The Portland daily press., 1869-11-26
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Coal declined an average o SH per ton at the
New York auction sale on Wednesday.
At Turks Island salt is quoted at ten dollars
in gold and thirteen in currency.
/ Senator Grimes health has not been i'm
proved by his European trip. He has gone to
the Levant.
Yesterday morning was the coolest Novem.
Der morning ever experienced in Buffalo The
thermometer was 100 above zero,
The Jamaica courts have decided that the
seizure of the Boston schooner La Have was
illegal, but recommended an appeal
London dispatches say the completion of tbe
Suez canal is already having the effect of Sc
riousv depreciating freghts to and from India
and China around the Cape of Good Hope.
The earnings of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad the past year were 1861 ,297; expepdi-
lures, $477 $751; English capitalists have of.
fered to take 100000 of the stock.
The military department of Ottawa has re.
ceived offers from the commanders of volun.
teer corps at Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere
to serve in airy expedition organized to sup
press the Red River instruction.
A singular accident happened to a LADY, in
Hartford recently. She called at the house of
an acquaintance and pulled the door bell knob.
which was net securely fastened and gave way
precipitating her backward down the steps, Sc.
verely crushing her left arm when she struck
| the pavement.
Lie w dSuluStOn sur learns CnaG MI. Geo.
| Peabody named in his will, as executors of his
estate, Chas. w. Chandler, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
Singleton Peabody, of Rutland, Vermont, and
| George Peabody Russell, of Danvers, Mass,
| The first named married a daughter of de-
| ceased brother of Mr.. Peabody, the second is
| the son of brother now living in Ohio, and
the third is the son of his sister, Mrs. Russell,
| now living in Massachusetts,.
1t is understood that Gen. Garfield of Ohio.
| will introduce at the coming session of Con-
| gress bill offered by him in February, 1866.
| providing for resuming specie payments It
| when she resumed in 1921. After the Bin is
| introduced, Garfield will endeavor to have it
| referred to the Committee on Banking and
Currency, of which he is Chairman, and NOT
to the Ways and Means Committee, where it
was stranged before.
The Sun publishes long account of the ar
| rest and imprisonment in Ludlow Street Jail
| of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr,, for giving bogus
checks on Hartford bank to M. T. Cady, in
payment for gents furnishing goods The
consignment of the mllionaire's son to the
dungeons of Ludlow street led to the disclos-
ure of transaction with Messrs. E. V. Haugh-
won't q Co., the extensive importers of silver
ware, to whom he had given another worthless
| check. The check which young Vanderbilt
| forced upon them was in payment for a set of
magnlhcent crockery. Recently young Van
derbilt attempted to go into bankruptcy. He
stated his debts at over 100000. Among 9TH
ers to whom he owed various sums of money.
was the Hon. Horace Greeley, $15, 900, which
he borrowed of him good while ago.
Four thousand dollars were stolen Tuesday
at the Bank of Commerce, New York, from
an English gentleman who had just drawn
about 81, 800, which he designed sending by
express to Richmond, Va. While engaged in
noeing the numbers and dates of the large
bills, some one nudged him in the back, point.
ing to q note on the floor, and asked SIS that
yours?" The instant he stopped to pick uI
the bill, which was only fifty cent stamp
the thief snatched the larger pile of notes or
the desk, slipped out of the door and vanished
An alarm was Immediately given, but no trace
Finally reward of 81 900 was offered for re-
| covery.