The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-09-18

! ELL EU n "A r hiC 81 EMSs
Judge Samuel B. Haley died at Rockaway
n. T., Friday, aged II.
The mutineers of the ship Nevada will b,
heid 10 await the action of the grand jury.
Judge Odell of Portsm outh, went out of of
nee saturday by Limitation of age, being Il
years old. His successor, Calvin Page, is &
democrat, and has AZ years before him under
the statute.
The steam saw mill and grist mill of Fl. j
Eayette, al North Williston, VT, was burned
Thursday night
Judge Stewart, well known criminal law.
yer, died IN New York Saturday, of typhoid
| fever
James IL. Pease. freight conductor, was kill
eo 10 the Concord railroad yard Saturday,
while unshackling cars.
/ The Treasury on Saturday made a tele-
| grapnic transfer OF half million in gold from
| SaL francisco to New York through the bank
| OF California.
Lyman Cummings, the Oldest lawyer in Bur
lngton, died Friday, aged a.
Henry o. Wright, conductor on the Old
/ colony Railroad, has been arrested on charge
Vi nhahslauglter, in causing the death of Mrs.
Catherloe Butterworth, of Titicut, who was
Rii'ed IN leaving the train after it had started
from the station at that place about week
| ago.
The Massachusetts, State constables made
| three seizures on Saturday, in Lowell, and
Thomas Ellis was held in $4,000 bail for a re
cent assault upon State Constable Morse
Rev. j. N. Fairbanks, rector of the Episco-
| pal Church at Brandon, VT, died Friday.
| The demonstration at the dedication of the
| soldiers monument in Providence, Saturday,
| Was the greatest ever known IN the State
Three thousand veterans aud an entire di-
| vision OF militia were in line, commanded by
Gen. Burnside. An address was delivered BY
Gov. Padellord, an GRAFTON by the Rev. A.
| Woodbury., Chaplain OF the FIRST Rhode Island
Volunteers, and an original hymn by Mrs
Whitman was sung by grand chorus.
Mrs. George Fl. Kennedy was struck by a
train near Providence, Saturday, and seriously
injured.
Charles I. Symonds, Treasurer of the Chel-
sea Gaslisht Company was arrested Saturday
for an indecent assault on small boy, and
shot himself.
The Western SUPPLEMENTARY of the general
army recruiting service at Newport Barracks,
KY, has been discontinued by order OF The
War Department.
VIM. I'll. Knapp, superintendent of gravity
railroad to tine Forest OF Dean iron mines, Or
ange Co., N. Y, was instantly killed on Satur-
day by one OF the cars running eff the track.
The total receipts of bullion from the Utah
silver mines last week amounted to $98O00
The Gentiles OF Salt Lake City are organic.
ing a cavalry company. Over 100 names
have been enrolled.
At Minneapolis on Saturday, Goldsmith
Maid trotted two heats in 2:18 IA, and 2:17 1 2
The third heat was made in 2:21. In the sec
ond heat Lucy came in only neck behind the
Maid, thus making better time than ever be-
fore. The track is new and sandy and gave
way beneath the hoofS of the horses. DoDle
thinks he can easily go below his Milwaukee
time on the first favorable opportunity.
The Empress Eugene is in Madrid.
A mammoth cheese weighing 5000 pounds,
product ofone day s milking OF 2, 600 cows yield
3O,105 pounds of mk-manufactured in Erie
Co-haS been deposited for exhibition in the
International industrial exhibition at Buffalo.
A small meeting to consider the question of
removing the national capital to the Valley of
the Mississippi was held in st. Louis, Satur-
day night.
Hon. Harvey Jewell, of Massachusetts. has
Withdrawn his name as candidate for nomina-
ton as Governor OF Massachusetts.
The Queen of Denmark is expected in Ath-
ems.
The yellow fever in Charleston, S. c., is d.
mnishng, Three deaths have occurred since
Friday noon. Very few persons are sick and
they are doing we'll.
Florence, the Irish comedian, has been very
sick in New York.
The United States and Mexican Commits
sion are expected 10 resume their sessions in
Washington the present week. There are
ABOUT oUU CHAINS against Ine UnlJeQ States IN
volving about SID, 900 to be settled.
The Bankers & Brokers Telegraph Co.'s
business at Philadelphia has been transferred
Sfic SScsLetn Uu1Un.
The receivers of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati
& Lafayette railroad have brought On action
against Henry G. Lord to recover $250,000 in
bonds and money belonging to said company,
which they charge him with having converted
to his own use while President of the road.
In Cincinnati Thomas Mcclellan has been
adjudged guilty of murder in the second de-
gree Tor killing Thomas Myers at Hamilton,
Ohio. This is the case in which Vallandig CHAM
was counsel in former trial, and lost his life
10 illustrating the theory how Myers came to
his death. The case will go higher court.