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acknowledgements is one of the Oldest and
largest selling baking powders in the United States
It makes light doyghnuts, dumpngs biscuits, cake.
&c, &c. OoNGkEsS Yeast Powder ana SHADES
Fair, 1878. Always reliable, and the ladies' fav-
orite.
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Boston Produce NIarke,.

- BOSTON, February a.
The following were to-day's quotations of Butter,
Cheese, Eggs and Potatoes:
Butter-choice fresh made Western creameries at
32@36c; Northern 29@32c fine ladle packed at %
925c; common to fair at 10000; fine fall New
grades and firm for medium.
Cheese-quoted at 141s@15c for fine factory;
market is inactive but firm
Eggs are quoted 16917, and Western and South
ern bring 14@15c.
Potatoes-Eastern and Northern Rose at 5O05Sc:
Prolitics at 50956c, and jackson whites, Peerless
and other kinds at 4094Sc; market we'll supplied
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METEOROLOGICAL,


INDICATIONS FOR THE NEXT TwENTY-FoUR
HOURS.
WAR DEPT, OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL)
OFFICER, Washington, D. c.,
February %, A. M.
For New England.
Misunderstanding barometer, winds shift
ing to warmer easterlH, increasing cloudiness
and rain or snow.
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Boston stock Market.


NEW YORK, Feb. 24-Evening.-Money market
easy 596 per cent. on call, closing at per cent;
prime mercantile paper at 5@51s per cent. Sterl
ing Exchange firm 4S494S4A for long and 1864
firm. Railroad generally lower.
ed 100000 shares.
Inc following are today's closing quotations of
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Dean Stanley has received a protest signed by
5000 against the erection of a monument to
Prince Napoleon in Westminster Abbey, but
refuses to alter his decision.
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Closing prices at Portland Mining Exchange, by
T. H. Mansfield & Co., brokers, 67 Exchange street,
Portland Me-, February %:
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MEMORANDA.

Barque John Smith. Jones, at New York from
Matanzas reports 18th inst 20 miles off the Ches-
apeake, took gale from NNW lasting twelve hours;
split sails and shifted cargo.
Sch Volant, ashore at Shelter Island will sold as
she lies.
Sch Abby Gale ashore at East Marion, remains in
upright position, but little damaged, and will be
floated.
Sch A Hammond, Simpson, from Portland for
New York, before reported off Bass River leaky
struck on Handkerchief Shoal night of 18th, the
light having disappeared. The captain shipped ex-
ira men at West Dennis and proceeded. She was
at Vineyard Haven 22d.
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DOMESTIC PORTS.

