The Portland daily press., 1875-03-12

InuTSduy.
The heavy snow storm Wednesday blocked
the railways and seriously impeded uavei.
Immense masses of thick ice were forced into
the head of Long Island Sound, and thirteen
steamers were stuck fast for whole day.
The Italian bark Giovanni from Palermo for
BOSTON. went ashore on Cape Cod Thursday.
Every person on board, sixteen in all, persisted.
Some Americans who visited the wreck found
wine there, and three of them managed to
drink themselves to death.
Seven vessels went ashore between Sandy
Neck Light and Sandwich Thursday morning.
The bark Pequot, built in Bddeford and
owned in Newcastle, has been wrecked off the
east of Moosic.
1t is reported from Farquaher Co. Va, that
on Saturday last colored man named Haynes
went to the house of his master. between
Markham ard Piedmont streets, and seizing a
Ratchet made murderous assault upon the IN
mates the woman and her two children, cut
ting and slashing them terribly. The woman
fought him from the house to straw rack
near by, where the fight was ended by her
splitting his head open with an axe, stretching
him dead at her feet. The woman was hurt
seriously and the children SO badly that they
will probably die.
A specia from st. John, Newfoundland. to
the Tribune, says the ship Violetta from France
to st. Pierre laden with salt and sugar, was
abandoned in the ice Tuesday last, in st. Ma
rvs bay. The captain ard crew were saved.
People from shore went to save the ship, but
a northeast gale scattered the ice and twenty
of them we're lost and twenty-five of them
were missing.
John Tucker was killed at Dover, N H.,
Saturday, while attempting to get on moving
train.
Heavy snow storms are reported at several
points west and the snow is so deep that a sud-
den thaw would cause damaging freshets.
Mr.. Benjamin M. Upham, young man by
whose testimony two men were recently SEN
fenced to state prison, was assaulted Saturday
night while passing over Chelsea bridge in Bos-
ton, beaten, stabbed and thrown into the river
| by an unknown would be-assassin. He man
aged to crawl upon cake of floating ice from
| which he was rescued an hour later in an ex-
hausted state. His assailants escaped.
A Mrs Evans of New Haven during fit of
insanity Saturday cut her own throat and the
threats of her two children. She will die, but
the children may recover.
Edward Yost Waterman in the Wells bank
| ing house in Johnstown, Michigan, was found
murdered and his body horribly charred with
| fire Saturday morning, he having been robbed
and the chamber set on fire. No clue to the
| murderers, whe did not reach the banks safe.
| The Gloucester Fishing fleet experienced a
| severe snow storm and gale at George Bank on
the Sd inst. and were obliged to return home on
| account of the disaster.
| Great hardships are reported by the crews of
the ice-bound Provincetovn fleet.
In New Hampshire liquor saloons have been
| despoiled by crusaders who call themselves
| temperance Ku-klux.
| Monday night girl named Tierney, aged
sixteen, stabbed a boy in Church street, Chi
cago named Fisher, and aged II, cutting close
to his heart and penetrating his lung. He will
die. She claimed that he seduced her.
Six men seized Samuel S. Gage on the plat
| form of q New York horse car Monday night,
| in front of the Astor House, held his arms,
| rifled his pockets and coolly walked away.
| The schooner Alert of Provincetown drifted
ashore at Growers Head, Winthrop, Monday
forenoon. Her anchors are gone and there are
L uO tlOluSS VI Iuo CIcWs LuO NCscOl VIA w .
| total loss.
BRIEF MENTION.
Several cases of refusal to accord negroes
| their rights under the civil rights bill are re-
ported. Republican state con-
venton will be held at Lancaster, May Goth.
4 -Sharkey, the murderer, arrested in Havana
has been released.-Freight and passenger
l rates to the Pacific have been doubled.-The
Maine delegation in Congress presented Speak
| or Blaine with a silver gavel.-The Black
Hills invaders are reported TO be starving
| The Cape Cod railroad is blockaded with snow.
The Alabama legislature has expelled ne
gro for offering to do certain things in his leg
slative capacity for $300.-The President
has signified his intention of attending the
Centennial at Concord.-Fast day in Con-
nectIcut March 26th--CoDgressman W.
| S. King implicated in the Pacific Mail Subsidy
bribery has turoed up in New York A U
| S. commissioner has decided that the civil
rights bill does not apply to bar rooms.-A
} concerted attempt to squeeze the gold market
in New York Saturday, failed uttery.-A. j.
Crane, late collector of internal revenue in the
third Vermont district has been sentenced to
| IS months Imprisonment and fine of $4,000
for embezzlement--Heavy snow storms are
reported in the West-Ssnator Wright de-
clines reelection on account of ill health and
business engagements Henry M.
| Field, wife of the editer of the N. Y. Evange-
list, and we'll known in literary circles, is
dead.--Dr. DeKoven's friends think he will
be Observation-Disclosures McCloskey of New
| York is to be made a cardinal.
FOREIGN
President Mcmahon has succeed in forming
cabinet.
/ In consequence of the last encyclical of the
/ Pope the government has introduced In the
Prussan Chamber of Deputies bill with
| drawing State endowments from the Catholic
clergy and providing for their restoration only
| to those Bishops who will bind themselves by a
formal document to obey the laws.
Advices from Asia Minor state that the
famine in that country is causing terrible dis
tress. In one district 10000 persons have died.
| The population before the famine was $1,000
| 1t is reported from Calcutta that the British
| troops in India are to be held in readiness for
active service. 1t is suggested that this points
to a war In Europe.
| The first business taken up after the new
Senators were sworn in was Mr.. Morton's reso
luton for the admission of Pinchback. De-
bate has been In progress for several day., but
there is no present prospect of vote. Tues
| day the standing committees were announced
| and the following changes were made in the
| chairmanships of the various committees:
| Conkling has the committee on commerce, in
| place of Chandler; Hamlin on post-ofices in
| place of Ramsey; Oglesby on public lands in
| place of Sprague Ingalls, on pensions, in place