The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-14
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pious aunt to her over-confident niece. lie
man propose to me, if he dare" was the re
spouse, and will dispose OF, him according u
my own views, as he suits me" Aag I
Young men in Lawrence, Kansas, nav
to marry to get shelter from the weather; TIN
landladies there take none but married people
The unfortunate youths say it is conspirac!
between the young ladies and the boarding
house keepers. ~ !RESE M a..
| gg-An idiot sleeping on New York rail
road was knocked forty-five feet by the COW
catcher of a train and unframed, only a little
| surprised. @~ - se's4 ASA az - A'A
DS-A Miss Elizabeth Garrett has been Ii
censed in England, as general practitioner o.
medicine, the first instance of a lady being SC
licensed there.
~The New York Herald is said to have
engaged new corps of foreign correspondents
who are to reside in Brooklyn, and have the
European papers sent to them from the Office
Most of the Washington correspondents will
continue to reside in New York, and prepare
their dispatches in Nassau street, as usual
saturday Press.
% tits now asserted that not single flow
ing well of oil exists in California, and SO far
the sinking of wells there have been fail
ure. .f .. ,.
EsY The Union" Copper Mine in Califor-
MIA yields 5000 tons of ore per month, and 1900
mules are employed in carting it. Next year
the product of six mines near Stockton is ex-
pected to reach 10000 tons per month.
E The Detroit Free Press estimates that
100000 barrels of apples have been shipped
from Michigan the present season. The aver
age price has been fully So 80 per barrel, which
gives the round sum CT 81 ,435,OOO as the pro-
ceeds. Nearly an equal amount has been re-
ceived for both peaches and grapes. ''A
The owner of one of the largest estates
in Virginia recently offered to mortgage the
whole of it for money enough to buy seed
wheat. This shows the destitution there. I
~Two great shoe establishments at South
boro, Massachusetts, have been burnt Loss
100000. '- "' i"''y - f''NsS
The Cyclone, or periodical storm in the
Gulf of Mexico and West Indies, has been
more destructive this year than for fifteen be-
fore. III .THVdaY ,6EITA2 ,2GL1o
New Mexico, for the first time gives a
Republican majority of more than 1000.
Ba@ A new National Organization is about
to be formed in aid of the Temperance cause.
Ia The "Resica" is to be launched at the
Kittery Navy Yard on the 18th of this month,
and towed to Washington where she is to re-
ceiye her machinery u M4I1-AN
EYAn impertinent fellow wishes to know
if you ever sat down to tea where skim milk
was on the table, without being asked, "Do you
take cream ?" un -. an.
BR- Sterne used to say, "The. most accom-
plished way of using books is to serve them as
some people do lords, learn their titles and then
brag of their acquaintance" q y
ga Mr.. Hunt, in his lecture on common
law, remarked that lady when she married,
lost her identity, her distinctive character
and was like dew-drop swallowed by sun
beam" gg-,,, = IS, -,-rr~-
When was Ruth very rude to Boaz ?
When she pulled his cars and trod on his
corn.
y E5 The Newburyport Herald speaks of an
industrious girl in the Bartlett Mills in that
city, who made $55 in five weeks A Lawrence
paper says :"There. are plenty of young ladies
in this city who can "see" that industrious girl
and go $40 better in the same time.'' n
NEB- Western New York papers say that the
cry of mo apples" is intended solely to create
false alarm and stimulate the market. They
say the apples are less in number, but larger in
size than last year, the bulk of the yield being
equal 20 that of last year. ~ sy 81
SB The Boston people are waging vigor-
GUS warfare against the canker-worms; scrap
ing the trees, surrounding them with canvas
and tar, and adopting other precautions.
DF-"Granny Darling" one hundred and two
years old, died at Midway, Mass, on the 21st
nlt. She had lived hermit life for several
years in the BLACK Swamp" .,d.ss lf.rvy
BY-A great land slide occurred at Race
Bend, Tenn, forty miles above Memphis, re-
Gently. A portion of the bank about three
hundred feet in length and seventy-fve in
depth, fell down in an avalanche on two bar
ges near the shore, containing 24OO bales of hay,
crushing them to atoms and sinking them in
stantly. d" tf-F a ''+ -' ''i-"
B$ So many Americans are in Canada buy
ing cattle that the Toronto Globe is afraid the
farmers will be tempted by the high prices to
sell all the stock they have 46 ~FT.E
G3F"T The latest sensation item in relation to
-Wirz is that during his imprisonment an at
tempt was made by his wife to poison him dur
ing her last interview. She kissed him as usual
when they parted and at the same time deposit
ted in his mouth very small vial containing
arsenic. This was quickly detected by Gen.
Baker who was present and he seized Wirz by
the throat compelling him to, spit out the
article. 81 - t---A- - sttsA'-- j A- ~ -
% John Bulls preaching and practice do
10 hacY nh cd ~,
ency to our rebels, and against arbitrary ar
rests" but in ireland he snatches up Fenians
by the score, guilty of no overt act, and in ia
maica says by one of his officials, that 'every
insurrectionist will be hung as soon as cap
'tured."
GB DR.. o. A. Brownson made a speech in
favor of the Union Republican party, at Eliza
beth, n. j., which contained some good points.
He said the Republicans were not party, but
the nation. He..went against the Democrats
because they were party, a proslayery and a
copperhead party. He did not think that
those who had carried the country safely and
successfully through the rebellion should now
be hurled from power. 81 charge upon the
Democratic party" said he, "the death of my
own son and of your sons who have been killed
in this war. And charge upon them our ma
tional debt of three thousand millions of dol
lars"
Vs. 1t is ru,nored (mind that word rumoreD
that orders have been received to prepare the
immense iron-clad Passaconaway, now living
on the stocks at cur Navy Yard, for sea as soon
as possible. Also that the steamers Minnesota
Maratanza and Galena are to be fitted out as
soon as possible.-[ Portsmouth Chronicle. lI
DR The Portsmouth Chronicle says that Mr.
Ebenezer L. Odiorne of Rye, came to that city
OH Saturday last and while disposing of his
produce on Pickering street, fell and expired
instantly. Supposed cause, apoplexy. He was
s. years six months old. tfEEff tFf
EB-Mr. Charles Reuben Caswell OF Rye
was drowned between that place and the Shoals