The Portland daily press., 1870-12-31

A8teoS NcWo ny NAoAAs
Owing 20 the death of Mrs. Secretary Bel
KNAPP there will be no public reception at the
Executive mansion in Warrington on Monday,
nor will any Of. the cabinet officers keep open
house.
A heavy fall of snow in England causes the
telegraph lines to work badly.
The Boston city council has finally appro-
propriated $4,000 for soldiers monument on
the common.
and much damage done by the overflow of the
Tiber.
Eleven two story frame houses in Brooklyn
were burned Friday, turning out doors
over 20 families Loss $4,000.
Comptroller Hurlburd has called on the Ma
tional Banks of the country for statement Of
their condition at the close of business on the
28th inst.
The Secretary War has temporarily postpon-
ed the removal of the whites from the Miami
reservation.
Quite a number Of fires in the west, causing
great loss Of property, were reported by tele-
graph yesterday, among them fine bridge at
Defiance, Ohio.
Mrs. Conner, young married woman Of
Williamsburg, was brutality murdered by her
husband and brother on Friday because she
would not give them money.
The funeral of Col. Samuel Dana, U. 8. A. !,
who died in San Francisco last September,
took place in New York Friday, and the re-
mains were at once started for Augusta, Me-,
for burial deposit in the family vault
Prof. Lewis r. Packard of Yale College and
Miss Harriet Moore, daughter of Rev. R. s.
Storrs of Brooklyn, were married in New York
Thursday night by Henry Ward Beecher and
Rev. VIM. Eustis of Springfield, Mass.
All the hotel proprietors of New York are to
be notified by the municipal authorities to pro-
vide Their houses with Eve escapes.
The Bowdoin College alumni society of New
York city organized Thursday evening with
Dexter 81. Hawkins for President and Col. G.
P. Harris Secretary. A reception was given
President Harris of the college at Mr.. Haw-
kins' residence, which was attended by many
of the alumni.
York Custom House are to be made next week
The marine losses for 1870 aggregate 4sO yes.
sells, valued with their cargoes at SIS, 5O7 200.
The loss is greater than in any year since 1867
The Ice IN the Potomac Is from five to seven
inches thick and navigation is suspended.
The affairs of the Great Western Mutual
Life Insurance Co., of New York are to be
wound up. Francis w. Bixby has been ap-
pointed receiver.
The striking crispins in New York have
started two cooperative shops and are forming
five more. A wholesale factory with capital
of $4,000 will begin operation by the middle of
January and will be controlled by practical
shoemakers though all Trades Unions will be
permitted to share in its stock. Three promi-
neDt manufacturers have acoeeded to the de-
mands of strikers and their shops will soon be
in;tull operation.
A Duchess County, N. Y letter says that
the cattle disease now prevailing in that locali-
ty is the well-known foot disease of Europe,
and this is thought to be its first appearance in
this country 1t is very contagious and separ.
ating the diseased animals does not usually
save its spread through the herd into which It
has broken. The disease has been traced to
the importation of two sick animals from Liv-
erpool to Canada in August last and the con-
tagion spread in both of the Canadian PROVING
es, from the provinces 10 Oneida county, from
Oneida county to Albany, and from that city
to different towns in Duchess county, whore
the disease has broken out and is now spread
ing