The Portland daily press., 1884-02-14
GENERAL NEWS.

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GENERAL NEWS.
Among the passengers by the French steamer
st, Laurent which sailed from New York yes
terday for Havre was the Queen OF Tahiti.
DIR. Geo. H Marshall of Pittsburg, Pa, with
attempting to blackmail Mary Anderson was
acquitted in the United States district court Of
that city Yesterday.
B. Newton, aged %, was killed at Lyndon,
VT, yesterday morning while attempting TO
board moving freight train. He belonged in
Concord, n. II.
Caamano has been elected President In
Ecuador.
Navigation in the upper Chesapeake Bay is
greatly impeded by drift ice
The Marquis If Lansdowne has contributed
$500 to the Montreal public charities.
The subscriptions to the new French loan
are four times as large as the loan.
DIR. zukertort is playing in chess tourns-
mont in Montreal against the local experts
Thirty cases of diphtheria have occurred in
Manlius, N. Y. The school has been closed.
A violent earthquake has occurred at Bitlis
Asiatic Turkey, destroying a number Of bull
ings.
The Rev. W. G. Lane of Halifax was fined
$500 TUESDAY for marrying a couple without
license.
San Franciscans are circulating petitions re-
questing Congress to pass the Sumner Postal
Telegraph bill.
Cetewayo's body, it having been rumored that
he was poisoned.
Capt. Berry of the Queconnesset lightship
became crazy yesterday and was tied by his
crew until they could send him to land.
Ihe massacre of Christians in Tonquin, an
nounced on Monday, occurred in Pna1hoa, be-
tween Hue and the lower branch OF the delta.
The recsiver of the copper mining company
at Ely, VT, has been instructed to sell the
property, valued at ST. 100000, for the ben eft
of the creditors.
The Pope has summoned the French Bishops
to Rome, confer with them upou measures
to arouse the Catholic spirit in France and
counteract the ant-religious propaganda.
The Green's College Missionary Association
OF Kingston, Ont. protests against raising
money for church purposes by lotteries polti-
Cal elections, tea meetings, picnics, and GA
zaars.
Eight members of the Baltimore city council
left the council meeting Tuesday night in or
der to defeat an ordinance lsgislat ing the FIRE
marshal out Of office by leaving th council
without quorum.
Mr.. John B. German of Talbolton, Ca,
eduor of the New Era, sailed from New York
yesterday on voyage around the world
The Supreme Court of Georgia has decided
that telegraph company is responsible for
gross negligence of its operators In Transmitting
messages, ard that 1t is immaterial what is
printed at the head Of the blanks used so far
as the liability is concerned.
State committee has been for med in Lin
coin, Nsb., to raise subscriptions for the Bar
tholdi statue. Gov. Dawes, chairman of the
committee, has appointed sub-committees for
every county IN the State. Dollar subscriptions
are called for.
j. P. Beale, q commercial traveller OF Mon
train at Whitby, Ont, Tuesday, and was SO
severely injured that he soon died. The train
does not stop there and he took the risk rather
than go on to the next station.
. Fort Sully, near Pierre, Dakota, was burned
tuesday, with all the barracks, and the garri-
son are obliged to live in tents with the
thermometer at 25s below zero.
The Grand Trunk Railroad has issued a
pamphlet protesting against the Canadian
government giving further assistance to the
Canada Pacific for the purpose of investing In
railroads to compete against private enter
prises.
The total transactions in whea. in the New
York city markets Tuesday reached 10, ,48O 900
bushels, OF which no less than $4,000 were
for May delivery.
Yesterdays fish receipts at Gloucester, Mass,
amounted to 5000 pounds OF fresh halibut,
1900 pounds OF Georges Goldfish, 450, 600 frozen
herring, 40 barrels of salt do.
San Francisco Merchants Exchange has adj
vices stating that Capt. Worth and the crew of
the wrecked steamer Umatilla wers picked up
and taken to Port Townsend.
Relative to the condition of Gen. Grant, his
sons state positively that no new complications
have been discovered, but that their father is
very much better, and has, in fact, nearly re-
covered.
The property of ex-Gov. Morgan in Washing
ton including the residence which Hamilton
Fish occupied when Secretary of State. near
the Arlington, was purchased BY the McLeans
OF the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Rye, N. H., with 1130 people, had only five
ieaths In 1883, which was the smallest number
In any year since 1903, when there were 35.
The Oldest person who had died in Rye was
probably Sarah Morris, who passed away in
1858 at 102.
A negro named jackson of Castleton, VT,
was found frozen to death in a barn at Poult-
ney. The body had lain there some time.
The aldermen of Lawrence, Mass, Tuesday
evening granted license to the Boston &
Lowell Railroad COMPANY to lay tracks in
Canal and Marston streets. The work began
yesterday
There are 5000 bushels Of potatoes for sale on
one road in Jericho Centre, VT, in distance
of two miles.
The will of George Bridge, an Englishman
recently deceased, bequeaths $4,000 to the
Rhode Island Hospital for free bed for
foreigners of any nationality.
Seven-hour time has been temporarily adop-
ted at the Rhode Island Locomotive Works.
The estate OF the late Justus Stocking of
Cromwell, Conn.,, foots up ~, 2SS,000 There
ia no will.
Hartford had go deaths in January.
The venerable Rev. John Lovejoy of Sprague,
r. l., has lost his eyesght.
The Connecticut Prolibitionsts are to hold
State convention in Hartford March 4th to
choose national delegates.
Surveyor General Cram has presented to the
Massachusetts legislature petition for relief
in the sum Of SIT 600 alleged to have been i'm
properly appied In payment OF office expenses
not allowed by law and for elucidation of the
law governing the expenditures OF his office.
The loss by burning of Morrison, Layter &
Co.'s sack works in Toronto Tuesday night is
S70.0O0 The buildings and coutents insured
In 19 different companies for $50, 600. Incen-
diarism was the cause of the fire.
Geo. w. Smiths large cracker bakery in
Wnite River junction, VT, was burned yester.
day morning with large quantity Of raw
material and manufactured goods. Loss S25,.
COO; insurance $40 600.
The New England Retail Grocers' Associa-
tion in Boston yesterday adopted form of
sugar card fixing the price of granulated sugar
at nine cents.
A gang of seven counterfeiters were arrested
in Louisville, KY, yesterday by the United
States secret service officers.
dense fog hung over New York city harbor
yesterday but no disasters occurred.
About seveaty gentlemen were present at
the dinuer OF the New Hampshire Club in
Boston yesterday afternoon, among them be-
ing Messrs. Il. M. Pulsifer and Marcus Beebe
of Boston as guests.
A Chicago despatch states that the telegraph
service was more completely crippled through
out the entire country YESTERDAY morning than
at any previous time during the present win
ter. Communication with Nav York Ralt-