The Portland daily press., 1875-08-09
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

1t is probable that Thomas Boggs and Pay
SAINT & King of Halifax, will arrange a com.
promise with their creditors and continue bust
ness.
A despatch from Grand Island, Neb., says
the air is full of grasshoppers, which have been
flying south the past two days. But few have
alighted Farmers are anxious, as the corn is
not out Of danger; the other crops are harvest
ed.
The Massachusetts, Republican Committee
Saturday decided to hold the State Convention
at Worcester on the 29th of September.
The Colorado beetle has appeared on Coney
Island.
Admiral Rowan is carrying ont the ten hour
law in the Brooklyn navy yard.
Three colored prisoners escaped from Salem
| Jail Friday night.
Large quantities of decaying peaches have
been seized in New York by the sanitary in.
spectors.
A mob in Toronto tried to lynch DIR. Davis
and wife, the abortionists, when they were tax
en- from court to Jail, but were prevented bv the
police.
Steamship Caspian has arrived at Halifax,
Atlas at Boston, and Germania at New York.
The latest from Newfoundland respecting the
fisheries is very gloomy. Accounts from all
parts Of the island are unfavorable.
The city of Lawrence has assumed the pay.
ment of wages due to labOrers on the water
works from Rice, the absconding contractor.
Orders have been received lin London for 1900
bales of goods for China.
The Wabash river has fallen two'feet. and is
now % feet above low water mark
The weather West is more favorable. and
farmers are hopeful of saving half their crops.
The Vincennes & Mississippi railroad has
lost its testle opposite Vincennes, Ind
The Ohio river reached its highest point Fri
days. feet 6 inches-and has since been fall.
ing.
Grasshoppers have appeared in immense
numbers along the line of the Union Pacific
railway.
The backwater from the Wabash is over the
| Evansville track south of Oaktowp, breaking
communication.
One death has occurred from yellow fever at
Fort Barrancas since the last report All are
well at Pensacola.
Two hundred and eighteen sacks of Austria
liam mail passed though Omaha Saturday, on
the way to London.
George Zitler, another boy injured by the ex-
plosion of fixed ammunition at Bridesburg,
Pa, arsenal, died Saturday night.
The breaks and damage in the Vandala rail-
road line are repaired and all trains will run
| regularly without transfer.
Reports from Cairo announcing that the riv-
! er had come to stand cause rejoicing at Mem
phis but it will be several days before change
Will be effected at the latter point.
AT Elkhorn, Nebraska, Saturday, man nam,
| ed McElio fired a shot gun into crowd Of
men, seriously woundng Mr. Dungmond, pro-
proctor OF the Phillips House, Carson, and
| Charles Baldwin.
w: Wilder, H. Leighton and Evans Hall.
who broke Jail at Denver, Col, and were de-
coyed to a corral, were fired on by the ranch
men Friday. The first two were killed and the
latter was wounded, but escaped.
Gloucester celebrates to-day the centennial
of its successful resistance of a British man
Of-war which attempted to burn the town dur
ing the revolution
The American Jockey Club deposited 500, 600
with Duncan, Sherman & Co, the day before
they failed.
Memphis held a meeting and expressed sor-
row at the death of expresident johnson.
The Cochece mills at East Rochester, N. H.,
which have been shut down for a month past
will resume operations to day. A large shoe
factory at the same place. giving employment
| day.
| Inc recent heavy rains in Kansas have not
| inJureo corn or other grains to any extent.
regatta IS proposed at Martha's Vineyard
| IN case the New York Yacht Club visits there,
which shall surpass anything ever seen in New
England. '''- - -''"