The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-24

GRAND LODGE OF COOP TEMPLARs.-The
Grand Lodge of Good Tempars met in Bangor
Tuesday. The attendance was quite full. The
report of Grand Secretary Hamilton shows the
whole number of lodges on the roll since the |
last annual session to be 278; number institute
ed, 81; surrendered charter, A. forfeited char
ter, failing to make returns for one year, 18
Making the present number of lodges on the
roll, 277. The number of members since last
annual session 81 554; initiated snce-last ses-
sion, GOO0; admitted by card, $50; membership
of new lodges mot returned) 300; total, 2S,2O4.
Withdrawn from the order, 1850; withdrawn
by card, 1862; died, 179; expelled, mostly for
non-payment of dues, 2S1O; total, 56O1. Max
ing the total number of members at the close
of year. 22,603, an increase in membership dur
ing the year of 1919 The receipts for tax for
the year were $685., 80; supplies, SS24; total,
S398063. The order was never in a more flour 4
ishing condition. Onr efforts have been devot- 4
ed especially to revive and strengthen old lodges
instead of forming new ones. The old lodges
are more vigorous and healthy than ever, hav-
Ing rid themselves of non-paying members
The INDIAN TERRITORY RIoT-The Fort
Smith, Kansas, New Era of the 10TH, gives a
further account of the recent tragedy in Indian
Territory. 1t seems that the approach of the
marshal forces was well known at the court
house and preparations for resistance were
made. The court having adjourned from the
court house, which stands on open ground to
the schools about half a mile away, where it is
quite closely built up All the people were
armed, including the jury Even Proctor. the
murderer, had Spencer rifle and two reyolv-
ers. OF the marshals party eight were killed
including deputy marshal Owens and two Sc
verely wounded. OF the assailants four were
killed including deputy sheriff and juror and
six wounded Besides these two men were
found dead half a mile from the court house,
supposed to have been killed in wantoness by
the retreating aggressors. = = Z. PA
A letter from Deputy Marshal Robinson in
charge of the rescuing party sent from Fort
Smith says that he arrived at the place of the
fight on the 18th and found the whole coun-
try deserted The Proctor party left the pre-
vious day with sixteen armed men, taking the
wounded to the mountains, and pursuit with a
mere handful of men was out of the question.
Mrs FANNY HYDE of Brooklyn has just
been tried for shooting her employer, Mr.. Wat
son, for seducng her and afterwards insulting
practical acquittal, as eleven jurors pronounced
her not guilty, butfn order to secure the twelfth
consented to a verdict of manslaughter in the
fourth degree, and proposed to pay the penalty
therefor ($1, 900 fine) out of their own pockets
Several of the New York papers endorse this
action and the Commercial Advertiser says:
''With the evidence of the mans infamous
conduct before them, they firmly resolved not
will very generally endorse their resolution. 1t
adds another proof to the many already rem
dered, that in such cases juries will pay more
heed to the unwritten law of human nature
than to the statute law of the land"
THE LATEST SENSATIONAL PLAYA New
York correspondent telegraphs that the sensa-
tional play of ''Black Friday" which was
brought out in that city Monday night, is an
outrageous composition Fisk, Could Mans
field, Daniel Drew, Stokes and other we'll
known characters are introduced. Fisk is de-
picted as man constantly doing generous acts
while Stokes is represented as the vilest of the
vile. The play closes with the assassination of
Fisk by Stokes and the appearance of Mans
field wild and crazed with grief, who throws
herself frantically over the dead body of her
hero. The audience, which was large, showed
proper appreciation of the show by kissing
the closing scene with unmistakable emphasis
THE NURSERY for May is one of the most
attractive ever published, and in its depart
ment has no fear Of a rival AT 81 30 year
no little one should be without it.
sge3..,o News Items by Mail. ra<
Gen. William B. Thomas, who is one of those
trying to drum up recruits for Cincinnati in
Pennsylvania, proclaimed himself Democrat
on the stump last fall and denounced the Presi-
dent and the whole Republican party in I'M
stinted terms. rrttsnsT =
There was fearful scene at an execution in.
Fentress county, Tenn, on the 9TH inst. The
weight of the doomed man snapped the rope,
and he fell to the ground. The sheriff and his
men seized him, put rope around his neck
threw it over the gallows and drew him up.
He hung thus a couple of minutes, when, at
tempting to draw him higher, the rope again
broke. Once more he was seized and hoisted
the blood running from his mouth and nose,
and his shroud nearly torn off. This time the
rope proved sufficient and the man was strang-
led to death. zf.-r ..s-s. ...a Nh. q
Throughout the Kentucky valley the water
was several feet higher than in the great flood
of 1882, and five feet higher than ever before
known. There is scarcely fence left in the
entire valley. sls .ssfr3E
On Saturday afternoon Mr.. Bonner drove his
remarkable four-ycar old colt Startle, over the
Fleetwood track to his wagon, carrying 1903
pounds He made the first quarter in the as
tonishing time of "a seconds, and the half mile
in 1884. FsEEgE .E -
The New York Herald says that trade in that
city opens with unparalleled steadiness and
with unprecedented yigor." 40
What the Missouri Republican particularly
admires in the New York World is 1.-THE robust
ability shown in looking cross-eyed at things
Don Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, on his re-
cent return from his long European tour, was
greeted by his subjects with the heartiest man
ifestations of joy, by the Inauguration of .tete
that lasted three days. 8nST@G GbfE
The Selma (Ark.) Times speaks of Gen.
Longstreet as 'dsgustingly degraded because
he believes that the war is over and that the
rebel cause is really lost. -
Q According to official returns made to the Bu-
reau of Statistics there arrived at San Francis
co during the quarter which ended March last
1880 immigrants, of whom 1 GAO were from
China During the quarter /, 153 passengers
departed for foreign countries. The number of
immigrants arriving at Port Huron, Michigan,
ouliiS SAINT ptIiOu was o,Oto-OI WQOm
1000 were from Canda, the others from Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland their destination
being Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois,
Minnesota, Kansas and Ohio.
Z Henry Ward Beecher declared in lecture in
Cooper Institute, Monday evening, in favor of
having the public libraries kept open Sunday.
A drum man named Currier was run over
and crushed into shapeless fragments by
Boston & Maine train Monday afternoon, near
the Byefeld station
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