The Portland daily press., 1874-12-18
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

A New Orleans special states that the Re-
publicans boast that kellogg is reorganizlng
the metropolitan police and the militia, the
latter to be under General Frank Heron. The
White League have again resolved to maintain
order.
The house and farm buildings of Fisher Dud-
ley at Newport N. H., were burned yesterday
morning. Loss $1,000; no insurance.
The house, tobacco sheds, and outbuildings or
Rufus Cook, at Hadley, Mass, were burned by
an incendiary fire Wednesday night. Loss
1000; partially insured. l
John A. Altman, superintendent OF coal
mine in Pittsburg, was fired upon and fatally
wounded w edneSday. The employees were on
strike and he was inspecting the mine at the
time. .-- ... zrr =
A woman trying to escape from a New York
policeman, Wednesday afternoon, fell from the
roof to the sidewalk, five stories, and died in
half an hour, r,
George Wardman, IS years old, was drow
day. He broke through the ice while skati ng
No assistance was within reach. The body has
not been recovered.
Mr.. Huntington of the Central Pacific rail-
road, says that the alleged contract with a
new Pacific steamship company has not been
signed.
The storm which has been raging in the Bay
of Blscay for several days, continues undated.
Many boats and over seventy persons are miss
ing from Santander. No foreign mails have
been received there for eight days.
A Kentucky Judge has declared the decision
OF the state contesting board in declaring one
Jones ineligible to hold office in consequence OF
violating the law against duelllng, inconsistent
and void. The District Attorney has appealed
from the decision of the Judge.
Ubassy beat Dion at billiards in New York
Wednesday-1000 TO $40.
There was a heavy fall of snow ia the north
ern section of France, Wednesday. In An
gers. department of Marine ct LOIRE the roof
.vx1k n, Ctnfn bn
weight of the snow, gave way, causing the
death and injury OF many persons.
The brewery of Hass & Powell at Riverside,
ILL.,, was burned yesterday morning. Loss $780,
900.
the Nova Scotia Assembly, died yesterday.
A telegram from Sydney, Nova Scotia, says
it is thought that the crew of the brig G. j..
Troope is still on the wreck. The sea is going
down and their rescue will be attempted to-
day.
was arrested and committed to jail yesterday,
to await trial for alleged malicious libel on the
pastor of the First Presbyterian church of that
city, which appeared in the New York Sun OF
the 9TH inst.
The Vicksburg bar pronounce the letter of
Judge Brown of the court, to the effect that
an armed mob mob melaced him or COMPEL ed
the adjournment of the court as false.
The body of man, supposed to be one OF the
crew of the schooner Petts, was FOUND on the
Connecticut shore yesterday.
An Havana letter of the 18th says that the
captain of the American brig Sarah, from Car
diff, complains that the Spanish consul at Car
diff exacted a fee from him of e6, being about
five cents per ton of coal, before he would
clear him for Havana
The specie in the Bank of France has in
creased S,221 900 francs during the present
week.
A London despatch says the British, Swedish
and Norwegian boards of Trade are considering
treaty, by which the Baltic fisheries will be
mutually protected.
New strikes are threatened among the miners
of England. Pisa
Haytien advices state that the treaty with
San Domingo, upon traffic between the two
nations, the Haytien government paying an an
nual indemnity of $4,000. The rainy season
has set in and consequently no coffee is received
from the interior. .es SIS