The Portland daily press., 1871-10-25

| Joseph Odell, of the Lafayette jour nal, died
at Lafayette, Indiana, last Friday. He was a
graduate of Watelvlle College, and had been
connected with several journals in the West
| ern States. He belonged to the class of 1877.
| The examination of the Broadway National
| Bank accounts shows that Tweed deposited in
six months time, for his own account in that
single bank, nearly one million dollars, which
| the Times says will be proved to have been
stolen from the people.
The Columbus (Ohio) State Journal says:-
"a deformed chicken of common breed, the
deformity resulting from broken back, was
entered at the Muskipgum County Fair as a
Hungarian cock of the 'Slavi Magyar breed
just imported, and the sapient Judges, after
gravely inspecting it, awarded it the first pre-
| MUM over one of the finest poultry shows
ever seen in the country"
| Northerners who fiocked into Virginia to
settle directly after the war are becoming
homesick, and "For Sale'' is placarded on
many of their estates. The soil is not so fer
tile as they imagined, while the social atmos-
phere is very frigid, and the good schools,
churches and other elements of Northern life
are wanting.
Hartford has 5000 children that do not at
tend schoolat all. What will become of Hart
ford and other cities that allow SO large pro-
portion of its children to grow up in ignorance.
Young Pryor, whose body was found in the
East river, at New York, was son of the late
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, Of Virginia, and young
man of brilliant parts. He graduated at
Princeton and Cambridge (Eng) Colleges with
distinguished credit No explanation of his
untimely decease is given.
A fire is raging in the rear of Chippewa, On
tario.
Thompson, Smith & Co.'s lumber mill in
Bradford, Canada, was burned Monday. Loss
$25, 600: no insurance.
The Allemonia Insurance Company of Cleve-
land, O., has not suspended.
VIM. G. Payne, Boston agent of the Inter
national Life Insurance company of New er-
sey. committed suicide in his office 22O Wash
ington street, by taking chloroforn.
President Grant declines attending the re-
union of the Society of the Army of the Cum
berand at Detroit the 18th and 18th OF Novem-
Der, that event taking place when official du-
ties require all his attention.
A Tribune despatch says that the fire that
was raging in the woods near West Troy, N.
Y, Monday, was set by gang of rcughs who
resort to the Shaker settlement Sundays for
thieving purposes. Serious loss is apprehend
Gu DeIOIe ~ purnS lIseu out.
Monday night Harry Young was arrested in
New York, whose aliases are B. S. Dowuer j
A. ROwsor, and Samuel E. Collins. He has
tor long time been successfully operating
throughout the country altering and forging
checks He has been identified by several
victims.
The cotton factory in North Providence R.
l., belonging to Sarah A. Hill, was burned
Monday night. Loss $4,000.
A despatch from Niagara Falls states that
the woods between LaSalle and Tonawanda are
on fire. They were burning all day Monday
and the fire is spreading
A fire broke out at Oshkosh, Wis, Sunday
morning, in the planning works Of Messrs.
WEIGH, Jenkins & Co., which, together with a
large stock of lumber, was totally destroyed.
| Loss $4,000. Insurance $25, 900, mostly in
| Chicago combanies.
A barn, outbuildings and twenty-five head
| of valuable cattle belonging to Robert Holmes
| were burned Monday night. Loss $4,000; in
| sured.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce an
| nual report recommends the withdrawal OF
| representatives in the national board of trade,
regarding the representation of mo use.
| A despatch from Savannah, Ga, gives an
| account OF the arrest of three white men in
| Button, S. c., by some colored men, part OF
| whom were constables. In making the arrest
| one named Slicer was morally wounded.
| Mrs Sarah A. Cooke sued Brigham Young
| Monday fer $4,000, which was collected for Der
| benefit upon the death OF husband some years
| ago and placed in Brigham's hands. The de-
| fence admits the receipts OF money for the pur
| pose stated, but claims offsets to the amount
| of $4,000. Mrs. Cooke was formerly a Mormon
| but is now prominent apostate.