The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-10-01

gresssts. As far as known at present tie re-
suits in other towns and districts show the
return of 1850 National Liberals and Pro-
oresssts 297 Conservatives and Ultramontanes,
39S Clercals and 116 Free Conservatives. In
Munster and Kolsfeld all clerical candidates
were returned The Progressists obtained an
overwhelming majority in Posen.
All Quiet at Cabul
SDILA, Sept. 30.-Gen. Roberts arrived at
Shutergarden on the 9th. His party were
fired at by large body OF Mongols near Fagat-
hama, and five Sikhs killed, but the latter
were repulsed. All is quiet at Cabul and
Mandalay.
Foreign Notes.
The suspension in London of the Hamburg
house of Wedstein is announced, with liabili-
ties of 1000 marks.
Miners at Barnsley have determined to re-
sist any reduction of wages to the utmost, but
the cotton operatives at Mossley have accepted
their employers terms.
The Ameer has left Cabul surreptitiously.
His intended departure was kept strict secret.
He appeared detected and careworn.
The Professor sent by the Privy Council to
inspect the live stock brought to Liverpool by
steamer Quebec, found no trace of foot or
mouth disease on board.
MINOR KILOGRAMS
There is no truth il he statement THAT Red
path has returned to Now York. The lite AIRY
bureau there have no idea of his whereabouts
Hon. Frances Gillette died yesterday in
Hartford, Conn. He was Free Soil United
States Senator in 1S54-'55, and several times a
candidate for governor.
A. r. SAWYER of Cincinnati. O., route agent
on the Kentucky Central railroad for num-
Der of years. was arrested Monday for robbing
the mails. Marked bills which had been sent
through the mails were found in his posses
sion.
Samuel Sterett died Sunday night in Balti-
more, aged 46. He was son of the late Com
modore Sterett, was in the Confederate service
and was captured as spy and condemned to
death, but the sentence was committed by
President Lincoln to Imprisonment during the
war in Fort Warren.
The imports of specie for the week ending
Sunday were 81 ,O70,000, mostly in foreign gold
coin.
Charles Bates, postmaster at Portage La
Prairie, Winnepeg, has absonded. He is de-
faulter to the amount OF $500
John Sheehan shot HI. Won Geristchen yes
terday afternoon on Christopher street, New
York city, and then shot himself. Both are
dying.
Mrs. Amelia Doyle, aged Al, an inmate of
the insane asylum at BlackwelPs Island, took
rat poison on Sunday, land died in few hours.
An attendant has been dismissed for careless
ness
The coroner's inquest in the case of Mary
jerks, who was terribly outraged at West
Stephentown, N. Y, recently, was held Mon
day. Stephen Sweet was found guilty Of the
crime and arrested.
Capt. Moore, of Louisville, KY. who shot
President Clark, of the Louisville Jockey
Club, Monday, after the shooting drove to the
Jail and gave himself up.
The Boston Typographical Union voted $25
at its last meeting for the Fall River spinners.
The land office in Deadwood, d. T., was not
burned in the late fire, and valuable titles filed
there are safe.
The Provincial exhibition opened at Halifax
N. S., yesterday.
U. S. steamer Tuscarora has been ordered to
leave San Francisco for MaZatlan, probably to
look into the arrest of Capt. Meter of the
steamer Newburn, who was arrested for an al
legged violation of the revenue laws.