NEW ORLEANS-Ar 18th, ship Mount Pleasant
Cid goth, brig Fannie fl Jennings, Neil, Havana
Sid FIN Port Eads 10th, sch May Evelyn. McLarn,
MOBLE-Ar 23d, sch Alta Cole, Mitchell,
.CHARLEsToN-sld2 ed, sch james Slater, Haw-
BALTIMORE-Ar 21st. sch South Shore, Whit
more, New York.
Cid 21st. sch Mahaska, Merriman, New York
Ar 23d, baIque G M Stanwood, Weber, Liverpool
PHILADELPHIA-Ar 21st, schs Oliver Dyer,
Gordon, Fernandina; Montana, Bearse, Kennebec.
Ar 23d. schs Hattie M Crowell, Crowell Kenne-
bee; W Jordan, St John, Boothbay.
NEWCASTLE, DEL1Ar 22d sch Henry VIII
lard, Willard Richmond to load.
Passed down. brigs Atalaya. and Antelope.
er, Bayonne, AZ days. schs David Ames. Green, I'm
Hunter, from New York; Nellie Rokes, Thomp-
Cid 3d., schs Victor, Coleman, jamaica Allie
Sid Esd, barque Jose R Lopez, for Matanzas brig
Lahaina, for Jamaica Bay.
PROVIDENCE-Ar 23d, schs Carrie Hart, Da-
Wis, Baltimore; Idaho, Peck, New York.
FALL RIVER-s1d 10th. sell Mary Augusta Holt,
New York; VIM r Houston Thrasher, Kennebec.
NEWPORT-Ar 21st, brig S P Smith, Trim, Pro-
violence for New York; e M Branscomb, Dodge, FIN
Ar 22d, schs Brown, Tinker. Providence for
Mary, Magee, Belfast for Wilmington:
Sailed, schs Sarah Wooster, and Richmond.
Ar 23d, sch Annie Lee, Look, Belfast for Jackson
vile; Martha Maria, Shaw, from Providence for
In port sch VIM Thomas, Littlejon, for New York;
Nellie Gray, Nichols for do; Albert Jameson, Can
dage, Fall River for do; Grace, Alley Somerset for
Franklin. Philbrook Fall River for do; Red Jacket,
wICKFoRD-Ar 22d, sch j Lindsey, Kennedy,
NEW BEDFoRD-Ar 23d, sch A Hammond, simp-
son, Portland for New York.
Whitney, New Haven for Bath; schs r NJ Brookings,
Dunton, Perth Amboy for Bath; Am Chief. Snow,
Thomaston for do Vulcan, Bartlett, Pembroke for
Sid, sch Robt Foster, Charlie steadman and
Egton.
Ar 22d schs Mary E Van Cleaf, Thorndike, Will
mington for Boston; Ellie j Simmons, Chadwick,
do; Hammond, Simpson, do for New York. ''' '0'
Sid. brig Jos Clark; schs H Bridges, Petrol, Dol
phin. Telumah Gear, A M Chadwick, Charter Oak,
Tower, Sarah, Am ' Chief, Mary Smith Vulcan,
Effie Simmons, and Mary e VanCleaf.
In port. schs R Brookings, VIM II West. Ma
EDGART0WN-Ar 21st, schs H Eaton, Swain,
New York for Boston; Seventy-Six, Robinson, Vir-
Tor Barter's Island; Robt Foster leighton NYork
for Boston; j Bodwell, Spaulding, Philadelphia
for Portsmouth; Sandman, Holbrook, New York
HYANNIs. Ar 21st, sch Abby Emery. from
Sid 22d, brig Benz Carver, for New York; schs A
Hammond. and Hudson. do.
WAREHAM-Ar 21st sch Caroline Knight, Dyer,
Newcastle, Del.
BOSTON-Ar 23d, sch Nellie Lampher, Higgins,
Perth Amboy lat Quincy Point)
Ar Oath, schs Annie l. McKeen, McKeen, jackson
vile; Davis, Kemp, and Nellie L Morse, Davis
Baltimore; q H Eaton, Swain, Hoboken; Sandman,
Holbrook, and Dolphin, Chadwick, Perth Amboy;
Robt Foster, Leighton. New York.
PORTSM0UTH-Below 23d, sch Helen, Low, FIN
Portland for Philadelphia.
BOOTHBAY-Ar 18th, sch Sunbeam. Heal, Cam
den for Portland; j Slower, Arey, Bucksport for
do, to load.
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GLASGOW. Bark Mary Campbell-97S pcs tim
Der, 10, 135 deal, $4,000 pailngs.
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PORTLAND. Feb. "a.
The market to-day is generally steady at unchang-
ed prices. Flour and Grain in the West opened with
great frmness this forenoon, in sympathy with the
news from England, but the closing prices show a
slight falling off. Provisions are quiet and steady
The following are to-day's quotations of Flour
Grain, Provisions. &C.
flour. Gram
superfne... 8 Ooa5 81. yellow Corn,
Extra Spring. 6 0096 rs car lots 63
Xxx Spring. II O097 25 H. M. 81
Whsat sp :..s 5oa9 SO sacked sack Bran '79 "a 90
Michigan Win Mids.. @125 90
ter best. II 25@7 so Corn. bag lots 65
Low Grade Meal, :" :. 63
Michigan. 30 Ooa6 oIOats, :. 53@55
st. Louis Win Bran, :. 25
Ter good d, 1891 2Sa 50 g Nid'Hss, : o5S
Winter best. II 1898 00I
Produce. PrOvisIons.
Turkeys. ...121a116 Mess Beef. 10 5OG11 90
Chickens.... l29l4 Ex Mess. II 75t912 90
Fowl E .."... sg1e P FL t. ;;.-12 a5g13 GO
Sw. Potatoes. % 1894 so Pork
car Iots 4oa45c Clear. S o ooi5 So So
elate DID, oo oaS IS HAMS Sa 90
Round Hogs. .61a@7 Lard.
Cheese. Tub, y b.; $3.50 s1h
Vermont: 13 GIG Pail. ......9A @1oA
Trnis Beans
Oranges. pea. 1902 Is
Palermos, pix 0o93 so Mediums ). :. Il 9Oa2 90
Valencia case7 DOGS 90 Yellow Eyes 2 1892 20
" % box butter.
,,.. Lemons. oo.,e .o Family, % ib.. 25@ %
Palermos. ....5 50a6 OOi Apples
Nuts. Green 2 5o@2 rs
Peanuts Dried Western 4a s
Wiimington1 6O91 7o| do Eastern. ga Ga
Virginia. Il 5091 62l Sugar.
Tennessee. L 2O(91 35 IGranulated. a 95s
Gastana, p ID. 1d@12c Extra q g.
v Walnats iiS Sg1 &c svrur. c.. @Rsa
Pecan, 1l012cl.
FREIGHTS-Cuba freights are very dull and
there is not much offering. Coastwise-There is
better supply Of tonnage and the market is easier at
slight decline from the previous week. We note
the following charters for the week ending Febru-
airy Oath:
Bark Moreno, Portland to Cardenas, shocks and
heads PIC, hhds soc.
Schrs Nellie Chase and Olive Elizabeth Portland
to New York, lumber S2.75.
Schr Fred jackson, Portland to Havana snooks
and heads 25c, hoops 5000 pm.
Schr HELEN, Portland to Philadelphia, salt cake
SO }y ton and loaded.
Schr Manser B. Cakes, Portland to New York, po-
tatoes SC " BUSH
Schr Mary Amesden, Portland to Philadelphia, ice
$1.5O.
Schr Hyue, Portland to New York, lumber $500.
Schr Persis L. Smith, Portland to New York. lum-
Der $500.
Grand Trunk Elevator.
The following is statement of Grain at the Grand
Trunk Elevator, February "a:
Wheat. Peas. Barley. Corn.
Cars. Cars. Cars. Cars.
Balance on hand. .... 1873 81 13 80
Forwarded. .......... 40
las 81 13 SO
Daily Domestic Receipts.
By water conveyance-100O bush Cornmeal to G.
w Trua 81 Co.
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EUROPE.
The East Indian BUDGET.

