The Portland daily press., 1875-09-03

uOob ihnCuidtCly. LOU llN6S were lost and ten
persons were saved. including the captain and
first mate of the Comet. No one was injured
on the Manitoba
A highwayman was shot dead at Jamaica,
l.. l., last Thursday by constable named
Hamer
Two young daughters of a Mrs Ryan, living
at Hopkinton, Mass, were shot dead Sunday by
accidental discharge of gun with which their
brother was endeaving to shoot cat. The boy
and another sister were also shot, though not
dangerously
Seventeen tramps were arrested in Railway,
N. j., and locked up last Friday. They swore
revenge, and on Sunday three barns were
burned, and two lumber yards were set on fire
but the latter were extinguished. The total
loss is $4,000.
Albert Sooy, state treasurer of New Jersey,
is defaulter to the amount of $4,000. He has
been arrested.
A man named Henry Wilson is held in New
York for the assassination of Mr.. Noe
Cattle stealing and murder are still rife on
the Mexican border
Rumors of another marital poisoning, this
time the husband being the victim, are rife in
be disnterred.
S. A. Cragin, of the Boston firm of Cragn.
Hay & Co., died suddenly at the Continental
Hotel, st. John, Friday, while reading news
paper.
Capt. Lawrence of the schooner Josephine
Potts, was murdered by his mate, Friday night
in quarrel in the cabin of the vessel, in New
York harbor.
Geo A. Mitchell of Groveland, died last week
as his friends claim, from the effects of an
overdose of morphine administered by his own
physician. An inquest will be held and a post
mortem examination made.
The towboat Smoky City, with tow of 70
barses and 6 boats of coal, struck the bar at
Island No. 10, in the Mississippi, Thursday,
sinking the whole tow with the exception of
one boat. Lost not given.
Abby R. and Susie A. Dolloff, aged Is and
10, were drowned in the Palmer river, Reho-
bath, Mass, Thursday, while bathing
William S. Carson, ex-superintendent oil j.
P. Squires' packing house in Cambridge, Mass
is held in $4,000 for embezzling that amount.
Col. Edward W. Longstreet, well known
leather merchant of Syracuse, N. Y, commit
ted suicide Saturday nj light. Financial embar-
rassment was the cause.
A Baltimore despatch says that nephew of
Governor Cockrane, with negro driver end
two mules, were killed by train at cross
ing on the Delaware Railroad Saturday night.
The coroner's jury censured the railroad for
negligence.
John Chusley, charged with arson at Pills
field, and held under bail at Portsmouth, has
cleared out.
j. S. Giles, the ahsconding postmaster at
Prescott has been arrested at st. Thomas, Ne
vada.
General A. J. Bannell, chairman of the
West Virginia Democratic Executive Commit
tee, fell dead of heart disease one day last
week.
The barque Union of Cape Breton, bound to
New York, has been wrecked on the Nova Sco-
tan coast Crew saved.
Fires-Six stores in n ew Rochelle, N Y, loss
$4,000, insurance small. Brooklyn Argus Of
fee; damage $4,000. Robertson building and
Central House, Quincy, Mass; loss $15, 900, in
surance $4,000. Memphis, Tenn, wood works;
loss $4,000, insurance $4,000. Sheds of
Fitchburg railroad at CharlestowD, Mass, con-
tanning lumber. Goal; loss $4,000, Entire bus
mess portion of Reynoldville, Pa.
The body of Patrick Cromey, teamster, was
found in the basement of M. G. Pratt & Co. s
storehouse in Lowell, Friday afternoon He
has been missing since Wednesday. No marks
of violence were discovered
Six prisoners have been arrested near Cum
berand Gap, for illicit listillery aud other vic.
cations of the revenue laws.
VARIOUS MATTERS.
The Kittery navy yard has been ordered to
fit the ship Marion for sea. About 500 men
are now employed.
The Indians are willing to negotiate for the
session of the Black Hills to the federal gov
eminent,
At the Evangelical Convention held at Cape
May last week resolutions were adopted call.
ng attention to the aggressive and hostile
spirit of the Catholic Church to our free
school system and denouncing municipal ap.
preparations for sectarian purposes.
1t is said that the National Union League
is preparing for vigorous opposition to the
De mocracy in the South.
The reports from the west are much more
encouraging than a few weeks since. The
crop were not nearly SO badly injured as as
serted
The Marsh Indian Commissioners have re-
turned from the Indian country. They will
meet at Washington Sept. 8, to take the ties.
timony of Secretary Delano, Prof. Marsh and
others and then make their report. A second
investigation is being made.
The prospect of a Republican success in
October is becoming daily more encouraging.
BRIEF MENTION.
A reunion of the New Hampshire veterans
will lie held at Manchester on the 9th, 9TH and
9Th OF October. The Jefferson Borden mutt
neers have been committed at Boston for tr al
- 1t the Hampden park races Sensation won
in the 2.22 class. The open -to-all race was won
by American G'r', Goldsmith maid not appear
lng--An attempt is being made TO throw
Duncan, Sherman & Co. into bankruptcy.-
Ida Lewis, the Newport heroine, saved one of
the occupants of sail boat capszed at Lime
Rock lighthouse last week.--Twenty- five
hundred crates of peaches were shipped to
Liverpool one day last week.--There was
frost on Long Island Monday night "A COM
mittee of the English stockholders have been
inspecting the Erie raiiroad.--A Blooming
ton, ILL.,, dispatch says the corn crop was rot
injured in the least by the frost last week.
State treasurer Raines of New York favors an
immediate reduction of canal tolls because of
the combination of the elevator associations at
Buffalo--The pacing match at Mystic Park
Monday for the championship of America, was
won by Sleepy George. Only four entries. On
the same park Saturday, Smuggler tailed to
beat his former time of 22O making the mile
in 2.21.--The Atlantic mills in Lawrence have
resumed work with good prospect for steady
employment for 1000 operativ es. Agent
Honard of the Spotted Tail age ncy says there
is no truth in the report that Spotted Tai or
any of his people are on the war path.--Capt.
Barney Hull, proprietor of the Sherman House,
Boston, is dead. His estate is valued at $780,
000--Dr Patterson, Superintendent of the
asy lum where Mrs. Lincoln is confined, denies
that he has given certificate that she should
be discharged. What he did say was that un-
der certain circumstances it would be safe for
her to visit her sister in Springfield. He denies
that she is locked up.--There was another
large crowd at the Twin Mountain House Sun
day to hear Bee Cher Ground has been brok-
en- for a new Court House in Chicago-Pres-