The Portland daily press., 1877-10-06
MINOR TELEGRAMS

The New York mails are detained from all
points by the storm.
There are twenty-seveu cases of yellow fever
at Port Royal The mayor telegraphs to Au-
gusta, Ca, for assistance.
Joe Elliott who was arrested for implication
IN the $64O0O check forgery, and walked out of
court June 9th, was arrested Thursday night in
Fishkill N. Y.
AT the meeting of the railroad representatives
in New York yesterday, the Grand Trunk of
Canada held out against the proposed schedule
of eastern bound freight
Mary Walker, aged IS, fell down stairs in
Lawrence. Mass, yesterday forenoon, aud was
dangerously injured. Her recovery is doubt
full
The Indians in Washington Territory are dis
satisfied because their children are required to
attend the government schools.
A barn in process of erection in Lawrence,
Mass, fell yesterday noon, precipitatipg several
workmen into the cellar. John Daley was
probably fatally injured.
Secretary Sherman has appointed commits
sion to investigate the character of the Secret
Service of the Treasury Department. The COM
mission will hold daily sessions.
The ship Viscount from New York at Liver
pool, reports that she sighted Sept %, ba TX
George Kremelberg, Capt. Patterson, of New
York, for Queenstown, on her beam ends with
all spars standing.
The funeral services of Archbishop Bayley
took place at Newark yesterday.
The Glen Falls Insurance Company will lose
nothing by the Alliger Bros, its New York
city agents
The directors of the Brewers ard Matters
Fire ms. Co. yesterday unanimously resolved
to pay in an assessment of 60 per cent
$4,000.
The losses by the storm reported in Brooklyn
amount TO $4,000.
VIM Ganther, brewer of Brooklyn, has
been arrested by United States officers for
evasion of taxes.
The Union Oil Works on North Tenth street,
Williamsburg, were damaged to the amount of
$4,000 by fire Thursday night.
Rev. David Hulse, pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church in Freehole, n. j., was gored
to death Wednesday by steer.
Thos. Shawlin, who with John Martin e.
capped from the penitentiary at St. John Thurs
day, was shot fatally by Chief Keeper Keefe
after chase of four miles.
There is considerable excitement il Meridep,
Conn.,, over the rumor of strike to-day noon
OF the solderers of the Merden Britannia Co.
1t is feared the company will shut down.
Wallace Ross and his trainer, George Faulk-
ner Of Boston, arrived at Toronto yesterday.
Schooner Enoch Benner, from Canso for Hal
flax, with a cargo of fish, sank off Cundy Har-
Dor Thursday Crew saved.
The first sod on the Nictaux aud Atlantic
railway was turned at Bridgewater yesterday.
There was light frost at M mphis yesterday
morning, but it was not sufficient to damage
the cotton crop.
There are thirty six cases of yellow fever at
Port Royal. Three more deaths were announc-
ed yesterday.
The Indian delegation which has been stop
ping in New York for the past two days left
last night for the far west.
The q. S. grand jury at San Francisco have
found two indictments against w. B. Carr, for
causing to be made and issued certain false GER
tlfi;ates OF the navy pay-office.
A fire last night in NJ B. Sehler s. Co. IS car
risge M nntactory, in Cincinnati, damaged the
building and machinery to the extent of $40, 0Oo
Insured ior So 000
Robert Small (eolored), ex-Congressman, was
arrested at Beaufort yesterday and carried to
Columbia.
Henry Shaw, the wife murderer, and Gus
johnson, one of the most notorious murderers
ia Georgia. both under sentence of death, bur-
rowed cut of Jail at Atlanta Thursday night
and made good their escape.