LONDON, Feb A.-The Indian budget shows
a surplus of e119,oOO for 1S79-SO, and the esti-
mate for 1881 shows a surplus of G417 ,OOO
These results are reached after paying from
the ordinary revenue all charges on account of
famine, the Afghan war and the frontier rail-
ways. The war expenditures in 1879 and 1880
were e3,216,000. The total net war expendi-
lures to the end of 1881 are estimated at So
100000.
The Hungarian Diet.
VIENNA, Feb. 2s-The debate on the budget
has begun in the Hungarian Diet The oppo-
sition of all shades will make combined at
tack on the Tirza ministry. They have pre-
sented motion declaring wart of confidence
in the government.
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DEPARTURES OF OCEAN STEAMERS
MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND.

TUESDAY. February "a
Arrived.
Steamship Lake CnampIain, (Br1 Stewart, Liver
pool-mdse to Thompson Murray & Co.
Sch Harriet Newell, Benson, fremont.
Sch Mary Elizabeth, Dunton, Boothbay.
Cleared.
Barque Mary X Campbell. Gray, Glasgow-Albert
Warwick.
Barque Norena, Nichols. Cardenas-Nutter, Kim
ball & Co.
Brig VIM Robertson, Harding, Martinique II
Hamlen & Son.
Sch Alice Dean, Watts Pembroke-Nath1 Blake.
Sch Telegraph, Thorndike, Thomaston-Kensell g.
Tabor.
SAILED-Sch Mary A Power.
Passed by, twelve three-masted schooners, bound
south.
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Bullion Mining and Milling Co.
BY c. p. MATTOCKS, Atty.
fel4 diff
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FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
WISCASSET, Feb 17-Ar, sch Jacob NJ Haskell,
Crowell. Boston.
Feb 23-Ar, sch Witherel, Garfield, Boston.
Feb 24-Sld, sch j Nj Haskell, for Savannah.
LUBEC, Feb 21-ln port, waiting, schs Quoddy
Huntress, Frances Ellen, Clara Jane, and Ropes
for New York.
FROM MERCHANTS EXCHANGE.
Ar at New York Oath. steamer City of Washing
ton, Havana brig Chas Dennis, Bayonne.
Ar at Liverpool 22d, slip G Blanchard, Cakes,
San Francisco, Oct ~
q Sid 21st, ship Enos Souie for United States.
AR at Bombay prev to 22d inst, ship j B Brown,
Keazer, Cardiff, Oct A.
In Portland Roads %. ship Criterion, Robinson,
from Savannah for Bremen.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Portland Daily Wholesale NHarke,

