The Portland daily press., 1874-11-24
FOR e q N.
Great Fire in CrOnstadt Russia.
Over 800 Houses Burned and Is.
200 People Homeless.

LONDON, Nov. 23.-Despatches from st. Pet
ers give account of the contiagration in Cron-
stadt, and report that letters were found threat
ening like calamities in other cities No clue
to the incendiaries has been discovered. There
was much apprehension IN the capital. @-
: New YORK, Noy % The disastrous fire re-
feferred to in a cable despatch occurred prior to
Nov. 9TH Nine squares or blocks Of houses
including the Gastlnni d wor or Bazaar, were
completely destroyed. skf4FEeR AiF
The mass of houses thus laid in ashes were
inhabited by $1,000 people. The buildings con-
sisted of 101 wooden and Is stone houses, one
church, two ckapels, fifty shops in the Gaslnni
D'wor and 70 shops attached to the marine bar
racks. The misery and destitution will be fear
full. Committees are forming in st. Petersburg
to assist the nfferers. Cronstadt has no water
works.
lCronstadt is seaport town 20 miles west of
st. Petersburg. Two thirds of the commerce
of Russia passes through the town. The pop
ulation of the town in 1858 is put down at 90
116, but in summers is much larger than dur
ing winters, numbering more than 10000 in the
warm season, including large garrison.] {" q
Various Russian Affairs. se lsl
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. PA serious dis
turbance has been created in the medical acad-
envy of the University of st. Petersburg. One
professor was compelled to resign. The police
were called in and order restored. n.
Reports received here from the Russian adj
vanced posts, state that the Turcomans recent
ly attacked the towns on the Caspian sea, killed
eighty men and carried off $50 women and
children into slavery. The Russian .roops
pursued the marauders but without oVertaking
them
the re-occppation of the Khiva, although Gen.
Kaufman advises such step. - -
I November Fog.
LONDON Nov 23.-A dense fog enveloped
the south Of England Saturday and Sunday,
and many casualties are reported. Navigation
on the Thames was dangerous and steamboats,
suspended their trips for two days. At Liver
pool boats ceased plying between the ferries
Railway accidents occurred at Wolverhampton,
Shrewsbury and elsewhere. Two trains collid.
ed at Newport in Monmouthshre, and fourteen
personf We're injured. -ffnmsa enes az
Whats Name. D. -.l.,,
The infant son of the Duke of Edinburg
was baptized to day receiving the name Of
Albert Alexander Alfred Ernest William. The
sponsors were Queen Victoria. the Emperor of
Russia, who was represented by the Czarowitch,
the German Emperor represented by the Duke
of Counaught, the Prince of Wales, the Crown
Princess of Germany and the Duke of Sake
Coburg. 1888 ~ 7-f4 a-4 E31fl Z AfiE
gs sB7f8 The Won Arnim Affair. %. g
The editor of the Berlin Tageblatt, who is
also one OF the proprietors, announces that q
person intimately connected with Count Won
Armin offered him $35, 900 August the 18th for
the privilege of influencing the editorials of
that journal. Three indictments have been
laid against the Frankfort Gazette, growing
out OF the Arnim affair.
&AA The Carlist War. q
MADRID. Nov. 23-Marshal Serrano will 90
to the north next month for the purpose of ex-
peditng operations against the Carlists. The
government has eXiled two generals and sever
al civilians known to be partizans of Prince
Alphonzo, son of ex-Queen Isabella. Other
persons are to be sent into exile for the same
reason. All the congratulatory kilograms sent
from this country to Isabella on the occasion of
the anniversary of her birthday wherein she
was styled your Majesty" were stopped. A
vigorous censorship over all dispatches is still
maintained throughout the republic.
Church and State.
MONTREAL, Nov 23.-The excitement over
the Guibord case is considerable. Father Rous.
selot, cure in the parish, announced in the
church of Notre Dame yesterday the decision
of the Priyy Council He intimated that the
deceased will probably be buried in uncouse
Grated ground in the principal cemetery. In
the event of the interment being ordered on
consecrated ground. he declared that mon
strous iniquity would be perpetrated, and Sc
rious invasion would be made on the rights and
privileges of the Roman Catholic Church. He
than to bury Guibord in the consecrated ground.
Close Of Navigation.
OTTAWA, Nov. 23.-Naviga is closed and
several vessels on their way to the city with
general cargoes, have been frozen on the canal.
All the tugs and lumber barges are laid up for
the season, and the shipping of lumber by wa
ter entirely ceased.
st-L4 Lucky Pcddler.
ST.. JOHN, Nov. 23.-The Globe says the heir
of the Jameson estate in Scotland, worth e70O,-
600 to 81 ,000,0 600. has been discovered here in
the person of John w. Jameson a Young man
in poor circumstances, recently employed in
peddling stationery.
In the case of Pale killed by Blair, the coro
ner's 1nry found verdict of murder TAT