The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-03-30

Caucasans.
An attempt to rob the consolidated National
Bank of Philadelphia was discovered Monday.
kit ofiburglars tools was found. The prop
erty adjoining was occupied by the burglars
who had been at work for some time endeav-
oring to effect an entrance.
Alfred Packard living in Houston street, N.
Y, quarreled with his wife Saturday night
bound her in her chair rubbed vitriol in her
face and then fed. The poor creature burst
her bonds and flew to an apothecary where
physician applied antidotes, butLthe flesh is
nearly eaten off her face and she will probably
die. Pickard has not yet been found.
EXECUTION OF BISHOP LEE.
John d. Lee, the Mormon Bishop, who was
sentenced to be shot for participating in the
Mountain Meadow massacre, made confess.
ion duplicating Brigham Young, and other
leading Mormons. He says the massacre was
the result of the direct teachings of Young and
that it was ordered by Col Dame and Lieut..
Col Isaac G. Height. The emigrants were
treacherously lured to destruction by flag of
truce; the Indian allies killed the women, the
Mormon militia the men, and Lee and the
drivers of the wagon slaughtered the sick and
wounded. There were about so whites and 400
Indians engaged in the affair. Seventeen chill
dren were saved. The dead were stripped and
mutilated, and their corpses left on the field.
Height promised Lee a crown of celestial glory
as his reward. and when the latter made his re-
port to Brigham Young, the prophet said that
he had direct evidence from God that the act
was just one, and told him to lay the blame
on the Indians and keep the matter secret as
the grave. One W. G. Stewart, was the most
bloodthirsty of the assassns; he cut threats Just
for amusement. The massacre was regarded
by all who took part in it as a religious duty.
Lee professed penitence for his crime, and de-
clared that he had told the whole truth. He
then believed he was serving God, but now he
knows he was wrong, and that his
reward is not to be celestial On the
23d inst. Lee was taken, under escort
of company of soldiers, to the massacre at
Mountain Meadow, and there seated on his cof-
fin, he made speech denouncing Brigham
Young, and calling himself scapegoat for the
sins of others. He insisted that he did nothing
designedly wrong in the unfortunate affair, and
asked that photographs of the execution be
sent to each of his three wives. A Methodist
minister made prayer, a handkerchief was
placed over the eyes of the condemned man,
who said, "Aim at my heart;' five soldiers then
fired, and Lee fell back dead upon his coffin.
There were about Is persons present, but not
child or relative of Lee was among them. The
best of order prevailed. Lee left long con-
fession giving further particulars of the massa-
Gre, and declaring that he saved some of the
children from being killed by the Indians.
Brigham Young telegraphs, eff Lee has made
statement duplicating me, it is utterly false.
My course of life is to we'll known by thou
sands of honorable men for them to believe for
one moment such an accusation"
BRIEF MENTION
Thomas d. Patterson becomes rear admiral
by the retirement of Rear Admiral Alney.-
Bedford have voted to continue the strike.-
There is no definite trace of Oakley Hail.
The Hudson river is clear of ice--Gov. Rob.
| inson of New York has vetoed the bill for the
appointment of a superintendent of pubic
| works because the Senate refused to confirm
Gen. Mcclellan whom he had appointed to that
| ofice.--Walter Ross and Elijah Ross, the for
| mer champion of the Provinces and the latter
member of the Paris crew, have challenged any
| two men in the United States or the Dominion
| to row three or six miles for $1,000 or $4,000 in
| gold in May or June on the Kennebeccases.
| Brigham Young's denial of Bishop Lees stat
ment is not generally believed.--Miss Bertha
Won Hillern succeeded in walking so miles in
| twelve consecutive hours at Providence Satur.
| day.-The New York Central and Erie roads
have settled their disputes.--Walter Bagehot,
well known writer on British political institu-
tions, is dead.--Hon Flow Farnsworth, for
merly chancellor of Michigan, died Saturday.
The National Bank of Gloversville has
closed its doors.--Hamilton Fish is not
candidate for any foreign mission.-Suspen
sion Bridge at Niagara Falls is reported entire
ly safe.--The total amount recovered by the
| Ring suit is $780, 49, from which are to be de-
Quoted counsel fees leaving $65S, 236, e. M.
Lewis, trustee of Jay Cookies estate, says he
shall soon issue a circular to the creditors Of
the firm and advise against tine sale of any
claims at an inadequate price.--Three hun
dree shoemakers struck in New York Thursday
for an advance of 10 per cent to their pay
The dentists of Vermont have formed state
association.-The temperance movement re.
Gently inaugurated in Columbus Ohio, is
spreading. Over 1000 have signed the pledge
in Newark alone. The saloons are being closed
and their former proprietors are engaged in the
temperance movement.-The 44th annual
meeting of the Psi Epsilon fraternity will be
held at Wesleyan University. Gen. Hawley
will be orator.-The suit of Harriet A, Cilly
VS.. the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. under the
civil rights act. for damages for denying equal
accommodations to white and colored persons,
has been decided in favor of defendant on the
ground that the right to travel on railroad
train is one of state citizenship; also that it
was not within the power of Congress to in
flict penalty for the denial of such a priyi-
lege.-Vice President Beers of the New York
Life Insurance Company testified before the
committee Of the New York Legislature Tues
day that the Presidents salary was $50, 900 per
annum, Vice Presidents and Actuary's salary
the same. Receipts at Boston for the last five
years, $60O0O0; at Chicago, 100000; at St.
Louis, $125. 900; at Cleveland, 100000
FOREIGN.
A despatch from Paris says that.
the Commissioner General of Switz.
erlard at the late Centennial Exhibition at
Philadelphia in his report to the federal coun-
Gil, states that the decline in Swiss exports to
America is not due to the commercial crisis
there. but to the development of native indus
try, and that Switzerland will never gain her
own level. England is also competing more
actively with Switzerland to compensate for
the loss in other markets. Cotton fabrics are
likely to cross the Atlantic to Europe in in.
creasing quantities, for water power is cheaper
than coal. Short hours and nigh wages have
disappeared and the Americans, it may be
foreseen, will compete with Europe. Even in
China and Japan, Switzerland must also be
prepared for warmer rivalry in silk, watches
and machines, England being likely to try to
make up on the continent for the decline in her
machine exports to America.
Dispatches concerning the situation in the
East contain the usual amount of speculatiops
and the customary paucity of facts. The arm
istice between Montenegro and Turkey has
been prolonged till the 18th of April. The
startling and important statement is made that
when Russia once orders demolization. Eurone