The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-29

full authority when / suggested that the verdict
rendered at Halifax was not legally binding under
fed on other grounds and have already intimated
more than once that considerations entirely outside
of the legality justice of the award might
strain us to assent to its payment, but it should
never be paid without such protest as will forever
prevent It's being quoted as precedent or accepted
as a standard to measure the value Of the nshore
fisheries in future negotiations.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Blaine's speech his
motion to refer the correspondence to the COM
mittee on foreign relation was agreed to.
Mr.. Merrimon made speech in support OF
! the bill of the judiciary committee relating to
| the Pacific Railroad indebtedness. In the
House of Representatives the Dean Field con-
tested election case was reached. The legisla-
| tive, executive and judicial bill was reported.
| A bill was passed providing for commission
| to report plan for increasing the accommoda-
| tions for the Congressional library. Mr..
Woods tariff bill was reported and its consid-
GRAFTON WINS fixed for Thursday, April A.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
John F. Patten, aged 20, student at the
Boston Institute of Technology, shot himself
| fatally last week because he had scar on his
! face
George Stetson, the late manager in New
York Of the Office of the Boston Marine Insur-
ance Co. has been arrested for embezzlement.
| He is charged with using some $4,000 of the
| company's money. His fast life of the past
year has caused his fall. Previously he bore
the highest reputation
Three Molly Maguires were hanged at
Bloomsbury last week for murder.
Mrs. Lucy L. Day, an old woman aged 80,
mos rod Col Of
by her daughter, a married woman aged 46.
She stabbed her at the dinner table with
knife. The quarrel was the result of an old
feud.
Capt Constance Williams of the 9TH In
fantry, stationed at Fort Belknap. has sent to
the military headquarters the result of several
scouting expeditions which confirm the reports
recently telegraphed by United States Consul
Taylor. Capt. Williams learns that the forces
under Sitting Bull aggregate, with what he
has assurances of receiving in the way of re-
Inducements, nearly 1000 fighting men. The
talk among them is that they will fight nobody
but if any one comes across their path they
| will get it just the same. The Indians are we'll
supplied with ammunition, and the situation
is regarded as critical and decisive measures
are urged.
Several stores in Philadelphia were burned
Monday night causing loss of 100000.
FOREIGN NEWS
highlands attitude towards Russia is rapidly
changing from what might naturally be con-
sidered buster to that of serious and potent
meaning. Whatever may have been her de-
signs heretofore, she has suffered the current
to carry her where something more than words
are needed to prevent the deepest humiliation
Indeed, German papers regard it as clearly
evident that the Gar looks upon war with
England as inevitable. Rumors are flying
about st. Petersburg that Russia has demanded
the withdrawal of the English feet from the
Sea OF Marmora. If the rumor be founded on
fact it is perhaps the signal gun of the onset.
The Times has the following from St. Peters,
burg: Those having direction of affairs here
appear to have very little hope of a solution of
the present dead lock. Although the holding
OF Congress- without England would have the
advantage of isolating her and consolidating
the triple alliance, it is regarded more proba-
BILE that the Congress will not meet at ali.
The whole question seems sinking from the
| sphere of reason to that of passion. Journal
De St. Petersburg declared Russia will not en-
dure the position obiging her to maintain her
| indefinitely.
The position of Austria is source of much
anxious curiosity. Semi-offfcial organs have
declared the treaty of San Stefano utterly un-
acceptable, but the fact is equally certain that
Austria does not support England's demand
concerning the form of its submission to the
congress. Various explanations Of the latter
feature of Austria's policy are given.
The Daily Telegraph's Vienna correspond
emit says fatty that reconstruction of the
triple alliance is preparing, for the purpose of
opposing the British policy. To this end Rus
STA is offering Austria every concession, and
he believes the negotiation will undoubtedly
succeed.
1t is believed that Russia Is preparing for
war with England, two hundred Thousand men
of the Russian landwehr being called out on
Monday.
A newspaper correspondent, writing from
India, says the Moslem population is very
much agitated and that fears are entertained
OF an outbreak unless England should take
decided action against Russia soon.
Yellow fever is raging at Rio Janeiro.
O'Lsary, the American, has won the inter-
national walking match in London which
ended Saturday. Vaughan completed 500
miles at 7.2S o'clock and then retired. O'Leary
walked until $40 O'Clock, when he had COM
pleted $40 miles two laps, which is 440 yards
further than the best performance on record.
Brown walked till $50 O'Clock, scoring AT
miles and two laps, Ide also walked till $50.
scoring 405 miles and four lads. O'Leary was
then declared winner amid the playing of
national airs, excitement and enthusiasm.
The famine in China is spreading. and the
utter depletion of an enormous portion of the
empire is threatened.
There is great distress in the iron and coal
trades in Great Britain.
The San Domingo revolution has succeeded,
and Baez has fled.
BRIEF MENTION.
The .four-oared crew of Columbia College,
which was to compete with an English crew,
is disbanded.-Tilden says he is out of pol
itics, and that he can see no good result from
the further agitation of Hayes's claim to the
Presidency. Dominion Premier has
received an anonymous letter threatening his
ife.-Counterfeit new silver dollars are cir
culating in New York.--Forest fires are rag
ing in South Carolina and Georgia.--Lock-
wood, Brooks & Co., Boston, book publishers,
have suspended. Liabilities $780, OO.-Mont-
gomery Blair is till trying to reopen the Pres
idential questionable English government
is buying horses in the West and South.-The
surrender of insurgent bands in Cuba is still
going on.--Eleven Illicit distillers in Tenne-
see have been broken up.--U. s. Ship Supply
with the American exhibits for the Paris ex.
hibition has arrived at Havre.--The U. S. Su-
preme Court has decided that telegraph can