Litchfield enquirer., 1860-10-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
 TIE PRINCE OF WALES and suite, on Friday. visited Cambridge, Bunker Hill, Mount Auburn Cemetery and Harvard College. At the latter place he was welcomed in Doane Hall by Pres- dent Felton and the Faculty, while he was heart fly cheered by the students. After visiting the Library of the Scientific School and Observato- ry, the party partook of collation. at Harvard Hall. The citizens of Cambridge were out in numbers, and cheered the Prince heartily as he passed through the city. In the evening His Highness visited the Boston Public Library. The Royal party left Boston at 91a o'clock Saturday morning, in special train for Port land, where they embarked almost immediate ly for home, the fleet being there in readiness
 THE PRINCE OF WALES on Saturday finished his tour in America, and embarked for home. The Royal party left Boston in the forenoon in a special train for Portland, accompanied by Governor Banks, Mayor Lincoln, Hon. Charles Sumner, Hon. Henry Wilson, Hon. Anson Bur lingame, and other distinguished personages They reached Portland about 2 o'clock P. M., after receiving the hearticst ovations of Salem, Newburyport, Portsmouth, and other places along the route, and were received by the Mayor and Councils of the City, and escorted by the military through the principal streets of the City to the wharf built for the accommodation of the Great Eastern, when they embarked amid salvos of artillery and bursts of martial music. The Prince and his suite before their departure, expressed themselves in terms of the highest qualification at the manner in which they were treated in the United States.
 THE WIFE and two small children of c. W. Orendorf, who lived on prairie about six miles from Delavan, Illinois, were found murdered a few days since, when Mir. Orendorf and lis hired man returned in the evening from days work ill the woods. The murder was committed by an axe. The house had been plundered of all it's valuables. The neighbors turned out in mass, and pursued young man who was gus pected of the murder.
 l IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE reaches us from the Pacific side, by the arrival of the Pony Express at St. Joseph, on Monday night, with advices from San Francisco to the 10th iust., and from Oregon to the 7th. The difficulties in the Ore gon Legislature had been so far overcome that on the 2d the election for United States Senators took place in legal form, and resulted in the choice of J. w. Nesmith, Douglas Democrat, for the long term, and E. D. Baker, Republican, for the short term of five years. The arrangement was. of course, effected by fusion. This news created the greatest excitement among the Cali fornia Republicans, many ofwhom thought their chances in that State by no means so desperate as had been feared. Efforts were to be made to get Mr. Baker to stump the State for Lincoln. The Broderick will had at last been admitted to probate A dreadful massacre of an entire emi- grant train by the Snake Indians took place about fifty miles west of Salmon Falls on the Columbia River, on the 9th of September. On ly one person escaped out of party of forty-six "a man named Scheiber. Nineteen of these massacrcd were men, and the rest women and children.
 Ono ELEcrIoS.-The official majority of Brinkerhoff. the republican candidate in Ohio for Judge, is 1900. [The Belleveretts and other hunkers fought him because he considers the Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional The other republican candidates have much larger majority.]
 ONE of the boldest and most novel burglaries ever undertaken in New Haven. took place on Saturday night. The burglars entered the law office of Lucius G. Peck, Esq, in the second story of Brewster's Building, corner of Chape and State streets, by bursting open the door, ant then proceeded to cut hole through the doo and ceiling into the jewelry store of Everwart Benjamin. below. By means of augurs the, bored through the floor. removing the deadening and then boring through the ceiling a hol, large enough to admit of the passage of man body, and then let themselves down by means O a rope into the store. In the safes were som, ,OoO worth of jewelry, and the burglars mad
 attempts to open them, by blowing the lock with gunpowder, and by picking with their tools
 They were unsuccessful and decamped out o the State street door, taking with them iron $500 to 5000 worth of watches and jewely ly ing in the cases, and leaving portion of the tools and a package of gunpowder. It is sup posed they were frightened away by the police
 men, who in going his rounds tried the door O
 the store, which, as the doors were tight, he sup posed to be safe and went his way.
 p@Gov. Curtins official majority in Pennsyl vana is 32,O94. -.....
 Extra Premiums Awarded AT THE LATE COUNTY FAIR.
 Largest and best collection of accurately
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