The Portland daily press., 1877-06-20
MINOR TELEGRAMS.

All is quiet at Okla.
Ex-Gov. Packard refuses to be interviewed
Four men belonging to Logies Mills, P. @,
were drowned in the Gatineau river yesterday
A tannery in Orangeville, Ont, was burned
yesterday. Loss $4,000.
Twelve swll milk dealers of Brooklyn were
arrested yesterday.
Harvey CELERY of Montpelier, discouraged
for want of work, hung himself last evening.
Vermont convention of Congregational min.
listers met yesterday at Bradford.
Elbut Petit who shot Louisa Turner, was
sentenced yesterday to five years in state pris-
The cases against Eagle and Somerville for
forgery have been postponed till September.
Bail is reduced to $4,000 each.
President Hayes has announced his determ-
lnation to reappOint James Freeland revenue
collector of the first district of New York.
Rev. Thomas Ii. Gregg of Birmingham will
today be consecrated bishop of the Re-
formed Episcopal church from Great Britain
Charles j. Jones, one of the editors of the
New York Times, was married yesterday to
Miss Ella B. Chittenden of Brooklyn.
Two stores, two mills and two dwellings were
burned yesterday morning at Wolcott, VT
Loss $4,000.
Wade Hampton was in New York, Monday
evening, and went yesterday to Ocean Grove,
NJ.
Two or three hundred hands at Booths silk
mill, Patterson, n. j., struck yesterday for
higher wages.
The 87th annual meeting of the New Hamp-
shire Medical Society was held at Concord yes
terday.
The four cared race at New Brunswick, N.
J.,between the crews of Rutgers and Raritans,
resulted in foul in favor of Rutgers.
William Wood alias IT. G. Parish, alleged
merchant of Readville, N. c., was sentenced
to the penitentary for one year yesterday for
passing worthless check.
-Four seamen of the brig Lock Lomond bound
for the Mediterranean, now in the harbor of
Newport, refused to do duty yesterday and
were sent to Jail.
The State Treasurer of Georgia has exchang-
ed S1, 900 of Georgia 6 for Macon & Bruins
wick railroad endorsed rs In the hands of New
York holders.
Gen. p. r. Hampton, clerk of the United
States Circuit and District Court at Ashvile,
N. u, has rendered his resignation. No ir-
regularities were found in his office.
Thomas Dickinson, engineer of the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum in New York, has been SEN
fenced to 800 fine or 100 days imprisonment
for throwing live dog into furnace.
The hotel and store of G. M. Sniffer at Park
ton, Nd, were burned Monday, the occupants
barely escaping. The post-otfice building was
also burned. Loss $4,000; insured.
The United States District Court has sus-
tanned the decision of Secretary Sherman, that
imported fresh fish, packed in ice, are not en-
titled to free entry as fish intended for immedi-
ate consumption.
The Goth annual exhibition of Phillips Acad-
envy, Andover, took place yesterday; 40 stud
ents graduated, y in the classical and Is in the
English department.. Next June the Centen-
NAL of the academy will be celebrated.
William 81. Vanderbilt has been reelected
President of the New York Central road Cor
neilius Vanderbilt, first vice president. The
Harlem directors also cheese VIM. III. Wander.
bilt president.
Geo. B. johnson, late state auditor of Lou.
isiana. was summoned before the grand iury
yesterday to testify as to the whereabouts Of
certain books belonging to the auditors office.
He refused and will be reported for contempt.
The committee of investigation appointed by
the Secretary of the Treasury to examine af-
fairs OF the bureau of engraving and printing
report that the force has been largely in excess
OF what was needed.
The boatmen on the Chesapeake and OHIO
canal have struck for an advance of freights
from 60 to dollar per ton The boats will be
tied up at the eight level, and the boat
men will resist the passage of any loaded boats
while the strike continues.
A discourse before the alumni of Brown
University, upon the life and labors of Rev.
Alexis Caswell, d. D., Ill. D., was delivered
Yesterday. The neurology shows the death of
Is graduates during the past year, representing
15 classes, at an average age of 70.
Exercises of commencement week at the
Massachusetts Agricultural College commence
ed yesterday. The programme included exam
ination for the Grinnel prizes in agriculture
and tree planting. An GRAFTON was delivered
by E. d. Baker of Franklin and poem by G. f,
Coburn of Lowell.
A mass meeting of Jews is to be called at
New York to take action concerning the refu-
sal of apartments to Jew named Seligman at
a Saratoga hotel. The manager of the hotel
says that Seligman was turned away, not be-
cause he was Jew, but because he was
noisy, disagreeable person.