The Portland daily press., 1879-11-13
Gleanings from the Mails.


The cable steamer Farraday has sailed from
Halifax for ST. Pierre.
Roselle Graves is under arrest for fatally
stabbing John Engloff at dance at Jordan,
near Syracuse, n. Y.
Mrs. Erskine, aged 5j while attempting to
cross the street at Holbrook, Mass, yesterday,
was struck by a team and killed.
l.. II. Deober & Sons, of ST. John, N. b.,
wholesale dry goods, have suspended with LA
bilities of 100000
A sweet potato weighing 10 pounds was
grown i'll ST. Landry parish, Louisiana, this
year.
A despatch from Half ak, n. s., says that
the brig Ecliptic, from st. Johns, n. f., is
ashore at Cranberry Head, total wreck.
1t is proposed to erect in memory of General
Joe Hooker statue 'on q white charger on
the top Of Lookout Mountain"
Everett Davis, aged Is, was killed Tuesday
by the discharge of q gun he was using
paddle while in boat on Pawcatuck river,
near Westerly, R. I.
Collector Beard has removed Oscar II. Sim
mons, brother of ex-Collector Simmons, from
his position as inspector at the Boston custom
house.
Blaikie meets Courtney and Hanlan to-
morrow at Rochester, to arrange race at
Washington, on Dec. I'd. the day after Con-
gress assemblies
A despatch from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, of
Oct. 26th, states that rain has fallen in Ceara
and Parahiba, relieving those provinces from
the drouth which has so long prevailed.
Circulars from the United States received
in the City of Mexico have caused much dis
satisfaction with the Tehuantepec railway
scheme.
The report circulated Tuesday at Richford,
VT, that the missing child had been found in
the woods ar North Jay, is incorrect, and the
case remains as before shrouded in the deepest
mystery.
John Clayton, storekeeper Of Bucks, Pa,
was deliberately robbed of watch and S1100
in money by two genteel thieves on Broadway,
near Chambers street, New York, yesterday,
in a dense crowd
The custom officers at North Troy, VT, yes
terday, seized good team and a quantity of
butter, the property of Mark Bannister. who
has been doing an extensive smuggling busi-
ness.
Liz NOIhOStdl DdAHAS 'iiSt"i AiO'H w"
York for Queenstown, has put into Halifax, n.
S., for repairs, with loss of topmasts, rigging.
sails, buwarks, boats and cargo damaged in a
cyclone
In the Supreme Court at Lowell, Mass, yes
terday. Daniel \. Murphy, for breaking into
the house of District Attorney Stevens, was
sentenced to thirteen years in the state prison,
one day solitary. He is notorious rogue.
w. 7. Blackwell, the great tobacco manu-
fact,,rer, of Durham, n. c., pays more taxes to
the government than any one man in the
world-to wit $4,000 year, $4,000 a week,
or over 81, ,42S per day.
There is amountain pass in Switzerland over
which the traveller is conducted blind-folded
He might lose his footing if he caught but one
bewilderiug glimpse of the chasm below.
The landlords of Memphis are generally ap-
preciative of the monstroas condition of af-
fairs during the late epidemic, says the Ava
lanche, and are consequently promptly remit
ting the payment of rents to their tenants
during that period in whole or in part.
Signor Dario, stenographer to the italian
Senate, has invented a machine which claims
to reproduce speech in the ordinary printed
4 N
several syllables being recorded by touch of
the keys.
The jury in the case of Joseph Parker, a
livery stable keeper at Holyoke, against
Father Dufresne of the French Catholic
church in that city, for injury to complain
ants business resulting from the priests for
bidding his parishionerS to patronize him, has
returned verdict awarding Parker S3,4i3
damages.
The tusk sent by Cetewayo as a herald of
peace, was brought over from Zululand by Sir
Evelyn Wood, and, at the command of the
Queen, was Immediately sent to Balmoral al
great expense and inconvenience, for her Curl
GUS inspection. 1t has now come back, and is
being exhibited, as were King Theodore's UNI
brella and the King of Dahomey's throne. The
tusk is said to be the largest ever seen In
Europe, being seven feet in length and over
half yard in circumference.