The Portland daily press., 1865-06-07
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

~ An Austrian Princess lately died in
debtors prison in Vienna ea 4s,, n
RStrawberry festivals are being held in New
York. st4i Ae a1e AEhN
H Londonpapers announce Commodore Mutt
and Miss Minnie Warren's marriage.
80 horse in Birmingham, Eng, died from
fright at seeing camel
- Hon. Hannibal Hamlin is to deliver an
Grafton in Bangor on the 4th of July.
EThe Mormons are putting up a private
line of telegraph in Utah, at cost of $500
mile in gold. ~
gy-The Boston Post asks: ''Shall Lee be tried
is the question He has been tried and found
to be failure
FAn Irishman charged with an assault, was
asked by the Judge whether he was guilty or
not. s'How can TELL" was the reply, "till
have heard the evidence 70
gFMr. Woodward, principal of the Brown
High School, Newburyport, has been chosen
Professor Of Mathematics in the University of
St. Louis. Is
~ One Of the largest mass meetings gathered
in New Orleans for many years was held re-
Gently for the purpose Of sustaining the admin
istration of President johnson. s9
H-It is said that Junius Brutus Booth, who
is still in the Old Capitol Prison astonishes his
jailors by his gymnastic fsats and Indian club
exercises.
TBarnum, now q radical anti-slavery man,
admits that he once owned slaves and sold them;
but that was when he was an ignorant Demo-
crat," he says. sry
REx-Governor Billy Smith Of Virginia, is
said to be roaming in the woods, back Of
Staunton, expressing determination ''to fight
it out"
T., have recently reduced the salaries of female
teachers $75 per annum. This. says an exchange,
is saving at the spiggot.
R Edward Hoffman the pianist and composer,
sailed fer Liverpool in steamship China He
will visit Lond on and Paris, returning in the
month of August.
~ The horses and carriages which President
johnson declined accepting have been sold at
auction in New York, and brought only ss7s5-
! they cost $6275.
RThe bingham Cordage Works were de-
stroyed by fire on Sunday night. Less 1000
Insurance $4,000 on the buildings, and $35, 900
on the stock.
R-O Our returning soldiers passing through
Washington have such peculiar views on the
subject of temperance that Gen. Grant out Of
Difference to their feelings has ordered all the
liquor shops closed. II Jersey City Times.
EThe New York World says: president
johnson has indicated his purpose to give jeff
Davis the benefit of the professional ability of
Charles 0. Connor the recognized leader of the
American har."
RThe statue of Horace Mann has arrived in
Boston, and preparations are to be made at
once for placing it on the State House plat, the
Legislature having several years since appro-
priated $500 for the foundation.
RJeff. Davis ON being asked what he thought
Of the neglect of his Generalto make any pro
visions for his safety, replied that he was pris-
oner, and it did not become him to speak Of it,
butan one could imagine what he thought.
| CD The flags on the mills at Lewiston were
displayed at half mast on Monday as testimo-
NAL of respect in recognition OF the decease of
Francis Skinner,l Esq, Of sBoston, who was
largely interested in the corporation at Lewis
| ton. sErtt ts-fF n ar sf FF
+ RMrs. Jefferson Davis, her four children
and sister and Mrs. Clement G. Clay, arrived in
Charleston harbor, ON board the steamer Clyde,
on the 9th ult., on their way back to Georgia
from Fortress Monroe. They were not allowed
to land at Charleston. st
RIn the city Of Lynchburg, Va, there is
three million dollars worth Of good tobacco
waiting to find way to the market. The accu.
mutations Of this important article of consump-
tionin other districts. extending far down into
North Carolina, are immense 4
ROn Sunday morning last little SON Of
Hon. N. G. Marshall OF York, Me-, fell from
scafold in a barn a distance of sixteen feet,
striking upon his head and breaking his neck.
He was an interesting little fellow Of seven
years, and his sudden death is q severe blow to
his parents AH d avCa
80 The Lewiston Journal says it is rumored
that Napoleon Chapman of Danville, who came
to that city last December with about 800 in
his pocket, was last seen near the Androscoggin
Block and has not been seen or heard of SINCE
was robbed and thrown into the Androscoggin
river.
EWe beg pardon for the frequent seemingly
severe illusions we have made to the editor Of
the argus. 1t did not occur to us that that re-
spectacle sheet was under the management of
woman, and Wido,o at that. Win she excuse
our want of gallantry in speaking of her as an
ex gentleman.
THE Congregational Church and Society
ORTHODOXY in Waterville, have invited Rev. P.
G. Headley, recently of Beverly, N. T., to be-
come their pastor. The Church and Society of
the same denomination in Richmond, have extern
ded an invitation to Rev. Mr.. Grossie, for some
time chaplain in the army.
The loyal white people" of the South,
whom it is claimed are competent to reorganize
and exercise the restored civil power. are of that
kind Of loyalists who short time since were
voluntary supporters Of the rebel cause, and,
making virtue of necessity, are now loyal
simply because rebellion is ''played OUT and no
longer pays.
- The Saco Democrat says that Samuel Red
Ion, Chas. Graffan and another man, all of that
place, went down the river on Sunday last in a
sail boat. and were seen by parties at the Pool
just before the squat came on. after which
man went out from the Pool, but could find
nothing Of them, and it is feared they were all
drowned.
~ Burley, the Lake Erie pirate, is at present
behind the bars at the Detroit House of Correc-
ton; yet he is possessed of spirit of dig-out-
atiyeness" Judging from recent events It is
expected that the Grand Jury at Port Clinton,
Ohio, win inaict him at the June term of
the court, and the case will then, by common
consent, be transferred to the Court Of Common
Pleas at Cleveland where will be tried
BThe London Morning Star says that while
the Russian serfs, before emancipation, werecal-
culated to have consumed about eighteen shi-
lings worth of cotton goods per head, that
amount has already risen to one pound seven
shillpgs per head over the % 200, 900 of eman-
cnated 1,aaraufrv What nm n xvf,,l Ios. go.