The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-11
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BB Hiram Oliver and John w. Heartrin
were executed by the military authorities on
Wednesday, at Columbus, Ohio, for The mur-
der of j. B. Cook, Assistant Provost. Aaar-
shall. M
VS. a alfncuifg- OCCURRED at Knoxville re-
Gently between W. s. Hall, clerk of the Cir
cult Court at Knoxville, and Young man
named Baker, late of the rebel army. RESEMBLING
in the death of Hall. Baker was committed to
Jail, but the citizens got him from the sheriff
and hung him in the street. ANASs
BThe New York Evening Posts Wash-,
ington despatch says the President declines to
release Mallory, ex secretary Of the@ rebel
navy, but gives his family permission to visit
him ~
BB- Colchester, lately tried at Buffalo. has
taken out jugglers license, thereby acknowl-s
edging the correctness Of the decision made by
the United States court that spiritualist, Is a
juggler, and moreover that his business was so
profitable that he could afford to pay 4 tax on
it. saas a9 si2sf2 81 y eaigied N.i
ERThe Cincinnati Commercial learns that
the President has permitted Henry s. Foote to
return to Tennessee, on condition that he will
not interfere in politics, and he passed through
Cincinnati a few nights ago, on the way to his
home in Nashville. .s5.ssl7a9s fss ~
va A polite people hepeople Of the South;
they are continually asking pardon.-Exchange
Paper. 80 e s8atn.86i sasa. %
BY- IF Brigham Young's 100 wives favor
their lord with Curtain Lectures, what, oh.
what must be the nature of sYoung's Night
Thoughts p asks the Saturday Press.
BB-A pretty little woman who rose in a
Chicago street-car, the other day, to give her
seat to one-legged soldier, found to her joy
and amazement that it was her husband, who
was terribly wounded in the war, and whom
she had given up as dead s- '-4t- ,eHa
S8rThe Dresden Zeitung,i Aug. 10th, says
Gen. Mcclellan is in that city, and intends de-
voting himself to German military studies. /
Miss Anna E. Dickinson has three new
lectures for this season: Home Thrusts. .
Earnest less" and FLOOD Tide" She has been
engaged to deliver all three before the Young
Mems Institute of New Haven. asao ~
BA good old-fashioned ghost is making a
sensation in a fine rnansionin Bristol, Pa, all
to himself just now, its flesh and blood occu-
pants having deserted it. Chilly stories come
from them about the means, shrieks irnpreca-
TONS soliloquies and such, as if his, ghostship
felt uncomfortable about something, and lights
often glare out in the darkness or pass byI the
windows with such rapidity as to leave long
line of light behind. He isn't partial to the
moons pale beam p but performs in the day
as well as in the night time. az q
"a In the gallery of the theatre in Crow
street, Dublin, one night, a coal porter made
himself disagreeable, and there was yell of
Throw him over" followed by the exquisitely
droll idea, "Don't waste him-lill a fiddler wild
him p ~ ....a., ~ ..'d. 81
B-When Lord Lauderdale intimated his
intention to repeat some good thing Sheridan
had mentioned to him, pray DON'T my dear
Lauderdale." said the wit, "a joke in your
mouth is no laughing matter" + ~. .ss.s.
B-A An English tourist who is amazed at the
unfinished condition of affairs in Washington,
exaggerates it slightly when he says sAt one
end of the street you may purchase the last
new novel; at the other end you may possibly
encounter rattlesnake." s 80
The TORONTO Globe says I: "Mr. Colfax,
Speaker of the American House of Represen-
tatives, and Mr.. Bross, editor of the Chicago
Tribune, and lieutenant governor of Illinois,
have been paying visit to Vancouver s Island,
and have been entertained at a dinner by the
inhabitants Of Victoria, at which Governor
Kennedy was present. The, speeches delivered
| were of the most cordial and fraternal kind,
and the festival appears to have given great
| satisfaction to the guests. 5se1 ~
BB- Mr.. Samuel Hooper of Boston, has. es-
tablished foundation of fifty thousand dol
lars for School of Mining and Practical Ge-
o1ogy at Harvard University. This school is to
be opened on the first Monday of next month,
in connection with the Lawrence Scientific
School Mr.. Hooper has suggested the names
of Josiah d. hitney of California, Dr. VOL
colt Gibbs, formerly of New York, and Pro-
fessor Eustis of Cambridge, as a suitable facul-
ty, and it is probable that this choice will pre-
vail. Young men desiring to enter the school
may do so by communicating with the Dean Of
the Lawrence Scientific School at Cam
bridge. isaGsAq7- % 1sI1sgo hit e l'i seait
= Ex-Gov Page of New Hampshire died
at his residence at HaverIin, in that state, on
the 7th inst, at an advanced age.
BB-The vote of Vermont is very small. The
Union majority is about 1900. q 9sa1H $50
Ia John Powers was Instantly killed at
Taunton, Mass, ON the 18th inst, by the explo-
sion of steam boiler in the rolling min of the
Old Colony Iron Works. Several others were
badly scalded 5s3'sa NiN't
] 90 The publication of the american Ballot
at Exeter, N H., has been disoontinuedhnA .
EB-The New York Trsbunes Washington
despatch says the President in recent CONVEX
sation with a Lonisianian, said those who i'm
agined him hostile to negro suffrage were mis-
taken. He urged this gentleman to liberal
views in Louisiana, and said "Why cannot
you do as Massachusetts does If a negro can
read and write, let him vote There are not
five hundred in Louisiana who can stand the
test; but it will be doing justice and stop Nor
thern clamor." l5T.Ts-f
"a Wigfall has been heard from. He has
| gone to Mexico. ''y-A ~ IVA
"a Ex-Governor Murray of Texas died at
Monterey, Aug. .. ,rs r.rasr-,94 q. -l5ssi ~
The Indians have come within thirty
miles of Austin, Texas, Higher up it is said
they are numbering men, women and children
indiscriminately Ia sssa@fS as s'f y q
| az iEiorsii1Ir1.i l45 sitff 6
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