The Portland daily press., 1877-02-07
MINOR TELEGRAlss.
Long Island Sound is free of ice.

Lung lSlduu SOuuU is Tree OF Ice.
Gen. Sherman in a letter to the House COM
mittee opposes the fastening upon the War
Department of the signal service
The Cabinet was in session yesterday but
transacted nothing but routine business.
Rear Admiral Alden, U. S. N, died in San
Francisco yesterday of congestion of the brain.
The Indian appropriation bill as reported by
the Senate committee increases the amount
appropriated by the House by $636000.
The original Declaration of Independence
will be transferred from the Patent Office to
the State Department.
The body of John Schneider, who was buried
alive in a we'll near Jamaica, L. L., last Thurs.
day, was found yesterday at depth of 40 feet.
Three miners were killed yesterday by the
caving in of an iron mine near Allentown
Pennsylvania.
Thursday night Samuel Hall of Nebon coun.
ty, Ky., was stabbed fifteen times by an nm
known party in Louisville.
John S. Gallaher, formerly well-krown
journalist did in Washington Monday night,
aged 81.
Bates's iron foundry and Mason's bakery in
Baltimore were burned Tuesday night. Loss
heavy.
A mounted infantry raid by revenue officers
upon illicit distllers in the northern portions
OF Georgia and South Carolina is now under
way.
Isaac Rich is in New York awaiting extra
dition by the Swiss government. He is accus-
ed OF violating school girls PLACED in his
charge as a teacher.
Gen. Miles with $50 infantry attacked Crazy
Horses village Jan 8th, and though there were
lOO0 various engaged, gained a complete vic
tory over them. The Indians loss is heavy.
Miles lost four men and had several wounded.
mail bag containing letters and about S25,-
n han L. aha olyd and
bound from Newport, KY, to Cincinnati sew
eral days ago, has been found opened and It's
contents distracted. There is no clue whatever
to the robbers.
The final decree in the case of the city of St.
Louis VS. the St. Louis Gas Company was pass
ed y yesterday. 1t awards to the city Judgment
of S207 1000 against the company, and extin-
cuisines debt of SSOO.000 which the company
claim from the city for gas furnished for three
years, and which the city refused to pay.
Jean Baptiste Henri Henri Vanderyelpen
and his wife were brought to New York YES
terday from India on proceedings instituted by
the Belgian government. They are CHARGED
with forging the name of a wealthy Belgian no.
beman to an order of 100000 francs PAYABLE
from his estate after his death,
The New York Herald has rather doubtful
story to the effect that that the President has
instructed the Secretary of War to state in
communication to Congress that the quartering
VI eiooPo ~ w cShlHStou WaS entlfely without
political significance but solely in consequence
of threatened raid on the treasury by negroes
who were represented as desperate by reason of
great restitution.
The Apaches are killing and plundering set
tiers in South Eastern Arizona. Ten men were
killed in Senorita Valley on the 4th inst, and
the work is still going on. Gov. Stafford has
sent message to the legislature on the subject
in which he says the movements of the u. S,
troops are so slow that they afford no protec-
ton. He wants the Secretary of War either to
appoint Indian scouts to assist the troops or to
allow the organizing of a band of friendly In
dams and whites.