The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-05-30
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Of Lewiston, for improvement in horse rakes.
HThe Ottawa Citizen announces that the
Canadian capital VIII Be removed to That city r
next October.
80 The Union Light Guard, the body guard
of the late President, will be retained in the
same capacity for President Johnsen.---=..-
% Minnesota sent to the war more than half
her voting population, or %. 1921 boys out OF
AZ. 4S7 voters. =
e Strawberries, new potatoes, peas, and 7
beans have made their appearance in liberal
quantities at Cincinnati.bgl CIT e sanaH9
sE Hundreds Of officers and soldiers Of our
army are going into business in towns along the
railroads radiating from Memphis. f,e
70 e. Governor Fenton of New York vetoed |
seuea bills by one message on Saturday last.
This eclpses anything in New England.
Robert Dale Owen is intending to prepare
Q biography Of Abraham Lincoln, to make two |
volumes say of 500 pages. gaaos iasgaa /
EIt is whispered that the girls have changed
the pronunciation of the word ''pettlcoats' to
"Jeficoats." Cavalry boots are now known as
"Dayis Runners ii H8NgSAT A
{ RAcorrespondent Of lie Canadian states
that Young, the chief of the St. Adams Raiders,
has decided to settle in Canada, and is about to
study law in Montreal.
- A pedIar named Joseph Werhersll Of CAM
bridge, Mass, was arrested in Portsmouth, N.
H., q day or two since, for peddling his wares
without license.
i ~ "A locomotive broke loose in Syracuse re-
Gently, pushed through eleven streets Of that
city at the rate Of thirty-fye miles an hour,
and finally buried itself in an empty car.
EVA cotton bale was opened at the Sur
bridge cotton mills the other day, and four logs
Of wood weighing ever 100 pounds were found
slowed away snugly inside. hsst
Strawberries and cherries are drug in
the Richmond market Wewish we had q few
shops in this city where such drugs were to be-
had. s.Ia saass 81 sgoss aatma1g8
RJames A. Seldom, ex-Rebel Secretary soi
War, was engaged in cultvating his farm at the
moment Of his srrest He was astonished at
both the time and method Of his capture
B-There is practically perfect religious liber-
ty in Paris. In 1880 there were only three French
Protestant places of worship. Now there are
thirty-fve. g ~ SEkn
R-Dr. Won Week, the anti-spiritual lecturer,
is in Bangor, and occupied the platform in
Pioneer (spiritual) chapel last Sunday afternoon
and evening. ~
RThe New York yNeps says that Booths
body was given to his family, unmutilated, taken
north to New York, and buried in secret, and
| at night.
EgWe learn from the Calais Advertiser, that
child Of Mr.. Edward Spinner, on Kelley's
Point, about six years of age, was run over by
the cars and killed. one day last week.
RThe London Bible Society, through the
agency of thirty-tw colperteurs, sold in the
year 1864, 17,668 copies of the Scriptures IN
Italy. gaa
BIf DE-. Blackburn is convicted, he should
be made to try en- the seven hundred suits of
yellow fever clothes he proposed to forward to
New York. II Post. KEE 81
10 The Bangor Whig says Rev. Mr.. Johnson
of the. Third Congregational Parish in that
city, on Sunday last, formally resigned the charge
of that Parish. Rumor says he seeks warmer
climate for the benefit Of his health.
a The American Missionary Association,
acting through Rey. ]. Sella Martin, is seeking
to raise funds in England to aid in the work of
educating and Christianizing the host of freed
men now thrown upon our hands. y.
gYThs Canal at Dutch Gap, cut by order of
Gen. Butler, allows passage for vessels drawing
seven feet of water, and is now regularly used
by such steamboats, and other craft as do not
draw over that depth.
" In answer to the suggestion that negroes,
if allowed to vote, will be cajoled by the whites.
the bhvalrgg sr- E--l Evening Post suggests ''It is
sometimes vote We 49, even in New York,
, tion.'' Ia -TTIr-
B The Springfield Repubiica,s has taken to
railing against what it styles the Picture Nui-
sance-that mania for coarse earicstures which
has filed SO many shopwindows with pictures of
so many heroes, from Wilkes Booth to JEFF Davis
inpetticoats. 3W tgfH1s
~ The Democrat says the Oxford Quatery
Meeting will be held with the Church at Paris,
on Tuesday, June 18TH. The Oxford Conference
will hold its annual meeting in Rumford, the 9th
and 7th days of june, commencing Tuesday, at
10 o'clock, A. NJ. q
HCapt. Worden, of Monitor fame, carries
very distinct mark Of the wound received in the
encounter with the Merrimac. His face is
blackened about the injured eye. but not really
4 I'D ~%~A'
have occasion to be ashamed.
B-The Richmond Wig, in order to make
sp for the utter neglect Of the duty during the
last four years, proposes to have such a cele-
bration of the rGlorious Fourth Of July as
never before took place in that section of the
country.
81 The Bangor Wing says Isaiah L. Keene.
aged 10, and Thomas G. Pryor, aged rs, were
lost overheard from the schooner John H. Ken
nedy. on the Western Banks, on the 7th inst.
They were both residents Of Bremen. Me-. and
were young men ofmuch promise Pryor leaves
wife and one child.
i "a The editor of the Machias Union having
boosted ofhis new potatoes. that he planted
the seed on the 4th of April and on the 18th of
May the vines were up-the Ellsworth American
brags that he planted his potatoes ON the 18th of
April, and on the15th Of May the hens scratched
up the seed. A foaolWa of digging potatoes.
80 saysthe Machias Republican: Lumber
is reported dull, with no sales Of any conse-
quence But few vessels are in the harbor at
| thepresent time. We understand that owing to-
the low price of lumber, and the high price Of
labor, the mills at Cherryield will hang up until
business looks more prosperous
RCol Pritchard, the captor of JEFF. Davis,
is said to be noble specimen of man and
model soldier. He is modest and unassuming.
but brave as a. lion, and ready to lead wherever
his duty calls. He is about 30 years of age.
six feet high, compactly built, and. was, before
entering the service, a lawyer at Alleean.
Michigan. AEa1
80 The Mail says the new scythe and ave-
factory Of Messrs Hubbard. Blake s Co., at
West Wsterville, has been much improved and
enlarged. Nearly all tho machinery is new
and of improved pattern 1t has a sasa .soo,ov.