The Portland daily press., 1877-10-11
MINOR TEEEGRAMs.

zen. sheridan SENDS an ot1clal despatch con-
frming Chief Joseph's surrender and saying
that supplies had been sent to Miles as he re-
quested.
1t is reported that the President will appoint
Gen. Harlan of Kentucky TO the vacant Su-
preme judgeship.
The Shaw Stocking Company, with capital
OF $4,000, has organized in Lowell, Mass.
They will manufauture stockings BY a patent
process.
The flags in Brooklyn,> were at half mast
yesterday, in respect to the memory of Gen.
Caster.
Charles Mcintosh, a shoemaker of West
Newburyport Mass, hang himself Tuesday
night-the result of a drunken SPREE He leaves
a wife and four children.
Charles Remand, a clerk aged II years, has
been arrested in Montreal for forging checks
on the Bank of Montreal in sums ranging from
500 to $780, The total amount is said to be
large.
Hon. G. A: Updike prominent lawyer and
politician of Providence R. l., was found dead
in his office yesterday morning.
Henry Jones of Hebronville Mass, was
killed on the Boston & Providence railroad near
that village Tuesday night. He was probably
intoxicated.
A small tenement house in Skowhegan own
ed by Charles MagOon and occupied by John
Lashon, caught fire Tuesday evening, but was
extinguished with loss of the ell and shed.
Damage 800.
Tweed says he will give all his property and
tell every thing he knows for his liberty.
The body of Michael Hughes, laborer, was
found in Mill river, Taunton, Mass, yesterday
He had been missing several days. The cause
of his suicide was dependency from lack of
work. He was fifty years old and leaves a
family.
During the gale Monday night, schooner
Abbott, from Boston for Richmond, Va, an
chored off Stapletop, Staten Island, came in
collision with the Austrian bark Abraham
which had dragged ashore. The schooner lost
her bowsprit, jibboon and all her head gear and
the rigging attached. The bark bad her bull
warks stove in, lost her spanker boom and her
stern was badly damaged.
The German and American Bank at Sidney,
Ill, has closed. Tho proprietors say its assets
are double Its liabilities.
Mayor Banks of Albany asserts that he new
er received single dollar from Tweed. VIM
d. Murphy says all he got was $3.50 and that
was for election purposes.
1t is reported that Surveyor Shapes success.
sor will be Captain Brackett, special treasury
agent
The Lehigb Valley miners have again re-
solved not TO work except the 10 per cent ad-
vance is granted.
A heavy robbery was committed by river
thieves at the Bremen steamship pier, Hobo
ken, yesterday morning.
A case of yellow fever is reported in New
York
Over $4,000 were received from the sale of
seats and boxes for the Edwin Adams bene-
fit,
Henry Meiggs died at Lima. Peru, Sept
10Th.
The Republican senatorial convention at Wa
tertown, N. T., yesterday, endorsed the South
ern and civil service policies.
Three deaths from yellow fever at Port Roy
al yesterday. No new cases were reported at
Fernandina yesterday.
The amount appropriated By Foster, assistant
treasurer of the Grand Trunk rail way, is vart-
ously estimated at from $4,000 to $12 600.
Road agents at Hot Creek, Wyoming, stop
ped coach from Deadwood, Monday, but find
ing no treasure on board they let it go on: They
Chung in DeadWood.