The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-25

w Inc Huntsville Herald says the oil region
is infested with counterfeiters, gamblers, horse
thieves and vagabonds of every ilk. and sue-
gests that as the rascals practice their
vocation with impunity, Vigilance Commits
tees and Judge Lynch might exerciseH whole
some influence. --ss..-.---.-zs
ga. confederate soldier who had fought
fairly and squarely throughout the late war.
when he was startled with the intelligence Of
the surrender of the three armies of Lee,
Johnston and Taylor, woke up to the realizing
sense" of the stupendiousness of the failure.
His surprise broke forth in the remarks "It
didn't even flicker, but went right out" F
W The German Arctic expedition is post
poned for this season. iA -
EB- A correspondent in Lincoln writes,
Business is starting up briskly on the river
and the prospect is encouraging for lunibermen,
who are busy preparing for operations in the
woods next winter. Crops are coming in fine
ly, If we except apples, and the weather is fay-
orable for harvesting" fnEFg ET
H-The New York Independent says "it is
one of the bestjokes of the times, that George
Thompson, who first appeared as the stock fire.
brand of America, should now be the patentee
OF new Universal Safety Match; and that
the special agents for the article should be John
z. Jewett & Co.. who formerly set the world
on fire as publishers of "Uncle Toms Cabin"
Since Franklin drew the lightning from the
skies and the sceptres from tyrants, there has
been no such melodramatic combination of
Offices" ~ eF
% -Hydrophobia is prevailing to an alarm
4 inc aYtant in Tn1ionapoI;a bo II
about twenty persons have been bitten by mad
dogs within few days. A number of cases
have proved fatal.
W. The New York Times advises the COM
mittee on the conduct of the war to summon
Lee, Johnston, Longstreet, Early and Others as
willing and valuable witnesses.
30 An ancient colored gentlewoman in
Chattanooga, asceftaining where the Freed
mems Bureau was kept, called in the other day
and astonished the clerk by her confidential
disclosure, TO wit Il have come for my bu-
reau; now give me a pretty large one, with a
glass top; I have a wash-stand at home, but it
is too small to put my fixins in" TgA3
EH- Ezra w. Anderson of Eaton, was con-
victed at Taunton the other day of keeping in
toxicating liquor with intent to sci at the
Mansfield camp meeting. The testimony
showed that this willy person tempted the tenn
perate with offers to sell them punches of green
leaves for fifteen cents, each purchaser to re-
aceive present of glass of whiskey.
These are electioneering times, says a
Richmond paper, and candidates are casting
about for votes; but the sight of candidate
going about the streets with 10 5market-basket
slung to his arm, full Of copies of his address
and tickets, and distributing them out as
tract distributor scatters religi gus tracts over
came us quite. fav 5ns s9f.ss ~,
~ Workmen in the lake tunnel at Chicago
forty feet below the bottom of abe lake, can
hear the engines and paddle wheels of the
boats passing overhead. Ak4g III
EB-Dr. Francis Lieber, in letter to Mr..
Seward, proposes that the claims of American
citizens against the British government for
damage during the late war, done by such YES
sells as the Alabama, be referred for decision to
the law professors of some of the best Ger
man universities, who. would be able to de-
eide upon them as experts in international
law, and thus settle a question of some impor-z
lance. stA'-4i.h eaafafaa
"a The Publishers Of the new book of
Hymns and Prayers, recently noticed in our
columns, announce forthcoming new edition.
The book is likely to have large sale. 3t,
BT The able articles of Traits which have
appeared in the Press are attracting deserved
attention. The New York EUening Post and
other metropolitan papers have copied from
them with commendatien. oW