The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03

Ihere is PROBABLY one Congressman VINO
won't put in an appearance at the next session,
Mr.. Sloss of Alabama. A young man named
Long was refused communication with his
Sloss') daughter. Angered at this he reck-
essly told slanderous stories respecting her.
When the father returned from Washington on
Friday he learned the facts of his daughter, and
Sunday evening, seeing Long passing on the
other side Of the street, he fired from an up
stair window, putting several buckshots in
parts SO vital that it is thought that the fellow
will die.
Ru ssian papers report disastrous fire in the
city of Berditchev in Russian Poland on two
successive days, during which time 1900 houses
were burned and thousands of people rendered
homeless. The town has population of over
$4,000.
In Buffalo, New York, a jury has found
builder named Siguall guilty for superintend-
ing building which afterwards fell, killing
several persons. Served him right though he
ran away before sentence.
Sixteen persons were drowned Tuesday near
Havana.
The thunder storm of Monday night spread
nearly all over New Hampshire and quite a
number of accidents are reported. The shower
was also very severe in the vicinity of Long
Island
The cable ship Ambassador broke from the
buoys to which she was fastened in Portsmouth
harbor and floated our to sea until she brought
up on Wood Island. No damage.
James P. Saunders, prominent lawyer in
Yonkers, N. Y, was shot by man named
Gardiner in court Tuesday.
Quite number of murders are reported
among the Indians in the Indian Territory
A counterfeit Central Pacific railroad bond
has been discovered. 1t is thought that they
may be in.quite general circulation.
1t is thought that the famine in Bengal is
over
Among the fires during the week were the
following, being the most prominent: Knick-
erbocker Ice Co.'s stables with 76 horses Loss
500, O0O-cause, spontaneous combustion from
the heating of new hay.s AT Newport Pa,
hotel, nine stores, etc., loss $4,000; distllery
at Waterloo, N. Y, loss $4,000; buildings in
Portsmouth, N. H., loss $4,000; st. Georges
Red Granite Co., buildings near st. John, N.
B., loss $4,000.
IN GENERAL.
The Pope is daily growing weaker.--The
army of the James meets in New York late in
August or early in September.--The Indian
chief Cochise is dead.-The Sioux Indians in
Dakota conclude that they don't care to fight
Some civilized Indians in Indian territory
ate trying self-government with no agents
to look after them. Sensible. 1.-Two
Memphis editors emptied revolyers at each
otb ho 9TH DIV Inf tnl,,
were harmed.--The property of the Com
munist who suggested the overthrow of the
Vendome column has been seized upon to nay
for rebuilding it.-The very friendly relations
between Italy and Germany are threatened be-
cause the former government fails to prosecute
the Pope as vigorously as Bismarck would like.
Small bands of Indians on the border of
Kansas are stealing cattle and numbering cti-
zens-The Grant Parish, Louisiana, Ku-Klux
cases have been sent to the U. S. Supreme
Court.--The Heather Chinese cheat in their
silks imported, and now the government of
that country proposes to make it unpleasant
for those who do it.-Hugh Donahue of
Springfield, Mass, has walked 1000 miles in
1000 hours-a mile each hour.--Mr. Under
wood, formerly mayor of Waverly, O., suicided
Saturday because he was found to be a forger
Two boilers of saw mill in Carleton,
Mich, exploded Tuesday, killing five men,
Ex-Gov. Clark of New York accepts the Pro
hibition nomination. -Constaptinople was
stirred up Saturday by an earthquake.
York is considerably interested in hydrophobia,
several persons having died from the bites of
dogs. A leading physician states that persons
are likely to die from that disease when bitten
by any dog.-The Massachusetts Legislature
adjourned Wednesday. decides
for constitutional convention by a large vote
The leading railroad lines from New York
to the West have reduced freights so per cent
and passenger rates very largely.-The inter
est on the bonds of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad was not paid in London
Wednesday. The Erie will assume it.
Mayor Havemeyer has not yet named police
commissioners in the place Of Charlick and
Gardner who go out because convicted for
frauds in the November election The
steamer Faraday, engaged In laying the new
Atlantic cable, is reported to have been struck
by an iceberg off Halifax and is a total wreck.
- The latest-crop reports from the West and
South are of the most flattering character.
%ilton gives up the editorship of the Golden
Age.--Charles E. Conant, chief of the war
rant division Treasury Department. has
been appointed Assistant Treasurer.-T
Social Cotton Mill at Woonsccket, RI, having
100000 spindles and 700 employees were buried
Wednesday afternoon. Loss about $500 900;
insurance $3.50, 000.-It is generally believed
that there is no unusual trouble between our
authorities and Spain.--The general impress.
sion is that the Republicans met with disas-
trous defeat in the recent battles-6OO clerks
have already been removed at Washington