The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1865-08-18
General Summary.


donerai urnns mas arrived ~ Uetrois.
There has bosn q large dsiaicAtion in tho
Ph~uix Bank. New York, of some $780,.
600, BY The teller snd clerk. Tho latter cut
hh throat 10 his cell.
The N. O. Truo Delta warns its readers
to take instant sanitary measures against the
cholera. and urges the utmost care for per-
sonal clesnlioess as the bost preventive. A
good suggestion.
There IL quite a contestlfor the Boston
collectorship.-- Representative !Gooeh- sssms
to have the inside track, al ,In
Tho emigration from the port Of Bremen
Tor six months past was, 1890 against l5,
GG3 for the same time 10 1853, ,asn1no bab r
lt seems 10 bs settled tlns the second 10y.
Ing Of the Atlantic cable has failsdss' The
Great Eastern, now overdue q week, has not
yet appeared. bad ,loisuod'ah 10 n'a"'q
We are glnd to see newspapers of the true
stamp springing up In tho. South. The
vicksburg Journal is the name OF q now
daily paper commenced Ia that city. which
comes to us with the modest x. With plea.
sure.r How aroiyou, vioksbargful 20 '',.''
The Troy (Pa.) Times comes TO us from
that Office with marked paragraph about
the killing of a boar with eano BY the
junior of tho Lewiston Journal. We can't
inform you, Mr.. Times, anything about the
slaughter. We know Frank, but have no
personal acquaintance with the other one
the bear. Think It very likely ho did kill q
bear, but It was probably a bug.bear, which
was afterwards sold. Or the unfortunate
animal might have been "what.is.it."
A married lady Of Boston was kidnapped
Sunday evening on Court street at 10 O'Clock,
while going to her home. and violated by
four 6ends-returned soldiers-who. upon
arrest. gave their names as Weimar, North.
edge, Shay and Dotard. ',''
Work has been resumed on tho large ocean
steamer Piscataqua, ut the Kittery Navy
Yard, and twill DO ready for launching at On
early day. .,,l... . -r0. RI.
The coat Of the late Col. Uric Dahlgren
has been recovered at Norfolk. 1t had fye
bullet holes In 1t. ''
A policeman fell dead in one Of the streets
OF Portland while pursuing prisoner.
Seventy tons Of mail matter are daily as.
sorted in the N. Y. post Office. r-l fspo1
The Atlantic cable parted on the % inst,
600 miles from Newfoundland. The place
was marked l,y buoys. but as the Great East.
crn has not yet arrived. no particulars can
be learned. .,.. ..H 4-rau Ba,H Gr.f
The Union men arc generally In favor OF
negro-sutfrage; the copperheads are in IA.
vor Of negro.suffsring, thus showing their
right to be called democrats. ' i. 1.a'"
The Herald's dispatch says Attorney Gen.
Speed gives his opinion that jeff. Davis
should be tried before military tribunal. @
Great Falls, N. H., contains over fvo
thousand inhabitants. but has no newspaper.
Tho mills have been lately reopened and over
one thousand men and women have entered
IL within three weeks.
At Mobile, Hugh McKsever was com.
planned Of by q negro wench for knocking
hes over. The Mayor decided chat under the
proclamation OF Gov. Parsons, restoring tho
civil law as il existed on tho llth day OF
January. 1861. the evidence OF negro could
not be taken in Court against a ,uhite prison.
Case dismissed.
A German servant girl fell out Of q third
story window ut Cleveland. Ohio, the other
day, and would have been killed had not
gentleman caught her in his arms. She
asked him if he "wasn't ashamed Of him
self" and told him to '.be of with his i'm
pertinenco. ..,.
It was stated at the temperance conven-
ton at Saratoga, that the names of thirteen
hundred rich mems daughters in New York
are on tho list Of applicants for admission to
the Asylum for Inebriates ut Binghampton,
in that State. ..... .i.-......
The entire number of accidental deaths in
Great Britain in 1863 war l3 III. The
number burnt to death was 2766. mostly by
accidents attributable to crinoline, which l.
said to have caused the death Of 10 900 wo.
men in fifteen years. 40 4t 1..- 5.-rl 81, 4.
Aaron Burr's widow left 800, 900. :. ' d
Il appears from the census report that the
State Of Maine in 1860 had 360l manufac.
turing establishments, employing capital Of
500 .044 900. The value Of tho products WIS
$33, l9S.754. trl un. ~ ,lfH im'
General Meagher made a speech In st.
Louis last week to an Irish society, in which
he cautioned Irishmen to beware Of copper
heads, and not to DO drawn into opposition
to the Government. He came out boldly for
negro suffrage. saying that democrat who
should deny the negro the right to vote 10
not worthy to participate in the triumph OF
the nation. '"' ''''.''
Tho Portland Press. noticing the fact that
the police on certain evening. at the request
of the officers Of the First Maine Cavalry,
closed every gros shop in that city. pertinent
ly inquiries why they cannot do the same
thing every evening. .,'t.,
l.. There Is "a tree at Newmarket, Now lamp.
shire, whose trunk, one foot frnm the ground,
divides into twenty.threc different branches,
then extending upward some four feet, unites
with the limbs Of the different bninches,
thereby becoming ono and the same tree
again. tls..r
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