The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-15
MINOR TELEGRAMS,

w. G. Ralston has sold his interest in the
Palace Hotel, San Francisco, to VIM. Sharon
for 81, 100000
A barn in Dover, N. H., containing about
rs tons of hay, belonging to Capt James G.
Grupuphy, was burned yesterday morning.
Loss $2500.
Col. Anthony of the Leavenworth, kansas,
Times, who was shot the other day, is still
| alive, his condition being as good as could be
expected.
Shackley g. Haskell. shoe manufacturers at
Essex, Mass, have failed. Liabilities are
about $4,000. Some % men and women are
thrown of employment by the suspension.
A despatch. from Rio Janeiro reports the
suspension of the National Bank of Rio.
Oliver Dean of Milford, Mass, hung himself
yesterday morning. He was insane.
The internal revenue receipts yesterday were
$500, 265.
The members of the Harvard Club at San
Francisco, held their annual meeting Thursday
night. Letters were received from Charles
Francis Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes and
President Elliot of Harvard College. Among
the guests were Gov. Pacheco, Mayor Otis,
and President Lis Conte of the University of
California.
The Sault st. Marie canal is in perfect work
ing order. The first steamer was locked
through Thursday. The river is clear of ice.
In the American Social Science Association
at Detroit yesterday morning, Hon. Dorman b.
Eaton read paper on the experiment of civil
service reform in the United States, which was
extremely lengthy, but was listened to with
marked attention by a large audience.
Tha President will not be able to attend the
Bunker Hill Centennial.
At meeting of the New England Society
Yesterday, it was announced that arrangements
had been made to attend the Bunker Hill Cen
tennal
IN II xbo
is at an end.
At Atlanta three negroes have Just been SEN
fenced to be hung for murder.
Base balm New Haven-New Ravens 8;
Harvards 2. In New York-Mutuas 2; Phila-
delphias l.
Edward Williams was run over by a railroad
train in New Haven, yesterday, and he will
die.
About 200 graduates of the Columbia College
law school appeared before Judge Davis of the
Supreme Court of New York, yesterday for
admission to the bar, under the statute. Judge
Davis took occasion to express his dissatisfac-
ton at this method of manufacturing law
yers
Carrie Colburn of Gloucester, IA years old was
fatally burned yesterday by her clothesgtaking
fire nom fire she aud some other children
had built
The extensive works of the Columbus Lum.
Der and Barrel Co., together with the stock on
hand, at Columbus, Ohio, were burned yester-
day. Loss $4,000
Sixty thousand ounces of gold were melted
at San Francisco, yesterday.
A special election will be held in Oregon on
the 18th of o ,tober to fill the vacancy coca
stoned by the death of Congressman LaDow.
James " Smith, engineer of the steamer
Senator, blown up at Portland, Oregon, has
been held for manslaughter for negligence.
Capt. Thornton, who was injured on board
the U. S. ship Molonghahela, died in Phila-
delphia Yesterday. He was one of the execu-
tive officers of thelKearsarge when she sank the
Alabama.
Proceedings have been instituted in suit to
compel the Panama Il. Il. either to forfeit its
charter or to carry out its contract with the
Pacific Mail Co. 1t is averred that the Panama
Co. has in violation of its charter, unduly ia
vored the European steamship line.