The Portland daily press., 1870-02-26

General News.
The disorder Of which Mr.. Burling ame died |
was congestion Of the lungs He was i'll four
days, but no fatal result was apprehended up |
10 within few hours of his death.
Albert Dwinell is on trial at Salem for the
murder of Charles W. Whittier. The murder
was committed at Haverhill on the 9th OF
May last, during drunken spree Of the par
ties-who, by the way, were cousins-and was
the result of an old srudge, caused by the de-
ceased having informed Dwinelps father OF a
theft committed by the son.
Tie body of Lewis A. Payne was removed
from the arsenal enclosure in Washington
few days ago.
DR.. Temple, the new Bishop of Exeter, Eng
land, has withdrawn the Objectionable paper
in the ESSAYS and Reviews" for which he
was so fiercely attacked at the time OF his ap-
pointment.
Col. Bernard with detachment of the LIST
and sth United States Cavalry, had series of
running fights with the indians in the ORA
COON Mountains in Arizona, on the 2sth of
of January. Thirteen Indians were kille
and two were taken prisoners. The Indian
camp and large amount of material were
destroyed.
The Connecticut river is damned up at
Westmoreand, N. H., and packed full of ice
to Bellows Falls, distance of about seven
miles.
The lease of the Ogdensburg railroad to the
| Vermont Central and Vermont and Canada
Railroad Company has been ratified. The
lease is for twenty years, and the object is to
| form direct route from Boston to the great
| lakes and the West
That notable battalion, the Amoskeag vet
Grams of Manchester, celebrated Washington
birthday and their sixteenth anniversary in a
spirited and joyous manner,,as usual, with a
parade, exercises in the Lowell street church,
and levee and ball in the evening.
The officers of the Inman line express no
fears, as yet, Tor the safety of the missing
steamer City Of Boston, AID are confident OF
hearing OF her arrival before the close of the
week. Twenty-Five guineas insurance were
offered for her on Wednesday.
| Wbittemore alleges that one of the Com
mittee who signed the recommendation for
his expulsion has been in the business, and
that his letters are eXtant to prove it. 1t is
reported that Butler will offer resolution in
structing the Committee to inquire who it
was that offered Kegler five hundred dollars
| for Whittemore's letter, and report further
| says Fernando Wood was that man. John F.
Asher, of Missouri, is also charged with the
traffic.
The people Of Idaho have plan for set
thing the Mormon question, which is sufi-
GENTLY definite, at all events. They propose
to take all the northern part of Utah, above
the forty-first parallel, and annex it to to Ida
no; tf'c'' divide the rest by north and south
line running half degree west of Salt Lake
city, and give the east -sees..A to Colorado
and the west to Nevada. The Idaho States
man, in which we find this scheme set forth,
estimates the population of Idaho's slice as
25O0o; Colorado is to get $4,000, with Salt
Lake city, and Nevada $4,000.
A funeral procession went to the depot in
Hartford on Wednesday for a corpse, but
when the undertaken went for the coffin which
had been taken from the car and put on the
platform it had disappeared. 1t turned out
that an elderly gentleman was on the train with
the bodies of his wife and daughter, which he
was taking to Walingford for burial; and,
seeing the coffin removed from the car he
thought it was one of his own beloved ones
and ordered it back. Inquiry developed these
facts, and as soon as the mistake could be
rectified the Hartford funeral took place.
The paris crew" of st. John, New Bruns-
wick, the champions of the world, have agreed
to accept the challenge of the ''canny men" of
the Tyne. They offer to row the Tyne crew
I in July, in four-oared outriggers, three miles
out to stake-boat and return, making six
miles, for $4,000 a side and the championship
of the world. The Paris crew will row with
out cockswain in the American style. and
the Tyne crew may do as they please. The
match will be rowed at Lake St. Louis, eight
miles from Montreal.
A German adventurer calling himself
Count Won Below, who succeeded in max
ing the people of Elizabeth, n. j. believe that
ne was relative Of the great Bismark, has
just been arrested for swindling on a large
scale. He succeeded in winning the affec-
tons OF and marrying Miss Mary E. Conkey
the daughter Of widow worth $4,000 He
succeeded in swlnding from his mother-in-
law, his brother-in-law and friends OF the
family over $4,000, pretending to some to be
physician, and to others Wall street brok-
er, while he was in reality pimp and gamb-
bier. His wife persists in bis innocence, and
declares herself ready to share hisl"seven in
a poor-house. It-bas- been ascertained that
be IL discharged convict from European
prison.