The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-17


Who shall be the Republican candidate for
Governor seems to be an important question in
Massachusetts,. Hon. Alexander H. Rice of
Boston, and DR.. Loring of Salem are the most
prominent candidates.
VARIOUS MATTERS
The stallion race for the championship and
$4,000 took place at Mystic Park, Tuesday.
Thomas Jefferson won the race, Common
wealth second, Defiance third, Parks Abdal-
lab fourth, Ned Wallace fifth. Time: 227,
226, 2.25aA, 226.
Francis d. Moulton insists that the suit
instituted against him by Henry Ward Beecher
shall 60 on, and in saying that it must go on he
uses great many excited words.
BRIEF MENTION
Judge Curtis of New York has granted an
injunction against the production of Rose
Michel by Days theatre.--The order of Red
Men have been holding national Convention
in Cincinnati.--Edwin Booth is not recover
ing as rapidly as was expected and he will have
to cancel some of his engagements.-The
Temperance Union Vigilance committee of
New York made further raids on rum shops
Sunday.--The veterans of the Mexican war
celebrated the anniversary of the capture of
the City of Mexico in New York, Tuesday.
Admiral Reynolds and staff visited the
Khedive of Egypt Aug goth at Cairo ALL
the amendments to the New Jersey constitu-
ton were carried by from 10000 to $4,000 ma
jority.--The whites of the senior class of the
Boys Central school at New Orleans decline TO
attend because colored man has been appoint
ed professor of mathematics. Moody and
Sankey held service at Mortified, Mass, Sat
urday. general council Of all the tribes in
Indian Territory unanimously passed a resolu-
ton against opening the territory to white
men.--Jndge Pershing says his nomination
for Governor of Pennsylvania by the Democrats
was surprise. Although hard-money man
he accepts the platform.--The American
Pharmaceutical Association meets next year
in Philadelphia THE bronze Statue of Stone
wall jackson presented to Virginia by Berres-
ford M. p, and other Englshmen. has arrived
at Baltimore Gen. Israel Hunt of Nashua
died last week aged 80 years. He was we'll
known throughout New England as a Major
General of militia.--The Direct Cable Com
pany will open for business Sept. 15th.--Late
returus from the election of delegates to Con-
gress from New Mexico reduce Elkin's
majority to such an extent as to leave the re-.
suit in doubt.--Wiliam G. Coburn, Assist
ant Attorney General for Massachusetts,, died
Thursday.--Sir Charles Dixie has arrived in
this country.--Willam Patrick, a well known
cotton merchant, died in New York. Wednes-
day.-A Long Branch letter states that while
an organist of a New York Episcopal church
with some boys of his choir were singing a
selection from the Messiah in the parlor of one
OF the hotels Wednesday evening, a Catholic
priest told them to stop, or he would put them
out, but the guests Kissed him and he retired in
disgust.--The Union Laundering Company of
Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin, has suspended.
Liabilities $780, 00.--Wm. r.. Cumming &
Go. of Baltimore, -four and grain dealers, have
suspended, with liabilities at $50, OOo.--Capt.
Thomas Gard, aged 100, died in Dover, N. H.,
last week.--Sharkey, he murderer, has been
banished srom Cuba, and is to be landed at
San Domingo.--Hon. Henry L. Dawes has
been elected to preside over the Massachusetts
Republican state convention.-Rev. W. S.
Chevers, for 40 years chaplain at Fortress
Monroe, died Monday night, aged "a years.
The Congregational ministers of Chicago have
invited Moody and Sankey to come there and
inaugurate revival.-Mrs. Lincoln has gone
to visit her sister, Mrs. Edwards, at Spring.
field, and arrangements have been ode IN
case Of necessity to place her in Oak Lawn
private retreat for the insane at Jacksonville
Carl Schurz has arrived in New York.
FOREIGN.
The situation in the herzegovina may be de-
scribed as mixed. We have contradictory re-
ports. Accounts from Turkish sources repre-
sent the insurrection as nearly subdued Re-
ports from Sclavic sources say that it is increas-
ing. 1t is certain that Trebigue has again been
invested. The insurgents have about three
thousand men under arms, entrenched in the
mountain Businesses. The length of the re-
welt is thought to depend upon the action of
Servia and Montenegro. Both these powers
desire to be the head of any new Sclavic State
which may be formed, and their jealousies of
each other paralyze their actonE Attempts at
pacifcation are still being made by the great
European powers. The Servian parliament or
Skuptchina is in session.
The Guibord affair is still unsettled. Mobs
assault the cemetery guards. 1t is thought
that the Bishop will permit the remains of
Guibord to be buried, and then curse the spot.
The Cuban insurgents are growing more
hopeful.
A great socialist conspiracy has been dis
covered in Russia, and many people have been
arrested and sent to Liberia. The Procureur
General in the Indictment, says that socialism
is rapidly spreading throughout the empire.
The most ardent of the propogandists of the
MT ho1o fo ha oil
the indicted are retired officers justices of the
peace, officials of all grades and several ladies
of high family. He says the Socialists only
await an opportunity, such as foreign war, to
organize revolution at home and put into
practice their extravagant ideas.
The Spanish ministry have resigned on &C.
count of their opposition to universal suffrage
The movement for suffrage is gaining ground
in that country, and the new ministry under
Gen. Jovella will probably be pledged to it.
The war between Bolivia and Magdalena
continues, and the federal government is yirtu-
ally dissolved.
A bloody presidential contest is going on in
Peru between Gen. Prado and Admiral Mon
tero. When men Of the two parties meet they
fall to shooting and stSbbpg
Great floods are reported in Southern France
and many buildings have been swept away.
Loss of life and property is large.
La France declares that change is soon to
take place in the policy of the Right centre,
due to the determination of the Orleans prn.
ces to renounce all claim to the throne and
support the Republic.
The Ottawa Reserve has been set aside by
the government for an Tcelandic colony,
Nearly 5000 leave Kenmont, Ont. for there
Immediately, and it is understood that the
large Icelandc settlement in northern Michi-
gan will remove to Winnepeg.
The body Of the mate of the Mistletoe SINK
in the Solent by the royal yacht Alberta, was
recently secured. An inquest was hell, and
the jury rendered a verdict of accidental
DEATH but with rider that there was an
error of judgment on the part of the officers of
the Alberta, and that slower rate of speed
and more efficient lookout would be condu-
Give to the public safety.
THE LATEST.
Immensely valuable silver mines are said to
have been discovered in Alaska
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