The Portland daily press., 1878-10-25
News Of the Week.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.

action of the Republican national committee in
Washington. are preparing to take active meas
ures to secure the profit of the November Con-
gressional elections.
George Richardson and one Mcdonald driver
of mail wagons for the House of Representa-
tives at Washington, lave been arrested on
charge of being implicated in recent robbery
of mails in the House postotice.
The President has pardoned Jacob Carver,
late postmaster Of Warsaw, Kentucky, con-
victed Of opening registered letters and putting
postage stamps in place of money extracted, so
as to increase his commissions from the sales of
postage stamps.
The October returns to tae Department of
Agriculture place the average condition of the
corn crop at So. The New England, Middle
and Gulf States shows small decline The
average condition is 8 per cent. less than in
October, 1877. There is no material change in
the statistical aspects of the wheat crop. New
England indicates slight advance upon the
previous yield.
A Washington special says that the Treasury
authorities think that if the accumulation of
coin proceeds at the present rate, the amount on
hand January 1st will be equal to two-thirds of
tbs legal tenders outstanding. Secretary Sher-
man daily has renewed confidence in the per-
feet success of resumption. Large quantities of
gold will be shipped from England to this
country.
Attorney General Dsvens decides that ma
tlonal banks, in arriving at the amount of tax
able capital stock beyond the amount invested
in q. S. bonds, cannot be allowed to deduct
the amount invested in $3.50 bonds of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Destructive prairie fires are raging near
Kearney, Nebraska.
Trouble is feared at Paterson, N. j., about
the Indictment of Mcdonnell, the editor of the
Labor Standard, for libel. The trial takes
place Monday. Some strikers threaten vio-
lence against any juryman who votes for Nc
Donnelps conviction.
Two more victims of the Wallaston disaster
have died, making 81 in all.
Mrs. Lorena Alexander of Bridgeport, Conn,
has been indicted for the murder of John Vein
becker, alias Suffering Jack.
Estelle Warner, young married woman Of
Charlemont, Mass. aged %, having refused to
give cider to some tramps Thursday, was
knocked insensible, outraged and her body re.
moved to an adjoining lot, where it was left for
dead. She was found several hours after in-
sensible, but came to Saturday long enough to
relate the above, and relapsed again into insen-
sibility. No arrests have been made.
A gang of train robbers have been operating
in Missouri and were captured last week after
q desperate fight
At Kennedyville, Maryland, one day last
week George T. Nelson was in
otontly hiiled by tho eeoiasn.ai discharge of a
gun. Six hours later his mother died from
grief.
The weather in the fever infected districts is
cooler and conseq uently the decrease is rapidly
abatiDg. No more aid is needed.
A Petersburg Va, special says that during a
Republican meeting at Hicksford, VIM. A.
Reese, member Of the Legislature, shot dead
negro named Troiter.
In New York, Louis Wepgenroth stabbed Ed
Acker, lawyer, five times with a..carving knife
and gouged his eye out because Acker was too
attentive to the formers wife.
Cathagena, New Granada, has an epidemic
in the form of malarial fever, the character of
which has not been satisfactorily determined
by medical men. Some fatal cases have occur
red and many are Frustrated.
FOREIGN.
The German Parliament has passed the So.
cialist BILL
The Glasgow bank failure causes much I'M
easiness in British commercial cIrcles.
Bsssarabia was surrendered to Russia Toes.
day. All the Roumanian authorities have
quilted the province.
A disastrous railway collision occurred near
London Monday. Twelve persons are reported
killed and over 20 seriously wounded. Several
had limbs amputated and more deaths are ex-
pected.
The whole management of the city of Glas-
Cow bank, namely the secretary, managing
director and six other directors were arrested
Saturday on charge Of fraud. They are con-
fined separately and are not allowed to COM
municate with any person.
The new Dominion ministry, Sir John Mac
Donald, premier, has been formed.
Advices from Puebla, Mexico, report that on
September 30, at Alfalfa a mob melted by
priests killed Is Protestants and wounded
many others. The Governor of the State has
sent troops to quell the disturbance. In the
city of Puebla the mob threatened the Protes-
tant missions. President Diaz has promised
Rev. DR.. Butler to do all in his power to pro-
tect all religious denominations.
Native armies are forming in Bulgaria and
East Roumelia under Russian officers, equipped
with Russian arms, commanded in the Rus.
sian tongue and number about $4,000 men.
Forcble enlistments continue Arms have
been distributed by the Russians among the
TIx~sa Ill -
Turks provide rifles and ammunition for the
Pomax in the Rhodope hills.
The official report Of the investigators into
the affairs of the City of Glasgow bank, just
issued, is worse than the gloomiest anticipa-
tions. The loss shown in the balance sheet is
e5, 190,9S3. This loss with the addition of
9l,0O00O0 capital, the shareholders will have
to make good. The report shows the practice
of systematic deception.
A despatch to the Rome Diritto from the dis.
tricts inundated by the overflow of the Barmida
river, says the communes Eillesimo, Oreglia
and Colizzano have suffered intellectually.
The houses are in ruins, bridges DESTROYED,
trees uprooted and ground broken up and many
families reduced to utter restitution. Subscrip
ton lists havs been opened. Signor Zanardel-
la, the Italian Minister of the Interior has sent
16, 600 francs for the relief of the sufferers.
BRIEF MENTION.
The Duke of Edinburg will accompany the
Marquis of Lorne to Canada Montreal
Orangemen have been acquitted of forming an
illegal association on the oath of July last
An electric light company has been formed at
Baltimore. Mr.. Edison, the inventor, is one of
the corporators. The Delaware Greenback-
ers have nominated K. J. Stewart of Semes for
governor.--Mr. Tilden publihses a card denv-
Ing all knowledge of the cipher kilograms
A meeting held in the Chamber of Com.
merce, Charleston, S. c., last week, adopted
resolutions expressing sympathy with the plan
to build that portion of the Southern Pacific
railroad between the Rio Grande and the Colo
RADIO, without government subsidy.--Evan
Morris beat Fred Plaisted in single scull race
of two miles at Pittsburg last week.--The
Cheyennes are fleeing the Yellowstone, COM
hitting depredations as they go.--Snow fell
in the Catskill Mountains last Sunday.--The
42d anniversary of the Garrison mob was obsery
ed in Boston Monday. --Henry Havemeyer de-
all Ii. cal, r.