Portland Daily Wholesale Market.
PORTLAND. Feb "a.
The market to-day is generally steady at unchang-
ed prices. Flour and Grain in the West opened with
great frmness this forenoon, in sympathy with the
news from England, but the closing prices show a
slight falling off. Provisions quiet and steady
The following are to-days quotations of Flour,
Grain Provisions Nc
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FOREIGN PORTS.

Ar at Yokohama 21st inst, ship Hagarstown,
WLitmore, New York.
Ar at Shanghai 21st inst, ship Gardner Colby
| Streeter, New York.
Ar at Havre 22d inst, ship Melrose, Plummer fin
New Orleans.
Sid 22d, ships VIM II Conner, Pendleton. Cardiff
Scotia. Stinson, Portland.
Ar at Liverpool 23d inst, ship Sterling Baker
San Francisco.
Sid 23d, barque Albert, Erskine, New York.
Ar at Mansanilla, Cuba, 18th inst barque + L
Yates nd sid Sd for Jsgo
Sid I'm Cienfuegos 18th inst, brig Shannon, Moore,
New York
Ar at Cardenas 14th, brig Edw H Williams, Gould
Boston.
Cid 14th, brig Irene, Yates, North of Hatteras;
sch Emma Hart Hart, do; 10Th, Il M Walls.
Walls, do; Geo V Jordan, Duncan, Sagua.
Ar at Havana 10Th inst, barque Flori Nj Hubert,
Lawrence New Orleans; 23d, barque Danl Draper
Sedgley do.
CID 18th, barque Bristol, Fossett, New York; brig
Helen Phinney Sylvester. Cardenas.
~ Ar at Matanzas 18th, barque Commerce, Ryder,
New York; Hannah McLoon, Keen, Alexandria;
18th, j II Chadwick, Robinson, Demarara
Sid 15th barque Evanell, Hichborn, for North of
Hatteras; Lepanto, Thompson, do; brig Ellen NJ
Mitchell, Eaton, do; schs Willard, Wallace, and
Ar at Sagua 4th inst, brig I Remick, Rose, from
st Thomas.
--latest by European steamers.l
Sid I'm Bordeaux 7th inst, Tillie Barker, Boynton,
Cardiff.
Ar at Bombay 9th inst j B Brown, Keazer, Cardiff
Sid I'm Fayal Jan 20, oarque Ada Gould, Cakes.
from Cadiz) for Portland.
AR at London 7th, Avondale (s) Elcoat Portland.
CID at Newcastle 9Th inst, Lorinda Borstell. Bor-
stell, Philadelphia.
Ar at Naples Sd inst, Acelia Thurlow Gallison,
New York.
Sid FIN Sourabaya Dec %, Mary Goodell, Ames,
Sid I'm Trieste 4th inst, Belle Wooster, Higgins,
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SPOKEN.

Dec 90 lat 81 S, lon 80 W, ship st Joseph, Fales,
from Pisagua for Falmouth.
Dec 80 lat 10 S, Ion 80 W, barque Wetterhorn,
from New York for Singapore.
Feb l, lat so n, lon 10 W, ship Palestine, En-
mons, from Cardiff for Singapore.
Feb 8, lat 40, Ion TO- ship Loretto Fish, Hodgdon,
from London for Sandy Hook.
Feb IS, L of Sandy Hook 449 miles, barque Ella,
from Boston for East London.
Jan 10, lat 80, Ion 40, barque American Lloyds,
from Baltimore for Rio JaneirO.
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- = - @N-@O 1870 wv
flour.
Superhne.. 20 O0@5 So
Extra Spring. g 0096 rs
Xxx Spring....7 0O@7 25
Patent Spring
Wheats. IS 5099 so
Michigan Win
ter best. u 25@7 so
Low G de
Michigan. ...6 O096 so
st. Louis Win
ter good. II 25@7 30
Winter fair &c 5O46 rs
Winter best. II 1908 90
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Daily Domestic Receipts.
By water Compensation bush Cornmeal to G.
w Trua 81 Co.
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There was a report yesterday that 1900 pris-
oners had been arrested in St. Petersburg
charged with completely in the Winter Palace
conspiracy.
Shocks of earthquake were felt in Havana
yesterday.
The office of the North Pownal Manufact-
uring Co. was entered Monday night and the
safe blown open and robbed OF $500 or $780,
Stone, the nego under sentence of death at
Washington, has been respited for 80 days
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Gleanings from the Mails.

