The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-09
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Washington had coed sleighing Saturday.
John Henry Fuller of the Toledo City Bank,
is defaulter to the amount of $4,000 He
has been arreseed and his property seized
James Aid and B. L. Duffis have been con-
victed at Charleston. s. g., OF the murder of
Harry West in July last. The jury were COM
posed of black men of the most ignorant class,
as they would be free from preju' ices created
by newspaper reports
The ship Sandusky of New York, loaded
with cotton, was burned at Mobile, Sunday.
The examination of the bodies of Chang and
Eng will take place in the College of physi-
clans at Philadelphia to-day.
The revolution in Yucatan is gaming
strength.
DR. E. NJ Hatch, Superintendent of the
Connecticut Reform School, died Saturday.
Albert NJ Case fatally shot himself ia Hart
ford while handling pistol, and Willie White
was badly wounded by a companion with
pistol.
Saturday morning was the coolest of the sea-
sou at Hartford-ten below zero.
Advces from Sumatra show that the Ashe-
nese chiefs still hold out and are building forts
in the interior.
ternal Revenue at Lynchburg, Va, has run
away with 100000.
A large aDt-Catholic meeting was held in
Berlin Saturday, by members of the Reichstag
and Lantag and other prominent public men.
Tim National Centennial Musical League of
Philadelphia has voted to issue circular ask
ing the aid of all musical societies for the Elk
position.
The Attorney General of Illinois has brought
suits against the Chicago & Alton Railroad
Co. for the violation of the last legislature. 1t
Is the first suit under it.
The Chinese authorities closely inspect all
outward bound vessels for cool es.
lnjunctions have been put upon the sale of
the seized property of the New jersey South
ern Railroad The property was seized by the
Delaware & Lackawanna Coal Co., which has
no right to it.
Hon. John M. Earle, leading citizen of
Worcester, and fifteen years since editor of
the spy died Sunday, aged rs years and 10
months.
The gathered hog crop of Cincinneti to this
time is 564, S17 against 592,S last year.
A collision took place ON the Rome, Water
town & Ogdensburg Railroad, Saturday, near
Rensellear Falls, n. Y, caused by the detatch-
ing of cars which the conductor went back af-
ter and while gone the passenger train was al
lowed to go on. No one killed or badly iniur
ed.
DR.. Henry Miller, President of the Louisville.
Ky, medical college, died Sunday, aged 70.
Samuel CransUon, a contractor, was killed.
and Ira Wright, conductor, and VIM. Van
Brager, were injured by the RAILROAD accident
on the Rensellar & Saratoga Railroad Satur-
day.
OH has been introduced in the New York
Assembly for the consolidation of the cities of
New York and Brooklyn, but it attracts no at
'ention' being deemed impracticable.
band of masked men visited the house of
MI carter in Montgomery county, Ky, Satur-
gay last, and shot little boy, the only person
a letter containing $15,O0Osin bonds, but not
addressed, awaits the owner in the Brooklyn
post Office.
y, "A pure liquor law introduced in the New
YORK Assembly Friday prohibits the making Of
any imitation or counterfeits of the various
liquors, wines and beer, under penalty of not
more more than one years Imprisonment and fine
OF not more than $500.