The Portland daily press., 1877-08-10
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

The New York health register reports 5000
children died IN that city within the past six
weeks.
John W. Stegleman of Shermanstown, Pa,
committed suicide with chloroform at the Com
mercial Hotel, Chicago, Wednesday, lea wing a
letter stating that he had been on drunk all
day and didn't believe in life. Rum did it.
Julius Knox, bankrupt grocer, of Savan-
nab, Ca, shot himself dead Wednesday.
Mrs. VIM. f. Noe of New York sues to re.
stain her expensive huband from wasting her
property. He was penniless when she married
him in 1873. In IA she fell heir to $570, 900,
most Of which he has wasted in Paris pleas.
ures
No official information has reached the De.
surrection at Hayti.
During July the Post.ofics Department fur.
nished stamped envelopes numbering 90 OH, 100,
for which the amount paid was SAG, COL. 55.
Surveyor General Kimball has been relieved
of suspension, and leaves for Utah.
"A late despatch from Hayti contains inform
alton of the death of ex-President Dominique
and the serious illness of President Canal.
Dominique died in exile at Kingston, Jamaica,
June Oath last, aged II.
Secretary SchurZ notifies all the employees of
his department that they must accord with the
Presidents order, prohibiting them from being
members of political organizations.
1t is thought in Washington that Sitting
Bull is likely to occasion internal trouble with
Canada The request is made from there that
the United States take the Indians back, b ut
the British authorities do not saay how it sh a IL
be done.
A destructive fire occurred in San Francisco
Wednesday evening, burning out several
blocks mostly of wooden buildings Stables
were destroyed with about thrto horses The
losses are numerous, but not individually large
The whole may amount to half million. with
light insurance.
The Brandywine mills, miles east of Sohe-
nectady, were burned Wednesday. Loss $40
900; insurance $25, ,0O0.
The loss to the employees the Patterson
silk weavers strike thus far is stated at s., ,OOO
The commissioner of agriculture at Washing
ton proposes to establish system of inquiry in
various sections with view to the propagation
of plants adapted to certain localities but not
cultivated.
Two hundred sail of vessels sought shelter in
Block Island Breakwater, yesterday, the
weather being foggy
The daughter of Frank Wilcox, and son of
Leander Watson of New Haven were drowned
in Killingworth Pond. Their bodies were
fonnd yesterday clasped in each others arms
DR.. Alpheus B. Crosby, Professor of surgery
at Dartmouth, and Professor of anatomy at
Bellevue Hospital College. N. Y, died at Han
over, N. A, yesterday. Illness confined him
to the house but two days.
The actual amount paid out of the treasury
from customs collections for the year ending
June 80, 1877 were as follows: Duties on inn
ports. (coin,) $129 472 $40 66; duties on tonnage,
currency 81, ,472,61S,57 Receipts of internal
revenue to-day, S347, 1856; customs, S393, PCS.
The auction sale of 1000 packages of tea at
New York to-day showed lower prices.
About two hundred employees of Stevens
silk factory, at Staten Island, are thrown ont
of work by a strike of the employees of the
Forty.second street, New York, factory.
George Baynes, arrested at Baltimore. on a
charge of forging $4,000 of notes of tbs con-
solidated bank OF Montreal, was released YES.
terday, no evidence being given that he done
anything illegal.
A correspondent of the News at Bucharest
reports that great Dumt ers of troops continue
to arrive from Russia, as also wounded from
the Danube.