The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28

The House committee on appropriations have
reduced salaries of Congressman from $4,000 to
$4,000 per annum. Whether the majority of the
House will coincide with the views of the COM
mite remains to be seen.
At caucus of the Republican members of
the House last Saturday night committee of
seven was appointed whose duty it is to select
suitable names, one for each state and territory
to compose the Union Republican Congression-
al National Committee.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Iu the Massach usetts Supreme Court Jan.
3D. Lucius W. Pond withdrew the plea of not
guilty to three out of the twelve indictments
on which he was arraigned. He was sentenced
to fifteen years in the state prison. There are
still twelve indictments which have not been
pressed against him.
Edward Williams, who with Mrs. Meeting
had been arrested for the murder of the lat
ters husband, was taken from the Jail at Bar
bourvile, West Virginia and hanged by a mob
Mrs. Meeting confessed that Williams had
been her paramour for three years, that she
had been trying for the past three months to
poison her husband without success, that Will
liams struck Meeting on the head with an ak
while he was asleep Wednesday night after
wards cutting his throat. She assisted in de-
stroying the evidences of the murder and in
burying Meeting. Though the crowd voted
unanimously for her execution, no men could
be found who would put rope around wo-
mans neck, and she was therefore returned to
Jail.
The officers of the Direct U. S. Cable Com
pany announce that their cable broke again
Jan. % about nine miles west of Zoebay, N, S.
Hon. e. P. Winslow, well-known journ-
alist and politician of Boston, formerly pub
Usher of lions Herald and more recently con.
nected with the Post as treasurer of the
company, has absconded, leaving behind
large amount of liabilities and forged papers.
The central Office detectives Jan. 81 arrested
Mrs. Maria Mckenzie of Montreal, who had
eloped with Frederick H. Bridges, and taken
with her two children, aged and 8 years.
The parties occupied apartments at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. where they were taken into
custody. They were had up in the Tombs DO.
lice court, and both discharged, the lady re-
turning to Montreal with her brother-in-law,
who came in search of her. Mrs. Mckenzie is
the wife of one of the wealthiest and most
prominent citizens of Montreal, and Bridges
is son of the General Superintendent of the
Grand Trunk Railroad and Commissioner of
the government railroads.
Assemblyman Wilcox of Sacramento, has
been held in $4,000 for assault upon news
paper reporter
John S. Robinson, of the firm of Taylor &
Co. of Hartford, Conn, fell from window of
his sleeping apartment to the pavement below
and was killed. His life was insured for $780,
600.
Nearly half the town of Apollo, Pa, was
burned Wednesday night. Loss $4,000 to
$4,000,
Capt A. A. Smith of Gloucester, committed
suicide Saturday.
The saw mill of conlee Beach at Oshkosh,
Wis, was burned Friday; loss $4,000.
Samuel Muzzy was killed by a horse at La
COMA, N. H., Saturday night
John Mally, prominent citizen of Somer.
vile, Mass. was thrown from buggy Saturday
and died Tuesday.
The large hotel at Amherst, N. f., owned
by Mr. Shaw of Boston and occupied by Capt.
Ivory Goodwin, was buried to the ground
Monday night Loss not known. Insured for
$4,000.
VARIOUS MATTERS.
At a meeting of the coal carrying and pro-
ducng interests in New York Jan. Goth, it was
unanimously agreed that the entire suspension
of all mining of anthracite coal for five weeks
from February LIST to March 18th, inclusive, be
ordered.
1t is said conference of the principal rail-
Ill H. IL
ly to arrange for reduction of fares to the
Centennial
Collections for the Young Mems Christian
Association building in Philadelphia amount to
100000.
On the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bulls
band of Sioux attacked a party near Fort Pease
on the I'd of January, killing one man and
wsunding five others. Eight horses were also
killed. Another party Of nine men are cut
off from the fort by the Indians, who number
several hundred. 1t is feared that the entire
garrison will be massacred unless speedily as
sisted.
The American Brewers Association met at
Philadelphia Jan. Goth, and voted to erect a
star-shaped structure near the Agricultural
Hall on the Centennial grounds, and to exhibit
the rise and progress of the brewing business in
this country. H. H. Reuter- of Boston is chair.
man OF the executive committee. They are
authorized to expend 100000.
81. G. Kibbe, the defaulting mining secretary,
was found dead in bed last week, having shot
himself through the head. Later reports
place the amount of his defalcation at about
$4,000, mostly falling ON the N. Y. Mining
Co.
Henry Ward Beecher says Mrs. Moulton
withdrew her request for mutual council
against the wishes and urgent influences of
Plymouth church, and the latter is still willing
to call it. 1t is not true that Mrs. Moulton was
obliged to withdraw because Plymouth church
would not agree to the churches which she de-
sired. On the contrary, the committee of the
church accepted every name suggested in her
behalf by Judge Van Colt. Mrs. Moulton
broke the conference on the sole ground that
the committee of Plymouth church had pointed
out and asked her to consider the improperly
of asking two churches of known antagonism
to Plymouth church. The committee did not
refuse to call these churches, but declared its
willingness to do so if Mrs. Moulton desired it,
He closed by saying, "No perversion of truth
can be greater than to allege that Plymouth
church prevented the mutual council. 1t is
believed that the protest of Plymouth church
committee opened the eyes of Mrs. Moulton's
| advisers of the glaring improperly of calling
the church of the Pilgrims and Clinton Avenue
| chuIch, and that Mrs Moulton did not care to
have mutual council if they were not to be
| in it,"
BRIEF MENTION.
Senator Conkling says the statement that
President Grant had informed him that he
should not be a candidate for third term is
untrue.--The initial steps have been taken to
found Hebrew college in New York.-The
total tde5t of Alabama is $3O,O0O,O0O and as
| sessed value Of real estate 100000, 000.--The
new bridge over the Saco river at North Con-
way is completed Horace Binney Sargent
was elected commander of the G. A. r. of
Massachusetts last week--Rev Geo. W.
Smith has been ordered to the frigate Sabine,
| at Portsmouth, n. H.--GIeenough's statue
| of John Winthrop, ordered by the state OF
Massachusetts arrived at Boston last week -
| The Massachusetts committee which has ex.
| amined the Hoosac tunnel reports the work en-.
| trely satisfactory. Christian convention