The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1865-11-24
GENERAL SUMMARY.

| ~ d6N6hAL buMMABY, fr. q
~ Mississippi has recon,idsrsd her former
vote, BY 20 to -, prohibiting negro testimony il
court..S< - -
Y Judge Woodbury. Davis, Of tho Main,
Bench. has resigued. Lis not improbable that /,
citizen Of saco may be appointed to tho vacancy
! Fl From present Appearances, Col. VIM. wir
1 Virgin, Of Oxford county, will be unanimousl,
elected rs President Of the State Senate. Senator
Manson having Withdrawn Is candidate.
~ The Publishers of the Ksnnebec Journa
have Issued their prospectus for the Les,sa!i N,
for 50 co. 1t will be invaluable to those who wst
for lircports Of tho Legislative proceedings
81 One Of tho best things Of the season Il
that Of Bishop Simpson, who has declared u
favour Of paying The rebcl war debt when y
becomes due, viz after +" tho independence. O
the Confederate states shall have been secured
~ Official returns from 81 counties Ia
North Carolina show an aggreate majority o.
GIGS for Jonathan Worth over w. w. Hold
en- as Governor Of North Carolina. Tho Ra'
leigh Progress says that none OF the gentlemen
elected to Congress " will DO ablo to take the
test oath, nor do VIC suppose the State will send
single man to either branch Of Congress that
can. We could have wished that IL was differ
ent, and It might have been, but tho copper
heads and secossiOnists are perycrso and sell
willed." s-
= Tho cream on the milk Of Jersey cow
in Skowhcgan measures fve.eights OF an inch
in thickness. Tho COW gives five quarts oil
milk per day, four Of which will make u pound
Of butter.
n man named Bray, bartender at PEG.
Plies Hall in, Augusta, shot q man named York
10 an ARRAY last Tuesday. II is thought that
the wound may prove fatal. Bray was arrcst-
cd and is now In Jail. lie was formerly q
member Of the LIST Maine Cavalry.
H- OTIS 900 sailors and marines horne on
the rolls of the navy during tho war, only l4OG
were killed and 1888 wounded. -t
~ Galena, the homo Of General Grant,
gave 200 Union Majority on Tuesday last. A
year ago It gave Mcclellan 100 majority.
~ Barnum's elephant died Of cold on the
ssage over, and will shortly appear stuffed nF
In his museum. ...
~ In the town Of Caledonia, Racine coun-
ty, Wisconsin, on tho lst inst, . lad named
John Stitesky, aged 10 years. shut first his 70.
ther and mother and then himself The hoy
was not OF soSed mind. The parents were ma
tives Of Bohemia. iu
Y The military guarl and Gen Bakers de.
tectives have been removed from the White House
by order Of the President.
~ There were over eight hundred houses
in Petersburg struck by whole shells, during
the recent siege. Rents ought to DO cheap
there. f.. tr
~ A bill which Is before the South Carroll.
ma Legislature to establish and regulate the
domestic relations OF persons Of color, and
which will become law whenever the Govern
or elect il permitted 10 exercise his functions,
has been received in Washington and is regard
ed IN intended to cstablisha servitude far worse
than slavery. When the constitutional amend.
ment shall have been adopted by two.thirds of
the States, congressional legislation will constr.
tutionally remedy these abuses. '.' 'n
II Tho Provisional Governor of Florida
telegraphs to the President as follows:
The Convention has annulled the ordinance
ed that all the people of the State, without dis.
tinction of color, arc free; that no person shall
DO incompetent to testify rs q witness on nc.
count of color in any matter wherein colored
person is concerned. IL has repudiated the
State debt, contractcs in support Of the rebell.
on, amended tho Constitution In other respects,
and adjourned. .'
y The N Y. Tribune thinks It will soon
DO difficult to determine whether War or Loco.
motivcs1have been the more effective in reduc
ing the population Of civilized countries. .,.
II A Providence man deposited $1,000 for
safe keeping 10 an unused stove. lis was call.
cd out OF town unexpectedly, and the cold snap
coming on, q fire was klndled In the stove, and
the hard earnings Of years were reduced to
ashes in single moment.
0A Washington dispatch says Secretary Nc
Culloch will soon again exercise the power con.
ferrel on him by the net Of March last, and offer
to fund all compound interest bearing legal ten
der notes. at par with accrued interest, into Eve.
twenties ut o fixed price.
81 Ono of the blessings of our connection
with Mormondom lies in the fact that the
Overland Mail Route thither costs Us 1886 900
q year, while the whole postal receipts are
$1,000. .nE. ..f - '.... '' a.
n There are more than 5000 applications
on flo for situations in the Treasury Depart
ment, and this number increases from day to
day. Many OF them are from discharged sol.
diers. Tho list for the past week contains Is
applications from colored men lately in the
military service. The number OF women seek.
ing employment in that department is very
large. Recommendations seem to DO easily
procured. The other Departments are similar.
ly besicgcd.
II The Louisville Journal Says that "the
Hon. John Bell Of Tennessee, is about to write
letter to tho President Of the United States
which will doubtless attract much attention.
Mr.. Bells position and motives have been mis-.
understood, and consequently misreprcsentcd. !"
II We receive no transatlantic exchange pa
per regularly. except one from Paris-ths Oxford
Democrat.
The NEoRoEs.-The Mobile Advertiser be-
lieves the Southern people disappointed in the
now labor system. II says that tho great mass
OF tho black men In Alabama arc ut work, In
some shape or other, making living out OF
the soil, and more or less contributing to the
wealth of society. II is Of the opinion that
in the very next crop We are prepared to see
men rub their owes and cay how blind and
short-sighted VIC have been. :
Judge Davis Of our Supreme Court has resigned
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