The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-06-16
ORIGINAL AND sELECTED,

Judge May has green peas In his garden
IN Auburn, large enough to piek
80 Biddeford, Alfred and Wells are troubled
with the small pox
80 Mr.. Leonard Bracket Of Derry. N H.,
has rye standing in his field eight feet and six
inches high.
- ihe Bangor Times understands that Isaac
Y. Thomas has been re-appointed Collector Of
the Port Of Frenchman's Bay, Ellsworth.
EY-Not less than 5000 photographs Of Booth,
the assassin, have been sold by one firm in
London.
B-A flock of butterflies four mileslong passed
over one of the inland towns of California, re-
Gently, for the North.
S8ln the Albany income returns for 1864
Erastus Corning reports an income of $2S6,S3O,
and Erastus Corning, jr., SOL 1897. e
% The New York Evening Post estimates the
cat population of that city at 81, 900, not reck-
oning the infantile portion of it.
% Springfeld has thieves who steal even am
brotypes placed in grayestones, in the cemeter-s
les of that city.
90 The Odd Fellows will celebrate the close OF
the war by grand national convention in Bal
timore, in September.
EThe washerWomen Of Paris have struck
higher for wages. They demand three francs o
day for eight hours work, about ifty-six cents.
gIs it proper for ladies to become Geographic
operators, and be constantly in the use of fash
languagel
E3- The throng Of visitors to the tomb of
President Lincoln, near Springfield, is so great
that line Of omnibuses has been started from
the city to accommodate them.
e ET Judge Ould and Captain Hatch, rebel
commissioners of exchange, are spending the
hot months in well ventilated apartments at
Hotel Libby, Richmond.
eT Set torches or build fires in portable fur
naces, in your gardens at night, and you will
kill thousands of the small white millers, that
are now beginning to deposit their eggs.
~ Gardiner is to indulge in a fine celebra-
ton on the approaching "Fourth," and Nelson
Dingley, jr., of Lewiston is to be the orator Of
day. "a "a Is asass
Gov. Holden of North Carolina, has re-
signed the editorshipof the Raleigh Standard
at least temporarily twenty-five years of
editorial labors.
f The Princess Of Wales was delivered of
her second child on the "a inst. The Prince
promises to keep good the reputation Of the
royal family Of England for child bearing.
go Hon. Green Clay Smith Of Kentucky, has
been renominated to Congress by ACCLAIM at ion,
by the Union men of the Sixth (Coyington) Dis
trict.
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Ballard House in that city has been leased by a
Boston gentleman for $4,000 year, and will
be Immediately repaired and opened as first
class hotel
I'VE are under lasting obligation to L. NJ
Morrill,, of the q. s. Senate, for. a full set OF
the Congressional Globe and Appendix, for the
session of 1854. 1t is an invaluable record for
a newspaper Office.
81 King, the @ronaut, will make balloon
ascension in Lewiston. July 4th. King recently
lost a balloon which escaped its fastening on
Boston Common. Why not have such an event
in this cityi aEf
EOur correspondent "Farberton'' expresses
the hope that those correspondents Of the Press
who have noticed his articles on "Profane
Swearing will be so kind as to state what they
would have done to cure the evil
~ The JEFF. Davis correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer says that the rebel
chieftain's physician has prescribed absolute
quiet and the guards now pace his cell in noise
less slippers.
ER Miss Maria Mitchell of Nantucket, whose
labors in astronomy have made her name well
known, is to have charge Of the astronomical
department in the Vassar Female College, Pough-
keepsie, N. Y. A
R During the last dramatic season in New
York, from July l, 1864, to April 80, 1855, the
eight principal theatres Of that city received at
THAR tinket-ofOss 81, o55, 900, and paid thu tax
on the same sum to the amount of $21 1850.
G3-It has been judicia lily decided that passen-
gers alighting from horse or railroad cars have
the right Of way, and those who wish to get
into the cars must first give the out-comers rea-
sonable time to leave the cars.
R Matilda Heron, the actress, has fallen heir
to $75, 900 by the death Of brother. 1t would
prove profitable haul of heron for fellow to
catch her in his matrimonial net; far better than
catching Taunton alewives. ssal 3
81 The Baltimore american calls the atten-
ton Of governors of states whose troops fought
at Antietam and South Mountain to 500 neglected
graves in that vicinity, and suggests cemetery
at Sharpsburg. SAafkSl IS
81 We take it that the Union State Conven-
ton which is to meet in this city on the tenth Of
August, will find very little to do except to re-
nominate Gov. Oony by reclamation, and adopt
series of resolutions.
| MEE-Tha AL LA Il:
ceived at the Dead Letter Office in Washington,
sent there under the new law which makes pre-
payment of postage compulsory, amounts to
more than fifteen thousand a week.
Lancaster, which has been the scene Of
more public strangulations than any other pro-
vincial town in England, and which for years has
gone under the name of ''the hanging town." is
petitioniog for private executions.
E Being asked if he knew Why JEFF Davis
was manacled, Quilp explained that his ex-Ex-
cellency had got wrinkle in his head that he
must continue to rebel against the lawful au-
thorities. The purpose Of the ironing was to
remove that wrinkle.-[ Boston Post.
R The Gardiner Journal says: s'The Oldest
inhabitant can remember no season in which the
grass was as forward as the present We notice
IA many places it is lodging badly, and haying
operations must soon begin There will be an
immense crop harvested this year, sao'a
JEFF. Davis's commission as First Leuten-
ant of Dragons, signed by Andrew jackson,
President, and Lewis Cass, Secretary of War,
and dated April 10, 1884. to rank from March 4,
1884, has fallen into the hands of member of
Gov. Oglesby' staff.
H Maryland is the only state whose constitu-
ton specifically ignores the right of secession.
Her new constitution provides that in cases Of
conflict between State and National authori-
ties, allegiance is due to the latter. She has
thus setan example worthy of imitation.
RA dressmaker named Elizabeth Quain, at
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