The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-01-25
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

his death as to leave his family a handsome
competence after paying his debts. 80
G- During the present high price of coal,
gentleman meeting his coal merchant, in
quired whether it was proper time to lay in q
stock. The knight Of the black diamond shook
his head, observing, " Goals are Goals now sir"
to which the customer replied, 1 am very glad
to hear it, for the last you sent me were slates."
20 The series Of very interesting letters
from the South which have been recently pub
lished in the Nation are, we understand, from
the pen of Mr.. A. W. Kelsey, son of the mana
ger of one of the Lewiston Falls Mills. Mr..
x. went through the South last fall on a COM
mereial tour, in the interest of Boston capital
lists and manufactures. His letters exhibit the
results of much close observation, and sound
Judgment, and being free from the bias of po-
litical interests his conclusions are entitled to
weight aniaa5
W tits told Of the late Sir Ashley Cooper,
that on visiting Paris he was asked by the sur
geon en- chefof the Empire how many times he
had performed a certain wonderful feat of sur
gerry. He replied thathe performed the oper-
alton thirteen times laAh, but Monsieur, I
have done him one hundred and sixty time
. How many time did you save his life 2" contin-
ued the curious Frenehman, after he had look
ed into the blank amazement of Sir Astleys
face. at" said the Englishn,an, Sawed eleven
ont of the thirteen How many did you save
4 out of one hundred and sixty ?"s3 'sAh, Mon
sieur, lose dem ell, but de operation was very
5riiZidnte."
B- The New York cypress has the follow
ing -" IF brooks are, as poets call them, the
most joyous things in nature, what are they al
ways murmuring about ?' The Boston Tran
script suggests that Jim" and Erastus should
be able to answer their own question. s59
va The Portsmouth correspondent of the
Boston Advertiser says some conductors on rail-
roads in that State have been living at the rate
of several thousands a year on salary of $50
month, and rapidly accommodating property
The stockholders smelt a rat, and detectives
set a trap and caught him.
EB At a recent sale of relics a pen, with
which Schiller had written was sold for sixty
cents, and chair that had belonged to Vol
taire brought $500. q, fE .p Il
% The income of the New York churches
the past year is shown by official returns to be
about $18000000. re f5dsis IS - ,zzsse -, a..
EB The Boston and Kentucky Oil Compa-
ny have struck hundred barrel well of the
finest lubricating oil, in Hopkinsville, Ky. Il
Z GBF- The greatest consumption of coffee in
the United States, in any one year, was in 1868,
amounting to PSI, 255,098 pounds. The con-
sumption last year, 1865, was 1913 lac, 356 pounds.
The smallest amount consumed in any one
year for the last fifteen, was in 1863, amounting
to 77719,641 pounds. More than three-fourths
of our whole supply comes from Brazil -
h 10 General Butler, with his family, is in
Washington. sg-nia3l
DB- A despatch from Colfax, California, says
that snow-slide had occurred there burying
house ten feet deep and killing one man.
Gy- A special to the Boston Advertiser
says Senator Creswell, of Maryland, is the au-
| thority for the statement that returned rebels
in that section Of Maryland known as the East
ern Shore, have organized with deliberate in
tent to drive out all freedmen. Numerous out
RACES have already been committed upon them.
Five negro soldiers have been killed in Wor-
cester county, and one in another county has
been beaten nearly to death. -
.Ds General Tillson reports from Georgia
that the planters are much more generally dis
posed now than they were before New Year, to
treat freedmen fairly, and as consequence
conflicts between the two classes are not SO
frequent as formerly. The blacks were so bad
ly used in some counties last fall that they have
mostly left, and there is now great demand for
labor. ,.- h. .is-.s f.t So
Ef" Official reports from Florida show that
the whole number Of freedmen's schools in that
State is eleven, with twenty-one teachers and
nineteen hundred pupils. rs
Eg- The widow of the late Senator Douglas
was married to Gen. Robert Williams, of the
War Department, in the suburbs of Washing
ton, on Tuesday evening. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Father Lynch of the Cath.
Ollie Church, in which faith the bride is com.
municant. t- fs-a -
E3- An earnest advocated foreign missions
is said to have forced himself into the presence
of the 7ribune's editor-in-chief in the Bible
house, New York, the other day, while he was
hard at word ON his Conflict" and importun-
ed him to subscribe to the cause. The veteran
| journalist looked up from his manuscript in q
very choleric mood, and said crustily, "Don,t
ask me to give anything for the salvation o.
souls. I am convinced Cooking significantly
at the intruder) that not half as many people
go to h-lnow as ought to-" @
w More cotton is annually takenby thieves
IN New York than is destroyed by fire. Yet q
single haul never exceeds 80 pounds.
gB- AT st. Adams, w. on the 10th, Mary
Greenough, girl seven years old, was choked
to death by piece of nut shell, and boy who
was sliding down hill was killed by horse.
ES- DR.. Henry Bigelow, an eminent physi.
clan recently deceased in Newton, Mass, a,
one time wasa practitioner in Buxton, in this
State.