The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-06-22
GENERAL SUMMARY.

~ Gen. Morton c. Hunter, a soldier of
the right stamp, has been nominated for Con-
grcss In the Sd District of Indiana.
~ We find il stated that the colored men
of New Jersey have employed Gen. BENZ. r.
Butler, to claim for them the legal right to vote
in that State.
EA Kansas paper says that five men en-.
canned in tent near Fort Leavenworh, were
struck by lightning recently, and four men
were killed. The fifth barely escaped, being
badly singed.
81 According to the Austrian Military
Gazette, the Austrian army now amounts tn
100000 men. The army of operations will
consist of 100000, of whom 100000 will op
pose the Prtissians. and 1000 the Italians.
~ There Is an apparently wel-grounded
riirnor af1oat in Memphis TINT John II. Sur
rntt, ono Of the leading Lincoln conspirators,
was recently in that city OH his way from
Northern Texas to Missouri.
- Tho latest fashion Of bonnet That has
appeared consists Of TWO ryo siraws tied to-
geiher with blue ribbon on tho top of the
head, with red tassels suspended at each OF
the four ends of the straw.
II According to the recent State census
New Jersey has now population OF seven
hundred aud seven.y.threo thousand aud sew.
en- hundred. which is gain in five years of
over hundred thousand. Hudson anu Essex
counties exhibit the largest relative increase.
~ Among the gentlemen suggested in
the Portland Argus M tho Democratic candi-
date for Governor of Maine, arc Calvin Re-
corl, Esq, of Auburn, l.. +. Pillsbury of
Pennington, Oliver Moses of Bath, and Judge
Rice of Augusta.
~ Ata recent celebration of n miracle in
Rome, the Pope said in the course ofa speech,
that tho present year would bo ono Of triumph
and brilliant victory over the enemies of the
temporal power. al SHALL" he remarked,
"bcllold the triumph, and in 1858, shall rem
der up my soul to God"
ey 1t is said by Canada paper TINT the
"Vision''-the little vessel which started of
OH voyage to Europe last year. with man,
boy and dog, and was reported lost-put into
some obscure port OF the Nova Scotinn coast,
while the owners wife collecteda urge sum
Of money from the companies with whom the
voyngcr had insured his life.
~ The work of removing the remuins of
Union soldiers, buried in and around WASH
ington, is now very nearly completed, and 1t
is said that by the last of the month NIL of the
bodies within ndius of twenty-five miles
from Washington will 10 exhumed and in
tered in the National Cemetery ut Arlington,
WI.
" Congress is beginning 10 evincc de-
sire to finish up tho business of tho session
and adjourn. Mr.. Morrill, gave notice in the
House on Saturday that it would be tho last
speech. making day, and the Speaker obtained
permission for all who had prepared speeches
which could not be delivered to print them in
the Globe.
- We understand that under the new
postal law, prepaid and free letters ARE to be
forwarded at the request Of the party address
ell from one post office to another without
additional postage being charged, and return.
ed dend letters are to he restored to the writ.
crs free Of postage.
II The Evening Montreal Telegraph,
June !, Is very fierce in talking about Yankee
Fcnians, and what mighty things the Cana
dams did in repelling the scOundrels and
thieves, and thinks if the Canadians have a
correspondent of a Yankee paper they better
hang him. The Telegraph talks like fool,
bags like n coward and lies like Sam. Hyde
who was born and educated in Montreal.
~ Mr. e. L. Goodale, Secretary of the
Maine Board of Agriculture, after an inquiry
into the character of the recent cases of cat.
tie disease at York, reports that the symptoms
were altogether unlike peuronemonia, and in
almost every respect like those attending the
rinderpest, now prevalent in England. The
cattle affected have been kept isolated, and it
is thought tllat the disease, whatever it may
have been, has not spread beyond the herd
frs, affected.
II John Townsend, of Edisio Island, 8.
g., the man who gave the Confectionery $780,
600 in gold in 1861, has not been more sue
ccssful in keeping his recently hired German
laborers than he was in retaining his slaves.
He says: "They cost INC tlIirty-fve dollars
each to bring them to Charleston from New
York. ] fed them far better than ever
thought of feeding my hands, even gave them
coffee and sour krout, when whit should they
do but demand butter for their bread, and
milk for their coffee, and the next thing tho
whole crowd left me-"