The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-29
MINOR TELEGRAMS.


at sea, have arrived at London.
California Democratic state convention will
be held at San Francisco June ~.
The report of the loss of steamer iI Puget
Sound is contradicted.
The President and wife will accompany Fred.
Grant aad wife to New York, Thursday.
The Methodist Episcopal Conference of
Philadelphia, having appointed Rev. Geo. Nc
Laughlin to look after the welfare OF Hancock
street church, Notwithstanding the protests of
the trustees, The latter have closed the church,
and conference will bel held this week to
settle the matter.
Carruth's condition is improving.
John Mullins has been bound over at Man
chester, N. H., for perjury in declaring himself
a naturalzed citizen.
a we'll known New York lawyer named Abe
Hummel has been dlsbalred for bribing a
magistrate.
The Pottsvifle miners have become turbulent,
and are destroying property.
The bill passed by the Delaware Legislature
to meet the civil rights bill has become law.
1t does not mention color, but provides that
hotel keepers, railroad companies, steamboat
owners and others may provide separate ac-
commodations for any class of persons OBJ
noxious to their customers or passengers.
j. w. Steventon has been arrested at Harris
burg, Pa, charged with inhuman treatment of
his wife and the brutal outrage of his daughter,
aged fifteen years.
Among those invited by Senator Cameron to
accompany the Mexican excursion party are
Senators Morton, Allison, Anthony, Ransom,
and Vice President Wilson.
The schooner Early Bird, from New York to
ST. Augustine Florida, is ashore on the beach
at Townsend's Inlet, New Jersey.
l.. Bryan, who was to have been hung Friday
at Morehead City, was respited till September
by the Governor of North Carolina All the
of}so in fha MT bad raSiUnad tbay
do the hanging.
The furnishing goods house of Simms
Brothers & Co. of Boston has suspended;
liabilities $350,0O0 An extension is probable.
Van Vezer who absconded with 1913, 900
belonging to the Hudson River Railroad, has
been brought to New York.
Patrick Book has been convicted of murder
in the first degree at Virginia City, Montana
the first conviction of the kind 10 Montana.
Frazier, a negro murderer has been respited
from hanging by the Governor OF South Caro-
lima.
The friends of Gov. Osborne of Kansas deny
that his business in coming east is to sell fraud
uent county bonds. Gov. Osborne is in Wash
ington solely for the purpose of trying to Sc
cure the removal of Indian Superintendent
Hoag of this district, and this charge of com.
-plicity in bond ffrssgY,ds was probably made
agsiseSt-tin aG this particular juncture to en-
barass him in this undertaking.
The general passenger agents held a meet
ing Friday night in Chicago, and agreed to meet
their managers at Cleveland the Both inst.
The Lemoyne -Farwell contested election case
in Illinois has been dropped, and Mr.. Farwell
remains the Representative from the third Con-
gressional district.
One night last week the court house at Gale
ma Mo- was broken into and all the indict-
ments stolen. The sheriff undertook to arrest
a number of men supposed to have been engag-
I a. - h,,fo Of a fub in vphi
man was killed, the sheriff desisted. The two
parties are now watching each other
Louis A. Middleton, editor of the West Point
Miss, Times, was shot and killed by ID. l..
Love- editor of the Citizen, whom he had libel
led.
The Virginia Senate has voted to expel Ora
ham, implicated in the naval cadetshIp scan
dial.
Ship Thomas Boyne Of Halifax, has bee lost
at sea-
Steamer Lizzie Rea struck snag and sunk
of Shreveport Saturday. Vessel and cargo
total loss The second engineer was drowned.
Orders for the arrest of ten more ku- klux in
Todd county KY, have been issued apd the
sheriff has gone to execute the orders.
Gen. Augur has assumed command at New
Orleans.
w. S. Graves and DR.. E. B. Sparkam were
arraigned ct Brockville, Cam, for murder by an
attempted abortion. -.---..---..
The interest on the coupons of the Whining
ton & Reading railroad due April LIST, will not
be paid.
james Crombe, we'll known Nashua build
er, died yesterday.
The grand jury has found four indictments
against Harris, charged with setting the recent
fire at the Lebanon Shaker settlement
The Ashland, Pa, Savings Bank has sus-
pended.
Tony Dixon, an old negro gardener of Mem
pbis, Tenn, was shot Saturday by colored
bow named Nathan Hackett, whom he bad
discharged. Another man attempted to inter-
fere when he was shot and fatally injured. A
crowd of negroes then gathered ard shot Hack
EFT and then arrested him.
John Hagenback, Bowery bar tender, was
fatally stabbed Saturday night by an unknown
man.
The waste mill of P. G. Cheney & Co., at
Amoskeag, D. H., was damaged by fire yester-
day. Loss $1,000.