The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-07-26

single table in one of the Saratoga hotels
one day last week amounted to fifty-seven mil
lions.
BB-A report of the trial of Miss Harris is
to be published under the supervision of her
attorney, the proceeds of the sale going to the
benefit Of the young lady herself 1
gB The Detroit city directory, just pub
lished, shows the increase of population during
the past year to have been 5000,
Bgr Major General Heron of Iowa, has
taken up his residence at Pittsburgh, and is
spokeniof in connection with the next govern
orship of Pennsylvania -asU8H aef
%" Gen. n. P. Banks was recently admitted
to practice as q lawyer ia the Q. s. District
Court of Louisiana
! 20 The inscription over the doors of the
Philadelphia volunteer refreshment saloons is ]:
"You are welcome; eat heartily, but don't. fill
your knapsacks.' . "a s 2'l9 iait FL.
I EsyTWm. b. Ogden is the richest man in
Chicago. His cash receipts during last year
exceeded $38O,O00. ID. epsf znigss. ,5s..ssss i5
20 In st. Louis female as well as male
convicts are put at work breaking stones for
the road. e 9tsia a5 iaan tss,e Fa g ~
i % The editor of Mrs. GrGndy is DR.. Car
roll, a practising surgeon and practical
draughtsman.
An English electrician has discovered a
means by which gunpowder is rendered nom
explosive, and its original qualities restored at
pleasure. a
I EB- 1t is now officially announced that the
vertebral bones of John Wilkes Booth,
pierced by Corbett's bullet, are on public ex-
hibition at the Army Medical Museum in Wash
ington.
Eg General Grant is reported to have said
in conversation with the Mexican minister the
other night "The, French will have to leave
| Mexico staAWd4 EiYakJ aal
/ vs. An old gentleman named Marble, in
Lynn, Mass, has, under the direction of a
| spiritual medium, been employed for ten years
in drilling out solid granite rock in Lynn, and
is still at it. in the expectation of finding Kids
treasure. sal ~ hg4N a.B /
BF-An old lady in Northampton, nearly
century old, remembers receiving from her
mother present of pink ribbon, which had
be en- promised in case our independence was
gained. Is ssatae5 si8 & 4oae sslsa4a 81
Va Emigration is said to be pouring into
Missouri, and under the new constitution she
win get q population Of loyal, thrifty, free
State men. = 1a H.ss isllsnpssi $500 s b
B-T The largest Indian tribe now in this coun-
Try is the Camanehes. They number twenty
thousand. slsA f9alisos ,.ss n lilt Gf M
David Cunningham, one of the negroes
who Joined John Brown in his famous raid into
Virginia, died at Rochester on Monday. He
had lately beena soldiers cook in that city He
was imam Of great physical strength. q ~
| BH- A resident of the Sandwich Islands
takes the highest '.honors"r at the Williams
| College commence cement, and two others from
the same distant place have orations.
B5Y- The jackson (Miss.) Nescs announces
that Governor Sharkey has determined to re-
instate all the old rebel officers of the State,
from judge down, by executive appointment.
gy-It is touching sight and one which ap-
peals to the finest sensibilties of our nature, to
behold young man, Respondent in all the
| glory of short coat, steeple-crowned hat, seem
ted locks, and yellow cane, walking the street
/ with about four inches say half pound
| ayoirdupois-of ''puppy-dorg" waddling at his
heels and claiming his constant care 1t may
be taken in evidence of the. sot1ness of his dis
position, and shows, as Mr.. Squeers would say,
SSAAS-SA
in blow" 'a'3tss.ssS 80 Kst3
BB- Nearly seven millions of dollars were
expended for theatrical and other public amuse-
ments in the city Of New York last year. S.
g8f- AT St.Anthony, Minnesota, thirty per-
sons were poisoned by eating cheese the curd
for which had been prepared in brass
vessel
| BB- A letter from Saratoga says the nightly
assemblies at the various hotels are in full
blast The gambling houses are in full blast,
\ too.
BB- JEFF. Davis was toasted at Rutland, VT.
ON the Fourth, in connection with the senti-
rnent: His Last effort in the cause of rebellion
was dress parade, in which he clearly exhibi-
| ted lack Of the manual.
\ B A person who has been travelling
through Northern Alabama, states that that
region is almost one continual field of cotton.
The planters have0 given their attention to
the business again this year almost as much as
in anti rebellion times, and the growing
crop looks very fine. The negroes are working
| for their former masters for wages, and the
new labor system appears to progress very
well. u iiaf4 aiAfTea z ss'aaA ~ s1Hstf
Ba%The government is about to turn over to
their respective companies. the Loudon and
Hampshire, and Washington and Alexandria
Railroads " w 1al3
BB- Land on Pit-hole creek which three
years ago could be bought for S. per acre, is
now selling at $1,000. They commenced build
ing Pit-hole city four weeks ago. and it now con-
tains over one hundred houses. .osF
1.-THE infamous Justice Counsel Of Mon
treal, is to be at once restored to his Office of
Police Magistrate and Judge of Sessions
BB- A type foundry has been opened in
Richmond a1as1iadQ nIDaoU a .k40
BB-A French wiseacre has estimated that
reckoning sugar at twenty cents a pound every
fly costs the country twenty cents from its
birth to its demise ! s1sd qtsI3si, sgss liFE
EEB "A plan is on foot to extinguish slavery
in Cuba and Porto Rico by means of a system
Of ransoms. 1t, is proposed to fix certain
amount for the value of the slave, with no.
right to alter it, the redemption to be paid out
OF the work of the slave Col Francis Montaos
of Havana is the originator of the plan.
G5S-They pretend to have man out in Wis
consin who is 100 years old.
gB The new italian frigate Prince Hunabert,
one Of those built in New York for the Italian
government, has been causing decided sensa-
ton in South American ports by the perfection
Of her build and the power and range Of her
armament. She is q very good representative
Of the recent extraordinary progress of this
country in gunnery and naval architecture z
By- Ezra Chappell, who lately died at
New London, bequeathed $4,000 to the
poor of that city, and left 100000 to his
heirs. 10y Il q
-, If you wish to appear agreeable in
society, says Talleyrand, "you must consent to
be taught many things which you know al
ready"
BB Harvard University has conferred the
honorary degree of LII. D., upon Gen. Meade
IA tbo TT G or,o1,