The Portland daily press., 1878-03-18
MINOR TELEGRAMS.

Commodore Graham died at Newburg, N. Y,
Saturday night, aged "a years.
Six steamships sailed from New York for
Europe Saturday, with full cargoes.
The Sault st. Marie canal will be opened
April LIST.
Whitelaw Reid of the Tribune has been
elected president of the Lotos Club
The proprietors of the PHILADELPHIA Press
have discharged their printers and employed
non-union men.
The demand for new silver dollar has entirely
fallen off in New York. Not $4,000 were sold
Saturday.
The Fall River manufacturers have voted
10 per cent reduction of wages, beginning
April LIST.
A two and a half year old child of Israel
Milashe, residing at Boston Highlands, fell into
wash tub filled with water and was drowned.
Messrs. Walker Welsh & Co., bankers of
100000.
The body of La Page was buried in the
potter's field at Blossom Hill cemetery in Con-
cord Saturday.
1t is stated that in the awards for tiling the
new capitol at Albany there is a steal Of over
$4,000.
A dispatch from Paris states that the first
supply of American machinery goods for the
Exposition has arrived, and all arrangements
were complete for their reception.
ODonovaD Rossa has been invited to lecture
in Toronto but has been notified that he will
most likely be mobbed. He thinks he shall 90
however.
lu the McGarraham case Saturday, ex-Con-
gresham Stewart of New York swore that he
never knew anything about the Panoche grant
company until he saw it in the newspapers,
and never had any scrip or stock.
Ann Maria Fisher (coored) was arraigned at
Providence Saturday and committed on a
charge of causing the death of an infant of
woman with whom she had quarrelled, BY put
ting arsenic in the nursing milk.
Congressman Leopard's body has been en-
balmed and deposited in the cemetery at Hava-
ma to await the directions of his friends Ea.
vana is said to be perfectly healthy. No case
OF yellow fever except that of Mr.. Leonard
has occurred for two months.
1t is stated that owing to the abrogaton of
the pooling arrangement between the Vandalia
and Indianapolis and st. Louis Railroads
passenger rates from St. Louis, Indianapolis.
Louisville and Cincinnati to the East are now
about one-half.
Gov. Holiday of Virginia has issued pro-
clsmation offering 500 each as a reward for
the apprehension of all parties concerned in
iynching the negro woman, Charlotte Harris,
in East Rockingham county the night of the
sixth.
1t is said that Judge Leonard went to Cuba
IN search of lady to whom he was engaged
pul VINO parents oOlected 10 her marriage. He
had found her but her parents still objected and
he had got ready to return to this country
when he was attacked by yellow fever.
The New York Times says of Mr. Eyarts
circular relative to an International coinage
conference, that the circular itself is full of
Delphic utterances, and tacks on most
remarkabie bit OF Of pure stump speech It
says IN point OF political economy Mr.. Eyarts'
circular is not creditable either to himself or to
the country. VI "
The New York Suns New Orleans letter
says that the general impression is that Ander.
son will be pardoned toward the close of The
pre- present extra M Sc session OF the Legislature. and
bargain between the commission and the
Nichols government made last April. in
which it was agreed the Returning Board
should not be prosecuted.