The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-07-16
News and Other Items.

The Pope has seen one hundred and foul
ardinals de-
Columbus, Georgia, is trying to raise money
enough to establish a female college.
Fire at the shops of Doe & Hunnewell, Cam
bridge, Mass, yesterday morning, destroyed
$4,000 worth of property.
Chicago underwriters have agreed upon a
tariff of rates for grain shipment slightly in
advance of charges heretofore.
Perer AIpbonsas, the Barre bank robber has
been committed to Jail in default of bail to
answer to the charge.
The pastors of the several churches in Wash
ington are to hold meeting to see whether they
will invite Moody and Sankey to visit that city.
The Brooklyn friends of Mr.. Beecher are per-
fecting arrangements for the mass meeting 20
indorse him and express confidence in his inno-
cence.
The revenue officers in South Carolina report
for their past months work the seizure of Is
distilleries, capture of 10 men and destruction
of large quantity of ILL lit whiskey
4 convention in the interest of the green
back party is called to meet at Detroit, Mich.
August 18th. and B. f. Butler, w. D. Kelly
Moses w. Field and others are expected to ad.
dress the meeting.
Mr.. Beach, the Tilton counsellor it is said,
has indefinitely postponed his purpose of bring
ing before the court his evidence shown that
the jurors on the Beecher case had been i'm
properly approached.
George r. Brown of East Rush, in western
New York, some time since was marched off to
Avon and compelled, by means of loaded ps-
n atb ;o 10 n ,;r A.
have just decided that the marriage was no
marriage at all.
George w. Jackson, deputy collector and
cashier for U. S. Collector Buckner of Louis.
vile, is defaulter to the amount of $4,000.
When an attempt was made to arrest him his
physician refused to allow his arrest, saying he
was dying He had taken arsenic.
An attempt to obtain a recent portrait of the
late John G. Breckenridge discloses that the
last likeness was taken at tie time of his So
journ in Canada during the war. Numerous
attempts were made after his return to Lexng-
ton to induce him to sit, but he always refus-
ed.
No wonder oranges and lemons are high.
Full 45 per cent of the 1851 $50 lemons and
60 per cent. of the 1884 ,76O oranges sent here
from the Mediterranean ports during June
were lost on the voyage, wh lie 81 per cent. of
the 1904, 3S9 pine apples shipped from the West
Indies persisted in the same way.
DR., James Q. Jackson, superintendent of the
water cure at Danville, N. Y, where Robert
Dale Owen was visiting his daughter when he
went crazy, says there is no reason to suppose
the Katie King business had anything to do
with his insanity, which is to be attributed en-
tirely to physical causes
Retail prices for fresh vegetables and fruits
at the New York markets: Corn from Virginia
so cents the dozen ears; tomatoes Is to 20 cents
quart; Long Island potatoes So a barrel Ber-
muda onions IS to 20 cents quart; Norfolk
cucumbers $I50 a 81 per crate; cherry cur
rants 10 cents pound; black-cap raspberries s
to III cents per quart; Antwerps 30 cents per
quart; blackberries 16 to IS cents per quart;
new apples 81 a $l5O per crate: California
pears 81 dozen.
John ID. Lee has turned states Evidence and
will be witness for the prosecution and make
full statement of all he knows of the Moun.
tain Meadow massacre. 1t is said there are
plenty of witnesses to colroborate all Lees
statements which will convict William II.
Dame and many other high Mormon authori-
ties Among the witnesses are some who actu
ally took part in it, and some who attended at
the meeting participated IN, after their return
from the tisld of slaughter.