The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-02-08

against the silver bill. The House passed
bill for special session of the U. s. circuit
court for the southern district of Mississippi to
try the timber thieves.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Schooner Eta Haynes, from Providence with
salt went ashore by Plum Island in Long Island
Sound last Thursday and before assistance
could reach her sank with all on board.
The stable of the Attawagan Hotel in Dan
ielsonviIle, Conn, with sixteen horses was
burned last week.
Philip Watson, colored wife murderer was
hanged at Covington. KY, last Thursday.
The inhabitants Of the island Of Old Pruvi-
dence, in the Caribbean Sea, appeal to the
people of the United States for help, as their
island has been swept bare of all vegetation by
hurricane, leaving them destitute.
The furniture mandatory of B. +. Holmes
s. Co. III Medford street, Charlestown, was
burned Thursday. Loss $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
The Deep River, Conn, National Bank was
entered by burglars Wednesday night and the
safe blown open. The noise aroused the citi-
zens and the burglars left without obtaining
anything. They were subsequently arrested.
They gave the names of Andrew Hubbell of
Ohio and James Watson of New York.
The trial of Anderson, one of the Louisiana
returning board is now going on at New Or
leans. He will undoubtedly be convicted.
fire occurred on the second floor of 554
Sixth street New York, Monday night caused
by bed clothes taking fire from a spark from a
stove. -Four children of Thomas Cassidy were
suffocated.
The signal observer at Oeracoke Inlet, North
Carolina beach, at noon Sunday, telegraphed
that the brig @. G. Overton, from New York
for Nassna. Capt. Henry Allen is ashore two
miles north of that station. All hands were
lost A hat and other articles were picked up
on the shore with recent marks of blood on
them. A log book was washed ashore and
says O. 9. Overton received 2O2 tons Of coal at
Hoboken Jan. 18th, and ten days after left on
her voyage.
The storm Of last Thursday and Friday was
the most severe of the winter. Eighteen inches
of snow fell in Boston and travel was greatly
impeded. AT Coney Island off New York sew
eral shanties were swept away and eight per-
sons were drowned. AT Long Branch the storm
was the most terrific ever experienced them.
Sandy Hook and Long Branch was more or
less damaged and all the places on the beach
had their grounds badly washed. In many
instances IS or 20 feet of the bluffs were taken
away in front of the cottages and hotels. Bath
houses are all gone, and many of the beautiful
summer houses were either washed away by
the sea or blown to pieces by the gale. The
bulkheads were all destroyed The beach for
miles is strewn with debris from these wrecks
The water was never known to be so high. 1t
washed over the bluff into Ocean avenue In
many places.
TURCO-RUssIAN WAR.
A note on the Turko- Russian war must start
off with declaration similar to that in the
celebrated chapter on snakes in Iceland: there
is no Turko. Russian war. The armistice has
been signed, and negotiations for defnitive
treaty of peace are going or. The following
are the terms of the armistice:
First-The erection of Bulgaria into prin-
cipality..
Second-A war indemnity or territory in
compensation.
via and Montenegro with an increase of terri
tory for each.
Fourth-Reforms in Bosnia and Herzego-
vina.
the Sultan and the Gar regarding the Darda
nelles.
Sixth-Evacuation Of the Danubian fortress
ses and Erzeroum.
The terms are vague enough to give Russia
all she wants, and they arouse considerable
opposition in England and Austria In order
to settle the Eastern question a conference of
the great powers has been called to meet at
Vienna. 1t is understood that Russia demands
of Roumania the cession of Bessarabbia, offer
ing the Dobruja in its place. Greece has un-
dertaken to seize Thessaly, and its troops are
across the frontier. The British Parliament is
still discussing the war-grant.
The Vienna correspondent of the Times
telegraphs that no attempt is made in
St. Petersburg to remove the suspicion
that the Russian commanders in Roumelia
deliberately procrastintaed the negotiations in
order to take the greatest possible advantage of
the military situation. According to hints
sssra zssxlia, ~hsEs-ths intentions and airas of
Russia all along were pretty accurately fore
Swallowed. for greater stress is laid in St. Pc
tersburg on the military than on the political
aspect of the negotiations just concl uded. The
fact that considerable reinforcements of Rus
sian troops continue to stream through Buchar-
est to Bulgaria, that beside the operating
forces in Bulgaria and Roumania the army of
reserve in Roumania is being steadily increased
and that the creation Of 44fresh battalions to be
formed into four new divisions have just been
ordered by the Gear, all show the Importance
attached to the military attitude to be assumed
in the conquered territory during the peace me-
gotiations. The Cars speech at the review of
the troops at st. Petersburg yesterday seems to
point in the same direction.
The Vienna correspondent of the London Tel
egraph says the Conference will probably assem-
BILE at the end of February or the beginning of
March. Count Aadrassy wis hes it to assemble
on the goth inst, but this is hardly possible I'M
less Russia answers Immediately. The powers
chiefly interested, except of course Russia, in
tend to insist on the treaty of Paris being taken
as basis of the negotiation.
OTHER FOREIGN NEWS.
An attempt at revolution in Tamaulipas was
easily suppressed by the Mexican government.
The friends of Lerdo intend to run him for the
next President.
The statement that Spain intends to assume
the protectorate of San Domingo is denied
The Pope's health is improving. The Ultra
montana Cardinals are seeking to bring about
bad relations between the Vatican and the
Quirinal with the purpose of removing the next
concave from Rome,
A telegram dated Shanghai, China, Feb. 3,
announces that an asylum for women and chill
dren at the city of Tien Tsin has been burned,
and that over 1000 persons persisted in the fire.
1t is calculated that after the conclusion of
peace, the Black Sea and Sea of Azof ports
will export five million quarters of wheat.
About million quarters of grain has accumu--
ated at Odessa, and nearly million and
half more is stored at stations on the Odessa
and Kharkof, Nikolef and Sebastopol, and
Koorsh and Azof railways.
BRIEF MENTION
Superintendent Linderman of the United
States mint favors the coinage of silver dol
lar of 434 grains. - Thirty-four thousand
Massachusetts women have petitioned the
Massachusetts Legislature for the right to vote
at municipal elections Ex-Governor Weld