The Portland daily press., 1877-07-13
For New England
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

Tying & Brothers of Peoria, ILL.,, pork pack
ers and grain dealers, have fail ed Liabilities
$4,000.
Levi Adams, carriage builder of New York,
has failed for $15O,000.
The failure Of Butler & Leeds, straw goods
dealers, involves their factory at Hol iston
Mass, and smaller factories in other New Eng
land States Liabilities 100000. Mr.. Butler
attributes the failure to bad debts and depreci-
alton OF property. and says that since the sus.
pension of Vyee & Co. the market has been
run down so that they were obliged lately to
sell most of their goods under cost.
The book binders union has asked the public
printer at Washington if he would employ GER
tain non-unon book binders who recently APP
piled for the situations. Mr.. DefreS said that
ii they were competent he would, and that no
union should dictate to him.
jeremiah Cushman was killed and Patrick
O'Brion seriously inquired at South Boston,
yesterday, by the fall of derrick.
John E. Mott, we'll known tailor of Wind
sor, Vt, aged g., was foand dead in his hop
yesterday. No indications of foul play.
Internal revenue receipts yesterday 1864, 24O i,
customs $780, 46.
The Secretary of the Navy authorizes the
purchase of articles without advertising in
cases of exigency.
The probate Of Vanderbilfs will was COM
menced yeste rday.
Orangemen of New York and Brooklyn went
on picnic yesterday.
The annual meeting of the N arragansett
Gun Club was held at Newport, r. l., yestel-
day. James Gordon Bennett was elected Pres
ident.
The crop reports from all portions of Cali
tornia are most encouraging.
The Philadelphia Orangemen did not parade
yesterday.
The sale of the depot and track of the Mem
phis & Little Rock Railroad in Memphis was
enjoined yesterday. at the instance of certain
New York claimants.
DR.. Stephen Reid, prominent citizen of
Plttstield, died yesterday, aged 70.
Capt James Warner died in Warwick, r. l..
yesterday, aged SO years and months He is
believed to have been the Oldest Mason in the
United States.
1t is denied that the French government has
been purchasing preserved meat in Chicago.
Chas. G. Tefft, junior member of the irm of
Teftt, Grisw0ld & Co. of New York, ,died yes
terday OF heart disease.
1t is rumored that number of New York
merchants will be arrested for complicity in
the silk smuggling frauds.
A meeting of white and black citizens of the
region Known as. the scene of the Ellenton riot
was held wednesday and adopted resolutions
looking to the cessation of race troubles and
to the dropping of the prosecutions in the
courts.
The Union comb factory and portion of the
carpenter shop of the Duchess print works at
Wappinger's Falls, N. Y, were burned yester.
day. Loss not ascertained.
Miss Lizzie Peck was walking on the beach
at Bullock's Point yesterday with one female
and two male companions when the fire from
her young mans cigar communicated to her
light clothing which blazed so rapidly that be-
fore her clothes could be torn off her lower
limbs were shockingly burned. Her injuries
may prove fatal.
DR.. Edward M Stein, young ply stefan re-
siding at 15 East S7th street, New York, COM
mitted suicide yesterday at French's Hotel, by
poison. The cause was dependency at the
partial loss of his eyesight.
The Post Office Department today exhausted
the balance of the old contractors (the Morgan
Envelope Co. of Springfield, Mass and will