The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-05-06
oRTeIgAL AND ,sELEoTisD.

81 Gen. Tilson Of Rockland, has commanu
IA the army of Gen. S oneman.
50 The coal trade is unusually depressed
and SO are the coal dealers.
q Letters from Mobile report large discov-
cries of cotton in the interior of the State.
80 A penny paper, edited by women, has been |
started in Paris.
81 Albany is raising money for $2o'ooo
bronze statue Of President Lincoln.
H President Lincoln is said to have been de-
voted friend of the Fenian brotherhood.
q Twenty-Five States, including Louisiana,
Tennessee and Arkansas, have ratified the Con-
stitutional Amendment abolishing slavery.
EThe Government is said to be in possession
of avast amount of evidence bearing upon the
plot to burn Philadelphia.
ETwo-thirdsof the vessels comprising the
North Atlantic blockading squadron are to be
placed out Of commission at once. n
~ Rev. Jacob M. Manning Of the Old South
Church, Boston, is to give the Grafton in that
city on the Fourth of July
- Judge Patterson of Nashville, son-in-law
of President Johnson. has been nominated U. 3.
Senator from Tennessee. Sd
81 The people of Mobile seem perfectly
happy since their delverance from rebel domina-
ton and misrule. Hee3
~ Western exchanges all speak encour-
agingly of the appearance ofthe growing wheat
crop.
EImmenss droves of beef cattle, some of
them numbering 100000 head ne roaming in
the prairies Of Western Texas.
EThe advertiser finds fault With Mr.. STAN
ton Tor the disposition made Of Booths body.
Of course.
R'King's Lady's Book for May is received;
neat and chaste as ever, and worthy of general
encouragement from our citizenl
E The Ladd and Whitney monument at
Lowell is to be consecrated OF the 18th of
June. et 81
gThe sale Of portraits of J. Wilkes Booth
has been forbidden in Baltimore blythe military
authorities.
EThe season in New JERSEY rs seariy three
PROMISING: and there sfsi areind;ss.;aas han
dance Of fruit - $780,
/ % The N. Y. Herald advises p resident ] ohm
son to let the negroes VOTE in order to spike the
last gun Of the abolitionists and ,eutral;va tbe
hre-eatirg element of the South.
81 By invitation of the citizens of Bangor,
Rev. Geo. W. Field, will deliver an eulogy on
PRESIDENT Lincoln, in that city on the LIST Of
june =
10 Inc famous Stuyvesant pear tree ON the
corner Of 18th street and Third Avenue. New
FORK, snow in blossom. It was set out in i CAT
and has borne fruit each successive YEAR
H The West oxhard A aricultu@,, co......
hnlds its Fair at Eryeburg, on Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Thursday, October 10th, 18th and
18th. 'a
W Treat preparations are making for the
Northwestern Sanitary Fair, to be held at Chi
cago for the benefit of our sick and wounded
soldiers, on the 3Oth of May.
The Eagle Hill Mining Company have
been delivering in Boston 10 stockholders, coal
at $s 5oper gross ton, that being the net cost
of the article in Boston. sse8a
y We would give good deal of money for
recipe by which to make paper uniformly so
neat, clean and raey as that little gem of the
Penobscot-the Bangor Eveaing Times.
70 The reason why copperhead editors object
to having traitors hung supposed to be because
the enforcement Of the rule might endanger
their own lives. s-
EMO man ever INDUCES in low personal
slang and blackguardism in, controversy, until
his stock Of argument and facts have been ex-
hausted.
ga correspondent sends us sharp article
in relation to certain editor, a former resident
of York county. We decline to publish it. It
would soil our columns aa seUsA
HA person of low, dirty instincts will show
his bent place him where you will. You cannot
make him decent by external washings. The
purifying process must commence within.
R Pennsylvania refused to allow the ma
tional government to pay the expenses incurred
by transportating the Presidents remains
through the State ri
RThe Union dead who have been exposed ON
the battle-felds around Richmond for a year past.
are being buried by colored troops detailed for
the purpose.
- Mr.. Debroker, while digging a well for
water on his farm at Independence, Ohio. at the
depth of thirty eight feet struck vein of heavy
lubricating OIL
HA Mrs. Crandall, of LaSeur, Minnesota, a
soldiers widow, was lately seduced by q fellow
who boosted of his exploit His victim heard of
it and shot him dead.
20 At the market at Cambridge and Brigh-
ton, represent week, cattle for which II cents
per pound was evidently expected were sold
tia. s, 1900,
S 81 The Augusta Journal says the dwelling
Of A. b. Farwell, Esq, on the late Doctor Tap
pan estate, is one Of the most commodious, con-
venient and elegantly furnished with all the
modern improvements Of any in thatcity
& EThe Bangor Times says that. Josiah s.
Bennech, Esq, Of Orono, has flock Of eight
eve sheer, which have brought him sixteen lambs;
all but one of which are living. One had trip
let's, and of the other seven, six had twins.
~ There are people still living who win
never commence any important business on Fri
day, because it is an 'unlucky day." So there
are Cape Cod fishermen who still nail horse
shoe to the mast to guard against witches
EThe London Spectator says: "Other things
fell on the 4th of April besides Richmond, and
among them the belief that the few may once
more hope to govern the world in the interests Of
themselves
R An iron passenger car has been used with
success upon the Chicago and St. Louis Railroad.
1t is 5000 pounds lighter than wood Of the same
size. The Boston and Maine road has also an
iron car on trial.
80 The lynn Bulletin says shoe buyers are
numerous, and orders are coming in faster than
they cen be filed. The stock of goods ON hand
is very light, and there is no prospect at present
of an accumulation. .s
THE Brunswick Telegraph says DR.. Co.
nant, Professor of Surgery in the Maine Medi-
cal school, removed the other day from the
bladder of agentleman in that town, stone
weighing CAS- grains-1 OF. drains, 2 scruples,
and grains. lH
EArumor prevails in England that Lord
Palmerston, owing TO advancing years and the