The Portland daily press., 1879-04-05
Gleanings from the Mails.

1t is reported that the Pacific Mail and CeL-
tsral Pacific railroads are negotiating for the
sale by the former of its Australian line to the
latter.
The New Orleans Auxiliary Sanitary Az
ISOLATION, composed of the leading merchants
of that city, has organized to Cooperate with
the municipal and health authorities In an &C.
tive and unremittiug effort to preserve in New
Orleans, throughout the summer, the present
good health of its citizens.
The weather in Canada is still bitter colj,
and some of the railroads are showed up.
Mayor Cooper has decided to give the New
York police commissioners another hearing to-
day, and if they do not present themselves, he
Governor Immediately.
When Phair received his repreve he was
preparing long dying statement and he laid
1t aside, with the remark, "Well. then /
needn't hurry about my writing"
Mr.. Gorham, in correcting his testimony be.
fore the Wallace Committee, stated that the
total amount sent by the Congressional Con-
mittee to Maine during the last campaign was
$4,000, which was sent to the different Congress
sional districts through Hon. Eugene Hale,
Chairman of the Congressional Committee.
No part of this money vas sent to the Republi.
can State Committee of Maine.
Frederick Shepard and his wife (Ex-Govern-
or Hubbards daughter) have come to light
again In Hartford, but whether they have been
away or only concealed 10 the city is not
known. Mrs. Shepard's sisters have had an
interview with her and besougbt her return to.
her father, but she refuses to leave her bus.
band. Gov Hubbard is still memorable, and
refuses to have anything to do with Shepard.
Judge James A. Steward, chief justice of the
first judicial circuit Of Maryland. died Thurs
day of cancer.
DR.. Charles Jewett, the distinguished tenn
perancs reformer of Norwich, Connecticut,
died Thursday aged p. He had lectured in
nearly every State in the North and West
The Democratic and National parties OF
Cleveland have coalesced and nomi ated the
same candidate for Mayor.
A trial commenced in the o. S. District
Court in New York Thursday of the suit of the
United States against Thomas +. Young & Co.
to recover alleged defice ncies in duties ON sugar
imports. Underpayments are alleged to have
ing false weights on bag sugars. The case IS
regarded with interest by the whole sugar
trade
Col. E. G. Bailey Of the Boston Globe is to
retire permanently from journalism.
The Hudson river is open to navigation
three weeks later than usual
The fret civil service examination under the
new rules is in progress at the New York cus-
tom house. % candidates are competing for
two s., 200 clerkships.
Nine well-armed and disguised men took pos-
session of Haubaug's store at Tepee Creek,
Tex, few days ago, covered the clerks with
pistols, and robbed the place of its arms, am
munition and money. They then surprised
camp of men bound for Leadyille, Col, took
the mems money and livestock, and shot Mr..
Anderson who ventured resistance They next
got 900 worth of plumber from Conrad &
Rath's store at Blapco Canon and escaped.
The party are supposed to belong to the notori.
GUS Reeves gang in New Mexico, and sixty
rangers are in pursuit.
The cabinet is understood to be unit in sus-
tanning the President In what is believed to be
his purpose to oppose and resist the partisan
Democratic legislation by all means in bis DOW
er, and Secretary Evarts is reported as stall
wsrt as any of them.
Ex-Collector George L. Smith of New Or.
leans has been honorably aquitted on the in
dictment found against him by the New Or.
leans grand jury, of defrauding the United
States government by carrying on the custom
house pay-rolls the names of men who did not
work for the government
Walter Watson was hanged at Newport. Ind.
Thursday for the murder of Ezra Compton.
The prisoner was accompanied to the scaffold
by his young wife, who took her leave weeping
bitterly.
a state association of workingmen to be
called the Workingmen's Association of Mas
sachusetts, has been formed in that State.
The platform calls for the abolition of the poll
tax as prerequisite for voting, the rigid on.
forcement of the labor laws and the enactn,or.
of an eight-hour law; the abolition of the svs.
tenn of letting out the labor of convicts of penal
institutions; the prohibition of the labor of
children under fourteen years of age 10 indus.
trial establishments; the enactment and rigid
enforcement OF the laws of compulsory educa.
ton; the enactment of a law against usury;
the extension of the insolvent laws to include
all debtors.
Lavergue, the French novelist, died in Paris.
Wednesday.
President Angel says that one of the mathe-
maticans of the Michigan University, known
all over the world, never went to school but six |
weeks, and while the oxen were resting at |
noon did his first mathematical work upon a
ploughshare with piece of chalk.
The London News confirms the report of !
famine in Upper Egypt. Several thousands of