The Portland daily press., 1870-04-27

General News.
President Grant, Vice President Colfax, and
the entire Republican delegation in Congress
from New York, have signified their intention
| to be present at the grand social entertain.
ment TO be given by the New York Republi.
can Association of Washington to- night
A Cuba letter denies the story put in circu.
latlon that after the proclamations of General
De Rodas and Napoleon Arapgo hundreds Of
the insurgents presented themselves to the
Spanish authorities. 1t says the whole num-
Der who did SO was ten, eight Of them women
who having no homes because the Spaniards
themselves have burned them, looked for the
| first protection offered them.
Last Sunday was the first the New York
| people have enjoyed since the repeal of the ex-
else law which prohibited the sale of liquor on
that day. The Democratic Legislature Of
| course regarded the law as o nuisance. The
change is said to have been anything but ia
votabls to the order and decorum of the city.
The special election for Congressman to
succeed j. s. Golladay, in the Third District
of Kentucky, took place Monday. There were
but two candidates before the people-General
Joseph II. Lewis, the regular Democratic
nominee, and j. 81. Lowry, Esq. self-ap-
pointed Republican candidate. The result is
not yet known.
About half past ten o'clock last Saturday
night the watchman of the Southwark Bank,
Philadelphia, heard noise as if some one
was attempting to force an entrance to the
safe. He called the Cashier, who resides next
door, who also heard the sounds, and imme-
diately opened the bank, when it was found
that the door leading to the yard was fastened
from the inside by screws with large heads,
which had been screwed in by the burglars to
prevent entrance. 1t was also discovered that
the scoundrels had made their escape through
the building by way of the roof, through
which they had entered, without securing any
plunder. They left all their tools--crowbars,
iimmes, augurs, bits cold-chisels, lanterns.
&C. The inside doors we're completely broken
up by the burglars. The vaults contained
over $1O,OOO,O 600.
Details of the effects of the fold in the in
terror of the State of New York are being re-
ceived. The loss in Greene county was great
In one instance house was carried away, and
girl fourteen years old, who could no. escape,
was swept off aud drowned. T..
Papers were issued, yesterday. transferring
tho Central Pacific, Western Pacific, and Oak.
land railroad telegraph lines to the control of
the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company,
by which means the lines will be in COMPETE
ton with the Western Union Telegraph Com
pauy, and will, in few days, be opened from
Chicago to California.
David O'Dsy, strong, burly Irishman, who
kept liquor saloon at the corner of Green
witch and Charlton streets, New York, was
murdered by gang of his drunken rufi3ans at
Larry McDermott's GROCERY in King street
Sunday morning. ODay was rufiian of the
lowest class. He was suspected of having
murdered Felix Larkin, a notorious local pol
itician, on the 18th of November, 1868, but the
crime could Tot be brought home to him. He
was also engaged in several other criminal af
fairs. In addition to this murder the New
York papers record four other fracases. A
m,n in Brooklyn, while driving some young
rowdies from store was struck by a stone and
his skull fractured; he will die. john Fcx
was fatally shot while trying to prevent Law
renee Wild from beating the latter's wife,
VIM. Stark was fatally stabbed during melee
with an unknown man on Rector street, and
another man severely beaten in the Twentieth
Ward.
There has been recently placed in one of
the safes of the First National Bank in Hud-
SOD, Wis, for safe keeping, patent deed from
the United States to the State of Wisconsin, of
152,5S2 84-1O0 acres of land for the West Wis
consn Railway Company, and also a deed
from the State to that corporation. The first
OF these documents bears the seal of the Uni
ted States, and contains forty-five pages of
closely written matter, each page being about
fifteen by twenty inches.