The Portland daily press., 1877-09-17
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Sir Henry Halford, with the members of the
British rifle team, visited the Shapes rifle
works at Bridgeport, CT, Saturday. Sergeant
| Glider made sixteen consecutive bulls eyes at
| 1000 yards with the new Sharpe's breech-load-
| ing rife.
| The coal operators of the Lehigh region have
agreed to pay the rates of last May and work
will be resumed. This ends the strike there.
Hugh Carperton, prominent citizen of
| Georgetown, D. O., q brother of the late
Senator Allan Carperton of West Virginia,
died suddenly Saturday night of paralysis, aged
| &c.
| The Manchester N. H., war veterans to the
| number of so will parade in Boston today, and
will be commanded by Adjutant T. w. Challis
| The high school cadets will also turn out in
| full ranks.
| Becher's division of Prof. Hayden's geologi-
received from Bechler himself dated Camp
| Stambugb. which announces the arrival of the
| party at that place. They are now beyond all
| possible danger, and will arrive at Rawlin's
| Springs, on the Pacific Railroad, by the 10th.
| A faint comet was discovered by Coggin at
Marseilles Sept. 18th.
The wrestling match between Miller and
bennett at Baltimore Saturday night was won
| by Miller.
E. P. Berry, track hand on the Boston &
Maine railroad, fell dead Saturday forenoon of
heart disease, at Lawrence, Mass. He was 81
| years old and leaves a family.
By "a misplaced switch on the jersey Mid
| land railroad, small train was wrecked near
| Hackensack Saturday morning. No one was
| hurt.
A Shenandoah dispatch says that when
| the miners were paid Oft Saturday they IN
| doubtedly gave money to aid the strikers in
Luzerne, whose families are reported starving
A. r. Brewster, a member of the board OF
| engineers of Lawrence, and prominent citi-
zen, was assaulted Friday night by four young
men and severely injured. His assailants have
| been arrested.
Washington dispatches say that E. c. Cow
| den is talked of for collector of New York, and
Gen. Merritt as probable surveyor.
Assistant Secretary McCormick's resignation
| takes effect Oct 4. 1t is believed that he will
have diplomatic mission.
1t is stated that the present organization of
the secret service aud special agents of the
Treasury will be abandoned and reorganized ON
new basis, as several Objectionable features
have been discovered by recent investigations.
w. p. Strafford's house and contents in
Woburn, Mass, were burned yesterday. Loss
$1,000.
A man apparently 35 years old, about 81
feet high, dark hair, red moustache, dark
checked pants and shirt, black coat and black
Kossuth hat, was killed in freight yard at
Fall River yesterday.
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Co. of Portsmouth, N. H., was found dead in
his bed Saturday morning. Heart disease.
Cyrus Gould died in Providence Saturday of
hydrophobia.
Hon. j. q. Loomis, ex-mayor of Bridgeport,
ct, died yesterday, aged u years.
Paul G. Coffin & Co., hardware merchants of
New York, have failed. Liabilities $50 GOO;
assets 1924, 900; also Chas. Hesse & Co., dealers
in laces. Liabilities $4,000; assets not stated
Franklin Allen, grandson of the late Com
modore Vanderbilt, has applied for a discharge
in bankruptcy, but meets opposition from his
creditors.
Mark Holiday was fatally injured Saturday
by an explosion in the works of the Winchester
Arms Co. at New Haven.
The receiver of the Long Island Savings
Bank expects to pay 25 per cent. to depositors
IN few days, and 80 per cent. more in three
months.
Bulletins say that the freight pool contract
works satisfactorily, and four trunk lines inter-
ested have increased their net earnings under it
at the rate of two millions per annum.
The roof of Lauder's factory at Rockford,
Ill, fell Friday killing j. B. Lander and two
clerks, and fatally injuriDg two others.
The Worlds Washington special says that
Hartranft is named for the English mission,
and the appointment of Stevens as minister to
Stockholm was made at the personal request of
Blaine.
Only one member of the Cabinet, Secretary
Sherman, is in Washington.
Steamship Algeria has arrived at Queens
town.
The dead body of an unknown man was
found in the water at the Cambridge bridge yes
terday.
A young child of James Sutton of Manches-
ter, n H., fell out of chair yesterday and was
killed.
Levi Coffin, well known in slavery times as
president of the Underground Railway, died in
Cincinnati yesterday, aged rs years.