The Portland daily press., 1872-02-21
Items.

The Boston Journal says that Thornton X.
Lothrop will probably be elected President of
the Eastern Railroad Company, and serve I'M
til some first-class experienced railway mana
ger is found to take the helm. Mr.. Lothrop
has given great attention to the capabilities of
this road, and is thoroughly conversant with
the wants of the public but he has no intention
of becoming its permanent President
When James Buchanan entered upon his du-
ties as Chief Magistrate there was in the Treas
ury cash amounting to $19,S7O, ia TO- He left
in the Treasury for the incoming Administra-
ton but 50, 496, 0S5 49, debt of 1884, $40, 2s7 SO,
and a war which has cost fearful sacrifices of
blood and treasure.
Hon. William H. Seward takes the same
cheerful view of public affairs he was wont,
even in the darkest days of of 1S61-'2-'3. He
feels, we are told no concern or apprehension
about the present commotion in England grow
ing out of tho present phase of the Alabama
claims He has no doubt about England's be-
ing willing and anxious to settle our bill peace
ably on our terms at no distant day. She can
not as he believes afford to do otherwise
Two corpses recently passed through London,
Ontario, on the Great Western Railway, from
San Francisco to New York, one of them man
who had yielded up the last breath in China,
and had been sent by steamer to San Francisco,
and thence east as described. The cost of the
transportation on each was $2SO-in the one
case the charges were paid out" and in the
other were for "collect on delivery"
Senior Sagasta has been entrusted with the
task of forming the new Spanish Ministry.
Tuacdoy of fbo Nh,
Legislature got himself arrested by the Ser
geant-at-Arms for the purpose of trying the le-
gality of the special session. The question
comes before the courts on writ of hd6eas cor
puS.
The Japanese Embassy leave Salt Lake City
for the East Wednesday.
The house of Mr. Bently, near Albany, Ohio,
was burned Monday night. The remains of
Mr. Bently and his wife were found in the
ruins. 1t is believed that both were murdered
and the building burned by robbers Bently
had large sum of money paid him that day.
Pollock, the linen smuggler now under arrest
in New York, is said to have swindled Henry
Clews, the banker, out of $25, 900 by giving him
fraudulent invoices of linen and then by some
unknown means obtaining possession of the
few goods they represented and selling them.
The convention to form State Constitution
for Utah met Monday. Judge Hayden oppos-
ed admission, and Hon. Thomas Fitch favored
it.
The British Ministry was sustained by the
House of Commons in it's appointment of Sir
Robert Collier to the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council by vote of 26O to 241.
An unknown woman was run over and crush
ed out of all recognition at railroad crossing
in New York city Monday.
A Jersey City policeman who shot man the
other day whilo chasing another one, has been
sent to prison for two years.
The Richmond horse-railroads will hereafter
treat all their patrons alike without regard to
color.
One boy was fatally shot in Newark Saturday
by another boys's carelessness.
The cargo of teas, silks, &C., of bark Robert
Fletcher, wrecked at Long Branch, is strewed
along the coast for twenty miles.
The principal charge of the New York Bar
Association against Judge Cardozo is said to be
bribery.
United States District Attosney Davis of New
York, has been instructed to prosecute all mer-
chants who have bribed custom officers
A four-oared race between the Biglin Broth
ers of New York, and Coulter and Cabot of
Pittsburg, has been arranged to take place on
the Schuylkill. The distance is five miles, and
the stakes which are held by John Morrssey,
are $4,000.