The Portland daily press., 1874-07-08
Riot About a Circus.
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General Thamas Hillhouse har been re-ap-
pointed United States Snb-Treasurer at New
York.
The Sioux in Dakota are growing trouble
some since the departure of General Custar
and are running eff cattle in sight of the
forts.
The Earl Dalhousie died in London Monday,
aged 70 years.
The Vierna Free Press asserts that the King
of Bavaria will not visit Prince Bismarck at
kissengen.
Dockray is still in Jail in Cuba, bur hopes to
be released as soon as his trial lakes place.
A Salt Lake despatch says there was a
heavy lightning storm there Sunday night,
which damaged General Clements house, and,
it is reported there was loss of Life in the neigh
borhood.
VIM. Johnston a burglar, at Yellow Spring,
o., made murderous assault Monday upon
the town marshal, Hammelin, who in self-de-
fence killed Johnston.
President Howe, of the Chicago Board of
Trade, left New YORK Tuesday for Boston and
Portland, at which latter city he is to meet the
officers of the National Board of Trade.
The internal revenue receipts yesterday were
| $179,12S.
BY a collision on the Lancashire railway in
England, Tuesday morning, five persons were
killed and several wounded.
The steamship Idaho brought 700 Mormon
immigrants Monday, on their way to Utah,
accompanied by eight missionaries They are
| mostly from Scandinavia.
| The freight agents of the western roads have
voted to increase the tariff on cattle to 80 cents
| per 100 pounds, and other freight is to be in
creased.
The schooner Fannie Hazard, from Clinton
Point, ID udSoD river, with moulding sand for
| Exeter, n. H., foundered in Massachusetts
I. Bay on Sunday during gale. All hands were
saved and landed at Ipswich.
| Parkhurst the astronomer. says that from
the latest observations of the comet, the earth
| will barely escape a collision.
Miss Carrie Ostrarder, one of the injured in
| the Baptist church disaster at Syracuse, June
23d, died Monday night, making the fourteenth
victim.
| The commissioners of st. Paul county,
Mimi, Monday appropriated $4,000 for the re-
lief of the sufferers by the grasshopper plague.
| Alexander II. Stephens has announced his
| determination not to be a candidate for re-
| election to Congress, on account of failing
health. If he does not improve during the
| summer, he will resign his seat in the present
| Congress. He 1850 feeble from rheumatism as
not to be able to be out of doors but twice the
| last six weeks.
Retz q Bushs planning mill at Fort Wayne,
Ind, was burned yesterday Loss $4,000.
"a, A gang of smugglers have been arrested at
| Wilmington, Del.
|
a few days since to set fire to the Lowel( Mass.
workhouse. She is to be tried for the oifense,
An autopsy took place before the funeral of
Mr.. Marshall of Concord, N. H.. shot July
4th. In extracting tie ball it was found not to
| be bruised or 1attened. SO that it is thought
that it could not have struck anything before
entering the body.
Base ball at Observation-Disclosures Is, Phla-
delphias 2.
The New York prohbtionists will issue an
| appeal and make thorough canvass
AT the Long Branch races yesterday, the
horse Village Blacksmith dslocated his fetlock
and is ruined. The race was won By the horse
Tom Bowlegs.
Advces from northern Texas say that the
| crops are very fair.
The steamer Belle Of Jefferson exploded
three mas from Jefferson, Mo-, yesterday and
is total loss. Several persons were scalded
| and two colored men drowned.
P. NJ. Crystal a wealthy citizen of Long Is
land is missing. He is supposed to have beeu
| murdered.
DIR. j. r. Jennings of Nashville, Tenn. com
mitted suicide at hotel at Narraganset Pier
yesterday morning.
Base ball at New York-Yales IL, Princetons
/ 3.
Base Ball at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 5, At
| lantics 2.
Bishop Whelan of Wheeling West Va, died
at Baltimore yesterday.