The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-06-29
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BThe prospect for the wine crop of Califor-.
mia is said to be Aattering.
RWhy was Adam not the first man? Be
cause Eve was the first maid
HThe Massachuse is Republican State Cor
vention is to be held at Worcester ON the second
Thursday of September next.
- % Instructions have been issued from the
War Department to reduce the army of the Po-
tomac to 16, 600 effective men. ftSi
~ Gen. Howard will visit South Carolina
after the delivery of his Gettysburg grafton on
the 4th of July.
- Assistant Secretary Dana vacated the W ar
Department on Friday, but will stop a week or
more in New York before going west. tNN
RWhst is the difference between bull dog
preparing for afght, and farmer awakened by
his roosters The one cooks his ears, and the
other ears his cocks. 8As 6t $50
H The Chief Marshal for the 4th of July, at
Bath, is Col 7. W. Hyde, the popular comman-
der Of the 1st Maine Veteran Regiment, now
stationed near Washington. 10
The annual meeting of the Stark Manu-
featuring company was held in Manchester,
NH, on Tuesday. Israel Whitney, Esq is
President of the company, which Yields CAPT
tai of 81, 100000.
e. The Washington Chronicle Of June 9Th
says the 1st Maine heavy artillery, commanded
by Colonel Shepherd, belonging to the army OF
the Potomac, passed through the city yesterday
to do garrison duty at Fort Baker. ef
/ HPrince Napoleon is now writing a history
of the Bonaparte Family, to which his speech
at Ajaccio may be supposed to be preface.
The first volume of this history is already in the
press. e as.i wv sf.A 3
EAn exchange says Mr.. Luther Hanscom
of East Machias, brought in 100000 feet Of
spruce logs on Tuesday morning last from Pake
Moonshine Lake This is the second drive Mr..
Hanscom has brought to the boom this
spring. aqs @ 3 g 'i.e 9a.
HA boy seven years Of agein Pleasantyille,
N. Y, purposely thrust his arm under rail-
train, crushing it SO that amputation was neces-
sary, becausehis parents insisted on his going
to school and ne wished to have something to
keep him away. e 9s VI
RSome six hundred of the Irish citizens of
Montreal have issued disclaimer against the
speech of Thomas Arcy McGee, recently made
in Wexford, ireland, in which he aspersed the
character of the Irish in the United States, and
advised emigration exclusively to Canada. 80
ROn Saturday week raft struck one of the
piers of the Victoria Bridge, Montreal, and went
to pieces. The raftsmen were cast into the water
and six were drowned. although skifs were
sent out as speedily as possible to their assist
ance.
RA great ocean yacht race is soon to take
| place off the coast Of Europe. The race will be
from Plymouth to Gibraltar, and will be open
to vessels of all royal yacht clabs-sweepstakes
one hundred gaineas each.l The time for the
race is not yet definitely fixed. u lstia sansli
Cyan orphan boy, living in st. Sylvestre.
Lower Canada, eleven years of age, was sent by
5 his master to drive home some COWS through
the woods. He did not return, and when search
was made for him, few bones and parts of his
clothing were found. He had been eaten by
bears set1s e9s III ~
EQueen Emma, widow of the late king Of
the Sandwich Islands, is on her way to England
in the British steamer Clio. She viii make the
tour of Europe, after which it is her design to
visit the United States. The queen is yet young,
being about tWenty-fs and is represented as a
lady of intelligence and culture. aeastsv
81 The occupants of the house where Presi-
dent Lincoln died have sent in bill Of $3.50
for sheets, pillow cases and carpets, caused by
the ebbing life-blood of the beloved martyr.
This Notwithstanding that the house was exhibit
ted to visitors at fifty cents head, for some time
after the assassination. ALN S8T q
81 The mining population of South Wales,
the most skilledand enterprising class of Eng
lish miners, are emigrating in large numbers to
America The London Times says, sit is be-
ginning to be afrequent occurrence for forty or
fifty hands to leave at every pay day from the
principal iron and coal works of the district
E II Says the London Patriot Nothing can
be more wise and just than the conduct Of the
American government since the termination of
the war. As we anticipated, the close Of the
struggle, instead of bringing the rowdy party
to the front, and inspiring neighboring peoples
with just alarm, has lent dignity and gravity to
to the counsels Of the government and the con-
duct of the nation VI 'fs ;
g 81 At the last meeting of the American Sta
tistical Association in Boston, Mr.. E. B. Elliott's
report on " Military Statistics" was warmly
commended, and that gentleman was requested
to prepare report Of his observations in mat
ters pertaining to the progress of Statistical
Sciencesin Europe, to be read before the Asso-
ciation Mr.. Elliott was the delegate of this
Association to the international Statistical Con-
vention recently held at Berlin. g4HlE