The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-17

The exhibition is generally conceded to be the
most successful ever held, exceeding all Others
in points of visitors and receipts.
Memorial Hall, Horticultural Hall, Machin-
cry Hall and the Main Building are to be pre-
served. Most of the others are TO be taken
away. The English and German buildings
have been given to Philadelphia, and the Ohio
building is to remain standing
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
British ship Oromocton has been lost on the
English coast and six of her crew drowned.
Rev. G. B. McLeon of Massachusetts was
robbed on a steamer of the New Haven line,
Monday night of his watch aad $40 in money.
Jules Brian committed suicide in Boston last
week. Previous to election he swore he would
kill himself if Tilden was elected.
serious riot occurred in Scranton, Pa
Tuesday between tho Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western Railroad Company's mechanics
who have been on strike and some of their
number who recently returned to work.
The Sherwood Meal Packing Companys mill
at St. Adams, Vermont, was bnrned Saturday.
Loss $780, 900; insured for $4,000
A fire at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Satur-
day night, destroyed several buildings at the
corner of Smith and Rector streets Loss
$4,000.
BRIEF MENTION.
The Marine bank of st. Paul has sus-
pended The trial of the $500, 900 suit against
P. b. Sweeney has been adjourned to the first
Tuesday in January.-The Alabama legisla-
ture met Tuesday. & Co., the
largest hat mandatory in the country, have
;nt h,n lioh
$3.50, 000.- -Tramps found in Newark are here
after to be put into the quarries to work for
their penitentiary board.--The Athletic base
ball club is in bankruptcy. Their liabilities
are $6000.--Small pox is raging in the lumber
camps at Upper Bartlett.--Several stock
holders of the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern railroad have obtained from Judge Law
renee an order requiring W. Fl. Vanderbilt,
vice-president of the road to show cause why
he should not be compelled to authorize the
Farmers Loan and Trust Company to exhibit
to them the transfer books and list of
stockholders. President has pardoned
William o. Avery, now confined in the peni-
Tertiary at Jefferson City, Mo-, for completely
in the whiskey frauds.--The Savannah cpl
demic has ended. --The Chaudiere lumber
mills have closed for the season.-Antonio
Tamburn, the singer, is dead.--Alfred G.
Gray, Commodore of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Co., died Friday in Brooklyn, aged 6S.--
| The citizens of Philadelphia are forming a
company to keep the Centennial exhibition
| open another year.--The N. S. frigate Frank
| lin with Tweed on board was at St. Thomas on
| the 5th.--Gov. Shophod of the District of
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| sets exceed his liabilities.
FOREIGN.
A despatch from Calcutta to the Times says
it is reported that 20 900 persons persisted in the
| cyclone of Oct. 81, and some estimates place
| the loss of life as high as 10000. In the town
| of Burshot, the capital of the Backergrunge
district, 5000 houses were levelled to the earth.
Letters from survivors eport that great wave
of nine feet deep swe over the large island
of Shahapazpore.
The Times of India announces that relief
works have been established in Sholopore dis
| trict where the Pioneer reported on the 9Th
inst, that there were prospects of a famine,
and $1,000 of the inhabitants have been given
employment There is now plenty of grain
| in the district.
The war feeling in Europe has been revived
by speech of the Gar which has produced
the most alarming impression in political cir.
cles. The Gar said that during his entire reign
his energies had been directed to maintain right
and justice for the Eastern Christians. Unfor
tunately his pacific efforts had been in vain. A
conference of powers is now about to be held
at Constantnople. Russia would maintain hel
| demands. Non-acquiescence would compel
Russia to take up arms. In that event he
reckoned on the support of his subjects.
The mobilization Of the Russian army con.
tinues, and the Grand Duke Nicholas has es-
tablished his headquarters in Bessarabia.
The Turks are firmly persuaded that Russia
will make inadmissable demands in order to
provoke rupture. The Turks are vigorously
preparing for war. Torpedoes are being placed
at the eastern entrance of the Bosphorus, and
the forts have been strengthened. The people
in Constantinop'e and elsewhere are forming a
national guard
The Austrian prime minister, Count And
rassy, is i'll at Pesth.
Adv:ces from Lima report the defeat in 6
three hours engagement of the rebel CHIEF
Riocolo and bis flight to Bolivia with five fol-
lowers. No other news of Importance from
South or Central America has been received.
The sugar crop of Jamaica is enormous in
some parishes.
Another revolution is brewing in Hsyt under
the leadership of Gen, Salmon.
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