The Portland daily press., 1880-04-05
MINOR TELEGRAMS.

All the operatives in the jackson Mills, in
Nashua, N. H., have gone to work, except
twelve females who have been dismissed for
| taking conspicuous part in misleading French
| operatives.
The Cumberland and Piedmont railroad
strikers who have kept the coal trains idle for
two months have accepted compromise and
| gona to work.
A severe thunder shower passed over Provi-
dence Saturday.
The Brooklnn police are searching for Ed
ward N: Taft of Worcester, Mass, who sud-
denly disappeared March 23d and has not been
| seen since. He is supposed to have had
large sum of money with him.
j. Arbuckle has been arrested at Chicago
for setting fire to his store to obtain the insur-
ance. He is also accused of bigamy.
The freight handlers on the freight dener.-
ment Of the Chicago, Milwaukee sad st.
Paul railroad at Chicago, to- t,,.e number of
| about 200, have struck f. higher wages.
The bodv of d young girl has been found in
/, we'll at Athabaskaville, Can, horribly cnt
| and mutilated. A boy named Lachance has
been arrested on suspicion.
| 1t is estimated that 600 French Canadians
| left Montreal last week for the United Estates,
The Sultan is said to be convinced that the
assassin of Colonel Comeroff is insane and
believes he would commit a crime in executing
him.
| peradoes named David Rudaburg and John
| Allen, entered the Jail and shot and fatally
| wounded the jailer and attempted to rescue
| prisoner named Webb under sentence of death
| for murder. They were frightened off without
| accomplishing their purpose.
A band of WEIGH mountain thieves are Gre
ating great excitement in Honeybrook town.
| ship, Pa, by house burning, horse stealing
| and other crimes
Secretary Thompson and Congressional
| committee visited the LeagueIsland navy ward
| Saturday.
The late Commodore Edward Barrett was
| buried in New York Saturday.
All the shipwrights, ship joiners and other
employees in the naval constructors depart
ment at Brooklyn were discharged Saturday
morning. Naval constructor Boush, late of
the Norfolk yard, has assumed his duties at
the Brooklyn, and it is reported that the force
Will be reorganized with new foremen, etc.,
with view to increased efficiency
By the caving of the surface of large re-.
ceptacle of graves in the rear of a church on
| Attorney street, New York, Saturday morn
| ing, thousand of corpses and skeletons were
| exposed to view.
| A match of the Inter- Collegiate Athletic AS
ISOLATION will be held at Mott Haven the last
Saturday in May. w T. Morgan was elected
president, e. G. Seymour of Amherst, Sec
rectary, G. B. Behrens of Yale executive com
mittee.
Grave charges of mismanagement of the
New York Juvenile Asylum were printed in
Saturday evening paper. The allegations
are that the children are fed on diseased pork
wormy beef, sick infants cruelty neglected,
tortured, beaten, etc.
The Paris Temps says that the resignation of
Teisserere de Bort, French ambassador at vi
emma, is due to his disapproval of the antilles
uit DEGREES, The Vienna correspondent of the
London Times says it is stated that Count
Duchatel, French minister at Brussels, will
succeed de Bort as ambassador to Vienna.
A st. Petersburg correspondent states that a
document bearing on the judicial aspect of the
case of the Nihilist, Hartmann, will shortly
be sent to Paris, with a note to the premier,
De Freycinet, only, and that if after this the
French government shows conciliatory dispo-
sition, it is not improbable Prince Orloff will
return to Paris as ambassador after the Rus
sian Easter holidays.
The Democrats carried Davenport, Iowa, at
the municipal election Saturday.
The strike at the Clinton, Mass, mi lis has
virtually ended. The strikers attribute failure
to lack of outside pecuniary aid.
A pawnbroker named Simpson was shot by
George Randolph Saturday evening in New
York. The shooting is said to be caused by
woman troubles and Matchmaking by Ran
dolph. Simpson may recover: