The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-09-29
The News.

Frost appeared in New York and Nashville,
Tenn, Monday night
There was heavy frost in Ontario Monday
night.
The recent murder OF family near Paris,
France, still continues mystery.
The troubles at Barcelona have been quelled
and the city is tranquil.
Reinforcements for the Spanish army in Gu
ba sailed from Cadiz on Tuesday.
Rev. John Boyden, for thirty years pastor of
the Universalist church at Woonsocket, R. T.,
died Tuesday morning, 28th.
An Injunction to restrain the building of the
Connecticut Western Railroad has been re-
fused.
Prince Arthur left Niagara sick Monday
night, and went to Long Point. The hotels at
Niagara were illuminated on his departure.
The New Hampshire State Fair at Nam
chester, opens Thursday and continues four
days.
The Red Stocking base ball club beat the
Eagles of San Francisco Monday, by a score of
IS to 4.
The King of Portugal has publicly CONTRA
dicted the story that he is candidate for the
throne of Spain.
An extensive gang of horse thieves, embrac-
ing several well known aud heretofore respect
able citizens, has been discovered in Missouri.
The tailoresses of Boston, following the ex
ample Of their male co-laborers, have struck
for higher wages.
The Governor and Council will visit the
American Asylum at Hartford Conn, next
week.
There was spirited meeting held in Orring-
ton, on the goth inst, in relation to the pro-
jected railroad from Bangor to Bucksport-
DR.. left was of course the principal speaker.
The Rev. DR.. Lord, ex-Presidont of Dart
mouth College, has fully recovered from his
recent accident and is now enjoying his usual
health.
A New York dispatch says Jay Gould and
his Broadway firm of Smith, Gould, Manlin s.
Co. have repudiated all connection with the
clique orders of Jas. Fisk, Jr.
Jay Gould, President of the Erie Railroad.
has had the impudence TO ask the Secretary of
for speculative purposes.
| Several shocks of earthquake were felt at
| Hawaii in August, and it was thought gener-
| ally that there would be harder shocks in Sep
| TENDER.
A Paris dispatch says Father Hyacinthe will
| be defended in the Ecumenical Council by the
bishops of Avignon, Rheims Chalons and
Bayeux.
Mr.. Amasa K Walker of Washington, D.
| c., had his leg broken in Hampden, while at
tempting to control young horse which he
was driving. The harness broke and the horse
ran away, throwing Mr.. Walker from the car
riage.
A man arrested for robbing post Office in
Massachusetts took only letters addressed to
himself, and in his own post Office box. His
offence consists in the act of taking key and
entering the Office after it had been closed fol
the night.
Charles Dickens opened the winter session
of the Midland Institute at Birmingham, Oh
Monday night, with speech He said his pc
litical creed could be summed up in two arti
Giles: His faith in the people governing wa!
infnitesimal; his faith in people governed wa.
illimitable.
That "it's an i'll wind that blows nobody
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gale in New England drove in thousands o
cords Of seaweed, which farmers along thu
coast are daily collecting, to be spread on thei
land, and to aid nature in producing future
crops.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at Sal
Francisco adjourned sine die Monday. Vic
President Colfax was present and was intro
| 70 tba G;raE To- q
worth was presented with diamond ring Sc
in gold from the filings of " the last spike
Grand Secretary Ridgeley was presented will
cane by the California brethren.
1t is announced that son of eXGoverno
Bullock, who acted as private Secretary of hi
father during the last year of his admnistra
ton, has made matrimonial engagement
with daughter of the late Commodore Ste
vens, the Hoboken millionaire, whom he ha
met in his European travels. She has over
million of dollars as her share of her father
estate.
General Sylvanus Thayer, of South Brain
tree, Mass, has just made an additional dona
ton of $4,000 to Dartmouth College, maxim
a total of $685. 600 given by him for the purpos
of founding, in connection with the college
the Thayer School of Civil Engineering. H
has also given the college $1,000, as founda
ton for two prizes to be awarded for proficien
cy in the higher mathematics.
By curious coincidence, the announcement
that Dr. Hall had returned from his prelei ,sse
expedition te The AIEGtc regions is foil owed b
4 the intelligence of the arrival at st. John, n
B., of DR.. Hayes, who has been in the Arcti
regions for few months past. His expedition
unlike that of Dr. Hall, was undertaken fo
the purpose OF obtaining sketches of points
interest rather than for making explorations i
unknown regions for purely scientific objects
| DR. James Porter, the late Assistant Agen
of the Methodist Book Concern, is out in
card calling upon Messrs. Carleton and Lana
han to arrest the reports of defalcation pred
judicial to his character and that of other
formerly associated with him. He intimate
that the charge is a sensational canard, gottol
up for the purpose of affecting the vote OF tn
church, now being taken, upon the subject G
lay delegation. The Doctor says that in fey
days he will take steps which will effectual
vindicate his character against all charge
made against him.
| CittTk hOIt, CnleI proprietor OIL the GLASGOW
Thread Company, in Rockville, Conn, left tow1
Tuesday with about $4,000 of the funds Of th,
Tolland County Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany, of which he was President and Treasur
er. On Wednesday night the thread mill wa
closed, thus throwing seventy-flve hands gu
Of employment. His liabilities are abou
| $3.50, 900. The affair has created great sensa
ton, as Mr.. Holt was one to whom business
men of every class looked for counsel. A
large portion of the lost money belonged tt
neighbors and friends who had placed small
sums in his hands for safe keeping.
The schooner Kenduskeag, Capt Wyatt, O
Bangor, Maine, arrived at quarantine al
Providence, on Saturday, from Wilmington
N. G. The Journal says that during the voy
age the mate and two men died of southern
malarial fever, and on arrival at Providence
the captain and two other men were quite sick
with the same disease, leaving only one man
well, the colored steward. Tue sick were re.
moved to the hospital on Sunday. The widow
of the mate, who was on board with an infant
child, was taken sick Sunday night, and was
| removed to the hospital. The sick are more
comfortable since their removal.
The reception of the Grand Lodge of Odd
| Fellows in San Francisco, September 10, was
one of the grandest sights, in the estimation Of
the papers, ever seen in that city. All the
| lodges of that city turned out under the mar
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