The Portland daily press., 1875-02-05

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Tho Beaufort Female Lunatic Asylum in
Quebec was burned Friday, together with
three of the inmates.
A messenger in the Navy Department has
been arrested on suspicion of setting fire TO
the department building. .
The brig James Birney was attacked by the
savages off the Solomon Islands, and captured.
But one of the crew escaped.
Mrs. Abby.B Emerson of Martins Ferry,
fell while getting upon. train in motion In
the depot at Concord. n. H., Saturday fore
noon and was dragged between the platform
and car nearly hundred feet, receiving in
iuries from which she died in half an hour
She was about so years of age.
Tn the ipouest on the murder of Mrs. Emer-
son at Piedmont, N. H., held at Haverhil,
testimony was introduced to show the inoffen-
sive character of Sawyer, and the husband of
the deceased related the circumstances attend
ing the tragedy
Burglars blew out one side of the Greenwich
Conn, Savings bank, Sunday morning. and
secured some six or seven dollars for their
trouble.
G. P. Harrison of Annapolis has stolen
about S15O,OOO worth of property entrusted to
him. i"-
Thomas Burns was thrown off New York
horse car Sunday night and killed. The driver
was arrested.
Mrs Mary Fellows, wife of COL John Eel
lows, of Boston, was so severely burned Sun
day by her clothes catching fire, that she died
in two hours.
A fire at Sumpter, S. c., Thursday, caused a
loss of $70,000 insurance $4,000 Strenuous
efforts alone saved the business portion from
utter destruction.
Canton's saw mill at Cape st. Paul, 2. q.
was burned Friday night Loss $4,000. d.
Riley & Maynard's tobacco barn at South
Deerfield, Mass, with sixty cases Of tobacco
was destroyed by an incendiary fire Friday
night, Loss, 100000; fully insured in the
Greenfield and Hartford companies.
Irwin's wooden mill at Nanayank, Pa, was
burned Saturday morning. Loss heavy. Some
800 hands were thrown out of employment.
The machine shops of the Memphis Rail
road at Argenta, opposite Little Rock, Ark,
were burned Saturday. Loss $4,000; no in
surance.
1t is rumored that the cashier of the Peoples
SodVlUSS luSIltublOu u IOuio udo dpcSouuCo
with large sum. The bank closed its doors
Monday, and was in debt $4,000 at the clear
ing house.
FOREIGN. 4....
There has been but little of interest in for
eign affairs this week. The accession of Alton
SO has not quieted the Carlsts, and Spain is
still torn by civil war.
The English Liberals have not yet decided
upon leader. Lord Huntington and Mr..
Forster are prominently named in connection
with the vacancy. "a -Ai
The Ventavon bill is still before the French
Assembly, under debate. That clause of it
which provides for two chambers has been
adopted. $500
There is intense excitement in New Bruins
wick over the school tax. Mr.. Robert Young, a
member of the legislature, who favored the tax.
has been attacked by an anti-school mob. The
opposition desire sectarian schools.
Carlyle declines the order of Bath, and the
Telegraph believes that Tennyson will not ac-
cept barcnetcy. Edward Snyder, Baron st.
Leonards, formerly Lord Chancellor of Eng
land, died Friday, aged "a.
The annexation of FIJI to the British En-
pire was celebrated on the 18th of De cember in
Sydney by public banquet.
The German Federal Council has EN- powered
Bismarck to conclude an extradition treaty
with the United States. t-
BRIEF MENTION.
Rev. Samuel Clark, brother of Bishop Clark
of Rhode Island. is dead.--Judge Durfee
has been elected Chief Justice of Rhode Is
land.-Gen. Sherman's daughter has re-
ceived her diamonds presented by the Khedive
of Egypt--Prof. Chandler has resigned from
the dictatorship of the American Institute on
the ground that the directors give medals to
unworthy persons--The Dominion govern
ment has commuted the sentence of Sepime to
two years imprisonment and forfeiture of all
political riehts.--The Tom Paine memorial
buildingsin Boston was dedicated Friday.-
The police think they have clue to Charlie
Ross's whereabouts son of Prof. Sterne
of Yale College has been arrested in New York
for swindling Steinway & Sons.-Wages on the
N. Y Central R. R, are reduced 10 per cent
Thurlow Weed says Andy johnson in the SEN
ate will probably be watchdog over the
Treasury.--The Cuban insurgents claim that
they have been successful in a recent engage
ment.--Jay Gould is reported to have cleared
81, 600, 900 by the raid on Pacific Mail.--A
number Of representative colored men of the
South have applied to Congress for further pro-
lection for their race.-Clara Ellen George.
the missing Concord girl, has been found at
Waltham, Mass, a case of seduction.--The
new postal arrangement with Canada has gone
into effect. Letter postage is now three cents.
The members of the Pennsylvania House
have had fight over an attempt on the part
of the Sergednt-at-arms to eject a member.
Pistols were f1ourished but nobody was hurt.
Great Britain has declined to send rep
rasentative to the International peace code Con-
gress at st. Petersburg.--Fire losses in New
England during January foot up 81 ,023. 475.
-Nebraska calls again for food for 1900
starving people. a~9ia ,
IN GENERAL. sa-f -uH
The Minnesota legislature has adopted a res
olution requesting VIM. s. King to appear and
testify before the Congressional committee as
to his alleged connection with the Pacific Mail
subsidy or send his resignation as Represent
ative to Congress.
The n Y. Sun prints five columns of docu-
ments showing that stock and money was
paid to several members of Congress by FIRE.
mont and his friends interested in his Ell Paso
and Pacific Railroad. The amount used to
bribe Congress was 100000. Among the
persons given shares were w. Scott Smith, 400
M. L. Hunter, 5000, R. G. Mccormick, 1000,
Frank Fuller, 400, Gen. Heintzelman, 400, and
a transfer of $500, 900 worth of shares and cash
to the amount of $5O,0OO were paid to Ignatius
Donnely. H4lsi.
Florida, West Virginia, Minnesota and Wis
consin legislatures are still balloting for Sena-
tors but with no immediate prospect of an cleo
ton.
t THE LATEST. ..-- ts-
The dead lock in the Wisconsin Legislature
was broken Wednesday, and Angus Cameron
of La Crosse, was elected by vote of 6S to SO
for Carpenter Cameron was born in New
York, but emigrated to Wisconsin, where he
has served in the Legislature and been Speaker
of the House. His election was the result OF a
coalition of Democrats and boiling Republ-
cans. - r 1858
sTilton's cross examination has begun.
The Pope is said to have advised Don Carlos
to give up the contest against Alfonso.
Bowdoin College alumni held their annual
reunion in Boston last night