The Portland daily press., 1877-08-17
MINOR TELEGRAMs,

Attorney General Daniel was taken sick at
Richmond after his denomination Friday and
now lies in most critical condition.
Smith, Surveyor General of Montana, has
been suspended.
Ex-President Asa Dodge of Dartmouth COL
lege, died yesterday morning in Hanover, New
Hampshire.
There is prospect of Senator Morton's
speedy recovery.
Pennsylvania specials report that the strike
on the Philadelphia and Erie railroad has been
ended by the timely arrest of four strikers.
The ball Wednesday night at White Sulphur
Springs, Va, Melted $4,000 for Gen. Lees
monument
The North American United Caledonian As
ISOLATION at Albany, selected Jersey City as the
place for their next annual meeting. J. b.
Mclntlre OF st. GATHERINGS, Ont, was elected
President tor the ensuing year.
The contract for the construction of the new
Boston and Lowell bridge across the Merrimac
river to South Lawrence, is awarded to Geo.
Runnels & Co. They will complete it before
winter.
Sheridan Shook reports $3.50 as the receipts
at the Union Square theatre, New York, for
the benefit OF the st. John people.
The passengers of the steamship Clysia of
the Anchor line, make public complaint that
the shipment of live cattle on that steamer
made portions of the ship too offensive for oc-
cupancy.
District Attorney Woodford believes the best
way to break up silk smuggling is to seize the
vessels.
The fete at Newport, yesterday for the bene-
fit of the Old South fund was a great pecuniary
and decorative success.
Gen. Sheridan thinks the stories of Indian
outrages in Montana are exaggerated
1t is stated that the recent freight compact
haf xunn IN l. -
several Western roads.
Two hundred thousand dollars is the sum
needed to release the steamship Denmark
which is still detained
There was a case of Asiatic cholera in New
York Wednesday night.
Justice Maurice Marshal of Jersey City was
sent to Jail for thirty days yesterday for beating
his wife.
r. T. Daniels, Attorney General Of Virginia.
died at Richmond yesterday.
Patrick Marley, notorious oounterfeiter,
was arrested at Philadelphia yesterday.
Rev. John Matthews, head negro waiter at
religious exercises there Sundays for the SER
wants, and several other walters, have been
arrested for stealing bed clothes, table linen
and goods belonging to the guests at the hotel.
Most of the stolen property was recovered.
The British Rifle Team sailed from London
yesterday for New York
Mrs Mccormick, who dangerously cut John
Wlldermott at New York Wednesday night,
states that she cut him defence of her honor.
ne attempting rape. He denies the paramour
story. Wildermott will probably die. Bis SzssS
William e. King, an employe of the city f.
nance department Of New York, supposed to be
intimately mixed up in the ring transactions,
had four indictments found against him by the
general sessions of the grand jury for defraud-
ing the CITY,. King is in Brazil, where he fled
at the time the frauds were discovered.
Judge Van Brunt of New York ordered the
Dominican nuns to give up an eleven year old
daughter of Mr.. Heaiy to her father yesterday,
she having been placed in the nunnery by her
mother unknown to her father