The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-03-29


A detachment of 100 soldiers have left New
York for Louisville, Ky.
The Sac and Fox Indians have had another
interview with the Commissioners, and all diff
ferences were harmoniously adjusted, and the
Indians will remove into the Indian territory.
The members of the cabinet and the Joint
High Commission visited Mount Vernon in
company on Tuesday.
A block of business houses at Batesville,
Miss, was burned Monday night Loss $780,
600.
Several stores were burned at Sing Sing, N.
Y, on Tuesday morning, and the telegraph
and post offices damaged. AT Cazenovia, &c.
900 worth of property was destroyed, with an
insurance of only $500.
The N. Y. Court of Appeals has ordered the
lower Court to re-pass the sentence of Rulsff,
the murderer.
The report of the San Domingo Commission
ers is being written out from short hand notes.
The report of the Dominion Canal Commits
sioners as presented to Parliament, recon-
mends uniformity in the St. Lawrence canal
and the construction or improvement of canals,
and deepening the St. Lawrence, which will
require appropriations to the amount of near
ly $4,000, 900.
On Thursday last near Fayetteville, Ark =,
o man named Rowland murdered his wife and
babe and then blew out bis own brains. They
had not lived together for some time.
1t is reported that sheriff Van Sickle of Or
ange county, N. Y, with the police, Oh Mon
day night seized 10 locomotives at the works
of the Erie Railway Co. at Goshen, to satisfy
the judgment obtained by Van Dyck for dam
ages by the earn Rock disaster.
Geo. Jones, publisher of the N. Y. Daily
Times, publishes card emphatically denying
that he has offered to sell that newspaper prop
erty. He adds that he will sell under no cir.
cumstances, and at no price until the Times
which is against the Ring" shall have secur-
ed an honest city government. Meantime, if
by corrupt judicial proceedings such as prac-
tically confiscated the property of the foreign
holders of Erie shares, the Times should he
bampered and tied up by seceiverships so as to
silence its assaults upon the ring, be pledges
himself, associates and staff to Immediately
establish another journal under a new name
Those holding majority of the Times stock
have bound themselves under heavy penalty
not to sell share to outside parties.
The Directors of the Longview Luuatic Asy-
lun, near Cincinnati, have discovered dig.
crepancy of $4,000 in the accounts of the late
Superintendent, DR.. o. M. Lanedon, who has
put in a claim of $500 for extra services.
DEATH OF AN ESTEEMED MERCHANT. have
just learned of the death OF Hon John O'Brion,
of Cornish, after languishipg illness of Two
years. He died at his residence in that town,
where he was born and always resided, ON the
18th inst, aged about 70 years. He leaves one
son, A. G. O. Brion, esq, who succeeds him in
business, and two daughters. Mr.. O'BrioD
was an example of what Pc. sev, ring INDUSTRY
and application to business will accomplish 10
what is considered this uninviting section of
our country. He built up and sustained an ex-
tsnsive trade, and accumulated competency,
while he maintained the reputation of being
honest and honorable in all his business tran
sections He early identified himself with the
Republican party, and was elected several
years Senator from lis district Although not
fluent speaker he was always considered
safe and reliable legislator. There are many
gentlemen who were associated with him in
che Senate and elsewhere, who entertained for
him The highest esteem and respect, and will
lean of bis decrease with sadness. He was an
ardent supporter Of the cause of temperance
and Of liberal Christianity, in the faith and
practice of which he lived and died c.