The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-26
GENERAL NOTES,

All was quiet at Indianapolis, Ind, yester.
day.
Orders have been issued at Poughkeepsie for
all freight conductors and train crews on the
Hudson River railroad to report for duty, and
freight trains will be forwarded west at once
All is quiet at Buffalo.
The punishment in New York for tearing up
tracks and obstructing trains is 10 years i'm
prisonment.
All was quiet in San Francisco yesterday.
The mob IN Chicago has taken possession of
the Phoenix distillery and refuse to allow U. S.
officers to perform their duties.
The Long Island railroad has rescinded its
order for 10 per cent. reduction.
Postal cards have gone through the mails
threatening to lynch Henry Ward Beecher
The Governor of New York issued another
proclamation yesterday, calling the attention of
the strikers to the law Furnishing interference
with trains.
An attempt to incite strike at. Syracuse,
yesterday, was unsuccessful.
The Commercial and Maritime Exchanges
and the Board of Trade of Philadelphia passed
resolutions, yesterday, calling upon the Presi-
dent to use such increase of force as may be
necessary to quell the present disturbances.
The 9th New York regiment was stoned by
werkmen while passing Scarborough, and two
privates were struck but not seriously hurt.
The regiment camped in hall in Albany dur
ing Tuesday night, and yesterday morning was
to leave for some unknown point.
Vanderbilt at Saratoga Tuesday night, in
sisted that none of his men had struck, but had
been coerced into leaving work by outsiders
He believed the worst was over, and he will
hold the state responsible for any destruction
of his railroad property.
Washington advices state that the monitor
Wyandotte has been prepared for active service
and officers ordered to her, and she will be an
chored off the arsenal at present.
The moulders in the Howe Sewing Machine
factory at Bridgeport, struck Tuesday, aud it is
expected that other workmen will follow them
They say they will not resume work until they
receive all back pay due, or satisfactory assur-
ances regarding payment for the past and fu-
ture.
There is great scarcity of food at Frostburg
Maryland mining town, and the miners
threaten raid on Cumberland.
The suspicion that twelve of the Philadel-
phia soldiers persisted in the Pittsburg round
house proves unfounded.
MIR. Arthur, President of the Locomotive
Brotherhood, says that the Brotherhood is not
connected with the present strike and his ad-
vice has been not to jeopardize nor compromise
their manhood. He thinks the best way to
settle the difficulty is to restore wages as prior
to July l. The men will never resume work
till that is done. If Tom Scott had gone to
Pittsburg instead of sending soldiers, all blood
shed would have been avoided. Whenever the
officers of the roads have met the Brotherhood
there has been no strike. This strike will con-
ued long the Locomotive Brotherhood will be
forced to take hand on the roads where there
has been reductions.
The differences between the Great Western
road and its employees have been amicably adj
justed
Firemen on the eastern division of the Penn
sylvania railroad are not going to strike
Troops at the U. S. arsenal at Little Rock,
left for Louisville yesterday afternoon.
~ Several freight trains left Philadelphia for
New York yesterday, but none over the main
line
A meeting at West Albany appointed COM
mittee to confer with Mr.. Vanderbilt. There
ened.
An attempt was made to burn a railroad
bridge at Port Jervis, yesterday, but it failed.
The strike at that place is about over,
y everything was quiet at Erie yesterday. A
vigilance committee of 1000 is enrolled.
. Engineers on the Delaware, Lackawana &
Western road decided to strike yesterd az,