The Portland daily press., 1871-09-27

lions of the past. Shall we then sea no more
old-fashionsd open fires that somehow leave
with the stage coaches?
Say you not, reader, that this is puff to
pay for passage and a nights lodging. we
paid for both, the full price in the currency
of the land So much we say con anore and
in love of the good old times. QUIs
PRocEEDINGs OF THE GRAND LODGE OF
ODD FELLows.-The annual meeting of the
Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows was held in Chicago last week. We
give a summary of the closing transactions,
not heretofore mentioned by telegraph. 1t ap-
pears that the matter of establishing the Order
in Peru was committed to the Grand Sire,
Deputy Grand Sire and Grand Secretary, to
act as the interests of the order demand. A
resolution allowing five cents per mile to and
fro and Sc per diem to representatives was
adopted. 1t was deemed inexpedient to use
the names or numbers of defunct lodges by
lodges about to be established. report ad-
verse to requiring notice to lodges to which
sick brothers, belong every six weeks,
under penalty of not being entitled to claim
more than six weeks be left, was adopted, as
likewise a resolution restraining lodges or Gu
campments from hereafter using the name of
any living person for their chartered name.
Charters were granted for Grand Encamp-
mepts in Minnesota and Vermont. Charters
were granted for lodges to be located in Berlin
| (Prussia) and Stuttgart (Wurtemburg.) Char
ters were granted for encampments in Chey-
enne, wyoming Territory, Hastings, and st.
Paul, Minnesota, Nevada, sCal.; Rutland, Vt
Salisbury, North Carolina; Seavey, Ark. Raj
elgh, North Carolina; Lincoln, Neb.; Fail
Play and Central City Colorado. Also loddg-
es to be located at Lima, in the Republic Of
Peru, South America; Montreal, Provinces o.
Quebec, and Montana Territory.
Amendments to the by laws were adopted by
which the fiscal year of the Grand Loge
the United States will commence on the frs
day of January and end on the 31st day of De
cember. Resolutions ere passed that whom
ever the Grand Sire made an official visit BY
person or deputy he be paid by the Crane
Lodge, but when called upon by any jurisdic
ton to make such visit the Jurisdiction mus
bear the expense; that Degree Lodges of tn
Daughters of Rebekah be authorized to ballo
on all applications for membership, and that
| majority vote of all members present and vOt
ing shall be necessary for an election, excep
in such jurisdiction as shall otherwise provide
CONSUMPTION OF LIQUOR IN GREAT BRITAIN
Lord John Russell, in a speech made at tn
conference of the National Union for tn
Suppression of Iatemperance," over whic
he presided, said that sduring the five veal
ending with 1870, the temperate British peop
spent for Intoxicating liquors the nice lit
sum of 514, $40, 345 pounds sterling-abo,
twenty-five hundred millions of dollars. Tn
amount is about three times as large as Il
annual Income of all the railways Of the Unite
Kingdom; twice as large as the capital of a
| the savings hanks. half as large aoain az IL
national revenues for the whole time, and fit
times as large as the collective income of 8
1 the religious and phlanthropic societies in tt
Y country. We are sorry to add, on the author
. ty of the same competent witness, that Il
! working classes pay by far the .greater share
this enormous sum. The calculations Civ.
are made from the amount of liquors viii,
| nav DUTY.