The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17
"A Scandal.

Stevens. but 1t was decided not to publish it
u il he had been submitted to Mr.. Tilden. 1t
is published in full in the Times.
A Scandal.
Jersey City is agitated by social scandal, in
which the pastor of fashionable church and
young lady organIst are the principal actors.
The church is known as the Prospect Avenue
Presbyterian church, and the pastor. whose
name is John 5. Glendenning, is young man
of q years. The ladys name is Miss Annie
Pomeroy. The parties are said at one time to
have been engaged, but the engagement was
broken Off Last night the reverend gentleman
was arrested on the charge of bastardv AID add
united to bail in $1,000 On being confronted
with the girl, Glendenning was asked if he
would marry her but declined, and exclaimed
that he could furnish un enable proof that fix
of the leading members of the congregation had
been as intimate with her as he. A warrant
was issued on complaint of Miss Pomeroy that
she is en- ciente. and that Glendenning is the
father of the expected offspring
General BUSINESS,
The disastrous fire in Chicago awakened a
feeling of anxiety in the dry goods trade, The
cond ton of the market for cotton goods is es-
seutially unchanged ID prices rule firm at
current asking rates. There is considerable ac-
tivity in cotton falnels, which were taken in
fair parcels by New England and Western Job
bers, and bleached shirtings of low and medium
g AIDES are again more freely dealt in. Dull
is still the prevailing characteristic of the
market for imported goods, of which indeed
the movement is light There is, however. no
abatement of confidence in an early and active
AL business, a feeling shared by importers and
jobbers alike
The warm weather lately prevailing has en-
abed the jobbers and retailers to get rid of a
considerable amount of light dress fabrics, the
supply of which is by no means excessive.
The stolen Child.
The Philadelphia Press announces that late
last MO hf ppa M ifs learned that ba
missing child of Christian K. Ross of German
town, had been found, and one of his abductors
captured.
Executions A gainst the Erie Railroad.
1t is stated that the Supreme Court of this
ate having decided that the guarantee of the
Erie Railroad Company of $5,000,000 of bonds
of Boston, Hartford & Erie Railroad Company
is valid and that the Erie Company is liable,
executions for some of the holder' of bonds
have been placed in the hands of the sheriff TO
attach the locomotives and cars of the Erie
Railroad Company.
Monument to Father Matthews.
A com mittee of Fether Matthew AID Roman
Catholic Societies this evening elected Rev DIR.
McGlynn to the leadership of the movement
now on foot for the erection of monument to
Father Matthews, and resolution was passed
authorizing him to appoint two members from
each society to assist him ip carrying out the
work. DR.. McGlInn pledged himself to make
tut iHOftutub q sutCtoS. uc COHSOt-
ed besides that promised is about $2500.
The Hydrophobia Scare.
The jury of leading physicians, seie cted to in
quire into the case of Mccormick who died by
hydrophobia met again last nj sht and discussed
the features of the case, but could not agree as
to verdict to be rendered. DR.. Hammond ex
pressed the opinion that other causes than the
bite of dog contributed to the death of Nc
Cormick.
Various Matters.
The Jury in the Mallinger arson case tried in
general sessions to day failed to agree on q ver-
dict and were discharged.
Cyrus F. Smith, president of the Union Ferry
Company, says that 10 the five years past two
hundred million passengers have been trans
ported between New York and Brooklyn with
out the loss of single life through the careless
Less of the company or its employees.
The Custom House authorities have seized
$4,000 worth of diamonds belonging 10 Solo
mon Citwhagen, passenger on board of the
Westphalia. who is charged with attempting TO
smugele item in his baggage
Private dispatches say that the French gov
eminent has dismissed from service Captain LIE
Marie late commander of the steamer Europe,
and Captain Rousseau, late of the steamer
America
Don Juan Bellido de Luna, editor of the
Cuba organ, La INDEPENDENTS was held to bail
yesterday in $1,000 for sending challenge to
Don jose FerIer de Canto, editor of the Spanish
paper Ell Cronista. The challenge was accept
ed and the meeting was to take place in
| Canada.
Mayor Havemeyer says the charges against
| the Commissioners of Charities and Correction
ale proved groundless, the Commissioners of
| Accounts having found their transactions all
| straight.
The formal commitment of Kate Stoddard
| and Mrs. Dwyer to the lunauc asylum was to-
| day put in the hands of the Sheriff
| PhiIetus III. Holt, for fifty years prominent
merchant died yesterday. He was born at New
| Bedford.
| One of the large water mains lying in tie be i
| of the Hackensack River, for the supply of
| Jersey City reservoir, burst o-day. No incon-
yenience is apprehen led.
| While four boys, Charles Boyer, Daniel Wiki
| inson, Martin X. Krke and Alfred Winters
| were swimming in Loug Island Sound, near
| Glen Cove, last evening, Wilkinson became ex-
| hausted or was seized with cramp Winters
| and Kirke went to his rescue when be violently
! clutched both, and they were unable to free
themselves from his grasp all three were
| drowned.
Mayor Havemeyer stated this afternoon that
! he would not give his answer 10 the press until
| after copy of it reached the hands of Gov
| Dix
A motion was made to-day to Justice Law
renee, in the Supreme Court Chambers, for an
injunction and receiver in the case OF Samuel