The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-07
ORIGINAL AND sELncrRp.


BB-" Habit is the title of Mr. John b.
Coughs new lecture for the coming season. 1t
makes very little difference with John B. what
is the title of his lecture; his "habit will
afford two hours of nonsense, laughter and
buffoonery.
EBA Norfolk paper, abiding to the rage
for camp meetings at the North, remarks that
for the last four years they have had quite too
much OF them at the South --------4-.-.-
W Large, fields of cotton, are growing in
California one hundred acres in one field
looking well. The State of California offers a
bounty Of $4,000 for the first one hundred acres
Of cotton-aiso $4,000 for the first one hundred
oales OF three hundred pounds each. Over
100000 is given by the state for the encourage
ment Of agriculture in the raising of various
products.
BS Inc Newburyport Herald says Mr.. Ham
lin, the new Collector of Boston, proposes to
become citizen of Ma ssachusetts 0gr
I SB George Peabody, the eminent Ameri-
can millionaire banker of London, viii return
10 this country in April next to remain per-
nanently. e~s
B-L-eut. O'Brien, of the Freedmen,s Blu
reau, IN charge of the Government farms in
Maryland, represents the colored schools there
90 be Ia hourishing condition. Eighty-iye
freedmen have just been sent from there tn
nomes provided for them in Rhode Island
Va The wife Of Col. s. j. Quarles of Ossi-
pee, NJ H., was severely though not fatally in
jured few days since, by being thrown from a
carriage and striking her head against door
step of the Pine River House in that town
80 Inc slamese Twins are now about fifty
years Of age. N
80 The Newburyport Herald announces the
ieath in that city on Tuesday, 9Th inst. of Miss
Hannah F. Gould, one of the most gifted wri-
ters OF America, after decline of some months.
She was Sc years old. s7t. ~ A
VS. Inc festivities at Chicago, over the OPEN
ing and dedicationof the new Chamber of Gem
srce building, closed on the LIST inst. ~,
2 B~ The N. e. Fair at Concord onened ans
plclousiy on Tuesday. The entriesof all kinds
Of stock are very large DIR. Geo. B. Loripp of
Salem IS the President, and s. L. Goodale.
$50, of Saco, Vice President for Maine. The
President did not, as was expected. make an
Introductory speech; only few congratulatorv
remarks. t9a 1ts uGs
- David S. Coddington, a DISTINGUISHED
young lawyer of New York, died suddenly at
Saratoga on Sunday q9.
va Among leading rebels who have left this
continent and declare they will never return,
are Gems. Magrnder, Kirby Smith, Preston,
aindman, Price and Breckenridge. Among
those who would like to do the same, if they
could, are Jefferson Davis and Wirz
EB- DR.. Timothy Childs, Professor o. Anat-
omy in Bellevue Hospital, New York, and for
nerly Professor in the Berkshire Medical Col
-ege, at Pittsfeld, Mass, committed suicide at
Norwich, Conn, on Sunday, by taking fifty
rains Of morphine while laboring under tenn
3orary arrangement of mind
EE James Newell of Buffalo ind John
Taylor of Jersey City are to shoot at Syracuse
on the eighteenth of October for $4,000 a
side ss 500
% The English visitors at Zermatt, and the
members of the Alpine Club, intend to build
in that city an English Church as memorial
of the Englishmen who lost their lives in
oolhardy attempt to climb the Matterhorn. A
church is good thing to build, and it the idea
De to raise warning against any such folly in
the future we approve. In any other view of
The case, we would as soon think of erecting
monument to the three wise men of Gotham"
Who went to sea ina bowl
GY- The publishing house Of the "ancient
md honorable" firm of Ticknor and Fields.
Boston, was last week removed from the old
corner, so long and pleasantly familiar, to the
lew esta )lishment at the corner of fremont
Street and Hamilton place, opposite the Park
Street Church. The Post of Saturday devotes
more than column to description of the new
rooms, which are likely to become as much
f4vorite resort as ever the "old corner" was.