The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-10-01
VARIOUS MATTERS.

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Monday. When they were asked to sign an
agreement not to strike, the greater part re.
fused. Several mills did not have help enough
to start. At one mill the operatives endeav-
ored to force an entrance but failed. Stones
were thrown at the Superintendent. An out
break was feared and the military was held in
readiness. The 32d Regiment was on duty.
Tuesday the operatives concluded to take a
wiser course and attempt to compromise. The
mills are running in part and operatives are
coming forward.
The National council of the order of United
Mechanics has been in session in Boston the
past week. The membership of the order is
10000
Fort Wayne, Ind. growing out of the school
question. There had been quarrel between
the scholars of free school and those OF
Catholic school. The other day the scholars
of the Romish school lit upon the member of
the other and stoned and beat him in hor-
rible manner SO that there is little hope of his
surviving. Their is much bitter feeling.
The agents of the railroads east from Chi
cago have made new tariff upon the basis 30
cents per 100lbs' fourth class freight.
The National Agricultural Congress has been
in session at Cincinnati. 1t tavors the compile
ton of Senator WINDOWS four great water
routes for cheap transportation.
A meeting of labor reformers in Boston
Tuesday evening was remarkable for its in
cendiary speeches Gov CASTOR was denounced
for calling out the military TO preserve order
at Fall River. One speaker proposed to see
Fall River in ashes before concession. A set
of inflammatory resolutions were adopted
The North Carolina Constitutional Conven-
ton by vote of So to 36 has refused to re
remove the political disabilities of ex-
Gov. Holden.
BRIEF MENTION.
A few flakes of snow fell in New Yolk Mon
day.--Edwin Booths arm lies powerless at
his side. His ribs have about healed, but he
will not be able to go upon the stage for long
time.--Mr. GARNER, owner of the yacht Mo-
hawk, accepts the challenge of Benefits yacht
for r ace for a thousand dollar cup--Mem
phis is free from all epidemic diseases.--Ben
Butler is TO address the New York Board of
Trade on finance--The Peekskill from Com
pany has failed. Liabilities $15O000--En-
glehardt won the scull race at Saratoga.--
Drake & Colby, New York, grain merchants,
have failed. "A party of Boston capitalists
are said to contemplate the erection of large
hotel in st. Louis.-Nashville has elected a
Republican Mayor.-The Secretary of the
Treasury has instructed Supervising Architect
Millett to complete the concrete foundations of
the Chicago custom house, and then proceed
with the perstructure.--John V. Barron.
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night at Luke Village, Vt.-The Fourth Ma
tional Bank of Chicago went into liquidation
Saturday. The depositors lose nothing
Police Commissioners Disbecker and Matsell of
New York are accused of protecting panel
houses and gambling and assaultiDg peaceable
citizens when they made complaint.--The
Direct Gable has again parted, this tine about
200 miles from land and in shoal water.--The
Democratic and Republican committees in
Ohio and have agreed that Gen. Woodford of
New York and Gen. Ewing of Ohio shall meet
in joint discussion of the financial issue, COM
mencing at Shawnee on the 30th.-I Nor
rison Harris has accepted the nomination for
Governor of MaryIand.-The large lumber
ing firm o. J. & S. Robson of Winona, Min
nesota, have made an assignment. Their liabil-
tiles stated at 81, $4,000 and their assets at
$35O,OO0.
l FOREIGN.
The London Times says of the new Spanish
ministry that its members belong to what is
the union of the Liberal party formed by
O'Donnell from the best elements of the then
Conservative and Liberal parties, and come
into the cabinet with clean hands and repu.
tation for talent and integrity
severe storm has prevailed in England land
the damage done to buildings in Liverpool is
very great. Many vessels were driven ashore
and some lives lost.
Fifteen hundred Ural Cossacks have been
banished to the penal settlement of Turkeston
for having resisted the new military laws
Many more are likely to go, as those laws meet
much opposition in the Ural colonies.
The recent rains have greatly damaged the
European hop crop.
Recent rains in the canton of Starie have
swollen the river South and its afauents and
caused an inundation in the town of Storis and
the surrounding country.
The Government of Uruguay promises a re.
duction of paper money, reform of taxation,
the creation of national bank and the regu-
lation of the public debt.
Thirteen hundred more troops sailed for
Cuba Saturday.
The Sonora revolution has ended in the total
defeat of the revolutionists.
Robertson Gladstone, brother of the premier,
is dead.
The Bonapartist council which met in secret
session at Arenburg, Switzerland, at the cha
teau of the Empress Eugene, for the purpose
of determining the future policy of the party,
resulted in the following programme: The
Prince Imperial shall undertake in person the
exclusive direction of the Imperialist policy.
The Empress who is unpopular with large
section of the party on account of her pro-
nounced Ultramontanism, has abdicated the
regency, and leaves the young Prince to be
guided by counsels more in accord with the
prevailing sentiment of the party. The Prince
Imperial will be guided wholly by M. Rouher,
thus restoring to prominence in the party the
section which steadfastly opposed all conces-
sions to the constitutional party and disap-
proved of the liberalized policy of M. Emile
Olivier previous to the war of 1870. Should
the party succeed in restoring the Emperor, his
choice of leader leaves DO doubt of his char
acter. 1t will be imperial in the full sense Of
the term, and the council at Arenburg has de-
cided on the constitution of 1852 in all it's vgor
Is the one of their choice.
Spain has demanded Of Guatemala the re.
traction of her recognition of Cuba.
The financial condition of Peru is unimprov-
ed. The President asks 100000 soles. The
banks offered 100000, which the government
refused and threatens to issue paper currency
unless the whole amount is forthcoming.
Advices from st. Thomas to the 18th state
that the recent hurricane did great damage on
all the wind ward islands. The American bark
Minnie Miller and the brig Geo. E. Dale, and
the British brig W. H. Morris were driven
ashore on Barbados. The British ship Goldfish
was ashore on st. Vincent and 10 of her crew
were drowned. The British steamer Barribeau
arrived at st. Thomas the 9th, badly damaged;
her bridge, boats and steering gear were carried
away and she lost part of the crew. The Ameri-
can schooner Wellington, and British brig Dew
onshire went ashore on the Jamacacoast. The
American brig Falcon was towed into Santiago
de Cuba on the 18th dismasted. The British
brig Williams is at Barbados, master and