The Portland daily press., 1877-12-29
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

The Nez Perces who joined Sitting Bull,
now want to come back into the United States.
The President has pardoned Frank s.,
Hinckle of Missouri, convicted of perjury.
nGen. W. MeCooke of Ohio, died in New
York yesterday.
1t has been reported that the Locomotive
Brotherhood is going to pieces, but Chief Ar
thur denies it,
Polygamous marriages were solemnized
Thursday at Salt Lake, and more are to be
solemnized Saturday.
An arrangement was made Thursday to al
low the suspected yacht Estelle to proceed to
New York at once,
1t is stated that the furniture of Welland's
hotel at Washington has been ordered to be
sold by the sheriff
Thomas McGrath, aged TO- broke through the
ice on the pond in East Weymouth, Mass,
Thursday, and was drowned.
Geo. Savage and Thomas Judkins were dam
gerously injured by the explosion of the boiler
OF the steamer Pulaski at Norfolk yesterday.
The Allan steamers leaving Halifax for Eng
land are now furnished with beef and other
suppli,s brought from Montreal by rail-
Geo. W. Kimball, IS syears old, committed
suicide BY shooting at his residence 20 Poplar
street, Boston, yesterday morning.
Edward Halpin was killed near Ohicopee
yesterday in trying to cross the railroad track
in front of passenger train.
The coinage of the San Francisco mint for
the present month was 81, 920, 900 in gold and
$9S0,000 in silver.
Thomas Mason, supposed to be one of the
omaha express robbers, has been arrested in
Sherman, Texas.
Gen. Fremont denies that he owes the gov
ernment $4,000, and has filed counter claim
of $4,000.
The cause of the New York candy factory
explosion has not yet been ascertaiued An
other body was found yesterday
Seventy-five thousand tons of coal were sold
at auction in New York yesterday from So 81
/ to $50 per ton.
Jesse Way, a notorious counterfeiter, and
two companions have been captured near Win
chester, Indiana, and other members of the
gang will soon be arrested.
Lemuel and Ethelbert Smith, father and
son, were arrested 10 Southamp ton county,
Va, for the murder of William 81. Fuller on
the Oath inst.
Ira K. Melindy has recovered verdict of
49, 66 &c against the town of Bradford, VT.
for damages sustained through insufficiedcy of
the highway.
The differences between Prof T, S. Cailas
and the trustees of the Hartford Theological
lnstItuse have been adjusted to the satisfaction
of all parties.
The Postoffice Department will in a few DAYS
make definite arrangements for fast mail SER
vice of SO hours between New York CITY and
Havana via Cedar Keys and Key West
1t is stated that both the British and Ameri
can loan companies and trust companies have
notified all their agents in the Western states
TO refuse loans on mortgages unless payments
OF both interest and principal are made in gold,
U. s. Grant, Jr., has been appointed Assist
ant United States Attorney in New York under
Gen. Woodford, to attend especially to old and
delayed customs cases. The appointment was
made by Secretary Sherman.
In New York Thursday night, Herbert Fl
Thompson was stabbed in the face and head by
Ghauncey johnson, a notorious bank robber.
He charged Thompson with estrangDg the af.
fectiops OF his wife. Thompson's wound is not
fatal. johnson has been arrested.
A fire at Burlington, Vt, Thursday, DESTROY.
ed brick building owned by Walls, Taft &
Smith. Loss $4,000; insured $4,000. G. p,
Smiths feed store was damaged $500; insured
W: e. Whitney's gun repair shop was damaged
$500; uninsured.
= Hayes endorsement meeting has heea csl
Independents and Democrats. 1t has been
hastily gotten up and there is some doub,
whether the Republican politicians will join III
| it heartily.
At meeting of the trustees of the West
Boston Savings Bank it was voted thai the
bank ce closed up in the most economical
| manner. A temporary injunction will be
served on the officers of the bank today aud q
time assigned for hearing.
A Richmond, Va, despatch says that for the
first time in the history of the state, the naug
uration of tbs new governor on January Isl
will be publicly performed. with a military
parade, delivery of the Inauguration from the
portico of the capitol, and banquet. The
people generally condem it as Yankee limo
| walton.
The appointment of M Washington as
French minister of foreign affairs, and of the
Marquis de Saint Waller to be French am bias.
sador to Berlin is an earnest of better relations
between France and Germany. The latter i;
acceptable for his own sake and as successor Of
Viscountide Sontante Bron, the retiring am
bassador, who had the reputation of beine
ultremontane.
The story is circulated in New York, tha
Mr.. Wright who purchased the effects of J. B
Ford s. Co., ard among other things Mr.
Beecher's contract for the Life of Christ, had
brought suit against the latter to recover S1O
600 already paid him, and 800, 900 as damages
for non-fulffllment of the contract. Judge
Fullerton, Wright's counsel, denies the story
however