The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-07-13
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ORIGINAL and SELECTED. i
The latest strikein Paris was among the wash
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: The Sherbrooke Gazette says that valuable
discovery of gold-bearing quartz has been
made in the County Of Arthabaska- The bed
of quartz is very extensive. An assay of spec
linens taken about. eight or ten feet from the
surface, just made by DIR. Hayes, Of Boston,
gives very high percentage of gold, quite
equal to the celebrated Golconda ore. 1 @s4
Elsen, a pedestrian, recently ran ten miles in
one hour and three minutes, in Quebec.
1T lis proposed to raise $150OO0 to give to
Trinity College, Hartford, new chapel, an as
tronomicM observatory, and a good telescope
Already $4,000 have been subscribed
At the printers base ball match on Monday
IN Albany, the married nine beat the single
nine badly sas-ssA 4 =
% A singular instance Of bird affection tran
spired in Bath, Steuben county, one day last
week. A robin had built her nest IN one of the
shade trees, directly in front of the dwelling Of
ex-Sheriff Seymour. While the house was in
flames, the robin was noticed to shy from its
nest and, in the most persuasive bird Ian
gtiage, endeayora to cal her little brood, who
were lying unconscious of danger in the nest,
and ull',le to fy The bird flew back and
forth for few moments, them finding her eff
orts u4inyssililg calmly took her place upon The
nest, where mother and little ones perisied in
the flames ssA saa'3 t-f.,
The Hudson's Bay Fur Company have sent
avessel TO the.coast of Labrador, and have pur-
chased a second ship for the trade of North
western america. +, s..u,s, .a5 5-
fbFln arecent speech at Leavenworth, Kansas,
Miss Susan D. Anthony said: 'srhe power that
can take the right to vote from white man, as
penalty ZOE the crime OF secession and ahAll-
ion against the government, can surely givethe
right to vote to a black man, as reward for
services rendered to save the government"
A paper mill in Lee makes three miles of pa
per collars daily. saissa tAA
Z, Senator Yates, of Illinois, made speech re-
Gently, in which he pledged himself to vote
for admission Of no rebel State that did not ex-
pressly provide against the danger of re-seces-
sion He announced his infexible adhesion to
the principles of emancipation and universal
suffrage. $50 p,tf s. ssisa6
i'isA Canada West correspondent of Detroit
paper says: THE more moderate people are to-
day looking with hopeful hearts to the annexa-
ton of Canada with the United States, as the
only thing that will save them from utterru-
in.'
Thurlow Weed has assumed editorial charge
of the New York Times -zzs---z--
We see. 1t recorded that ai soap pedlar was
recently caught at sea during violent storm,
when he saved his life by taking cake, Of his
soap and washing himself ashore. The soap,
OF the story, must have been made from strong
lie.
Englishmen who tread with deep and al
most irrepressible indignation the account of
jeff. Davis imprisonment, would do wen to
call to mind the treatment of the Emperor
Napoleon by their ancestors.
The Toronto Globe has the following: it may
surprise some Peoples MANY people living near
the beach at Biddeford, Maine, have super
stitious belief that all who battle in ocean wa
ter on the 18th of June, will be cured of the
many ills that flesh is heir to. So, on Monday,
there were long lines of carriages on the beach
from this cause'' ohaye2sp i .asihi9 - ~
In spite of all that puritanicala psople saw
against dancing, it is unquestionably a merry
toe-rious arrangement.
Josh Billings says: sssI think, after all. that
the India-rubber kind of virtue, that win bend
and stretch, just a little, and then fiy right
back to its place, is safer than the cicle virtue,
that is pretty sure to melt, unless you keep it
on the north side of the barn all the time; and
when it once melts, that is thelast Of It. -
A Richmond paper states that Mr.. Edmund
A Pollard is about to settle in San Domingo
His taste for ssblack diamonds can there be
fully gratifieda aiia lna a'ises a4qod .aaba9
4 The Augusta Ga Chronicle is a little out in
its geography. 1t has got the city of Bath put
down in Mass.
An exchange styles retired Petroleans ex-
lies .1s9he sassoa8 9atsl4 'sQsf fAsA +
Digging trenches is said to be the ground
work of military education. E 6s
d Billiards were Invented by Henrique De-
vigne, a French artist, in the reign of Charles
TX, about the year 1871, and at once came to
be a most fashionable and captivating game.
The first piece Of artillery was invented by a
German, soon after the invention of gunpow
der, and artillery was first used by the Moors
at AlgesiT;ss, in Spain, in the siege of 1341
Stones Were first used for bullets; iron ones
are first mentioned in 1885, Leaden bullets
were made before the close Of the sixteenth
century. Stone cannon balls are still used in
the East.
The largest canal in the world is one in CHI
ra, which passes over two thousand miles, and
to forty-one cities; it was commenced in the
tenth century. 4iss a6dl4 eda 90
The Department of State has been officially
that the Spanish government propos-
es issuing orders to the Captain-General of
Cuba to deliver to the United States govern /
ment the ram Stonewall, now at Havana.
ISLANDERS issuing from red and beautiful Inns \
are like foul spiders crawling from the blush /
ing heart of 2 rose..g / q r. pNNEAV. 4
The q. s. screw corvette Madawaska, was
launched on Saturday from the Navy Yard
at Brooklyn. She is one Of the first-class yes 4
sells ordered in 1868, is 255 feet in length, az
feet beam, "A feet depth Of hold, and is $500
tons register. .aois09 3 rai14e9 i1sssH5sl 4
"A discovery, made by smith at Versailles.
is much talked about among horse-dealers; il
Is a composition almost as hard as iron. which
can be applied under the hoof without causing /
The animal the slightest pain, and costs seven
ty-fye per cent. less than ordinary horse 4
shoes.
A man in the vicinity of St. Hyacinthe, Can
ada, while laboring under temporary insanity
saused by religious excitement, killed his
mother by striking her with an axe ea85 60
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