The Portland daily press., 1875-04-02
his unruly subjects, and said he has offered tc
become altogether a vassal of the Gear.

for contempt of court in assailng the grand
iury. His imprisonment causes considerable
| excitement in Chicago, and much qualification
throughout the country.
The Newfoundland fishermen have had a
fearful experience this season. One party of
thirty four men lost fourteen by exposure.
The schooner Brkingu struck on Deck Is
land Shoals, Wednesday, and wedt to pieces in
fifteen minutes. Two of the crew were lost.
The alleged murderer of Mrs. Bingham OF
| Boston, George Pemberton, has been arrested.
A knife belonging to the murdered woman was
found in his pocket. The circumstantial evil
dence against him is very strong.
| AT town election held in Concord, Thurs
day, the Democrats tore up the check list, then
made another and elected a full board OF town
officers.
There is another outbreak among the Penn
sylyania coal miners. Several out-ages are re-
| norted and further violence is feared.
It is reported from Tocoma, w. T., that
steamer Ruby in crossing Puget Sound from
| Shattle to Port Madison, went down with all
on board, in la gale. Phelps dramatic troupe
| were among the passengers The. report lacks
| confirmation.
A fire at Parker's Prairie in Minnesota Sun
day burned the house of one Colson. Colson
and two children were burned ito death, and
| his wife and another child cannot survive their
| injuries.
A fire in Fall River Thursday destroyed four
| teen tenement houses on Pleasant street. a
fire in Montana, Missouri, Thursday. destroyed
all but two houses in the town. Ihe pape,
mills at Franklin, N. a., were burned we'd
nesday. Five stores and dwelling house in
Monticello, Iowa, were burned Monday. The
old American House at Wells River, VT, was
burned Tuesday.
The condition of the Hudson and Susque-
hanna rivers is exciting much apprehension.
Fears are entertained of ice gorges, and gangs
of men, two hundred strong, have been engaged
in cutting channels and taking other measures
to prevent damage by back water The ice in
some places is twenty inches thick. at Port
Deposit, Lockhaven, and Williamsport at
tempts have been made to blast the ice AT
the Delaware water gap the ice gorge consists
of one hundred and fifty miles thrown into
space of eighteen with the ice thirty feet thick.
People are moving their portables. The ice
gorge at Glen Union began to move Sunday.
and great anxiety exists along the west branch
of the Susquehanna Much damage has al
ready been done, and Several lives lost. Ar
rapoements have been made to have the bells
rung in case of immediate danger, and other
precautions have been adopted. The Ransom
gorge. near Pittston, has started with twelve
feet of water
Lawrence, Massachusetts, lis apprehensive of
damage from the breaking up of the ice in the
Merrimack.
The Elkhorn river in Nebraska has begun to
rise, and several bridges have already been
swept away.
BRIEF MENTION.
Twenty-Five thousand people in Nebraska
are said to be in danger of Standardization
Never. chief signal officer of the War Depart
ment, has been requested to engage the steam
or Faraday to lay cable from Portsmouth to
the Isles of Shoals, contemplated signal sta
tion.--The Fall River manufacturers have
voted to advance wages to the old rates after
April 1st--Patrck Larell injured at the st.
Andrews church disaster in New York, has
sued the Department of Public Buildings for
$4,000 damages.-Ice was never so thick on
Lake Ontario as now.--Sharkey, the MUIR
6erer who has been arrested in Havana, will be
| brought to New York, Immediately. REV.
| w. J. Tudor of Manchester has been invited
| to Madison Square, Presby terrain church, New
| York.-The mule spinners at Great Falls are
| on strike and are determined to compel an
| advance of wages.--Geo. e. Tyson, formerly
assistant navigator on the steamer Polaris has
been appointed captain of the watch atlthe
| Navy Department bui1dng-Jeff. Davis has
written a letter on John Mitchell He says:
Together we struggled for state rights, for
| the supremacy of the constitution, for COM
| munity, independence and after defeat were
| imprisoned together. BY the first of July
| 1000 men will be at work on the centennial
| buildings in iladelphia.--Dr. Horace Bush
nell is very seriously ill~at his home in Hart
ford.--The California Democratic conven-
ton will be held on June 29th at San
|. Francisco-A murderer under sentence of
death in North Carolina has been respited
because no officer can be found willing to
hang him.--The Virginia Senate has voted
| expel Graham, implicated ia the naval cadet
| ship scandal.--Gen. Augur has assumed
| command at New Orleans.--The interest on
| the coupons of the Wilmington & Reading
| railroad due April 18th will not be paid
| The meeting in Philadelphia of Jay Gould,
| Dillon and other prominent railroad men,
! was simply to arrange the differences between
| the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific compa-
| MES about the Colorado business, and to pre-
vent the building of parallel roads in that
| state by the Union Pacfic.--Delaware Leg
| islature has voted to appropriate $4,000 for
| the Centennial--Richard Thomas, who, dis
| guised as French woman, aided by other
rebels captured the steamer st. Nicholas early
in the Rebellion, died Wednesday.in Maryland.
james N. Schon, registrar and assistant
treasurer at Vassar College, is dead.--Mr.
Simmon, formerly proprietor of the Lawrence,
ansas, Tribune, has commenced suit to
recover $4,000 from Stone, the custodian OF
Senator Pomeroy's money He holds Pome-
rows order for the money.--The bill appre-
priating S5O,OOO for the Douglas monumen t
| has been defeated in the Illinois House.
| VARIOUS MATTERS.
Cen. Sheridan has written letter concern
| inc the Black Hills country in which he traces
| the origin of the stories Of the great mineral
| richness to Catholic Priest missionary who
| had his information from the Indians The
| recent expedition of Gen. Custer revived these
| stories. He says that the specimens brought