The Portland daily press., 1865-06-06

sons who drank out of the johnson House well
April 10th were poisoned, and hints that some
witch threw arsenic into the well. D. gaeFFE 81
90 David Barker ignores the name copper
head" and "traitor" for our metallic friends, ard
says'T call you hence Booth Democratsl for
ever" .sisp- 3aet
RK we were always as particular mot to
breathe foul air as we are not to. drink dirty
water, we should have q different race of beings,
physically, from what we now have. 44@
RThe eulogy of Rev. s. F. Dixie of Bath,
on the late President Lincoln, delivered in that
city on the LIST inst, has been requested for pub
LEGATION. ssrssk TgE <fssT4 I
Is Bermuda advices of the 3Oth ult., state
that the rebel steamer Niagara, with 1000 bales
Of cotton at Galveston, had arrived atEBer-
muda.
RA cabman charge with aseaultng young
lady whom he had engaged to drive to the rail-
way station in Manchester, Eng. has been seom-
mitted to hard aber for six month. ~ Y 1851
HRev G. w. Carr of South Tamworth, N.
H., May oath, found crew's nest, from which
he took two pure white CROWS, also one black
crow. He has the whole brood in good health
H-If JEFF Davis is nervous and timid in
seasons Of a thunder tempest, he has decided
advantage over the warning elementsin his snug
retreat at Fortress Monroe. 10 EE
VRev. Theodore Monod,s son of the late
Frederick Monod, is coming to this country to
represent the wants of the Evangelical society of
France. 10 s4AJ
4 EE-Mr. Daniel Fish Of Lsnsingburg, N. Y,
has promised to give the sum of $4,000 to-
the Methodist General Biblical Institute" to
be located in or near Boston. s@ ASA
81 At Vienna q theatre is representing a
piece entitled, ''Four Years of Civil War in
America, or the Death of Lincoln One would
think here was material for more than Eve act
play. 80 rsasai 4in1sssflss4 rssssa6s., 81 ~ 7e-
~ A comical accident on the occasion Of
the first performance of the Africaiue is told in
Paris. A critic had bought ticket, which was
attached by the sheriff upon the application Of q
tailor, whom thecritic owed some money. 4
EThe Maehias Republican says Mr.. Isaac
G. Johnson Of Cutler, had his hand badly in
jured in his single mill last week. A portion
Of his left hand was cut off by coming in contact
with the saw. 1AA essAA
RIti is stated that 10, 600 Canadians have
left Canada for the United States within, the
last eight months, We shall have all the
Canadians and Canada herself by and by at
that rate. O. eaNR R 9a
4 q Loyal Tennesseans are, now prosecuting
secesh citizens who prosecuted and despoiled
them during the war, and getting $4,000 dam
ages. Abouta dozen cases were thus disposed
of recently in the Bradley County Court
- The Bangor Whig says that at Mr..
Egery's mill in that city. on Saturday, a work.
man named Charles Rose, had his left hand
caught in a plane. and SO badly injured that
the anputation Of three fingers became nee
essary. s h.,v 49, ~ fa@H.e
50 The Richmond Repablic says that four
teen thousand five hundred and ffty-seven citi-
zens, soldiers and ladies have taken the oath of
allegiance to the United States in that city since
the Sd of April last. ss3eoo -osz.aus
VGen. Butler has had prepared about 200
silver medals to be presented to meritorious COL
ored soldiers of the Army of the James, bearing
Latin question. s HFsrro lis libertds per-
veaiet;' literally translated, Liberty comes to
them by the sword.
~ The Lincoln Lodge, I. o. o. F., Bath,
- '-sl-s : go =, - le+s' ai'e'
under very fattering prospects. Hon. Elisha
Clarke has been chosen N. g., or presiding
officer. 90 SKA rrw
70 Some important discoveries. have been
lately made at Pompeii. Among others is sun
dial, with numerous Greek Inscriptions A
very valuable ana rare cameo hasalso been found
by child, and has been placed in the rich col-
loct;on of +ho Mnso,,,, - 49, e7ss.T
- .-zs-r,.. - ~ =
~ me bapust Chronicle says At an ex-
amlhatlon Oh girls Tor the rite denomination
in the Episcopal church, in answer to the ques-
ton, "What is the outward and visible sign and
form In baptism e The reply OF a bright little
theologian was, The baby, sir. =
RIt is hard for some people to get out Of
the room when their visit is really over; they
mans 70 i; % on o gu. aney don.t know how to
built in your naror ar study and we've wo;t ion
to be launched. ssFEH EsAAaA~ 9EAk T
BThe Messrs Appleton OF New York have
in preparation for publication ex- President Blu
chanan's defence Of himself from charges of
collusion with the secessionists at the close of
his administration. r. svsoAs
.RM Miss Ada Mcdowell hung herself in Cleve-
land jail last Saturday night, and her heartless
father heard the news with exultation, as sssbe
had cost him heap of money. A contempo-
rary justly remarks that the existence of such a
father explains thief fate of the daughter. sa
EA poor woman told her minister. who
was collecting for a benevolent object, that she
,q A., not give ganea year as the great
Her heat was better n her srthet;c "scn
of her poverty she was giving more than the
rich
The New York Tribune, in an article on
MIR. Wendell Phillips says: But for his mis-
fortune in having received his moral and rel;o-