The Portland daily press., 1875-06-14
News and Other Items.

The trotting mare Volunteer Maid is dead.
Leland Sanford of San Francisco, has about
$4,000, 900 to look out for.
Jesse Woodson, colored, has been arrested at
Nashville for the murder of Mrs. w. r jarrett
Gen. Forsyth's expedition up the Yellow
Stone has arrived at Bismarck on its return
1t is stated that the new Atlantic cable
worked very successfully all day Friday.
The Nebraska constitutional convention has
adjourned sine die.
Mr.. Pullman is making arrangements to
introduce his palace cars on the Italian rail-
roads.
The police of Havana have arrested six per-
sons in the act Of preparing counterfeit tax re.
ceipts and lottery tickets.
Gen. Sheridan's wedding lost part of its
sweetness by the misdeeds of Chicago gamins,
who stole the best part of the supper.
James Gordon Bennett of the New York
Herald, will return from Europe this month,
with four $4,000 pointer dogs and some choice
English horses.
John H. wilkins, an Englishman, was killed
on the Pawtucket Valley Railroad Saturday
morning by the caving of a bank. He arrived
five weeks ago from England, where he leaves
wife and eight children.
Justice Wood of the court of Queens bench,
Manitoba, in charge to the grand jury recent
", assaulted the Ottawa government He said
the Dawson route was a delusion and snare
and the Pembina route no better.
Edward A. Mason, a highly respected cti-
zen of Georgetown. Mass, committed suicide
by hanging Friday evening Dependency is
Thought to have been the cause of the act.
He was thirty-six years of age, and leaves
wife and three children. He was a member
of the Grand Army, Masons and knights of
Pythias.
The Superior Court in New York, has just
decided curious case. Goods worth about
$4,000 were lost on the French steamer France.
The owner sued for recovery and was met by
the claim that the goods were being Struggled.
The law decided that that fact did not alter the
case at all, for there is no right to question the
purpose and certainly if the goods were lost
they were not struggled.
An Indiana paper counts chickens Matched
and to be Matched, as follows: "In addition to
the large crop of honors recently conferred on
this state by the appointment OF Mr.. Orth as
Minister to Austria, Mr.. Tyner to be Assistant
Postmaster General, Mr.. Pratt to be Revenue
Collector, acd Mr. Shanks to be Indian Agent
there is fair prospect that Mr.. Hendricks and
Mr.. Morton will be the candidates for Presl-
dent, and Mr.. Kerr the next Speaker OF the
House of Representatives"
Strange as it may seem, grangers are getting
into raiioad offices. Their highest officer,
Worthy Master Dudley w. Adams, has lately
been elected President of the Waukon, Des
Mones and Breckenridge narrow gauge rail
road in Iowa, while Past Worthy Master Saur-
ders. who is chairman of the executive
committee of the National Grange, was recent
" made Vice President of horse railroad COM
pany in Washington. If such cases happened
to members Of old parties, reformers might pos
sibly hint that they were bought over.
An interesting but melancholy discovery was
made the other day at the foot of Mont Blanc.
A block of ice, separated from the mass of the
mountain by the thaw, rolled down Into the
valley Upon closer inspection it was found to
contain enclosed the remains of the American
John Blackford who about three years since
attempted au ascent and had never since been
heard Of He evidently met with his death on
that occ ASTON, and has since lain in the cod
crystalline coffin, which has preserved his body
and clothing admirably. When found his Tea
lures were unchanged, and he might have
breathed his last only half an hour before.