The Portland daily press., 1865-06-19
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

ton, ana chestnut coal for 81.
~ Inc Prince of Wales has reoei yed the de-
gree Of Ii. D., from Trinity College. Dublin.
The CITY of Rockland is to indu,oe In a
grand celebration on the approaching Fourth
~ Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton !. ,,nderoo;ng
the operations OF Partisan aurist for deafness.
u The receipts of the fair at Chicago at the
end Of the second week amount to s9Oo 900.
W The health of A. H Stephens Il said 10
be very precarious.
% II is stated that the Empress of Russia
only spent $500 900 during her seven months
stay at Nice
81 A Phiadelphia gentleman is having
yacht built at an expense Of $65, 900. A costly
plaything e s3s..& e
V Two projects are being discussed in Bos-
ton. one for line Of steamers to New Orleans,
end one for new theatre. ar j, $780,
e. An advertiser in one of the papers says
he has cottage to let. contsiuing eight rooms
and anacre Of land aeisas aa iiiw latss
- A New York paper says that Of seventy
five street walkers arrested in New York in one
night, not one had ever attended school!
e. The arrest of Ben. Wood, by orders from
Washington, is reported, probably because Of
the developments in the assassination trials.
az Gen Lee and A. H. Stephens have made
application for pardon. Why don't JEFF. Davis
and the Washington assassins do the same9s
- heAthsnaam Society of Bowdoin Col
lege will celebrate its sgd anniversary this eyenz
ing, by an GRAFTON and poem
~ Those rebels who complain of the terms
OF the Presidents Amnesty Proclamation, re-
mind US of the aRp Who "l0oked gift horse in
the mouth. ~ 1rapsIfsf. -91
E English gossip says that recent two
eolumn editorial in the London Morning Post,
against the policy Of hanging JEFF, Davis, was
written by Lord Palmerston. aiigssaN
- The English people have already contrib
uted fund equal to 800, 900 for the family Of
the late Richard Golden, consisting Of his es-
Unable lady and five daughters. "a
EE 3. Walker. Superintendent Of the p. &
K Railroad Co.'S machine shop at Augusta, has
been presented with an elegant pocket-book con-
timing $780,
81 Thenumbsr Of fires in London last year
exceeded the number of frss in Paris, Berlin,
Vienna, st. Petersburg and Philadelphia put to-
,gether. sra s4i5sfssa
81 Astrawberry farmer in New Jersey says
hs shall be able to pick 1000 quarts Of berries
from his two cores Of ground. He is selling
them now in New York at so cents per quart
~ The Washington Intelligencer reports
from North Carolina and Maryland that good
relations exist between slaves and their former
masters, and that the system of paid labor is
working its way successfully. 81 Sl5ass
Mrs. General Gaines has gone down the
Mississippi River, with q retinue of lawyers. to
make another effort, at New Orleans, to gain
| possession of the immense estate left by her
father. 49, n =, Fl, 80 s,'a.,i ss5I
- Mr. B. L. Marsh, of the wen known dry
goods firm Of Jordan, Marsh L Co., Of Boston,
died in New York on the 18th. He was about
forty years of age. and leaves widow and two
/ children. 5.asa y Sc a @ a
- The Commercial Bulletin heads an arti-
Gle with the question: ssWhere ought the Yves,
to tradei' II the quesaion was intended for US
70 answer, We should say, whore she can do
bssts aoas gsisss sssg5g a Gins -
E Twenty five years age Mr.. MCGUIRE, Of
Albany, adopted an orphan boy and educated
him. After becoming of age he went to Cali
fornia aud made . fortune. He subsequently
visited England, whore he recently died, leaving
BY will $50, 900 to the Mcclure family, sassa
e The Lewiston Journal understands that
gentleman of this city has taken the contract
tosbuild the new Catholic Church in that place.
The brick and mortar are upon the ground, and
4 i Is. ekpected the work will commence inmedi-
R Mr.. E. W. Metcalf has placed at the dis
pesal Of the Mayor Of Bangor, fifty dollars fol-
the purpose of providing one or more water
tanks in suitable places, that will contain cool
water for drinking purposes during the warm
\ months, z IL Vs51 = to10aptgA FFsAitI
- The Bangor Democrat calls the report Of
JEFF. Davis cspturs In his wifs's clothing,l ga
malicious story invented by Mr.. Stanton. A
straw like this shows the sympathy of the Dem
ocrot for the arch traitor, and that they are peas
of the same pod. W e 6lC
81 The Bangor Wing says that on Thursday
afternoon, Miss Lizzie Abbott, young lady re-
siding in Newburgh. .diedin the Hatch House in
that city, from the effects of poison. The YER
dict Of the jury was that the deceased came to
her death by taking, voluntarily, q sufficient
quantity ofo of cedar to produce death. The
evidence showed that it was q casa of suicide.
q Wendell Phillips publishes note in the
New York Evening Post, in which he says the
reputation he spoke of in Boston was that Of
which the rebels would be guilty il they were
allowed to get into Congress, by restricting suf-
fraRe at the South to the whites. Mr.. Phillips
says biz speech was written out carefully, before
it was delivered, and that he used the precise
language Of the manuscript, which he read me-
morttsr.. .s.z..sr ~.rfs. sss.Sss