The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-03
TIE PRESS.
from the Maine State Press of August 2, 1877.
History Of Seven DAYS.
Xne News. for the week ending Wednes-
day Night, August II.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.


lowing is the monthly statement of U
s. currency outstanding: Old demand notes,
S6,3s6,25O; legal tender notes, $3.50, O94, 22O.
notes of 1868, $95,715; compound interest notes
Szso,4S fractional currency, all issued, $19,-
7S4+S335; total, $379. 1884. 723.
The facts relative to the application
OF Blue Jean Williams for troops are
as follows: Gov Williams telegraphed
to the Secretary of War, asking for
authority to call upon the commandant of the
arsenal at indianapolis. This telegram was
not addressed to the President, but to the SEQ.
Rotary of War, was informal, did not comply
with the Federal constitution and was conse-
quently not recognized. The Governors enc
mics say he addressed it purposely to the Sec
Rotary of War in order to avoid the recognition
of President Hayes
The total popular subscriptions to the per
cent loan, received by the q. s. Treasurer and
assistants throughout the country, is sc, 319,SOO
The total amount received by the syndicate is
S60,000,000. Total amount subscribed in Lon
don, reported to date, is $40, 600, which
makes total of 76,519,700. Against this
amount calls have been issued for the redemp-
RANsOSotSDV
$5OO0.0O0 in gold has been paid into the Treas
ury for redemption purposes, leaving $31, 3d.
ZOO of bonds yet to be called. 1t is expected
that another call will be issued this week.
CHARTER OAK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
The special committee of life insurance Off
GERS, who were appointed to examine the al
fairs of the Charter Oak Life Insurance Com
pany, have reported in detail the results of their
examination, and their statement and estimate
of the companys assets and liabilities is as
follows, the assets being classified as good and
uncertain: Good 9,266, O99 So; uncertain 3d.
1868, 472. a. The liabilities of the company, as.
certained by Mr.. Halcomb in his investigation
and as stated to us, are $13362, 57761. The
committee say that the difference between the
total liabilities and the assets which we have
called good, is 80, 096, 95, which is $733,005
81 more than the amount set down as uncer-
tain. There exists. therefore technical defcien
cy upon four per cent. net reserve. How large
the deficiency we cannot and do not know
nor do we believe that 1t can at present be
well ascertained, or what the real resources are
that may be derived from the uncertain COL
umn. The committee believes the company can
bel made to pay its legal liabilities in full and
its impairment be. made good. On the report
of this committee the plan for recognizing the
company under a new management was con-
summated and a new board was chosen, who
elected Hon. Marshall Jewell President. The
petition for the appointment of receiver will
probably be withdrawn and the injunction re-
moved, and the company will soon commence
business under the new management
BRIEF MENTION.
The amount of popular subscriptions to the
4 per cent. loan is $76,519, 70O.-Mayor Prince
has signed an order to free the East Bos-
ton ferry.--Samuel Warren, author of 1.-THE
Diary Iof Physician" and 'Ten Thousand
a1Year' is dead.--Brigham Young writes
to Secretary Schurz denying that Gov. AxtelI
of New Mexico is Mormon.--It is rumored
that the Western Union and Atlantic and
Pacific Telegraph companies have consolid-
ated.-Boston's contribution for st. John
foots up 46,965.--Joseph Woodruff, Secre-
tary of the South Carolina Senate, is under
arrest charged with forgery and larceny.--A
delegation from the Edgefeld and E llenton dis
tricts, s. G., representing both parties, and in.
GLIDING blacks and whites. waited on President
Hayes the other day, to say that mass meet
ing had been held in which all parties had
buried the Ratchet and agreed to live in peace
with each other hereafter. In view of this
they wished the suits against the political MUIR
derers to be dismissed, and at the same time
the state authorities would dismiss suits made
in offset against colored Republicans. The
President expressed his satisfaction at this
state of things, and promised to take the re-
quest into onsideration.--The Indians are
committing outrages in the Black Hills.--At
Deadwood, on the 18th, twenty murders COM
mtted by them were reported in the vicinity !;
whole company of United States soldiers
who went out from Spearfish City were miss
ing; Dearly every ranch along Red water and
in Spearish valley is devastated.
THE RAILROAD RESURRECTION.
The great railroad instruction is about over.
Most Of the roads have resumed traffic and
freight is being moved as usual. The most
notable event of the past week is the riot in
Chicago on Thursday. There was more or less
fighting during the day, and it was not until
the troops had fred several times: upon the
mob that it broke up and dispersed. There
were nineteen supposed to be killed and many
wounded, several of them fatally. At ST.
Louis there has been considerable disturbance
and an almost entire suspension of work in
manufacturing establishments, but at last &C.
counts all was quiet and the railroads were re-
Stunning business unmo.ested. At San Fran
cisco the mob made repeated attacks upon the
Chinese, but were finally put down though not
until several lives were lost and several houses
burned. The principal trouble now is in the
coal regions of Pennsylvania. At Scranton the
mayor is afraid of the mob and dares not pro-
tect the owners of the mines who desire to
keep them pumped out. On Saturday the
state troops sent by Gov. Hartranft to open the
Pennsylvania railroad encountered opposition at
YOUNGSTOWN, where great moo threw stone s
aud. iron missiles at the cars, crushing the
windows and iniuring several soldiers. They
also placed an obstruction upon the track, the
worse effects of which were by mere accident
avoided, though some were hurt by the con-
cussion. If the train had not been stopped as
it was by Col. Hamilton, who was impatient
of the disturbance, there would have been
great loss of life, as the train would have been
thrown over an embankment. One hundred of
these rioters were captured. Tom Scott says
the Pennsylvania Company will rebuild as few
of their buildings as possible at Pittsburg, and
will remove all their shops and machine works
to some other point on the road, as remote as
possible from large cities. where the workmen
and the property of the Company will not be
at the mercy of mobs. The President has re.
ceived petition from the central council of
the Labor League of the United States, asking
him to call meeting of the prominent railroad
managers and leaders of labor organizations
who have opposed violence, to confer together
and arrive at some mutually satisfactory ar
rangement. Vanderbilt has presented the en-
ployes Of the New York Central Railway with
100000 out of gratitude for their fidelity to
the interests of the road and their refusal to
join the strikers
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
At Salt Lake on the 26th, Robert T. Burton.
leading Mormon, was arrested for the murder
of Joseph Morris in 1862. Morris was proph-
ct who set up against Brigham Young, and
had about 500 followers. Burton was then
marshal of the territory, and arrested Morris