The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-08-18
oint resolution approprlating $4,000 to defray

solution requesting the Secretary of the Treas
ury to appoint commission to examine into
the collection of taxes on fermented liquors was
passed, and the Senate adjourned without
day, In the House the Committee on the
Hawaiian bill reported, and were discharged.
The report of the judiciary committee on the
Caldwell telegram affair was received. and the
majority report generating Mr.. Knott WAS
adopted. The bill appropriating $4,000 to de-
fray the expenses of the District of Columbia
government committee was passed. The con-
authorized to sit during recess The House
ference report on the bill increasing the
cavalry force for the Sioux war was agreed to-
A resolution was adopted rendering sympathy
to Mr.. Kerr in his illness. The House then
adjourned without day.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
John f. Fearyne waylaid Daniel McCarty In
passage of tenement house in Boston Tues
day and cut his throat with razor, causing
instant death.
The New jersey Rubber factory and five
adjoining buildings were burned Tuesday
morning. Loss $500, 900. Three hundred and
fifty hands were thrown out of employment.
over fence at Dover, N. B., Sunday, while
intoxicated fell and broke his neck, killing him
instantly.
Bradley q Wilder's planning mill at Cincin-
natl was burned Friday night. Loss 100000;
insurance $4,000.
Mrs. Hannah Craddock, aged 60, was killed
at Lynn. Mass, Saturday, while crossing 10
front of train.
The grand jury in Boston has found an in
dictment against Giovanni Giovachni, the
Italian laborer who brutally murdered Nicholas
Avigone, his roommate, at the Ph0nix House
in the west end, and the case has been certified
up to the Supreme Judicial Court, where it
will be set down for trial as soon as the neces-
sary arrangements can be made.
James Willard was arrested in Providence
Saturday night for desperate outrage upon a
woman in her own house.
Patrick Brady, a parentless boy 10 years old,
was drowned at Lowell, Saturday.
At the water works at Newton, Sunday, a
party of Italians got into fight and Joseph
Teno was fatally SHOT
SeveD buildings in Newbury, Va, were burn
ed Sunday. Loss $4,000.
Fires are raging in the woods near Fairfield,
N. B.; 1000 acres of land have been burned
over.
Sarah D. Briggs has been arrested on suspi-
cion of having administered poison to Mrs.
Amelia La Rue of Buffalo.
Geo. 81. Harrison and Frank Stuart, noted
thieves, were arrested in New York Sunday.
1t is believed they have stolen $4,000 worth of
property from boarders at hotels, within few
months.
Fifty horses, % cars and considerable other
property together with the stables Of the Cit.
zens Horse Railroad Co. at indianapolis, were
burned Sunday, Loss $4,000. Thomas Fl all
was killed.
BRIEF MENTION.
Lieut.. d. z. Tamberton has been ordered to
the Portsmouth navy yard.-The receipts of
the Union Pacific road for the first six months
of the present are s116, 900 gross and s164 700
net better than for the same period last year.
The workingmen's parade in New York
Friday was small affair. The Mayor expressed
sympathy for them but told them the city was
employing all employing all the men possible
at present.-In North Carolina cotton is be-
ing laid in good healthy condition, free of
grass and weeds. The condition of the crop in
Georgia is more satisfactory than last year In
Florida the stand is good and the condition
favorable.--Fires are raging at the head of
the Musquash and Lepreaux rivers in New
Brunswick and great damage has been done to
timber.-The chairman of the State central
legal tender committee of Missouri will call q
convention September 6 for the nomination of
full State ticket. The weavers at the Solelia-
co works at Patterson N. j., have struck owing
70 reduction in wages.--In the ocean yacht
race the Madeleine beat the Countess of DUFF
ferin and still retains the Queens cup
William B. Willis, the Oldest policeman of
New York was buried Sunday. He was q
schoolmate of Edward Everett and served in
the war of 1S12-The right arm of the statue
of Liberty with balcony attached, capable of
holding ten persons has been landed at New
York.--Two of the wires of the East River
bridge have been stretched across.-The suit
against the New York elevated railroad to re-
strain it from further extension has failed
Engineer Eads states that there is now depth
of q feet clear through the South Pass jetties.
Sam Cary's letter accepting the greenback
nomir alton for vice president is written.-
The annual session of the Supreme Council,
33d degree Of Freemasons, began in New York
Tuesday, Josiah II. Drummond, of Portland
Most Puissant Sovereign, presiding tor
nado passed over Milton. N. j., Tuesday even
ing, doing great damage to fruit trees.-The
Bloods, Blackfeet and Piegan Indians have re-
jected Sitting Bulls proposals and desire to
send scouts to assist the government in the
Sioux war.--The President has signed the
bills to carry into effect the provisions of the
Hawaiian treaty; to increase the cavalry force
and to encourage telegraphic communication
between America and Asia. --On the last two
Saturdays of this month the admission to the
William f. Gill and f. II. Prentiss of Boston
descended the Thousand Streams, Tuckerman's
Ravine, Saturday, safely, feat never accom-
plished before.--William 81. Burnham, whose
name appears on the petition asking Gen
Butler to run for Congress, says that he never
signed 1.-THE New York Independent
Labor Party has nominated James Gordon
Bennett for mayor.--The Australian Rifle
team has arrived in New York.--The dele
cation of French workingmen for the Centen
NAL embarked Saturday.-There is some
trouble in the Cherokee nation owing to the
unpopularity of Chief Thompson's administr a.
ton. The government will probably be
changed.-Col. Thomas Aspinwall died in
Breokline, Mass, Friday, aged 80. His SER
vices in the war of 1872 as major of the 10th
q. s. Infantry are memorable, and he was the
Oldest surviving officer of that war The
Indian Commissioner says if the Indians have
improved arms they have obtained them from
the British and Mexican traders. The dory
Centennial has arrived at Liverpool She was
capsized once during the trip but her oceupa ant
managed to right her.
POLITICAL,
Senator Morton opened the Republican cam
paign at Indianapolis Friday evening The
Senator addressed very large audience and in
the course of his speech thus describes the
Democratic candidates: "Gov. Tilden is an
inveterate bachelor of 66, lifelong Demo.
crat, and has been for twenty years leader in
his party and closely identified with all of its
most in famous measures, trained in the school
of New York citv poitics a pradu ata ~ Tar,