The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-10
MINOR TELEGRAms.

The Ohio river at Cairo is frozen over.
Rhode Island Assembly met yesterday.
The authorities of Newark, n. j., are daily
feeding 1900 poor people.
Gen. Hancock says be has not been transfer
red to the Pacific coast.
Dredgeboat Murphy sunk at st. Louis Loss
$4,000.
Body of Mr. Whittier of Keene, N. H., lost
in storm week ago, has been found.
Internal revenue receipts yesterday $165, 1881;
customs $574,022.
The new bridge over the Ashtabula is COM
pleted and trains will run regularly tomorrow.
Total amount realized by the sale of pews in
Plymouth church last night was $48,42 80;
$4,000 less than last year.
An order has been issued to show cause WHY
the default entered in the case of Henry a.
Body VS. S. j. Tilden should not be opened.
Furniture mandatory of Stevens & Co., at
Denisou, Texas, was burned Monday. Loss
$4,000.
Fire in Lancaster, Penn. Monday night, de-
stroyed Hunters tea store and Hasett's hat
store Loss ST., 900.
New York bay is full of ice and no water can
be seen from the Battery to Staten Island. The
East River is quite covered.
Some of the New York banks are taking the
opportunity afforded by the present low price
gold.
Secretary of the Navy has reinstated cadet
midshipman Webster, dismissed from the An
napolls Academy for refusing to reveal the
names of hts comrades guilty of h4zng
james E. Burnham, the Pine Plains ticket
agent of the Poughkeepsie Hartford & Boston
Railroad has been missing since Saturday night
and 1t is feared he has been fouly dealt with.
The message of the Governor of New Jersey
denounces the use of troops in South Carolina
and the assumption on the part of the Presi-
dent of the Senate to count the electoral vote.
Ex-Gov. Isham Harris of Tennessee, was
elected u S Senator yesterday for the long
term, to succeed Hon. Henry Cooper, whose
term.
Boiler of George Downer's saw mill at Aus
tin Township, Mich exploded Monday night
instantly killing John and Charles Snyder and
q man named Rea Cause unknown.
The contest between the trustees of the Lick
estate and the heirs has been arranged, the son
releasing all claim for the sum of S533, 900, $72,-
00O OF which he agrees to pay to other heirs.
The New Hampshire Republican Convention
70 nominate candidate for Governor meets at
Concord today. The Third Congressional Con-
yentlon also meets today. Probably FL. w.
Blair will be nominated.
The movement of ice in the Ohio has resulted
in the loss OF considerable property Four
barges were torn away from the Fulton land
ing at Ironton. The Ashland Coal COMPANY
lose $4,000.
The New York Mail says Colonel Joseph r
Osborne, Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, has challenged William j.
Murtagh proprietor of the Washington Repub-
lcan. Murtagh charged that the Washington
gamblers had bought up the Herald bureau.
The residence of Conductor G. w. Sleeper.
Rochester, N. a., was entered Monday evening
by more tnan 100 friends, who remained until a
late hour and celebrated the crystal wedding of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sleeper in grand style. The
presents we're very numerous and costly.
Friends of the deceased Commodore say that
w. ID. Vanderbilt is to carry out a plan of his
for the construction of hospital or home for
the benefit of the employees of Vanderbit's
roads. 1t is understood that the Commodore
placed large sum in the hands of his eldest
son to distribute among his most valued friends
no mention of whom was made in his WILL
Schultz & Van Burger, wholesale liquor
dealers of San Francisco, controlling the JUS
tin Bullion and Exchequer & Milling Compa-
MES made an assignment to their creditors
Monday. The assets of the firm are stated at
$500 600 in excess otOliabilites and it is beiev-
ed that an arrangement will be made by which
they will resume.