The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-18
MINOR TELEGRMs.

Samuel Cooper, a Baltimore letter-carrer,
has been arrested for robbing letters.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart will erect an elegant res
dence at Garden City.
There was a heavy thunder storm with much
rain n New York yesterday.
Harrison, the alleged counterfeiter of Bra
lillian bonds, is held in $4,000 bail to await a
pending question in law.
The specie sent by steamer from New York
for Europe yesterday, amounted to $4,000 in
silver.
Asbury Park, N. j., yesterday, of disease of the
healt.
Ex.Gov. Tllden was down on the Stock Ex-
change vaults yesterday depositing securities
preparatory to his European trip.
Four thousand struggled cigars were seized
yesterday on the Havana steamerClyde at New
York.
At Tarrytown yesterday the Second Reform
ed church was struck by lightning and the
steeple and town clock burned.
James A. Coleman, brother-;n-law of o. Brien
of bonanza fame, died at South Amboy, N. j.,
Monday, of dropsy.
The house of Simeon Garland 10 Enfield, N.
81 q, was struck by lightning yesterday, doing
considerable damage.
Geo. Owens, an Orangeman, stabbed Patrick
Haggerty at Elizabeth, N. j., yesterday, in a
quarrel.
Kelly's hotel at U MON Hill, N j., was bur
glarized Monday night and property to the
amount of $500 stolen.
The annual fair of the Middlesex North Ag.
ricultural Society will occur in Lowell, Sept.
% ard 26.
AWashington despatch intim ates that w.
e. Hunt of New Orleans, brother Of Judge
Hunt has been selected by the President to
fill tho vacancy IN the nranna hanch
| The specie shipments east from San Fran.
cisco for the past Is daysi is gold bars SIC. 1868,
silver bars $l242; gold coin 81 ,326. 800, silver
coin $500, 600.
| The fish commission will meet at Halifax
again on the 9th inst w. 81. Trescott of the
counsel for the United States government left
Washington yesterday, to consult with his
| colleague, Richard III. Dana.
The steamer Massachusetts, came in collision
| with the schooner Two Sisters off Sands Point
yesterday morning. The crew of the latter
were saved but the vessel sunk.
The subscriptions to the per cent loan al
| noon yesterday amounted to $50, $50 GOO, Of
which sum 100000 were received through
| the syndicate.
| Martin B. Bryant, merchant of New York
was robbed by four highwaymen on the ole
Rockaway road Saturday, of money and jewel
| ~ to the value of $500.
1u0 SCHOOuSr f6lnd, frOm cape dayt6u
with logwOod for New York, has arrived at
quarantine. Norfolk. All hands are sick will
| intermittent fever.
The certificate Of authority Of the Charter
Oak Life Insurance Company of Hartford t
| issue policies in New York state, has been re
voked by Superintendent Smyth Of the insur
ance department
The statement that the New York city agents
| OF the Patterson, N. Y, Fire Insurance Com
| pany was short $4,000 or $40 600, is denied by
| the president of the company.
During a thunder shower yesterday after
| noon, tho steam mill of Mead Il Mason al
| Concord. N. H., was struck twice by lightning
and set on fife in several places. Damage
| slight.
| At Schenectady yesterday Judge Landon ap
| pointed Isaac V. French of New York a
referee to inquire into the value of the real es
| tate of the Universal Life Insurance Company
| Lightning yesterday struck and demolished
| the house of VIM. Ryan in Black Rock, Conn
| instantly killing Mrs. Ryan.
| Ex-Speaker Mortimer Carr was arrested yes
| terday at New Orleans, charged with obtain
| ing money under false pre- fences.
The cargo of the ship GOV. Morton, recently
scutted at the New Orleans passes, was bond
ed yesterday by underwriters.
| A party of gentlemen from Boston were al
Schenectady yesterday looking the ground owe
| with view to making a railroad connection
between that city and Boston, via the Hoosa
| Tunnel.
Patrolmen Armstrong and and McGonagl
| of Boston have been suspended from the polio
force, pending an examination of charge
against them of conspiring to ruin the charact
er of young lady residing at the North End
John Meehan of Newton Centre, fell from
raft into Hammond Pond, yesterday, and was
| drowned.
Bartholomew 7. Buregard, late collector 0
the second internal revenue district of Loui:
lana, was brought to New Orleans, yesterday
by deputy U. S. marshal charged with EN-
| bezzlement.