The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-03
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

BE~ 1t is intended to erect monument ia
Mrs. L. H. Sigourney in Hartford, her home
where she died on the 10th of June last.
BS- The Shah of Persia, a far more pro-
gressive sovereign than either the Sultan OF
turkey or the Viceroy of Egypt, has sent COM
missioners to Europe to inspect the naval es-
adjustments of England, France and Holland.
va Bridal chambers" in sleeping cars are
she last thing out on the N. Y. Central Rail
road.
W W. Root, of Stockton, Cal. has invent
ID grain sowing machine, which sows about
ifty acres per day, and works to perfection.
EsSy- Punch says the type of the Irish rebell-
ion is Pike-a.
Ea- Edwin Thompson, the temperance ad-
vocats, having charged that Warrington" the
Boston correspondent of the Springfield Re-
publican never attends church, the latter Of
Sers to exhibit his receipt for pew rent. That
should be satisfactory.
GB- State elections take place on Tuesday
next in Massachusetts,, New York and New
Jersey.
BB- The cholera is said to be fearfully fatal
in Madrid. Over five hundred VICTIMS day
have died, a mortality more than fifteen times
that of London at the present time.
Va Cleanliness and proper diet are the
great preventives of Asiatic cholera.
EB- Chief Justice fancy died poor man,
md his three daughters are very poor. Two OF
Them have been out to service for living
| EY- schooner full of silver ware and bur-
glars tools was found at Poughkeepsie. recent
| ". Three men were arrested
| IL
Michigan, near Chicago, during gale on the
7th
"a Mrs. Elizabeth Daniels, who recently
lied at Portsmouth, N. H.. aged SO years, never
attended funeral or saw coffin of her rela-
ives during her long life, all of them having
been lost at sea.
ga Connecticut lady says that fully chop
ped pumpkin is an excellent substitute for an
pies in mince pies.
| GS- A dispatch from Washington, Nov. 1.
says, Henry Ward Beecher, who was closeted
with Mr. johnson an hour yesterday and again
his morning, publicly expresses his opinion
hat the President is right Other Northern
gentlemen of radical opinions now here. say
mat matters look better than they had expect
ed, and they are hopeful"
| gB- Gen. Grant publishes statement show
ing that the reorganization in Arkansas has
progressed quietly and is success. The Con
'titutional anti-slavery amendment has been
ratified, and the rebellion debt has been repu-
lated. 1t might be added that Arkansas has
been favored with very few pardons
BB- The price charged for the carriage of a
barrel of flour by railroad from Carroll Coun-
", Illinois, to Meredith Bridge, N. H. last
week, was S. The price of the barrel and
iour at the starting point was 1928.
| EB- The Southern emigration and loan
scheme Of Gov. Andrew is warmly commended
by the Charleston Courier. It looks to these
Northern cooperative movements to enable
The South to develop itself and permanently
benefit the people.
GY- By the way, isn't it remarkable that
when fossil of the defunct Wing party wants
| 20 find an audience for his old-time common
places, he goes to modern Democratic meet
ng He finds congenial atmosphere there
ust as Montgomery Blair does when he revives
Mott aid Gliddon's pusrile ethnology to depre-
late the negro. All the nonsense that was ey-
uttered in favor of slavery is now getting it.
elf poured forth anew against impartial suf-
rage; and very much by the same class of PEG
,le-the silver-gray Wings and the Southside
| )emocrats-[ Ecening Post
gB- Petroleum V. Nasty, in a letter bevail-
ng the prospects of the Democracy, says "Bt
t ez it may, it makes but little difference to me.
few years, at furthrest, and shell go hentz
| CT the Bible is troo, I shell go where will find
lheayy dimokratik majority, shoor; eff it is not
md there is no hereafter, why, then, at least, I
| shell be on level with the rest"
| Va A Richmond paper which devotes a col
ann Or so to the "blood-thirsty Yankees, who
IRE clamorous for the life OF Mr.. Davis" says in
another part Of the same print: HThe Adolf
| jionists Of the North are not true Union men
olt disorganizers and disunionists; and. as
juch, should be considered the enemies of the
country and treated accordingly" We have
frequently heard of London Assurance" but
4 Richmond Efrontery is not several lengths
head, you may take our hat.-[Jersey Csts
Times.
GS The New York Eoentng Post announ-
that the pressure of advertising upon its
columns has compelled an enlargement which
vii take place on the LIST OF November. The
Post observes, in this connection: ga remarka.
Die activity in trade has occurred at a much
earlier period this year than in previous wears
md it imposes new demands upon our col
lmns."
GY~ private letter (says the Boston Tran
script just received from gentleman in the
2uphc service in South CAROLINA gives the fol
owing testimony with regard to our ex-rebels
II have seen them in the interior and
On the coast-just subdued and quiet, getting
oardoned and blatant, but vicious and unprin-
;lpled always, and k,losc they mean general
~ to raise the devil as soon as they can
va new thing in New York is the "New
York City Messenger Company" Its men
may be seen about the streets with scarlet caps.
with the name of that company Their duty
is to go of errands, deliver packages, sweep
sidewalks, put in coal and do other things
necessary for the convenience of the citizens
Inc company pledge themselves as responsible
lor the honesty of their messengers.
va A newspaper reporter says of very
elegant female pickpoclxet: "Sbe rarely speaks
20 any one; is always quiet, gentle smiling and
genteel-comes like a sunbeam, and, like it
steals noisalessly away"
GB- Advices from Hayti state that the in
surgents under Salnave are in peril of starva-
ion. Provisions are scarce and prices fabu-
lous. Flour is twelve hundred dollars per bar
rel, and bread four dollars per pound. Stran-
gers at the Cape have been warned that per-