The Portland daily press., 1875-03-22
For New England,
MINOR TELEGRAMs

The body of Daniel Sullivan of Rockport,
| Mass. was taken from the river at Providence,
| YESTERDAY. He came there at Christmas to
visit his sister, and has been missing since the
night after Christmas.
Colonel J. w. Feban, well-known in con-
nection with the Santo Domingo scheme, is
dead.
A dozenpolice officers have been sent from
PHILADELPHIA to the rivers around Maach
Mauch Chuuck, to assist in protecting the
property from Molly Maguires
A committee of the Virginia Senate has re-
ported in favor of expelliDg Graham for his
connection with the recent naval cadetship
| scandal.
Ben Butler has written to a colored man in
Cincinnati that he does not think barber shops
come under the civil rights law.
Two steamboat men were bound over at New
Orleans, Saturday ON charge of violating the
| civil rights law.
A letter has been received in Lowell, Mass,
from California, stating that man who died
there on the 9th inst, bequathed so 1000 to four
equally, two of whom are mill girls In that
city.
The Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Eliza
beth, N. j.. has failed. There is no money in
the treasury for creditors.
The Central Pacific Railroad has declared a
dividend of six per cent.
Mrs. Lima Foster of Edgefeld Co., S. c., was
murdered Saturday, by unknown parties, while
her husband was at work in the field.
Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage telegraphs Moody
and Sankey that he cannot go to Eng He
says there is great awakening in bis own
church.
Sharkey will be delivered to the United
States.
The New York Post says the trade reports of
last week were much better than expected, the
only impeachment to good business having
been the unreasonable weather, but even this
did not diminish business as much as expected.
All is quiet at the Steubenville, Ohio, Mines
The terms of the Louisiana compromise will
not be announced till the meeting OF the Le2Is-
lature.
The office. of the chancery clerk at Vicks-
burg, has been broken into and the papers
tempered with,
|. Two freight trains on the Grand Trunk rail-
road collded near the Lachine canal, Friday
smashing two engines ard a number OF cars,
and seriously injuring one of the engineers.
The railroads in Canada are still blockaded
with snow.
The liabilities of the lumber firm of Geo. b.
James & Co., of Boston, are 81, 300, 000
Henry S. Roberts has been indicted in Bos-
ton for embezzng the funds of the First Ward
National Bank of Boston, of which he was
cashier.
E. e. Stevens, travelling agent for Hapgood,
Earrar u Co., boots ana SnOeS, bOSlOn, GULL
mtted suicide at New Haven, Saturday.
The entire tribe of Shubit Indians were bap-
TIED into the Mormon church at Salt Lake,
Utah, Friday.
The Arcadlan from this port has arrived at
Halifax. She experienced very heavy weather
Thursday.
Mrs. Avail Goss of Amherst, N. H., the Oldest
person in the state, died Saturday morning at
the age of 105 years, one month and nlnteen
days.
Henry Varley, the London Evangelist,
preached in New York last night to an audi
ence numbering about $1,000
Three men attempted to rob the ST. Nicholas
Bank in New York, Saturday morning, but
they were frightened off by the Waterman.
The Australian government has promised
g25OO to defray the expenses of its representa-
at the Philadelphia Centennial.
The gold field of New Zealand has fallen Gil
this year about $129,0OO ounces from the pre-
viOuS year.
a meeting was held at Melbourne, FEB. IL,
to inaugurate female college.