The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-10
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

has been visited by the cholera renewing in
destructiveness the mortality of the ancient
plague. The first outbreak of the cholera was
in 1881; the nextin 1888 ;sthe thirdin 1910; the
fourth in 1885, the fifth in 1855
A London letter says that the Dayen-
ports and Fay have been taken possession of
by an old East Indian nabob, who having
plenty of money has carried them off to a
castle in France, where he has nightly seances,
in which the spirits give him concerts, drink
whisky and play at billiards. --,~-
BB-The West Virginians are iubilant over
their first discovery of desulphurated coal. the
long time desideratum for their iron furnaces.
1t is found in an eight feet vein near BRIDGE
| port, on the Ohio. -A aa
~There is a woman at Erie, Pa, whom an
editor was recently astonished to find talking
| as 'pertiy upon oil and oil wells as any person
of the opposite sex She had sites for sale of
any desirable promise = was quite Indifferent
about trading-asked a good royalty, ranging
from three-sixteenths to one-quarter-had in
terests which she considered worth from $780,
900 to $lOO'OOO-did not want to marry-expec-
ted to open an Office in New York soon-had no
agents employed, transacted all her own bust
ness, and was ready to negotiate for ANYTHING
in the way Of property, from steam engine to
a state house.
B In Paradise Lost as represented on the
French stage, Satan appears as a well-to-do
| gentleman on tour of pleasure. That is
the way he appears on some stages in this
country. 1 itt958
% Mrs. L. Maria Child is severe on ladies'
/ fashions In 70 ba Tao1o
speaks of girls with 'hencoops in their skirts"
and "rimless pan OF straw with feather in
it" on their heads. AThe waterfall" she says,
"looks like cabbage in net, tricked out with
beads and wampum.' M
3-The Springfield Republican has a rumor
that change in the Boston Gollectorship has
been decided upon, and that Hon. d. w. Gooch,
M. C., is to be the lucky man. 7's s.
"a Miss Flutter who teased her father at
an inopportune moment for waterfall" re-
ceived two dams instead
BB-Gen. Sherman in recent speech said
| "the man who did not support the war was no
man." Query. Is the Democratic party made
up of men S9rtha4
G8 Bourbon County, KY, is reported to
have given large majority against the con-
stitutional amendment candidate for Congress.
| Very natural. Bourbon and slavery go hand
finland, in Maine as well as In Kentucky
g A whaling schooner has just returned to
Boston from an Atlantic voyage with forty
pounds Of ambergris, a very scarce and valua-
BILE article, the market price of which is about
81 to IS per ounce. 1t was taken from the dis
eased intestines of whale Ambergris is
perfumery, and its commercial value varies ac-
cording to the amount held in the markets of
the world. PFC t9j0fE
G8 Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown" said one Shakespeare, good while
| ago. The Emperor Macmillan would seem to
be in a fair way to have that source of uneasi-
ness removed from him, if we can Judge any
thing from the latest Mexican news
By The report that Mr.. Burlingame will
not return to China, is icontradicted.e After
attending to official business at Washington,
he viii returnto China by way of California.
He says thato merchants are highly esteemed
in China; that our comperce is rapidly in
creasing; and that our relations with the gov
eminent and the people are most amicable. II
Va Concord, N. H, was visited by heavy
thunder storm on Saturday, and a house was
struck by ligh thing, stunning the owner, and
setting it on fire. s.iana sasii4aq 1oa ~.
B9FS Simeon Draper of New York has lately
paid $55o0,OOO in gold into the treasury, the re-
ceipts for the government cotton sold at auction
at New York SIS. s..9 isA
Hon. John M. Bolts is at Saratoga. He
is said to have written a history of the re-
bellion. isF eat
Ia Salem is soon to be supplied with water
from Wenham Pond. The work of laying
the pipes is carried on with energy.
B-"Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown" Is this the reason why the ladies dis
carded the crowns of their bonnets
% Major-Gen. Burnside, since the accep-
tance of his resignation, has gone into business
in Rhode Island, where he will continue to re-
side AoA
% The La Crosse Republican, after calling
neighbor editor "a traitor, a harlequin, and a
| liar" says, "we do not intend these remarks as
in the slightest degree personal or offensive"
B- Returns to the revenue department at
Chicago show forty-nine wholesale firms in
that city who did business last year ranging
from half million to nearly seven millions of
dollars.
SIT was stated inthe dispatches yesterday
morning, that if the government desired to OBJ
tain possession of Geo. N Sanders it would
make an application for his surrender under
the extradition treaty. A great many silly
things are manufactured for the telegraph as
well as for other purposes. The extradition
treaty covers we think, only four erimes-all
specifc-and does not touch such case as that
of Sanders. #8 ID
John r. FELTON,, esq, an able lawyer of
San Francisco, is one among the many candi-
dates who are offering for the seat in the Uni
ted States Senate, which is soon to become va
cant by the expiration of the term of Senator
McDougall. He is native of Massaehu-
sets. glaHa iassges 81 a1tsisssss aslf
W David Dudley Field of New York, has
given $4,000 to Williams College. Mr. Field
explained that he gave it as a memorial of his
grandson, just dead, to whom he was much at
tached. aiL
gB- What is the legal relation in which
tenant stands to his landlord :? In loco pdy-ren-
tis-says Punch.
ER- Report says that Col. j. W. Forney's
income from the Washington Chronicle and
Philadelphia Press is over $4,000 year. F5a