Mr.. James L. Forbes, an American tea
needed to make tea culture successful in Flori-
da is enterprise and capital.
A great singing festival will be held at Zu-
rich, Switzerland, during the first week in
July. Seven hundred of the best vocalists of
the country, assisted by many others from va
rious parts of Germany, will take part, and
building capable of accommodating 5000 per-
sons is in course of erection near the lake.
Mr.. Wambold of the San Francisco Min
sirels has made 100000 by singing.
The Crown Princess of Germany, Queen
Victorias daughter, sent picture to the ex-
hibition of the London Water Color Society,
and here is what the Times critic says of it:
There is no royal road to art, and we cannot
strain loyalty SO far as to. say that the face
in her Royal Highness' study is in drawing or
her color other than what in an artists work
would be called dirty"
John Philpot Curran, who claimed to be a
grandson of the great Irish orator, died on
Monday in Brooklyn, n. Y. aged 60. He was
an excise inspector, and took an active part in
political affairs.
The Goethe monument at Berlin will be un-
yelled on the first of June, in presence of the
German Emperor and Empress. They both
knew Goethe intimately, the Empress being a
daughter of Karl August, Grand Duke of
Saxe-Weimar, the patron and friend of
Goethe, and their courtship and marriage at
Weimar having occurred during the latter
years Of Goethe's life.
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THE FISHERIES.
Canada's Fiery Reply to Secretary
EvartS' RepOrt.

Canada's Fiery Reply to Secretary
Evarts' Report.
TORONTO, Ont, May 20.-The Globe had
long editorial yesterday, attacking the report
of Secretary Evarts on the fisheries. 1t de-
clares that if Congress has the right to play
fast and loose with the duty on fish, Canada
can repeal the clause granting free use of her
canals. 1t asserts that the Washington Treaty
cannot supersede local regulations for the pro-
lection of the fisheries. 1t concludes as fol-
lows:
1t is to be hoped that Lord Kimberly will
continue to occupy the position taken in these
negotiations by his predecessor in the Colonial
Office. Canada can better afford to have the
fish duty reimposed than she can afford to lose
her proprietary control of her fisheries. At the
present moment there is the enormous sum of
$10,Cc0,C00 in the hands of the United States
government as the result of the Geneva award,
for which the British government never re-
ceived any equivalent. This is made up of the
amount awarded in excess of the sum total of
legal claims under the Alabama clause of the
Treaty of Washington, with accrued interest
added; and so long as that enormous sum lies
in the Treasury at Washington, it is not likely
that any renewal of attempts at arbitration, or
any indications of submissive spirit on the
part of the Gladstone government, will be re-
garded with favor by the British people.
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WASHINGTON.
The Donnelly- Finley Investigation.

The Donnelly Finley Investigation.
New YORK, May 20.-A Washington special
says that in the Donnelly-Finley Investigation
yesterday the examination of Mr.. Hay, the
writing expert, was continued, and the testi-
mony was taken of J. T. Lighter, Jr., clerk
to Mr.. Finley, to the effect that the anony-
nous letter was not in the handwriting of
Finley. The witness was required to give
specimens of his own handwriting, and these
gave strong color to the suspicion that he him.
self was the writer of the anonymous letter,
which, however, he positively denied. The
very remarkable circumstance has been devel-
oped in this inquiry, that the writing of the
anonymous letter bears, in many respects, a
similarity to that of Fraley (the first person
suspected) and of his clerk; also, to that of
Mr.. William S. King of Minnesota, Ito whom
Mr.. Donnelly first attributed it, and last of
all to that of Mr.. Springer himself, (who has
submitted specimens of his handwriting and
yet the expert gives it as his opinion that; the
anonymous letter was not written by any of
those persons: and that it is not in a disguised
but natural hand. 1t is evident that the au-
thorship of the anonymous letter is neither to
be proved nor to be controverted by the testi-
mony of experts.
Finley has withdrawn his letter back which
has been used in the comparison with the
anonymous letter. VIM. Mcclellan, chief of the
warrant division of the treasury, is now en-
gagged as an expert comparing other specimens
OF Finley's writing with the anonymous letter.
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xLvIth CONGRESSES Session.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, May 90

