The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-03-13
MINOR KILOGRAMS.

The colored churches in New York will hold
services in April, in memory of Rev. Highland
Garnett, who died in Liberia.
G. Frank Walcott, of Springfield, Mass,
aged 81, was fatally shot while cunning near
home, Saturday. He lived two hours.
Director Stephen II. Condict, of the Me-
chanics Bank OF Newark, N. j., was released
Saturday, on $250,000 bail. He is directed to
appear before the United States Court at Tren-
ton, on the fourth Tuesday in March.
The most severe snow storm known in Iowa
for years. ragged all day Friday, completely
stopping all business.
The loss to the Pennsylvania railroad by the
breaking of the trestle bridge on Newark ave-
nue., Jersey city, Friday night, will reach over
$4,000.
The labor troubles at Pittsburg, Pa, have all
been anicably adjusted.
The first death from yellow fever this SEASON.
occurred in Vera Cruz Friday.
The local Land League of Montreal has for
warded $1,000 to the treasurer sof the Irish
League.
There is no strike among the miners in the
Lackawanna and Luzerne coal fields as reported
Bevier & Reid, the heaviest tanners in Ra-
cine, Wis, suspended Friday, but will resume
by aid of friends
Geo. W. Campbell of St. Louis, Mo-, provis-
ion dealer, suspended Saturday. His liabili-
ties are 200; assets, $4,000.
Schooner Frank and Willie, before reported
at Southwest Harbor, Me-, dismasted, was
towed into that port Saturday afternoon.
DR.. James Hill (colored) died at Medford, N.
j., Friday, at the age of TO- He was known
as the black cancer doctor, and had made many
wonderful cures
A petition for presentation to President Ar
thur for the pardon of Sergeant Mason, was
circulated in Toledo, O., Saturday, and receiv-
ed large number of signatures from promi-
nent business men.
News of the death of Mrs. Sarah e. Pierson,
wife of Rev. Isaac Pierson, a missionary in
north China, reached Springfield, Mass, Sat-
urday. Mrs. Pierson was the daughter OF Rev.
e. Porter Dyero South Arlington.
The inquest in the case of George Barry
Wall, the lawyer who was shot and killed by
his wife at New Utrecht, L. l., will be held on
Tuesday next. Counsel for the accused wom-
an says she will be present.
Justice Mckay decided in Montreal, Satur-
day, that the local stamp act was unconstitu-
tional, inasmuch as it was levying an indirect
tax. The government of the province Will
lose $50, 600 per annum by the judgment.
Information has been received at Raleigh,
N. c., that the Mdrmons have made lodg-
ment near Kings Mountain, in that State
Numbers of the country people are focking to
hear them, and they have made about fifty
converts at that point.
AT the Memorial services 1or Inc rev. LIZ
John Cotton Smith, held in New York yester-
day, Bishop Perry of Ohio and Rev DR.. Hunt
ington of Worcester, Mass, assisted.
Up to last evening there had been eight
deaths from the explosion of the steamer Sgd
ney. near Ravenswood, w. Va, last Friday.
A few others were injured, some dangerously.
Austin Whitney & Sons morocco leather
tannery at Ashburnham, Mass, was burned
yesterday morning. The shed and some stock
were saved Loss and insurance unknown.
The fire was probably incendiary.
Fire in the lumber yard of Geo. F. Sloan &
Bros, at Baltimore, Md, last night, caused q
loss of $4,000.
A dispatch from Poplar river says Deputy
United States Marshal Henley, who was held
a prisoner by the half breeds on Milk river, has
been released and returned to Fort Benton.