The Portland daily press., 1871-01-25

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Hon.David Lyman President of the Air Line
railroad company died at his home in Middle
field, Conn, on Tuesday after an illness of
about week.
The remains of Mrs. Thurber, together
with Mrs Newton have been found in the ru-
ms of fire Monday at Milford, Mass. A young
Irish woman serving as domestic is also miss
ing, also supposed victim to the flames.
Several of the plenipotentiaries to the Lon
don conference on the eastern question have
been instructed not to allow themselves to be
the programme already laid down for the con-
sideration of that body.
The submarine telegra PHI cable between
Placentia New Foundland, and the French
island of st. Pierre, belonging the New York,
New Foundland and London telegraph COM
panies, failed Monday 1t will be repaired as
soon as possible. This accident will not inter-
fere with the European business as that is all
sent by the submarine cable direct from St.
Pierre to Brest, France.
Rev. J. B. Wakerly had narrow escape
from drowning while attempting to cross the
Hudson on the ice from Rhinebecd, Monday
He was in the water some time before rope
reached him and was rescued in an exhausted
condition but is recovering.
The great body of snow in New York Mon
day and Tuesday delayed all the railroad trains
running into the city and disturbed the mail
arrangements.
The financial condition of the Province of
Ontario is reported as follows: Balance on
hand Jan. 1, 1870, $131 ,954; receipts for the
year ending Dec. a1st, 1870, So 1880; expendi-
lures 81, 575,7S7.
A fire on State street, Chicago, on Monday
night, destroyed block containing five stores
and offices. Loss 1884, 900; insurance $4,000.
The steamship Vile de Paris cleared Monday
for Havre with 1906 cases of muskets, 90 cases
ofrevolvers, 2510 cases of cartridges, 369 cases
of harness, 1876 cases ofammunition, 2 cases of
clothing, 10 batteries and % cases of silk worm
eggs.
The storm of Monday night in New York
was the severest of the season. The thermome-
ter stood within 10 degrees of zero for several
hours. The travel by horse cars and stages
was greatly impeded. The snow was very dry
and drifted and packed in such hard masses as
to require much labor in clearing tho tracks,
In New York Monday night, Edward Howe,
an aged man was found lying insensible in the
snow. He was restored to consciousness but
lost his right arm and three fingers on his left
hand.
Miss Mary Sherburne, an old lady of 81 liv-
in the outskirts of Portsmouth, N. H., fell in
her yaid on Sunday and laid an hour or two
before being found. Her ankle and hip were
badly injured in the fall and both her hands
were frozen as she lay. She is the daughter of
the late Col. Samuel Sherburne and draws a
pension. After receiving 800 few days since
it was picked from her pocket but her friends
made up the loss.
Paris dispatches state that decree of the
government has just been issued which will
startle those who sought their safety out of
Paris. The privacy of their houses left behind
is about to bo violated by authorized plumber,
their cellars sacked of wines, wood and
coal and their store rooms invaded and their
contents delivered over to fill the empty public
stomach and replenish the public coal scuttle.
A monument of Italian marble on a granite
base has just been erected over the remains of
ex-Presilent Pierce, in the cemetery in Con-
cord, N. II. 1t is fifteen feet in height, and
bears the simple inscription: "Franklin Pierce
Born Nov. 23d, 1904 Died Oct. 8, 1862"