The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-07-20
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yaledictory, and has ceased to be. It was the
largest and Oldest paperin the Province Of New.
Brunswick. 1t has been an able, candid jour
nal.
---General Sherman in his recent speech at
Cincinnati, described himself in former days as
q @little red-headed boy running about in Lam
caster, stealing cherries"
Baron Iiebig measures the degree of eiyili-,
cation among a people by the amount of soap
which they consume. If this be fair test we
know some people whose condition is near allied
to barbarisIn.a y 81 5ssEk
A correspondent Of the Nashville Times,
/ from Macon County, Tenn. reports the death
of John Brannon, a Revolutionary hero, who
reached his hundredth year ON the 4th day of
last December He died ON the Sd day of June
last a.lao his 4lgl kt,s} f.ssIs,s,5e ~, &
The Chicago Board of Education, in an elab-
crate report upon teachers salaries, say that it
is discreditable to city ike Chicago, that the
highest price paid to female teacher is $500;
while large proportion of them do not receive
sufficient compensation for their services to
meet their necessary expenses. sA so 4
s The degree Of LII. d. was conferred on Gen.
o. O. Howard at the recent Commencement Of
Shurtleff College, H. IS ....is .a. q is,s1a
Hon. J. l. Pickard of Madison, Wis, has
bsen elected Chancellor of Wisconsin Uniyer-
sity. Mr. P. is a son of Samuel Pickard. ESQ.
of Auburn. lf
The honorary degree of LII. d. was conferred
upon Hon. A. H Bullock, at the late commence
ment at Amherst College =, M. s4,s.r
Mr.. Barnum is nowise disheartened, by the
destruction of his museum. He is promptly
out-with "a card, thanking the people for their
past patronage, and announcing that he will
Immediately erect museum building that
shall be an ornament to New York and an
honor to the country ii'f q sasso ~
The Diario, the official organ of Maximilian,
takes the starch out of that old traitor, DR..
Gwyn, who has been figuring in Sonora and
claiming to be in the confidence of the Impe-
rial government, and to be the holder of a duke
dom. This paper says the Imperial Govern
ment has never at any time entered-into negc-
tiatons with Gwyn; never Contemplated MAX
ing him Duke or Governor or Vioeroy; never
knew that his services were worth 100000
year, and that even his person is not known to
any of shs Ministers ana they have never shown
a desire to getacquainted with him.
Benjamin Brown, of Waterford, N. Y, in his
ninety-eighth year, is said to be the only man
living who actually bore arms during the Rev
Dictionary War. He fought in the defence Of
New Londonin September; 1881. sai,9-
Mr.. Alonzo Russell of Keene, N. H. while
laboring under partial insanity caused by sick
ness, hung himself on Monday night.l5H iT
| The London correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazstte, says:-sI hear that Minister Adams
4 freely declares among his friends his desire
and Intention of returning to America ere
long asr,e Fr~,sN ~sA.s.sE..vx
The municipality of Munich Bavaria, have
voted the handsome sum of 100000 forms
(about $5O0,0OO) fora monument to their late
King, Macmillan. Is Tan
The Hudson River Railroad Company is
complimented for its cleverness in recently
killing whole family ather, mother and child
all at once, 50 that there was nobody left to
bring an action for damages. ioAb e aoIua d
The Union State Convention of New Jersey,
is to be held at TrentonSon Thursday, July 20,
to nominate a candidate for Governor
A Philadelphia paper has eight columns Of
its space, closely printed in small type, of the
names of Pennsylvania soldiers who died in
the rebel prison pens at Andersonville.
The citizens of New Haven are about to pre-
sent Gen. A. H. Terry with $4,000, and Union
College will also confer upon him the honorary
degree of LII. D.iars
There are 1898 boats belonging to the Erie
Canal, of which number 1449 are of greater
tonnage than the vessel in which Columbus
discovered America. asegA gfaDEael Aear IA
The Portage (Lake Superior) IfssSrg Gdzett.
says that rares l,iPes, sisz inoheH in diameter
are used in the Pewabic copper mine to conve '
air from one portion of the mine to the other,
The pipe is six inches in diameter. The paper
pipes are quite strong and can be Joined per-
fectly alright by a strip of canvas and coat
ing of tar. ss sls,5 Il ass assd
Thirteen porpoises were taken at one tide
last weekat Murray Bay, Canada, but one es-
capped. The largest was fourteen feet long and
weighed about two Thousand pounds.
The colored men Of Pennsylvania propose to
call national convention at Harrisburg on the
istof August, to discuss the welfare Of their
race and observe the anniversary of e1nancipa-
ton in the British West indies. '''' 4'' -yn
There are said to be underground creeks in
the limestone regions of Georgia with sufficient
velocity to carry mill. There is agovernment
tannery, the bark mill of which is driven bs
one of these, subterranean streams
The Yale University crew has new six-oared
shell, built by James Mckay of New York.
She is 50 feet long, 20 inches wide and 70 deep,
and built of Spanish cedar. The sides of the
boat are onereighth Of an inch thick at the
bottom, and half aninch thick at the edge, and
its weight is 1876 pounds. e.1 .s
A cruel parent in Quebec locked up his I'M
dutiful daughter, because she wanted to marry
young lawyer, The young man, however,
Though poor in purse, was fertile in resource,
and sued out a writ of habeas corpus for his be-
loved. As she was of age to decide for herself,
the couple were married. and went on their way
rejoicing, 9iag 38a
Washington and Jefferson Colleges, In Penn
sylvalia, have recently been united. 81 II ..7e
Ten perfect Indian skeletons were recently
exhumed, in excavating for the foundations of
new house in LOWS, Canada.
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