The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-18
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uroanlty he replied-sI am sorry, madame,
very sorry, indeed; but, really, didn't know
was within quarter of mile OF you.
ga noted English Psychologist, LII. orisp'
hearing that some families regarded themselves
as having been made ill by eating the meat OF
animals affected by the cattle plague, himself
alta haassteaks cut from the most diseased ami
mails he could find, and portions of the hearts
of such animals, and triumphantly announces
that he experienced no evil results from the
experiment whatever.
Mayor Lincoln of Boston, has been nom
mated for reelection. ~
E-The Boston Transcript says question
of interest, now, is, what becomes of the money
contributed by the Irish in this country to the
Fenian fund. An exchange says it helps some
idlers to get notoriety and patent leather
boots.
Gen. Duff Green, whose death at Mo-
bile, on the 18th inst, is announced, figured
largely in the politics of the country thirty
years ago, and was at one time the publisher of
Gen. Jacksons official organ. Subsequently
he became an opponent of jackson, and estab-
lished the u S. Telegraph, and conducted it for
several years in the interest of Mr.. Calhoun
and his friends. g ~ HE
10 The number of copies of the "Old Far
mers' Almanac" annually sold, amounts to a
quarter of a million. KY
They have mammoth silver brick in
Boston, that weighs hundred pounds, and is
worth $1,000
Bl3:- Hon. Robert c. Winthrop was married
q few days since, for the third time, his new
wife being the widow of the late J. E. Thayer,
the eminent banker.
gY@A German by the name of Kuss has
been detected stealing money in New York, by
a sleight of hand operation. Heis said to be
an old kuss at the business.
g-The white population of the District of
Columbia is to the black as four to one. During
the war the whites furnished 1850 soldiers by
drafting and the blacks $500, nearly all by vol
unteering. But then of course the blacks
ought not to vote. $500 sR.s
E6F Pithole has now 30 producing wells-16
that have produced, but are now out of order.
The daily yield is 1903, nearly six barrels per
minute. At six dollars per barrel, the present
piiee foil, it amounts to So, GAS. The sum of
$4,000 pays all expenses, being profit of $780,
64S every twenty four hours.
BB It is said that Artemus Ward being at
one of the New York churches recently edited
the audience by his unexpected reply to the
preachers text which was as follows "How
are the Mighty Fallen ?" GLOW are the Nigh
ty Falle n ?" After short pause, Artemus
looked up inquiringly and said meekly, Il give
it up
BB-A party of highwaymen lately stopped
Governor Brownlow of Tennessee, as he was
riding near Nashville, and robbed him of his
watch aud five hundred dollars.
By A mortgage deed for $50 OO0O 600 was late
ly recorded at Warren, Ohio. 1t required $1,000
worth of stamps, and was from the Atlantic
and Great Western Railroad to John r. Peen
of New York
EFDTwo officers of the parish of Terrebonne,
La. have been arrested, indicted and imprison-
ed, by order of one Judge Belden, for express
ing the opinion that the negroes may have the
right to vote. tltiIk 9ils't 944
vs. 1t is estimated that ten thousand coolies
are annually taken from India to foreign coun-
tries, and Of this number, which is steadily in
creasing, at least one thousand die on the pas
sage from insufficient accommodation.
BB"A China paper speaks of the execution
of small military official who had the impu-
dence to expostulate first with the magistrate
and afterwards with the executioner, stating
that he had an aged mother dependent on him
for support. just as he had clinched the argu-
ment a dexterous flourish of the sword took off
his head. The large crowd assembled to wit
ness the spectacle are said to have been "con-
wills lo.,o 81 II,
produced by the skiiful blow. Ea4
EYA special to the Boston Advertiser says
the President fully approves of the action of
General Fiske, Commissioner of Freedmen for
the District of Tennessee in refusing to de-
liver up the property Of John Overton, the no.
ted rich Tennessee rebel. 1t seems that the
pardon was made out and signed, the signing
having been done by a fac smile stamp through
mistake The President, not intending to issue
thepardon, has telegraphed to Governor Brown
low to retain the document, and Mr. Overton's
property will therefore remain in the custody
of the Freedmen's Bureau. General Fiske's
admirable administration of the freedmen's
affairs is highly commended by the Presi-
dent .44 sg.sael -Fgsrs fsg, 7raa1g t-
EN The returns of the dog tax show that
there is one dog to every sixty-six persons in
Great Britain. j L4G MEls
B- John Mitchell has gone to Paris to re-
side as newspaper correspondent. Good
radiance.
not return home this season, but will spend the
winter in Dresden.
BB@Hon. Moses F. Odell and General Spin
ner, United States Treasurer, are among those
named as successor of the late Preston King, in
the New York Collectorship
E- The London Times has its own little the
DRY about the Jamaica instruction. 1t says of
the natives-"In fact, if they have revolted, it
can only be that they are too well off, and have
time to indulge in dreams of republican indie
pendence."
vs. By the death of Lord Palmerston, the
rectorship of Glasgow University is vacant.
John Stuart Mill and Lord Derby are both
talked of for the succession. -s as..s,-. al.
BR Mr. John B. Coughs temperance lee
ture in New York on Wednesday night is said
to have been the twenty four hundredth time
he has spoken on that subject -
GBF- 1t appears that Preston King on the
morning before he drowned himself, purchased
twenty-five pounds of shot, and declining to
nave it sent home, had it equally divided and
put in two bags, which he hung about his neck
by cord and concealed by his overcoat. This
plainly indicated what his settled purpose was.
BThe returns received at the General
Land Office from Denver, Colorado Territory.
indicate great activity in disposing of the lands
OF the public domain. In the month of Octo-
Der SS4 acres were located with military boun.
ty Land warrants, and the cash sales amounted
to $2SO2. AtBoonville, Missouri, the cash sales
in the same month amounted to 1885,, 425, while
1,66S,352 acres were entered at that office for
homestead settlements, nearly half of which
were lands worth So so per acre.
EB-The Republican majority in New York
is estimated by the tribune at 10000. -
Va merchant who started in business in
New York few years ago, with capital of
100000, was admitted to the almshouse last
week as a pauper