The Portland daily press., 1865-08-14
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

The Scottish Farmer is the authority
for the assertion that "a small quantity, of hi
carbonate of soda added to milk win prevent
its turning sour.
The New York Tribune says that Cana
ada ranks next to Illinois in the number of
cattle forwarded to that market.
There is much wisdom in few words
spoken by an English farmer who advised ato
feed land before it is hungry to rest it before it
is weary, and to weed it before it is FOUL
BY~ At neighborhood talk about wool. in
Huron county, Ohio, Mr. d. jefferson stated
that the sheep had never yet been raised that
would produce eight pounds of cleansed
wool.
B8 The St. Johnsbury CaIedonian says that
Mr.. A. Scott of Craftsbury, Vermont, has a
COW whose milk during twenty-six days made
| fifty-two pounds of butter, which was sold for
$50 in Boston.
% The New York law requires all tirkins
or other wooden packages for butter, to be
branded with their actual weight and the names
of the manufacturers, under penalty of twen-
| ty-five dollars, and butter-makers are required
to use such branded firBins under like pen
| atty. ff4ta
ByThe Mobile Meas says of the New York
Tribune that "it has been frequently maligned
and sometimes with much Justice I" for the
course it, has taken We had been aware for
sometime that the ideas of the Neus were get
| ting badly smixed," and it is plain that the
trouble is extending itself to its language, The
idea of any one being justly nsaliqned NAV
strike some people as novelty; but in a paper
advocating such political doctrines as the Neacs
fayors, no eccentricity should surprise us.
B The Paterson Guardian exuberantly
says Thank God, a generous Democratic
Party is still alive, party with a soul large
enough to embrace our people again as an uni
ted whole. " To which contemporary re-
spends Talking of generous democratic
party is wild enough to speak of it as "still
| alive" indicates decided mental alteration, but
when he gets to the pitch of speaking of that
party as having any SOUL it is plain that Van
needs straight jacket" III $50 M
EThe Atlanta Georgian says "This city
is fast rising from it's ashes. Its old merchants
al business men are fast returning to it. The
saw and the hammer are at work. Enterprise
is in the field; industry is the order of the day.
months ago there were only two or three small
stores within its corporate lines; now there are
one hundred and fifty; lumber alone is needed
to place store-house upon every business lot
made vacant through the ravages of war.
EY- Count de Beaujeu, who died recently in
| Canada, was one of the largest landholders in
| the province. He owned eighteen miles of ter
ritory along the river near Montreal, and six
teen miles back into the country. r
| vs. In pleading for damages for breach of
promise in New York. woman said she might
have married three other men while losing
time with her faithless one. The court was
much impressed with the statement.
Vs. THE alarming increase of destructive in
sects in the last few years, both in this country
and in Europe is attributed in a great measure
to the relentless war waged by boys and sports
men against the small birds which feed on those
insects. Asingle greedy robin devours, in one
season, insects enough to ruin garden full of
currant bushes. The farmers have allowed
their best friends to be killed. and now they are
reaping the consequences.
BB~It is the law in Japan that no fir or cy-
press tree can be cut down without the per-
mission of a magistrate, and for every full
| grown tree that is felled sapling must be
| planted. n
BB-The Hutchinson Family have been con-
certing in st. John, N B., and some of the old
Tories, or their descendants, turned up their
noses because these vocalists sang abolition
and patriotic songs We can tell these Tories
that the Hutchinson Family wouldn't be any
thing if they couldn't sing such songs. The
spirit of liberty has always been in their hearts
and of course it will show itself in music. We
advise our touchy neighbors who don't like
such music to keep away from it and not fret
their gizzards about it.
Va Harry Leslie who is at present initiating
Blondin at Niagara Falls, slipped on Thursday
when over the middle of the river, and came
near falling headlong into the river. He, how
ever, regained his footing and returned in safe
ty to the Shore Gen. Grant was one of the wit
nesses of the scene.
BAf-The 18th inst. is positively fixed for the
beginning of the trial of Weirtz, the Anderson
| vile prison-keeper.
/ B~One hundred and twenty-seven priso-
ners were released from the Old Capitol last
week, leaving but one hundred and four in that
institution
The black flies recently drove the Uni
ted States surveyors out of the woods Of Sha-
wane County, Wisconsin.
The production of sugar in the Sand
witch Islands has reached from eight to nine
millions of pounds yearly, and is increasing
with such rapidity that an intelligent sugar en-
gineer from the islands, estimates the produc.
ton in 1866 at sixteen million of pounds, and
in 1866 at eighteen million of pounds.
BB-A Norfolk editor talks learnedly of sTbe
Decade of Nations" thinking the word means
decay.
Va The Springfield Republican says that
General Butler has written and will soon print
| pamphlet defending himself from the attacks
of Chaplain Hudson.
j BY@ The New York correspondent of a
Richmond paper says that 'sThe Old Guard, !,
a staunch peace democratic magazine, edited
by Chauncy Burr, is to be enlarged and i'm.
proved and made an antidote to the Atlantic
Monthly. "Ye gods and little fishes p a
Vs. George H. Pendleton, late Democratic
candidate for Vice President, is in Washing
ton; whether like other rebel chiefs, in pursuit
of pardon, we are not informed.
] DB-A western paper explains the cabalistie
letters &c. o. D." usually understood to mean
"Collect on Delivery" saying they simply mean
"Chell out Damquick
! GYA young Ian living in central Pennsyl-
vania received Geographic despatch a few
/ few days ago, announcing the death of his
father in Worcester, Mass He FASTENED home
narrowly escaping death in three railroad acct
dents, on the way, to find his parents alive and
well. The Worcester Spy thinks the hoax was