The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-01


% TT is said that the composer of "Maritana'
is dying.
GIVE acknowledge our indebtedness to- Vice
President Hamlin for valuable documents.
= 80 Dickens tells us that "much is said about
the tongue.' True, the thing is in eyerybody,s
mouth
~ An Irishman. in writing biography. in
forms his readers, that his hero was very young
at the time of his birth 81 IN i'm .rl k4
@ The cultivation of frogs as an article Of
food is largely carried on in the neighborhoodof
New York = - $50 =
CO There are fvehundred cases of smallspox
in New York city at the present time. Forty
deaths occurred last week.
81 The Governor Of Bahia, Brazil, refused to
allow United States dispatch boat to enter that
harbor recently. TatnfFV bge LIZ
" Attention is invited to the advertisement
Of the State Normal School q at Farmington, in
another column.
R Mr.. Guthrie, new Democratic Senator
elect from Kentucky, saysif slavery falls by the
rebellion, let it CO."
EThe retaliation matter, which has been
under discussion in the Senate, is likely to be
left at the discretion of Gen. Grant soM sasi1sn
/ Rlt isreported that the rebel Senator Foote
has arrived insideof our lines in the Shenandoah
Valley. -aos---
H An Irishman, who had been fined several
/ weeks in succession for getting drunk, coolly
proposed to the Judge that he should take him
by the year at . reduced rate. = bas.ei :
RsAman adyertises for Competent person
| TO undertake the sale of d new medicine" and
adds that sit will be profitable to the under
taker.''
WHon. Henry d. worthington. member of
Congress from the State of Nevada, was married
ON Thursday at Annapolis, Md, to Miss Eugenia
Kent. saDeess 9EfGaIG1na h6A
I EAt Chicago wheat has, declined Is cents q
bushel, equal to go cents decline upon -four per
barrel. and pork is So lower No one but spec
ulators will be sorry. - ','9s
" A frightened horse in Bangor attempted
to enter store In Bangor through the cellar
window. He got his fore feet through. but at
the expense Of . probable fatal injury :.
I R1t is proposed to start a daily paper in
Chicago, with capital Of $50O,0o0, Of which
sum $23O, 000 have been subscribed. 1t is to be
conducted by an incorporated company.
e. General Butler, meeting Judge Kelley the
day after Field stabbed him, said he regarded the
assault as an earnest desire torestore the Union
as it was. a - ~ e -
Es.Miss, will you take my arm ~ "La,
yes, and you, too % "Can't spare but the
arm, Miss, y hastily replied the bachelor
''Then, J" said Miss, 81 can't take II, as my motto
| is to go the whole hog or none at all.
EIn Paris there were, in 1927, but i've or
six Protestant churches; NOW there are thirty
five at least; an increase Of not less than Skiold
while the population has increased but little over
twofold. adi bgssusseqHs q bsIuess aosd svGa 9is
BFour of collector Draper's cotton, vessels
are nea,ly'due at New York, and the remainder
of the captured cotton will soon arrive there.
Il win be sold at auction earlyin Febouary, on
the arrival home of Mr.. Draper.
EThe London Times says: "We are in
formed on good authority that the Emperor has
! ordered the Life of Julius CesaITto be trans
lated into English, and has undertaken to cor
rect the proofs himself. 49, ~ - - r =
EThe celored people Of the city Of New
port are petitioning the Rhode Island Legisla-
4 ture to provide by law that the public 'schools
of their city shall be open to the children of this
city without regard to color.
E"Perley'' telegraphs the Journal that the
publication of the report of the Secretary Of
War has been delayed at the request of Gen
Grant,, as it contains much information thai
would be of value to the enemy.
gEThe Ames Manufacturing Company o.
Chicopee, Mass, are casting in bronze the cas-
tern door of the north wing of the Capitol q
Washington. The casts are executed from de
=. AZ. IA 49,
EMichael Daley, a lad of IL, and Jere Don.
ovan--whom the Journal styles 60, confirmed
l young devil of the last degree -haye been arres
I ted in Lewiston for breaking and entering ths
store of Thos. Sykes & Son, and stealing $i5t
worth Of goodsAfA fU{ga GIN gFExf
BMr.. Kasson resolution in Congress pro.
posed o temporary suspension Of the duty OF
foreign paper, which might have passed th'
Senate; but the clamer was for absolute repeal
and now tits likely 10 stick in the Senate at l:
per cent. instead of three as fixed by the House
EA sleeping-ears has just been finished IL
Worcester for the Michigan Southern road, at .
4 cost rof 81 900. 1T is furnished with all tn
modern improvements, including gas and fur
mace, and has berths to accommodate forty weigh
"A passengers. y crw,fggr o., ,,,,gu IN
4 E Mr. Field Of Louisiana, who made til,
1 personal assault upon Mr.. Kelley of Penn, ha.
. written an)apologetic letter to that gentleman
full of regrets for the occurrence This show.
that the manners Of the South have sOmewha
"A improved.
- Mr.. Fessenden has concluded arrange.
mentsyhieh have been forfsome time under con.
Il ,;Ao-c<;,xs kx,t ~ 81 Tx, fr4AlAi Isl
general agents for the seven and three-tenth,
loan, the same as they were for the fve-twenty
loan.s 81 iivs "a Il siao.I,ilis,5i "a s Z
4 W-A ladies' fair was held in Honolulu OF
Nov. 9Th for the benefit of the United state,
Sanitary Commission Tt produced the net sun
of $500. Nearly, $4,000 have been raised. or
the islands during the past three years for tn,
same ohject1a siaeasfsilEs liz ssadw nos zlsss u
4 RFanny Fern lately said: s:If one half q
= thegirls only knew the previous life Of the mer
they marry the list of old maids would be won
4 derfully increased But the Boston Post says
\ ''If the men knew, Fanny, what their future
lives we're to be, wouldn't il increase the list q
old maids still further f''aisa1g gaw bsbEsags :
ED is proposed to give q testimonial to M
Henry Paine Of Rockland Me, who for the pas,
fifty years has been ateacher in public schools
of this State A large preliminary meeting ha.
already been held in Rocklandss His friends at .
distance may send CONSTRUCTORS ..sThe Treas
urer Of the Paine Fund ~ q a0itastasalS5 81
4 ETA French gentleman has pateAted a nesv,
invention for INTERNATIONALLY releasing runaway
horsesfrom carriages, The driver, in case 81
accident mills n atrs n hv uvhich The A..