The Portland daily press., 1865-03-09
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

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BA Paris letter brings the important news
that the Emperor has shaved off his imperial.
Twenty-six gamblers have just been ares
ted in Chicago. e3
% Anthony Trollope's new novel is to be
entitled ''Miss Mackenzie" IS.
81 Mr.. Moore, who derived his pedigree from
Noah, explained it in this manner: "Noah had
three sons, Shem, Ham, and one more,
% Tennessee has adopted its free state con
stitution by vote Of over 80 900, thus setting
free 275, 900 slaves. -
RA posthumous work by Thomas Hood is
announced as in press, entitled "Captain Mas
ter's Children
81 Brooklyn, N. Y, is SO crowded with pop
ulation that not twenty houses in the city are to
let. ~ 5-9f 81 ~ .,f.A ve
Brvice President johnson was confined to
his room with illness on Tuesday and not at the
Capitol at all ~ 1855 5ogI
~ Rev. James K Hosmer Of Deerfeld, au-
thor of The Color Guard,' has in pressa vol
ume entitled ''The Thinking Bayonet.'
81 Gottschalk is now in New York, and will
remain there for week or two previous to his
departure for California 5s4e
HIn New Jersey, last year, there were
1853 births, 5,OO7 marriages and IL, $50
deaths. "A
% There are signs of ''striking ie'' in the
AdUertiser-that is, it emits any amount of gas,
and of the most offensive quality.
81 Work has already been commenced on the
new Congregational church in Augusta. The
edihce is to be Of stone, and will be fine struc-
ture .sN
RGeo. W. Dudley, ESQ.,, a member of the
Board of Aldermen of Augusta, has taken his
place in the ranks of the boys in blue, on the
quota of that city.
THE late Cardinal wiseman was severely
afflicted with diabetes, from which he suffered
twelve years. His last disease was erysipelas of
the head and face
- Shipbuilding on private account is unus-
ually dull at Portsmouth,, ~ H., this season.
Business in other branches of trade is compara.
lively good.
RD DR.. Charles Leib, an Ohio politician and
newspaper editor, died recently in Arizona. He
was defeated in the Congressional canvass in that
territory last year. eam
% There are now four medical colleges for
women in operation, having been opened in
Boston in 1913, in Philadelphia in 1850, in New
York in 1863, and in London in 1864. Sd Il
81 The Americans in London celebrated
Washington's birthday by dinner, at which
Mr.. Morse, the U. s. consul presided and Mr..
Adams was the principal guest. s,
90 The expense of collecting internal revenue
in this country is about two per cent, being some
nine per cent. less than the expense of collecting
revenue in England. e aa togay con
B-The total number of National Banks up
to Saturday last was eight hundred and fifty-
five, with an aggregate capital of over one hum
bred and ninety -four millions.
Mr.. Carlton, the publisher of the Christian
Advocate and Journal (Methodist) at New
York, has lately made 800, 900 in the oil BUSH
ness. -H 1es
RJohn d. Fox, father of the spirit rapping
Fox girls, lately died at Wayne county, New
York, aged 76. Mr.. Fox was never a convert
to spiritualism but lived and died deyout Meth
odist. sada tiI
BGen. Mcclellan arrived at Rome early in
February, and at the latest advices was the
guest of q relative whose house is the head
quarters of the anti-slavery residents of the
Eternal City.
EProfessor Agassiz is lecturing to crowded
audiences in Boston on ''Glaciers and the Ice
Period, illustrating his discourses by fine
stereoscopic views of some of the grandest seem
cry Of the Alpine region.
% Prentice says one thing is at last definitely
settled. The ''last ditch isn't in South Caro-
lima. He further says that the South CAROLYN
ians may not belong to the association of the
"Straighouts' but their coat-tails do ~
80 Miss Evans, the little Welsh temperance
oratress, now at Boston, has given from the re-
ceipts of her lectures nearly $4,000 to the SAM
tary and Christian Commissions, besides sup
porting her fathers family, consisting of eleven
persons.
20 DR.. N T. True of Bethel, takes the place
OF the late d.. Holmes as senior editor of the
Maine Farmer. DR.. 7. is man eminently fit
the place, and we welcome him to the frater-
nifty editorial. Mr. s. L. Boardman, who is
associated with DR.. T., as he was for long
time with DR.. Holmes, is very able, genial and
graceful writer