The Portland daily press., 1866-03-20
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

BB- Farmers may be interested to know that
apound of eopperas dissolved in a pailful of
soft soap and applied to onions has been found
not only to protect them from the maggot, but
to promote the growth. ~
| B-The Logansport Hndiana) Journal says:
For the first time in the history of our courts,
| a negro woman, Mrs. Amanda Lindsey, nee
Hill, was admitted to testify in the Cass Cir
cult Court, on last Tuesday, in the case of the
State of Indiana against WISE Objections
were made by the attorneys for the defence,
which were overruled by his honor Judge Bid
die.
! vs. The Santa Fe Gazette is not in favor of
making New Mexico State, and adds that a
large majority of the people of the territory
are strenuously opposed to it,
EB From the experiments of the three past
| seasons, correspondent of the Mirror and
Farmer deduces the average of 4 IL gallons of
maple sap to the pound of sugar.
4 go gB- An explosion of fire-damp occurred
the other night in the shore end Of the Chicago
Lake Tunnel. Two of the workmen were Sc
verely burned, but not SO much as to endanger
their lives. The explosive carburetted hydro
gen accumulates rapidly in the tunnel when
work has been suspended for any considerable
length of time, and the current of pure air
which is forced in from the mouth is shut off,
Since the commencement OF the work several
explosions have occurred but none heretofore
has been attended with serious results. 5r
The Boston Post calls Congress the mod
ern bdbble on. ,,s,.+. ava. .-s-.--F
30 EB- A Latin journal in Paris has begun
business under the title of Apis Roman. Z
GY Judge George w. Paschal, of Texas,
writes co Governor Hamilton of the same
| State, that after having tried in the Cabinet
the Senate, and the House of Representatives,
to learn just what the Texas Convention ought
to do to avoid difficulty, he does not think ne
gro suffrage is positively required as yet but 1t
may be regarded as settled that the representa-
ton Of the negro without suffrage uig not long be
tolerated if the States be admitted upon that
principle. Whether the objection be sound or
unsound, the principle will be changed, even if
it be by an amendment to the Constitution"
GB- The police of Philadelphia now arrest
llpersons found lounging at the street corners
and in front of churches Sunday. About a
hundred and fifty young men were taken into
custody for this offence, on the 18th inst. --isf
B5- The bills of fare of the Paris restau-
rants now include American mince and apple
pies and buckwheat cakes, and the bars con-
spicuousy announce american cocktails and
smashes." d - 81 & ~
GB- The New York Herald says the Demo-
cratic party must take new shape and new
name before it can expect to accomplish any
| important political revolution. The party
| record of the war has killed it as dead as the
Bourbons. The new wine of Johnson's policy
cannot be put into the old democratic bottles of
the Chicago Convention" Call you this back
| ing your friends Do 1inY-I
GB- The San Antonio (Texas) Herald is
charmed with the serene peace that prevails in
that city: with the exception of fifteen or
twenty fights and the exchange of a few friend
ly shots without any unfortunate results, moth
ing has happened of moment for two days"
EB The GAINESVILLE Era thinks that Florida
will soon have superabundant population, as
emigrants are pouring in from all parts of the
world. 1t bids them welcome, and assures
them of kind eception-particularly if they
bring money rr---a