The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20

morning and refused to be dislodged. Seeing
Buffers crowd in possession of the hall the
executive committee resolved to postpone the
Convention one week to be held at Faneuil
Hail. The Chairman undertook to announce it
to the Butler delegates inside the hall but his
voice was drowned with Kisses and cat calls.
The Anti-Butler delegates went home, but the
Butler delegates went on with the convention
and nominated Butler for Governor amid great
enthusiasm. The result is split in the DEM
ocratic party The rabble 60 with Butler and
the respectable members will hold convention
next week to see what action to take.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Two hundred and fifty lives were lost by the
explosion in the coliery in Ambercombe,
Wales.
The postoffi,e at Wilton was broken into
Thursday, the safe blown open and $50 worth
of gold pens and $175 in cash stolen. One OF
the robbers was pursued but he was armed and
escaped by firing at his pursuers.
A very severe storm passed over several of
the Western and Southern States last week.
In North Carolina houses were demolished and
several persons killed At Cleveland the storm
was very severe. The Cleveland s. Pittsburg
railroad lost several bridges. At Erie, Pa,
Mill Creek rose and carried away house on
the banks and drowned the inmates. Several
mills, dams and barns were washed away and
railroad traffic suspended by damage to bridges.
At Meadville a creek running through the
heart of the city overfiOwed its banks, flooding
the principal streets and causing damage to the
amount of 100000. Several lives were lost.
In Virginia and West Virginia the damage
was also serious.
Eight children living at buckley, Texas,
were murdered Friday at midnight by an
unknown party. Lynch, the father, was
awakened by pistol shot striking him in
the breast. He sprang up and saw a
masked man standing in the middle of the
room. Another shot was fired and Lynch fell
unconscious. When he recovered, he found
himself in the lane outside of the premises. The
assassin thinking Lynch dead, seized Ratchet
and put the witnesses out of the way and then
set fire to the house. The distracted father
saw the house burn and fall in on the bodies of
his children. Lynch, it is thought, will recover.
Suspicion rests upon young man named Boat
ware, with whom Lynch had trouble.
FOREIGN
The editor of the Bonapartist journal, LIE
Pays, has been fined for insulting Mcmahon.
The Russian troops are leaving Constantine
pie.
A letter from Havana says the journals which
formerly hardly dared to call slavery by its
right name, are now discussing means for abo-
lition. 1t appears that all parties are gradu-
ally coming to the conclusion that pecuniary
compensation to owners of slaves is quite out
of the question. The solution of the question
must ultimately lie with the Spanish Cortes.
In the negotiations between Prince Bismarck
and the Vatican it has been agreed that the
church shall be ruled in accordance with the
Prussian constitution and that the full laws
shall remain in force but subject to declara-
ton as to the manner of their execution. A
discussion on terms of this declaration is still
proceeding also as to the return of the recalci-
trant Bishops and the recognition by priests
and the provinces the government author
ity on both of which points differences now
exist
The Fanfulla of Rome makes the sensational
announcement that the basis of a new treaty
has been arranged between Turkey and Eng
land by which the protectorate over Egypt is
given to England.
The Austrians have captured Gonatz on the
Save.
A despatch from Varna reports increasing
uneasness in Hungary over the situation in
Bosnia. 1t is said that the credit of sixty
million forms will not last until the re-
assembling of the convention of delegates,
in the middle of October. Twenty-Five
million more will be demanded before that
time, and 70 millions more must be voted be-
fore the end of the year. The opposition is
preparing parliamentary campaign against
Andrassy's policy.
BRIEF MENTION.
Gen. Beauregard has autographed to New
Orleans that he will not accept any nomina-
ton for Treasurer of Louisiana. A fusion of
the Nationals and the Republicans were talking
OF running him as their candidate.-The
Philadelphia Iron and Steel works which the
strikers prevented resuming operations week
ago have started up under the protection of the
police.--Uneasiness is felt at Sidney, Neb.,
lest the Cheyennes may combine with Sitting
Bull and give trouble.--The years sugar
crop in Cuba amounts to 524 ,435 tons of which
100000 were used on the Island, and most of
the balance exported to the United States
$4,000 citizens of New York have petitioned
for the indictment of the New York Elevated
railroad is a public nuisance. - Collector
Woodcock of Nashville, Tenn, has received
letter announcing the destruction of one of
the largest Illicit distilleries yet found 10 that
district. 1t is still of 400 gallons capacity
and dstilery apparatus valued at $4,000 To-
Gated near a place called Sneaktown, in a
neighboring county--Col. Henry o. Kent has
been nominated for Congress by the Democrats
in the Sd New Hampshire District FIX
State Treasurer Cardoza of South Carolina is
acting as first class clerk in the Treasury de-
partment at Washington Blaine
delivered an address at an agricultural fair at
Ogdensburg. N, Y, last week.-The ami
versary of the battle of North Point was OBJ
served in Baltimore by City Hall closing, and
also city court. There was scant display of
bunting on the buildings tons
of silver ore valued at $4,000, was sent from
the sub-treasury to the Philadelphia mint last
week, to be coined into silver dollars.
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