The Portland daily press., 1871-04-21
News nv Lareat MntIs

A dispatch from Constantinople announces
that the Porte intends to send large iion
feet to cruise in the Black pea.
A fire on the lumber wharves at South Bos-
ton Thursday morning destroyed Whitaker q |
Co 3 kindling- wood factory, the lumber yard |
of Jonas Fitch, Rogers & Brothers saw mill
and lumber yard together with five small
dwellings Loss estimated at $4,000; insur- |
ance not ascertained.
J. Twiss' children's carriage factory in Lou
isyille was burned yesterday. Loss $55 600; in
surance, $4,000.
A meeting of Roman Catholic Bishops at
New York Wednesday decided to divide the
diocese of Albany and establish the diocese OF
Plattsburg.
The Wardsworth Iron Works in Buffalo, New
York, suspended business Wednesday. Over
1000 persons were thrown out of employment
There is prospect that the creditors. will ar
| range SO that business can be resumed.
| The supreme lodge OF the Knights of Pythi-
| as are now in their annual session in thiladel-
| pha The order now exists in thlrty.two
States, twenty-five of which have grand lodges.
| and has total membership Of 5S,5m, an IN
crease of 1890 during the last year. me iS S
OFT of which $106, 1888 was appropriated Tor the
relief of needy members.
Work has been begun on the extension Of
the Atchison and Nebraska railroad from the
northern State line up Nemaha Valley to Falls
1 w,
coin, making a through route from st. Louis
to the capital of Nebraska. The road will be
completed to Falls City in ninety days.
Stephen Mason, member of the Virginia
| Legislature, was Cd Wednesday convicted of at
tempting to pack jury in favor of ex-Mayor
Cahoon, and fined $500. w. A. Hoppe, con-
victed of the same offence, was fined $780,
A severe storm passed over Leavenworth
Kansas, on Tuesday night, doing considerable
| damage. One hundred and fifty feet of the
treste work of the Missouri River bridge was
blown down, and the quartermaster's depot al
Fort LeavenwOrth was unroofed.
Government sold four millions of gold in
New York on Thursday at Ill 63 IA.
Seven men, four whites and three blacks,
| were recently discovered on the shore OF Deep
Creek, Eastern Virginia, drowned. All were
| tied together and each had his hands tied be-
hind his back.
The captain and crew of the Nova Scotian
| schooner Condor, abandoned at sea, have been
carried into New York.
sea on the 9Th inst, and foundered. The mate
and two sailors were lost. The survivors have
reached New York.
Fairkler's brewery and dwelling at Dubuque
Iowa, were burned last night Loss $30, 900.
John Nelson and George Whitmore, alias
were arrested in Buffalo Thursday morning
| A COMPLETE set of burglars tools were found in
their possession.
Winans, the Albany traitor, receives COM
plimentary notices from all the Republican
newspapers in New York State The Albany
OF sx-line squibs, every one of which raises a
blister If Winans can eat or sleep under such
terrible excavations he is made of sterner stuff
than his great prototype Benedict Arnold.
The ELoPEMENr CAsE.-The Farmingtor
Chronicle, in mentioning the elopement of DR.
Albion Cobb, of Casco, with Miss Dow, O
Pennington, says the young lady belongs te
one of the best families, was well educated
and has heretofore borne an irreproachable
character Cobb is about forty-five years o.
age. Has wife and four children in distant
portion of the State, upon whom his crime
must fall like pail. He was An army surgeon
during portion of the late Southern rebellion
and took charge of Wilton Academy in the
tall of 1869, ii we mistake not. The young
lady whom he has ruined, being in not very
good health, was put under his charge by hei
parents, who placed the most implicit conf.
dence in him as teacher and medical adviser
When TOO i'll to attend school it was his Gus
tom to visit her room for the purpsse of hear
| ing her Rotations, on which occasions, I'M
doubleday, he succeeded in accomplishing hi
| purpose. A friend informs us that Cobb left
| Wilton for his home in CascO Thursday eve.
ming by private conveyance, arriving at the
latter point early Friday morning. An init.
mate friend of the family, who had it from
Mrs. Cobb's own lips, says he appeared very
much excited, and was, for the first time in his
life, rough and unkind 10 his wife. He had
been in the house but q short time when he
started out and hired horse, stating that he
rust be at the depot in Mechanic Falls, ten
miles distant, when the half-past II train ar.
rived. Mrs. c. said she would go with him
He made some frivolous reply, stating that he
| didn't want any aC0n1ar with him on such ex-
cursons. But he finally consented for her to
accompany him. Arriving at Mechanic Falls
he said he had particular business at the depot
and she had better call on some of her friends
and wait his return. She did SO, but waited
IN vain. and has heard nothing from him. only
went off with her. 1t is said that Mrs. c. is
nearly distracted. Some months since she re-
ceived letter from a person in Wilton, which
informed her that her husband was rather too
intimate with one of bis young lady pupils
but she paid no attention to it, supposing it to
be mere gossip or scandal. Cobb took with
him from his home some $500, leaving his fam
lily comparatively nothing, aside from the
house in which they live.