on which
they may proceed with certainty Of being
sustained by their income
Meantime, in past years, they have by no
means been idle. Their lectures aud debates
for the last sixteen years (Which have been free
to alp have been of practical character, inter-
esting and instructive to mechanics-thus full
filling in part, as they went along, the terms
prescribed. The library has always bren
source of enjoyment and improvement. With
in the last six months $i00 have been voted to
replenish it. So that the time-honored assccia
ton, which sixty years ago began its feeble
life, is at las. on firm basis, with grand op
portunity before its members to do great deal
of good in the advance ment Of the mechanic
arts, as we'll as their fellow mechanics.
Drrv AN Mill ho
seen by an advertisement in another column
that Mrs E. NJ Babb proposes to give her ex-
elusive attention to the treatment Of the dis
eases of women and children. Mrs. Babb
comes to us we'll recommended as a woman of
intelligence and culture full of faith and hope
for the amelioration and advancement of her
sex, believing nothing more appropriate than
that female physicians should attend cases of
diseases peculiar to women. Mrs. Babb has
had thorough training in her profession. be-
ing the daughter of one physician and the wife
of another, and from her childhood strongly
bent on using her opportunity to read medical
books and journals, and for the past ten years
has given her exclusive attention to the study
of medical science. During this time she has
attended two full courses of lectures and grad
uated at the Woman's Medical College, Phila-
delphia, Pa, since when, two years ago, she
has been in practice at Eastport, Me. The
Eastport Sentinel says of her;
We regret to learn that Mrs. E. NJ Babb has
been induced to go to Portland to practice her
profession of medicine. We understand that
she had very good practice here which was
steadily increasing. She is refined and unus
ually intelligent lady, a graduate of the Wo-
mems Medical College of Philadelphia, and we
are assured by those who are competent to
judge that she is we'll read in her profession.
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The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03

ITEM-One of our well-known grocery deale
was out delivering goods New Years day by
the way of making the customary New Years
calls. Leaving his horse for moment be
stepped intoa grain store on Market street
just then an enormous suow-slide came down
on his horse, which so frightened him that he
gave one bound and hit against a jigger with
such force that he was thrown down. The
owner says he isn't aware of taking a single
step before he reached the horse and had it
by the head helping it to rise again. But al
though he is a gentleman of undoubted veracity
as be has never been noted for remarkable
gymnastic proclivities, and there being no wing s
apparent, it is just possible that he took several
steps. The horse was quickly Embarrassed, land
after careful examination was decided to be
without injury
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03

BARNABEE.-Fluent Hall was packed last
evening on the occasion of Barnabee's appear
arce. That versatile genius, from his rendition
of Kingsley's beautiful ballad of the three fish
ers who sailed to the West to bis appearance in
character as the unprotected female. kept his
audience in a state of delight. "The patent
arm," companion song to 'the cork leg" was
very funny. Miss Persis Bell, a fair-faced
brown-haired girl, charmed the audience by the
grave simplicity of her manner and by her fine
bowling on that queen of musical instruments,
the violin. Mr.. Dow was a very acceptable ac
companist.
Owing to mistake by the carpenter the au-
dience found some trouble io securing reserved
seats. The manager did his best to remedy the
fault, and offered TO return the price of th e
tickets to the dissatisfied ones.
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03

The reported appointments of Baron Schwarz
Senborn as Austrian minister to the United
Stares is supposed to he made on account of
the active part Austria intends to take in our
centenL ial He was director of the late Vienna
exposition, and has, while exercising impor-
tant diplomatic relations in other countries of
Europe, had much to do with the organization
of Worlds fairs.
William Taylor killed Alfred Hitch with an
ak Wednesday night at Eden Station, Nd. No
ekr
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03

AN ArPEAL.-rhe Agent of the Portland
Provident Association is compelled to renew
his call upon all who have partially worn CLOTH
ing, boots and shoes. Children and women's
apparel and bedding are most needed, but can
insure plenty of customers for mems and boys
clothing, especially the latter. He has been in
duced to issue his solicitation by witnessing the
wants of families while making his New Years
calls, Our comfortable citzeus do not know
how much suffering may be aleviated by send
ing in what they have laid aside. The Agent
will send for anything that may be offered il
notified by postal card or otherwise.
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03
Municipal Court.
BEFORE JUDGE MORRIS.

THURspAY-Michael Flaherty and John Caven-
aer-small boys Larceny. Fined S. each with COSTS
Paid. Stolen property paid for by the parents.
Frank Humphrey and Thomas Shehan. Intoxica-
fiop, Fined. Committed.
william Murphy. Search and seizure. Three
months Appealed. Bradburys.
FRID ,Y.-William Watson, james Nolid, Lewis
Thomas, Charl Sullivan John Foley, Thomas Cor
NOR and Edward Rawley. Intoxication. Fined 20
each. Committed.
Edward Hawke, Mary Hawke and Nellie Pray.
Intoxication. Fined S. each with costs. Pad.
The Portland daily press., 1874-01-03

TEMPERANCE LECTURE.-The fifth lecture Of
the Temperance course will be delivered by
Rev. DR.. Hill at the First Parish Church Sun
day evening, at o'clock.
WooDFoRDs' CoRNER'-The ''Lyceum" had
its first election of officers last Wednesday,
The following were the officers elected: D. r.
Dresser, Pres; G. w. Fish, Sec, Fl. g. Hixon,
Treas. At the close of the election the course
Of exercises was gone through with. The
''house" was the largest the lyceum ever drew