The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-10
THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 10.
GIeauiags from the Mails.

Rev. Mr.. Hath away, who Is the principal
accuser of DIR. Talmsge in the latter's trial for
dec it, makes nice distinctions. Asked in Cross
examination If believing his pastor told q
falsehooi be still took communion from his
hands he replied that he did, as there did
mo- appear to be any falsehood in Talmage's
heart.
Rev. John Miller ID. D of PriLceion, late
professor in the theological seminary at that
place, has bsen deposed from the ministry for
heresy. Mr. Miller, we believe, had peculiar
views concerning the Devil.
Hon. James Fl. Hopkins delivered public
lecture before the Iron City Tilden Club at
Pittsburg, Pa, Tuesday, in which he nomina-
ted Tilden for Democratic candidate for the
Presidency in 1880. T he 5000 present loudly
applauded.
The Philadelphia colored citizens are NOV.
ing to raise funds to assist thu ir Southern breth-
rem in ENGRAVING to the West
Rev. j. W. Cole, Methodist pastor at Charlie
mont, Mass, has been in the habit of relieving
his mental strain by horsewhipping his wife.
Frequently the past year has she been seen on
her knees pleading for mercy. Mr.. Coles
parish have invited him to step down and out.
Gen. Butler appeared in the U. S. district
court at Boston Tuesday as counsel for defence
for Patrick Finnerty accused of Illegally voting
at the fall election. Butler moved to quash the
indictment on the ground that it did not set
forth any offsnse against the United States, in
that it did not allege that the illegal voting
was done at an election for member of Con.
gress. The Court overruled the motion and
Finnerty was convicted.
General Fremont, Governor of Arizona Ter
ritory, has submitted to the Government
plan for bringing the waters of the Gulf of
California back to the old basin in southern
California, which, he saye, would convert
desert region int, highway of commerce.
The charge that Geo. d. Prentice of the
Louisville Journal once accepted bride to ad
vocate secession seems to have baen thoroughly
disproved. A published letter from J. Stod-
5s7rd johnson, the Kentucky secretary of state.
shows that Prentics received an offer to buy q
controlling interest in the Journal from men
who wished to use the paper to advocate the
secession Of Kentucky. This offer Prentice de-
clined. The offer was made by George W.
johnson, then the confederate states provis-
ional governor. With other men from the
border states, johnson looked to two confeder-
acies, slave and free, divided BY Mason and
Dxon's line and united by customs zollver.
elm. Prentice met this offer by printing an d
publishing his first article fatty against any
peaceable separation. This was in August
1861; with other Union men he had up to that
point hoped against hope for peace. His &C.
tion saved Kentucky to the Union, and did
something to save the Union itself.
When the Russian female doctors, who hero
icaliy served as army surgeons in Turkey dur.
ing the last Tuiko-Russan war, returned tS
their country, they found that the opposition
to their admission to regular medical practice
had disappeared. They are now officially EN-
ployed on an equal footing with other mem
bers of the faculty in many hospitals and in
different provincial Districts.
A London despatch to the American Pre-
Association gives intelligence of another disas-
ter to the British troops in Africa. Col. Pear
son, who has been beleaguered at Ekowe for
some time, made an attempt to cut his way
out. He organized a sortie, and was attacked
by the Zulus in great force The fighting was
desperate. To add to the misfortune of the
English dense fog came on and their advance
became bewidered. The result was that the
sortie was repulsed, nearly all the English
troops in the party being killed. Few partfcu-
lars of the affair have as yet arrived, but it ap.
pears certain that Col. Fearson's sitnation ia
now very alarming, and that his destruction
with all his command is inevitable, unless the
relieving force has reached him ere this. It is
even thought probable that ere reinforcements
can reach him he will have been destroyed,
and that King Cetewayo will then attack and
probably defeat the advancing regiments in de.
tail. This story seems doubtful.