WASHINGTON, May 20.
A bill to enforce the observance of the
United States constitution in reference to the
election of President and Vice President was
placed on the calendar.
Mr.. Edmunds stated that he and Mr.. Teller
were unable to concur in the report Of the ma
jority on the subject of the bill providing that
the President of the Senate shall submit to
the Senate and House all packages purporting
TO contain electoral votes, and it was indef-
nitely postponed.
Mr.. Dawes's amendment to the retired army
list bill, providing for the appointment of five
colored cadets at large yearly to West Point,
was defeated.
The retired list bill as passed provides a re-
tired list for non-commissioned officers after
15 years service.
The legislative, executive and judicial ap-
preparation bill was reported and will be called
up tomorrow.
The agricultural appropriation bill was re.
ferred.
Mr.. Garland spoke ON the Kellogg resolu-
ton.
The Kellogg resolution was laid aside and
Bayard's deputy marshals bill was taken up,
but no quorum voted on the pending amend
ment and the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The memorial of the San Francisco Board of
Trade in favor of the construction of an Inter-
Oceanic canal via Niagara was referred.
The House went into committee of the whole
to consider reports of committee on public
lands.
The bill was finally laid aside for favorable
report to the House The House took a recess
until evening session, at which reports of COM
mittee on public land were considered.
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MAINE.

Fire in Pennington.
PENNINGTON, May 20.-The farm buildings
of J. P. Voter were burned this morning. Loss
$4,000; partially insured.
Incendiary Fire in Biddeford.
BIDDEFoRD, May 20-A house on Hill
street in this city, owned by Luther Bryant,
was burned last night. Loss about $1,000; in
sured. Incendiary
Fatal Accident.
BELFAST, May ON. B. Warren, rigger,
was instantly killed by the fall of mast on
the schooner Henry, which was being repaired
His age was about forty. He leaves a wife
and family.
Fire in Buxton.
SAco, May 20-The house of John G. Wood
man in Buxton was burned this morning about
o'clock. Cause supposed to be defective
chimney. Loss unknown. Insured for 5000.
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

Small fires are reported in Biddeford, Farm
ington and Buxton.
The Second District Greenback Convention
yesterday nominated Tabulator F. NJ. Fogg as
candidate for representative to Congress.
The California Workingmen's convention
broke up in row, the Democratic element
seceeding The Greenback part of the crowd
elected delegates to the National Greenback
Convention, among them Kearney.
The Nevada Republicans chose Blaine dele
gates to the Chicago convention and passed a
resolution presenting his name as it's first
choice for President.
The Dakota delegates to Chicago will sup
port Window until they see his chances are
gone, when they will vote for Blaine.
At Plymouth, Mass, yesterday, Henry T.
Gum who killed his father last September,
was convicted of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to imprisonment for life.
A meeting of representative citizens, of Co
lumbus, Ga, yesterday denounced the ap-
pointment of j. E. Brown as U. S. Senator to
succeed Mr.. Gordon, as an outrage.
The Methodist General Conference indefn-
itely postponed the question of electing COL
ored bishop.
Lord Beaconsfeld in speech Wednesday
night attributed the conservative defeat to
want of proper organization. He announced
that he would retain the leadership.
The British Parliament assembled yester-
day and was opened by speech from the
Queen.
In the Illinos Republican convention yester-
day three reports were received from the COM
mittee on credentials, and the one favoring the
admission of 36 Grant and 56 anti-Grant dele
gates from Cook county was adopted by the
convention. The convention declared in favor
of Grant. At last accounts bitter struggle
was going on over the unit rule.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Dawes amend
ment to the retired list army bill providing for
the appointment of five colored cadets at large
was defeated. Mr. Garland spoke on the
Kellogg pofford resolution. An attempt to
pass MIR. Bayard's deputy marshal bill failed.
The House transacted no business of public
iptaroct