The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-10-01
THE PRESS.
From the Maine State Press Of Sept. 80, 1875.
History Of Seven Days.
The News for the week ending Wednesday
Might. Sept. %.

The News for the week ending Wednesday
Might. Sept. %.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Secretary of the Treasury has called in
$780,, 5s4 more of legal tenders being 80 per cent
of national bank circulation issued the past
month.
The light house board gives notice that here
after there will be sounded during the thick
and foggy weather on the Pollock Rip light
vessel off Chatham. Mass, twelveinch steam
whistle, giving during each minute blast of
five seconds duration, followed by an interval Of
% seconds, then blast of seconds, followed
by an interval of 80 seconds.
The Court of Alabama claims Commission
ers met Wednesday. 1t has yet large num-
Der of cases to dispose of.
Indian Commissioner Smith is willing to re-
sign.
Secretary Delano it appears rendered his re-
signation OF the Interior portfolio July 9Th in
long letter which is now first made pu bile. In
that letter he sets forth the numerous and deli
cate duties of the Secretary and closes with a
declaration that he has labored honestly for the
public good. The Presidents reply is dated
Sept. %. He accepts the resignation which he
has held since July but says he would not &C.
cept it while the Secretary was suffering from
unjust persecution. He expresses confidence
in Mr.. Delano.
The Indian authorities have been negotiating
f,r the purchase of the Black Hills of the In.
dian tribes who hold it under treaty. A
grand council was held at Red Cloud Agency
the 23d inst More than 1000 Indians were
present armed and painted while some of the
chiefs of the more fierce tribes were nude.
Speeches were made but the general impress
sion was that no treaty can be made. The
Commissioner. however. thinks the country can
be secured for $4,000 600 which he considers a
moderate price.
The September reports of the Departments of
Agriculture says of the corn crop: Could it be
thoroughly rpened its aggregate would exceed
any previous CROP and the yield per acre would
be one of the best, notwithstanding the losses
BY the overflow of the bottoms and satuation
Of heavy, fat soils, such losses proving less than
the usual damages by drouth and insects, while
the rains have greatly benefited the crops on
dryer and higher soils. Nearly everywhere
corn is late in maturing from one to two weeksl
The general high cond ition is still maintained
the average being one per cent, higher than in
August.
The Postmaster General has ordered post
masters not to send money orders to lottery
dealers.
THE TEXAS STORM
Latest advices from Brasbear City dated Sept
% confirm the reports received from Matagor-
do that the town is wholly washed away ex-
oept four houses, which remain. No lives were
lost, the people saving themselves by clinging
to the cedar trees in the vicinity. At Columbia
twenty houses were blown down. No lives re-
ported lost. One man was killed at Chenango
by q falling tree. Many plantations we're dam
aged, some being literally torn to pieces. Sugar
aud gin houses, ferries and everything is partly
or wholly blown away. The losses cannot be
correctly reported. ~
The number of persons known to have lost
their lives between the peninsula and Bernard
is 81. One half or two-thirds of the cattle and
horses are drowned. The bridge at Cedar Lake
is gone. and fences and trees are swept away.
There is a man there who drifted two days and
nights on log. Later information from Trini
ty river Gays that three schooners are high and
dry in the fields near the fork of the Double
and White bayous Ia the Trinity the water
had swept over IL feet above the bank of the
river. From the mouthto Wallsvile the land
is low and swampy. The first house above the
mouth was formerly owned by DR.. Pheaian,
which was occupied by negroes. The house
was entirely carried away and not a vestige of
1t remains There were nine negroes il the
house and eight of them were drowned after
remaining in trees from 10 to 70 hours.
At Wallingsvile every house is more or less
damaged. 1t will take years to rebuild the
town. From the present feeling it is thought
that not many will rebuild. Mayo, who lives
half mile above Wallingville, or Doris Is
land, lost 1900 cattle and fifty horses. His
dwelling was only slightly injured. Mr.. Law
renee, who lives about two miles above Wal
lingville, lost 1900 head of STOCK. Among
them were forty horses. His residence was
very badly damaged.
EASTERN RAILROAD.
The expose of the Boston Journal of the f.
nancial condition of the Eastern Railroad Co.
hassbeen one of the topics of the week. The
stock has been declining for some time and q
Committee has been appointed to look into its
affairs. The Journal puts the debt of the road
at $15,000,000, says its floating debt has been
increased $2,2OO,0O0 within the past year,
charges that its directors "doctored" the figures
to deceive the public and borrow money year
since and finally declares that the corporations
Is bankrupt. This is due to the reckless. pelicy
of its managers. The stock of the road has
keen down to 81 ID, and its bonds down to $40.
Its bad condition is largely due to the amount
of money it has to pay to branches it has leased
or guaranteed 1t is declared that the direc.
tors purchases with corporation funds sufficient
stock of the Maine Central to control it at the
election of the new board last March. 1t is al
80 declared that the Eastern paid as high as
par for some of the Maine Central stock which
can now be purchased at $40 or $50. 1t is said
that the Office of General Manager will be
abolished and other retrenchment measures in.
troduced.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A ruffian named Schsll was lynched at Belle
fontaine, Ohio. last week, for tape.
AhVAAoo ohu 1AosudiCA OpdIk VI 0Cc6u
Island, N. Y, out of work and discouraged,
undertook to commit suicide last week, but
failed.
Charles s. Townsend committed suicide at
Maiden, Mass, Saturday, by taking laudanum.
Schooner Egain sunk on Lake Huron, Wed.
nesday night Two men were lost.
John Gebow, Salem boy aged IA, accident
ally hung himself while playing in rope fac
tory. He was dead when found.
Capt W. p A. Stranchan of the steamer
City of Hudson, plying between Catskill and
Albany, committed suicide Saturday forenoon,
by shooting himself with a revolver while
seated on his mothers grave in the Episcopal
cemetery at Athens, New York. Since the re.
cent robbery on his boat be has been depressed
In spirits, and this is thought to be the cause
OF the act. 9.
The Cincinnati police found child locked
up in barn in that city recently, SO nearly
starved that he lived but few hours after be-
Ing discovered. His father and mother have
been arrested. The father justifes his conduct
on the ground that the boy was an idiot.