The Portland daily press., 1878-04-29
MINOR TELEGRAlrS

zen. GranG drriVeu III milan Saturday
Ex-Congressman Vance has arrived in Gin
cinnat. he is undoubtedly Insane.
Work will be resu med in the mines of Schuyl-
kill valley today.
The Railway, N. J. Savings Bank has hash
eDjained and an official examination ordered.
Eight thousand Spanish troops will he sent to
Cuba in the autumn.
There is a case Of genuine leprosv ia the
Baltimore city hospital.
There was run on thu Providence savings
banks Saturday.
The strike or cotton spinners at Preston.
EGG, has ended but the weavers, winders and
Wrappers still hold out.
The Presidential party returned to Washing
ton Saturday, after a tour of Inspection through
the Lehigh and Schuylkill valleys.
Harris Persons, farmer betwesn 70 aud so
years, living 10 Lyme, N. A., hung himself in
his barn Saturday. He was insane.
At least 1000 persons have been thrown out of
employment by the stopping of the Border
City and Sycamore mills.
Hughes, on Saturday night, concluded his
walk against OLeary's time, having accom-
plished only 400 miles.
Emma Bethel has been arrested for poisoning
Rickeith Bishop and wife of Berlin, N. j., for
whom she was housekeeper, and has confessed.
In Honolulu the first rain of any consequence
water famine in the CITY,
Heavy rains have caused floods in the vicinity
of Melbourne, Australia. Considerable dam
age is reported 10 South Australia general
rain has fallen.
One hundred thousand foreigners are now in
Paris. The prices of living have advanced.
The exhibition will not be in fnll trim until
June.
The amount of u. S. notes retired during the
in nnp nanna Of fba 90 I
bank Dotes, will oe about 81. 100000, which will
be replaced by silver.
Five steamships sailed from New York Sat.
urday for Europe, 4aking nearly 500 cabin pas
seugers and large cargoes of miscellaneous pro-
duce.
1t is rumored that arrangements have been
made In San Francisco to tit out vessels under
the Russian flag to prey upon the English CON-
merce in the Pacific
Some excitement prevails 10 Manchester, N
H., on account of the presence of small pox
A number of persons sick with that disease
have been sent to the pest house.
A Brownville special says a party of or 10
adherents of Lerdo has left there fer Banco
ranch where there ia force of 200 men wait
ing an opportunity to cross into Mexico. =.
Father Cuddihy, Catholic priest of Milford
Mass, denounced the Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans ia the severest terms from his pulpit yes-
terday.
The report of the House committee on foreign
affairs, accompanying the bill for reopening tue
question Of the Venezuelan awards, says the
whole proceedings of the former commission
were tainted with fraud.
The Mrs. r. 8. Hayes Temperance Society of
Washington, has discarded its name because
Mrs. Hayes countenanced the use of claret
punch at the dinner on the steamer in Della
ware Bay.
Lieut. Baldwin has been ordered to Poplar
Creek, Dakota, to receive the surrender of a
large number of Indians. which is expected.
The Indians are out of food hence their will
inguess to surrender.
5000 wsrkmen are engaged in the Champ de
Mars preparing for the Paris Exposition. The
engine for driving the American machinery
will be in position today. The locomotive from
Philadelphia weighs two tons more than any
other in the exhibition.
An aged couple, August and Hannah Geisler
living near Youngsvlle N. Y, were found hor-
ribly mutilated and dead in their house FRIDAY
morning, They had lived apart for some time.
and it is thought he killed her by emitting he
throat and then shot himself.
Mr.. Hendricks int:mates that legal proceed
ings will result from the Florida revelations
not for the purpose of ousting the President
but for the punishment Of those criminals, as
he styles them, whose crimes resulted in Mr.
Hayes being counted in.
The national executive committee of the So.
cialist Labor party publish declaration deny
ing that any section of their party in Chicago
| or elsewhere are under military drill. The or
ganization, is purely political and no arms
have been purchased or distributed to apy
branch.
The delegation of Southern Congressman,
consisting of Senators Gordon, Morgan and
Jones, and Representatives Carlisle, Ellis.
Yeates, Whitthorne, Clark, Hooker, Young,
Money and Goode, who were invited to Boston
by the Commercial Club, arrived 9 o'clock
Saturday morning and were escorted to their
hotel by the clubs committee
Mr.. Beecher said, Friday night, in reference
to statement that he was to sue Titon ana
Moulton for blackmail, that he had seen NJ
documents, papers or witnesses on the subject,
but he had heard that such papers had been
spoken of to Mr.. Shesrman. Personally he
knew nothing as to their value or what use
might be made of them.
james Baine, the cashier of the Salem Ma
tional Bank of indianapolis, is missing. He
left a note saying that he was financially dis
graced and ruined by speculation in Wall street
He had fortune of his own. 1t remains to be
ascertaiDed if the banks money has been used
Ga oper ing the safe some 100000 in money
and bonds were found,