The Portland daily press., 1869-12-11

Lieut. Gen. Sir c. A. Wyndham, OF Canada
is in Kansas looking after the settlement oil
large tracts of land he has recently purchased
there
Hiram A Briggs, who is suspected of at
tempting to poison his wife, two children and
grand-child, at Pawtucket r. L. has had his
examination and is bound over in the sum of
$4,000.
A loyal Britisher declares that the Prince of
Wales is "a rake, gambler and drunkard,"
and the Duke of Edinburgh no better; and
that the Queen has "an uacouquerable passion
for gin and beer"
Several stores at Peterboro', Ont, were
burned Wednesday. Loss, $4,000 An ex-
plosion of fguDpowder occurred here by which
which several men were seriously injured
Some of them ale not expected to recover
The Dover, N. H. strikers are doing we'll
Mr.. Lane, in behalf of Gen. Butler, of Lowell,
has written that all girls discharged for strik-
ing shall have good employment there, and de-
sires their address.
iThe International Telegraph Company which
was chartered at the last session of the Yer.
mont Legislature, has organized and will get
out poles to erect the line on the route of the
Lamoille Valley, St. Johnsbury and Essex
County railroads the present winter.
young man giving his address as John B.
Bennett, Long Branch, Monmouth county,
New Jersey, alias John Gregory was arrested
Monday night, charged with being hotel rob-
Der and entry thief. In the lookup he made
an unsuccessful attempt at suicide by hanging.
The New York World declares that Beecher
is to be brought to account for marrying Rich
ardson and Mrs Mcfarland, since the divorce
of the latter, obtained in Indiana, is not recog-
nized as legal in New York, and she was con-
sequently guilty of bigamy
The American Colonization Society has more
calls to assist emigrants now than it had be-
fore emancipation. The usual fall expedition
has just been despatched for Liberia. On the
third of November their superior packet, the
Golconda, sailed from Baltimore with fourteen
emigrants, and on the .11th inst, one hundred
and forty-sx emigrants were embarked on her
in Hampton Roads by steamer from Norfolk
lately employed as watchman by Woodruff &
Beach, in Hartford, was found dead on the
track of the Hartford and New Haven rail-
road, with bullet hole in his breast and
wound over his eye. The dee1 was traced to
two men named O'Neil and O'Hara who
were arrested, when they confessed the shoot
ing, but declared it was done in self defence
Pennsylvania is becoming prolific in trage-
dies. At Greenville Sunday morning an aged
couple named Vandusen were foully murder
ed and their home burned to ashes, with their
bodies in it. They were known to have lsrge
amount of gold on their premises, some twen-
ty-fve or thirty thousand dollars, and the uni
versal belief of the neighbors is that they were
robbed, murdered, and the house then set on
fire to conceal the crime.
As Mrs. Mcfarland stood by the bedside Of
her husbands victim, to marry him, q report
er had his eye on her and tells how she look
ed: "She has small, rather slender form,
with large blue eyes; full, almost chubby
cheeks; regular, pleasant, attractive, but not
beautiful features; rich auburn hair; q collect
ed, easy, graceful expression, and quiet, COM
posed manner, which was the result of strong
will, as her hand constantly moved in agita-
ton and grief.'
Mahomets birthday was celebrated at Cairo
on the 1st ult., when the prostrate bodies Of
fanatics were ridden over by the Shiek Of
Bekree, live snakes were eaten, glass crunched
and swallowed, bodies slashed with swords
cheeks and breasts pierced with sharp metal
instruments, which were left sticking in the
wounds they made, and hundreds of men and
boys shrieked and writhed and wrestled in
what professed to be mad ecstacy of religious
fervor.
A singular incident occurred in New York
the other day. One Mary Cronin, aged II
months, was drowned in exactly three pints Of
water. 1t happened in this way: Mary was
playing about the room during her mothers
absence-a little girl was "minding" her
when she came across a common house pail
This stupendous curiosity naturally attracted
the close attention of Mary. She gazed into
the strange machine, and when her mother re-
turned, some hours afterward, the poor child
was found head downward in the pail-stone
dead. There were only three pints of water
in the vessel.
General Meade, in his report as commander
OF the Department, recommends that the sew
eral field works on the coast of New England
now in charge of ordnance ssrgeants and de-
tachments of troops, be abandoned as no lon
ger of any use, and productive of unnecessary
expense. These works were erected during the
rebellion, for local defence against raids from
the sea, and attacks of rebel cruisers The
emergency which created them having passed
away, and the character of their construction
not being such as to Justify their retention as
permanent works. their being given up would,
he says, seem to be no more than reasonable
The members of the National Board of Trade
at Richmond, accompanied by about 200 citi-
zens and large number of ladies, went on an
excursion Tuesday morning on the steamer
Isaac Bell. A collation. was given on the steam
er, at which speeches were made by several
members. On arriving at City Point the party
took the cars for Petersburg, where a BANQUET
was given by the Board of Trade of that city
at Jarratts Hotel. At the conclusion of the
banquet the train left for Norfolk with many
of the members OF the National Board. The
guests were met at the depot by a committee
of the City Council, and preceded by a band of
music, were escorted through Main street,
which was brilliantly Illuminated by bOnfires
its entire length to the Atlantic Hotel where
they were cordially received and welcomed in
behalf of the city by Mayor Decordy and Col
VIM. Lamb, President of the Norfolk Board
of Trade At $50 o'clock the party sat down to
banquet prepared for them Among the roasts
of the evening which were enthusiastically re-
sage recommending the immediate admission
of Virginia and her representatives to the Un-
ion, entities him to our warmest thanks"