The Portland daily press., 1869-11-08
Chicago has taken preliminary measures t.

Five houses and their contents were burned
at Harrisburg, Pa, Friday night. Loss esti-
mated from $4,000 to $4,000.
A car loaded with stone came in collision
with an engine on the Eastern Extension at
st. John, N B., on Monday morning, throw
the engine off the track and killing three men.
The store OF J. M. Mckenzie, in Pulaski,
Tenn, was set on fire Friday by the explosion
of a coal oil lamp, and was consumed with the
stock. Loss $4,000
The Telegraph says that there was at the
Brunswick depot on Monday last, the largest
train of cattle and sheep cars that ever passed
over the p. & X r. R. at any one time.
The statement that Secretary Boutwell, had
sent an agent to Europe to inquire into the
feasibility of negotiating four per cent. loan
with capitalists there, is denied. No such ac-
ton is contemplated
A London dispatch says the death of Mr..
Peabody is universally regretted in that city.
On Saturday the flags we're flying at half mast,
buildings draped in various parts of the city,
and other evidences of mourning attested the
public sorrow. .-.r
exposures concerning another prominent treas
ury officer in that city are impending. Afida-
Wits f.Om one judge, an ex-agent of the treasu-
ry, and several other parties, have been pre-
pared and filed, charging him with systematic
frauds. His appointment held over from John
son, and the treasury department has been in
vestigating the matter for some time. The
name is withheld.
Otis Tufts, leading mechanic OF Boston,
died suddenly of heart disease Friday evening.
He was found in dying condition on the
sidewalk. Mr.. Tufts name was early associa-
tod with power and hand presses and other
valuable articles of machinery used by prip-
tiers, but more recently he has been identified
with the safety elevators used in hotels and
warehouses and driven by machinery of his
own invention. His age was 67.
The Rochester, N. Y, theatre was totally de-
stroyed by fire Friday morning, and some of
the adjoining buildings damaged The fire
was discovered at five o'clock in the green
room, and swept all before it. Thomas Carr,
manager of the theatre, lost all his proper
ty, and barely escaped from the theatre with
his life. E. L. Davenport was playing an en-.
gagement aud lost a part of his valuable ward
robe. The aggregate loss will be upwards of
$4,000. i'.- t
A dispatch from Concord states that the
Lake National Bank at Wofboro was broken
open Friday night and robbed of all its valua-
bic contents, including money, notes, bonds
and private deposits. The loss is large The
bank was organized in May, 1865 with capt.
tai OF seventy-fve thousand dollars, and had
considerable surplus The loss will especially
fall heavy upon private depositors. The Car
roll County Savings Bank was probably in the
same building and also robbed. i8.a
The latest returns from the Massachusetts
election makes the whole number of towns re-
ported 315. The vote thus far stands as fol-
lows: Clafin, r. 1T; Adams, 49, SAT; Chamber
lin, 1928 Gov. Clafin's majority is 1857; his
plurality over Mr.. Adams is 22,63O, and over
Mr.. Chamberlin 1904. Only one Representa-
tive district is to be heard from, and the House,
excluding the 9th Essex district, will contain
165 Republicans, "a Democrats, and 20 mem
bers of the Labor Reform party.
The Independent Boston Fusileers are to
have grand reunion parade on Wednesday
next. The old drum that beat the "assembly"
at the first muster of the company in 1887, will
be beat on this occasion by Father Thompson,
the veteran drummer, now over 80 Years of
age, and the old standards presented to the
company in 1903 and 1918 are to be borne in
ranks. At the dinner table patriotic ode,
dedicated to the company half century ago,
is to be read.
Bonner lately drove the Bogart colt, Give
years old. by Major winfeld), at the Fashion
Course, to road wagon, making half mile in
LII IL. First quarter was made in 81 and
the second in "a IL seconds The colt was
then put to a light sulky, and John Murphy,
the celebrated horseman, drove him one mile
in the extraordinary time of minutes 10 1-2
seconds. The first quarter was made in So
seconds the second in 81 IL; three quarters of
mile in 1.45, and the last quarter in 341-4
seconds-the best time on reco d.
Dates from Valparaiso to Oct Sd, and from
Lima to Oct. 18th, are received There had
been no earthquakes nor tidal waves up to
those dates, and the people were returning
from the high lands to their homes. The VOL
cano Purace, in the interior of Colombia, has
had violent eruption, and two or three villa
ges are reported to be destroyed with all their
inhabitants. Soon after the eruption the river
Canca, at the town of Papayan, fifteen miles
from the volcano, rose quite high, and great
quantities of lava was thickly strewn with the
dead bodies of people killed by the hot ennis
sion. The next day the river wos quite dry.
A slight earthquake occurred at Quito, Ecua-
dor, on Sept. 18th, but without damage.
A Washington dispatch says Judge Kelley
OF Pennsylvania has had long interview with
the President on the subject of revival of
reciprocity treaty with Canada, and on the
tariff He submitted several facts and figures
to the President, showing that it is to the adj
vantage of the United States to have no such
treaty with Canada. The President requested
I--dge Kelley to leave the materials with him
to look over. With regard to the tariff the
President expressed himselfin favor of putting
all articles of raw material which we do not
produce in the free list, and reducing the tariff
on manufactures in which raw materials sed
which does not como into competition with orr
production.
A man by the name of Isaac E. Adams. as it
appears from papers found upon him, was
dropped by persons unknown at the aims
house at South Berwick, in this State, on
Tuesday, Nov. I'd. He appeared to be very ill,
and said he had just left the cars, en- route
from Biddeford to Boston. He died suddenly
on Wednesday afternoon. He stated that he
had been an actor and a temperance lecturer
His relatives can address the Selectmen of
Berwick Deceased was probably brother of
the celebrated Yankee Adams, and was we'll
known in this State twenty-five years ago, as
an actor and member of several travelling
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A Concord dispatch says Pike the murderer
has been transferred to an apartment in tue
prison hospital, where he will be out of hear
ing of the noise attending the preparation for
his execution After his removal he will, day
and night, be constantly under the eye of a
guard, in order that he may not have an OBJ
portunty to commit suicide, in case he should
be SO disposed. A choir of four ladies and two
gentlemen, accompanied by clergyman, visit
the prisoner daily, and sing and pray with him.
Up to within a few days Pike said he would
never ask the forgiveness of the relatives of
those whom he murdered, because he alleges
that they testified falsely against him on the
trial; but Thursday evening he changed his
mind and wrote very good letter, asking the
pardon of those he has so deeply wronged-
Pike has requested that after death his BODY
may be buried by the side of his wife and child
near Newburyport, and his request will be
complied with.