The Portland daily press., 1876-02-18

not be admitted until it could be proved tn
letter could not be produced.
Mr. Bevis was asked the effect of the letter
upon him. The defence objected but was
| overruled. Witness said: "The letter satisfied
me that it was all right and that we would not
be disturbed in making Illicit whiskey.'
e. @. Frazer, business partner of the pre-
| vious witness, was called and stated that Mr..
Bevis showed him the letter mentioned in his
| (Bevis) testimony in December, 1874, and the
effect of it was their house recommended maxi
ing illicit whiskey.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
j. r. Hllman of Wooster, Ohio, county
treasurer, has absconded with 100000 of the
county's money.
A special from jackson, Miss, says that the
committee appointed to Investigate the case of
Lieut. Gov. Davis, report that he is guilty of
high crimes and misdemeanors
The burglar who broke into the New London
bank and stole $21, 800, proves to be the teller,
George c. Packer. He has confessed and the
stolen money has been recovered.
The second trial of Moses B. SAWYER the
alleged murderer of Mrs. Alma Emerson of
Pierpont, N. H.. in Jan. 1876, was commenced
Monday.
Rhoda Stanley, of Brockton, Mass, a beau.
tiful and accomplished young lady of 16 years,
committed suicide Monday by taking lauda-
mum. No cause assigned.
Tuttle's brick block Jenkins block, and
| McDougal's fancy-goods store, with their con-
tents, in Pittsfeld, N. H., were burned Mon
day night The block included the Postofice,
| the Telegraph Office Times and Prohibition
| ted at $780, 900. Well insured ..
A three-story brick block at Hennilzer, N.
H., was destroyed by fire with its contents
Monday night. Loss on buildings $500. In
sured. The block was occupied by Everett's
store, Morse, cigar maker, and Aurora Masonic
Lodge, which loses all its furniture, records
and charts. The fire was incendiary.
M. Coombs, Jr., convicted at Memphis of
defrauding the government in bounty claims,
was Monday sentenced to L. years in the PEN
itentiary.
phia Saturday, for the murder of VIM. Hanley
and sentenced to be hung,
In New York Saturday the jury found Ru.
bernstein guilty of murder and he was sentenced
to be hanged.
Frank M. Smith was hanged at Nassau on
the 4th for the murder of John G. Avery,
mate of the brig Florence.
jackson, Miss, special says the committee
Investigating the official conduct of Cardosa,
state superintendent of education, report after
diigent inquiry, that it finds him guilty of ten
counts, as follows: Perjury, liability of public
moneys unaccounted for from the time of his
folripp a. bo oeeo
tion of public moneys, embezzlement, specula-
ton, bribery, fraudulent issuance of witness
certificates, forgery, extortion, and having in
his possession state moneys unaccounted for.
The Exeter mine, in West Pittston. Pa. blew
up from fire damp Feb. II, killing several min
ers and badly burning many more. Much dam
age was done to the mine.
VARIOUS MATTERS.
One hundred and fifty men left Cheyenne,
Feb. IA for the Black Hills. A party who
came in last night reports that during the eight
days of his trip from Gustav be counted 1876
wagons en- route for the Hills. Two hundred
men are Quitting here now and will start this
week. The incoming trains bring scores of
gold seekers daily.
Charles K. Lands, who killed Carruth, has
been pronounced sane and released from
custody.
W. s. Brown, for the past four years station
agent of the Boston & Providence Railroad at
Roxbury, is found to be short in his accounts to
the amount of $500, and the company have
attached his property.
The three and a half million grant to the
Northern Pacific Railroad has passed the Mon.
tana House.
Clifford White a lawyer of Boston, has been
arrested and placed under $4,000 bonds, de.
tectives having traced to his possession $4,000
of government bonds stolen from gentlemen
in New York about year since. White pur-
chased them for ten cents on dollar and had
put them up as collateral for the loan OF $780,
600. He claims to have had no knowledged of
their true character
Reverdy johnson, the distiIgui shed states
man and jurist, was found dead this evening
at 8 u o'clock, in the grounds surrounding the
executive munsion at Annapolis. Mr.. John
son was guest of Gov. Carroll and dined this
afternoon with other gentlemen at the execu-
tive mansion 1t is supposed he fell in fit O
vertigo the fall fracturing his skull. Reverdy
johnson was born at Annapolis, Md, May q,
1896. He graduated at st. Johns College, and
studied law with his father, and was admitted
to the bar in 1915, and in 1917 removed to Bal
timore. He was U. S. Senator from Maryland
from 1916 to 1849. when he became Attorney
General Under President Taylor. He was dele
gate to the Peace Convention in Feb. 1861;
senator again in 1868 8; minister to Great Brit
ain in 1862
The steamship Adriatic has arrived in New
York without any of the officers or men who
were on board when she sunk the Harvest
Queen. s
The House COMMITTEES of Louisiana have re-
ported in favor of the impeachment of Treasur-
er Dubuclet and Gov. Kellogg, w
Strong rumors are af1oat that Tweed has not
been from New York and that he will appear
shortly in his own behalf in the pending six
million suit. %
One of the editors of the Tribue was Tuesday
night elected a member of the Tammany socie-
ty.
Winslow, the Boston forger, was arrested
Tuesday in London, and has been remanded
to await the arrival of extradition papers to Sc
cure him. He says he left everything in the
hands of his attorney in Boston. He was
greatly affected, and said he intended to 90 to
Portugal or Brazil. He went first from Boston
to Rotterdam and thence to London, whittier
he was traced and arrested within day of his
arrival.
The Ehstoric elm on Boston Common was
blown down by high wind Tuesday evening. 1t
was above 200 years old and was one of the
most dearly priced landmarks of the city. I'm
mense crowds of relic hunters have visited it
since its fall to secure pieces.
The advisory council met Tuesday morning,
in Plymouth church, and DR.. Leonard Bacon
was chosen temporary chairman, Rev. Mr..
Clark of Boston, scribe, and Mr. Howe of
Newark, assistant scribe. Rev. Dr. Bacon
was unanimously chosen moderator, and Hon.
Nelson Dingey and Mr. Bates of Illinois, as
sistant moderators. The tempo rary scribes
were chosen as permanent scribes, and the
meeting opened by the reading of the letter
missive. Resolutions were adopted, That six
committees be appointed, seven on each COM
mittee; that the six questions in the letter mis-
sive be referred, each to one Of such commit
tees, to consider and renort a uinuta theraon