The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-06-23

"A AASAsNH IN DitdSSPOtty NouI.. uldhtS d
pair of lady's shoes in fifteen minutes.
SUBSTITUTES are quoted in New York at $500
and an upward tendency
Our Of every hundred suicides in Europe
about twenty are women.
SOME Of Gen. Grants friends have lately pre-
sented him vita SIC, 900 of railroad stock
HOUSE at Old Orchard, Saco, occupied by
John Lyons, was destroyed by fire with its con-
tents on Saturday afternoon last
II is estimated that about sac, 900 worth Of
clam bait will be taken at Blue Point, scarboro,
the present season.
In California, the recent statistics of the In
sane Asylums show one in every eight hundred
Of the population to be insane.
ABOUT seventy thousand dollars in gold was
recently found in an old cellar in New Hamp-
shire.
The Clarion says severe hail storm occurred
at Arson on Monday last, doing great damage
to buildings, crops, &c.
THE valuation Of the real and personal prop
erty at Augusta is $685. 900. The percentage
is fixed at is $40 mills
No SON of French emperor has succeeded to
the throne of France for 22o years. win Louis
Napoleon's nine year old prove an exception?
THE Government of St. Petersburg has in
terdicted the export of horses from Southern
Russia.
some unessiness is felt in Germany at the
effect which the recent long-continued drought
may have on the crops.
VIZ have received a communication on "Capi-
tai Punishment" but too late for to-day's
paper.
IT is extremely dry in the eastern part of the
State saw mills are running slow, and the soil is
like ashes.
SPEAKING of bonnets, fashion writer informs
us that bugs and insects are giving way upon
the head of beauty TO the flowers of the field;
modification highly to be commended.
TnE Kenduskeag National Bank is about to
be established nj Bangor. with a capitol of
100000 1t will be the third National Bank in
that city.
AMONG other relics of antiquity recently dis
covered at Colleylle, in France, is mentioned "a
coin bearing the head of Faustna, to pay Charon
for the passage across the StYx."
The Siamese twins still live in North Carroll
rs. Half the time they stay at Chang's house
and half the time at Eng's. One has nine chill
dren and the other eight.
A LETTER from Rome in the Cologne Gazette
says that the Emperor of Mexico, before leav-
ing the Roman capital, paid to the fund of
Peters Pence sum of sixty thousand francs.
A BOY in Roxbury was fatally injured by
stone thrown by another boy without any such
intent and without malice. The practice of
wantonly throwing stones in this city should
not be tolerated.
THE Surgeon General has ordered hospital
accommodations for a thousand men to be pre-
pared in Worcester, Mass, and the barracks at
Readyille are also to be used for the same pur-
pose.
BATES College has been recognized by the
Erao- W Ill Baptist Education Society as the New
England institution of the denomination,
pledging to it their prayers, contributions, in
fuence and patronage.
Hos. John F. Potter, of Wisconsin, native
OF Augusta, has been appointed and confirmed
as Consul General for the British North Ameri-
can Provinces in the place of Mr.. Giddings, de-
ceased.
Tue editor Of the Portsmouth Chronicle has
had n hoy nf san+ L..
which measured three and four inches round.
Weshould not refuse box of the delicious fruit,
if not quite as large.
Ar the Fair in Philadelphia they are voting on
'love of a bonnet''-a Leghorn bonnet, val
ued at Sl75.-whch is to be given to the wife of
one of the Generals. On Thursday last, Mrs.
Meade had 244 votes. Mrs. Grant I54, and Mrs.
Burnside $50.
Ina recent number of the Leipsic Medical Ga
zette there is case Of successfully practised
TRANSMISSION of animal blood into human sub
ject, "twelve ounces from the veins of lamb
having been injected with benefit to a local pa
tent"
Mn. George Allen, formerly an attorney in
Chester, England, with practice of between
three thousand aad four thousand pounds
yaar, but which he had lost through intemper-
ance, recently died in workhouse from destitu-
ton.
THE Saco Democrat gives n list of l76 indi-
viduals, corporations and firms in that town
that pay over $50 taxes The highest individual
tax is paid by Mr.. John Gilpatric, s59O.s IS.
The York Manufacturing Company pays SIS, O35.
The taxes in that town are nearly double this
year to what they were last.
The Saco Democrat says that on Friday night
last an attempt was made to rob the Alfred
Bank, an entrance to the building having been
effected probably by means Of false keys. A
hole five inches in diameter was cut in the outer
casing Of the safe, but the thieves were unable
to get through the steel bars composing the in
ner casing Some of the implements used were
left behind.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Bath Times SAYS two
steamboats, 80 nearly alike that no one can dis
tinguish the one from the other, were launched
from the same ways in wiscasset, on Monday
last. They are owned by Alexander Johnston.
Esq. Their extreme length on deck is l6 feet;
breadth over all, % feet; depth of hold, Ia
feet; draft of water, rs inches, when ready for
business.
The Bangor Wing says the attendance of del
egates AZ the Maine Baptist. Convention, now
being held in that city is large and the services
interesting. The convention sermon was
preached by Rev. j. NJ. Toilet, and the Educa-
ton Society sermon by Rev. MIR. Ventries. In
teresting addresses were made upon the subject
of Education by Rev. DR.. Champlain, Rev.
DIR. Allen of Iowa, and Rev. DR. Pond of Ban
gor.
Coz Chamberlain, Of the Goth Maine, who
was severely wounded in late engagement, is
a native of Brewer, Me-, and at the commence