The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-06-10
ORIGINAL Ind SELECTED.


out against polygamy. M ~
RThe Soldiers Reading Room in Philadel
phia was formally closed on the I'd Of June.
Business in Halifax is reported active and
generally satisfactory.
H New potatoes have been dug this season in
Wilmot, NovaScotia. isA3A
ETA Cincinnati despatch of yesterday says
ten guerrillas were hung by the citizens of
Cross County, Ga, few days since.
60 The expedition under Gen. Sully, organized
for Indian warfare, was to start from Sioux City
ON the 9th inst os #al ssssaa59
R There are upwards Of three hundred
Southerners in Halifax awaiting the develope
ment Of events.
rCanada is at present overrun with nrouehs'
and scamps from theStates. 1t is to be hoped
they may stay there. 49, sG
HThe present valuation of property in Gin
cinnati is $4s ,525. 000 an increase of $4,000 900
over last year. 4 =
Cd The buildings erected in Burlington, VT,
by Bishop Hopkins, for q theological seminary
are offered for SALE afag DS 81
The New Hampshire State Unitarian Con-
vention is to be held this year at Keene, COM
mencing Wednesday, June 14th. "
HA Philadelphia correspondent whoknows
all about JEFF Davis says he is restored to health
and IS no longer visited BY physician. ~
81 Arkansas is clear Of guerrilIas and bush
whackers, and the people have gone 10 work on
their farms in earnest.
The account Of the reception Of General
GrAnt in New York, occupies four solid columns
OF the Boston Post. copied from the Tri6une.
RThe Boston Pod says the GOODNESS between
JED. Davis and G. c. Clay is in the form of a
mono too warm stone wall. t4fAsH
g Every Chinese house in San Francisco
was drsped in mourning for the death Of Presi-
dent Lincoln. 4t
Rfhe police arrested s5mnambulist in u .
streets OF London who had walked three miles
in hisnight shirt
VPisrre soule formerly U. s. Senator from
Louisiana, is about to open law Office in the
city Of Mexico. ngFs 14v. 90
81 The military cemetery at Port Royal CON-
tains the remains Of about eighteen thousand
Union soldiers.
RThe Naval School is to 60 to Annapolis.
The buildings are being put I'M order and the
September term viii open there. wr
EThe designations of Brig. Gen. F. S. Nick
erson and Brig, Gen. Davis Tilson have been ac-
cepted.
9There is not single line Of steamers ply
ing between the United States and England owned
BY American companies. John Bull monopo
Lies the thing.
R A man trundled wheel. barrow from
Rochester to Buffalo-over seventy miles - in
twenty-six hours and sixteen minutes last week.
He won 5000 thereby.
The Directors have appropriated one mil
lion dollars to repair the Hannibal and St.
Joseph Railroad, which has been sadly shaken by
the rebellious raids. a.isl.'sa '.ss
% The Rockland sDsmocrot learns that
Amariah Merrill, son Of Mr.. Wilson Merrill, of
Concord, aged is years, was recently drowned
in New York harbor 80
% Last year the Democratic State Conyen-
ton was held under big canvass tent This
year it viii probably be held under . mammoth
hoop-skirt.
30 The population Of Montreal is now over
10000 The soldiez in the garrison not inclu-
ded in these figures, are: - Officers, $50; Rank
and file, 1904. .@.-'s...
90 The City Council Of Baltimore has appro'
prlated ten thousand dollars to assist in the edu-
aation and Improvement of the colored people
of that city. fAea9 az A1sda
50 The Richmond papers assert that not
man has been elected to the Virginia Legislature
who is not wiling to stand by the Administra-
ton. Ah 0N'-'ita9i
gThe lady who has written us from OK
ford County may rest assured no such allusiop
as she suggests was intended; nothing, indeed,
was intended beyond pleasantly. ~
R Mayor Gunther Of New York, has vetoed
the resolution Of the Common Council, author
zing 25,eO0 copies of the eulogy ON President
Lincoln to be printed.
ROliver johnson, who lately retired from
he editorial chair of the Anti Slavery Standard.
ias been presented by his friends with one theus-
md dollars in seven thirties.
9Those dreaded pests Of the. farmer, the
seventeen year locusts, and the measuring worm,
nave appeared in Central New York and in the
onondaga valley. eEH aH
- ~ huge raft of logs, estimated to contain
'oo,ooO feet OF lumber and neaau,rinp half a
,le = o'loumterence, was towed up Lake Mem
phremagog the other day. sl ss 'ss .a Ns
80 Queen Victoria compqeted her forty-sixth
rear on the Path ultimo. and her birtbdav was
celebrated as usual by Dime rs piver N. al tbe
minister's and public functio nsries. 4 i Ill
!, H There was street rur nor that tts hodv 90
Napoleon Chapmans who SO mysterioasIy si;san-
s "nr irom this city as noted by us, had been
Lewtstoa Jour. cal. ''''-
!. - d p = Nourse. Esq. Of Boston, holds good
~ 0nsr o. MS farm in ORR ngton, for the agri-
ui,alAi oohege' until Oct. lst, provided $4,000
nail De given' pledged or secured for the use Of
be college nraYions 10 ). -. u s'ao - =