The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-01-27
ORIGINAL, AND SELECTED.

~As~NAAs1 0IND H4s14lI3S A1A|'
B8 There were 81 persons struck dead by
lightning in France during the year 1864, of
whom 81 were men and 26 women.
EY- The census of 1860 showed colored
population in the District of Columbia of A.
316 This population furnished 2,549 colored
soldiers for the army of the Union. The real
estate owned by the colored citizens was esti-
mated at 81 100000, and their church property
at $125,OOO. rrt.
BY- In the city of New York it is estimated
that there are 5000 places in which gambling
is carried on, and that $5,0Oo,OO0 annually
change hands in these places. In the judg-
ment of leading New York paper one thou
sand young men are annually ruined in that
city by this vice. &
EB- The country papers are to the large
city journals, what the veins in the human
system are to the lungs. They bring in the
crimson tide to be aired before going out again
to supply the wants of the extremities. The
wind apparatus of some of the metropolitan
papers is sufficient to clarity any amount of
crude venous blood, and about all they do is to
take up this blood from the country press, and
supplying it with little educational oxygen,
send it out again as aboriginal product of their
own laboratory.
GB- Equally enterprising-th the merchant
who refuses to advertise because of the expense,
and the farmer who refuses to fertilize his land
because manurial appliances cost money.
Eg- The Quebec Mercury gives rumor
that Hon. George Brown has sold out the To-
ronto Globe, and that the purchasers are COM
pany of American gentlemen, who take the
paper as speculation. The Mercury discred-
its the rumor on the ground that Mr.. Brown is
too patriotic and right-minded to part with the
Globe to foreign purchasers.
VS. The Lake Tunnel at Chicago is rapidly
progressing. Immense fields of ice, during the
late severe weather, dashed against the crib"
which is situated out in the lake some two
miles, and created no little alarm among the
workmen, but as yet the crib has not been
moved. The boring toward the shore has reach
ed distance of fifteen feet. The clay at this
point is much easier worked than that at the
shore end, and consequently they will probably
be able to advance at the rate of seven feet per
day; the work at the shore end being at the
rate of fifteen feet per day. The tunnel now
extends from the shore distance of four thou
sand feet, wanting only three hundred and
twenty feet of being mile
GB- The gross receipts of the Atlantic In
surance Company of New York. in 1865, were
nearly six millions of dollars. Upon this the
government levies a tax of IL per cent.
DP tits decided by the proper authority in
Dublin, that minister of the Church of Eng
land can legally marry himself A .feesible ar
rangement for poor curates.
DB- The New York World says nothing but
the high price of tar and feathers saves the ed
itor-in-chief of the Herald from being present.
ed with a suit, by the roughs who are indignant
at the wantOn attack madson Edwin Booth
BV Wendell Phillips expects to see snch
progress made in machinery, that four hours
will do the work of eight under present condi-
lions. .
DB- Senator Salisbury is disposed to "glory
in his shame" He reminds us of the woman
who had the itch and she wasn't ashamed to
own it, Speaking of the State of Delaware
the other day, in the Senate, he said, "She has
been the last slave-holding State, thank God,
in America, and I am one of the last slave
holders in America ~
+ EB- The Hudson Bay Co. recently forward
ed to st. Paul six thousand mink skins, con-
tanned in twelve ordinary sized boxes-proba-
bly, the most valuable package of furs ever sent
to st. Paul. They were sold to A. Moore at SO
each, making total of $4,000. This is the
largest single transaction in f1rs which ever
took place in st. Paul. The duty upon the
skins was $1,000 in gold. 81, -f-.
DB Chicagonian applies for divorce be-
cause his wife proves to have cork leg. She
resists, because, as she alleges, he knew all
about that before marriage. She says the real
trouble is, that she does not possess couple OF
houses that he supposed she did
10 Montana Territory, through which pass
es from north to south the Rocky Mountain
range, and which lies between Dacotah and
Idaho and next to the line of British America
may be reached by steamers of light draft from
st. Louis, the boats going to near the centre Of
the Territory and making the trip in twenty
eight days. The Territory is not only rich in
minerals, but also in its soil
GI- Brigham Young has had new "reve-
lation." He says it is "the will of God that
the sisters should make their own bonnets and
straw and other material raised in Utah noun
tains." The next revelation" will probably
dictate the style in which they are to be made
and worn. 1t is said that Brigham Yonng has
large lot of rye straw "for sale in lots to suit
purchasers" which perhaps accounts for the
straw hat revelation.
EV The Supreme Court of Louisiana has
decided that Confederate money deposited with
banker created no contract which can now be
recognized. g Wy
GB Starkweather, the murderer of his
mother and sister, is on trial at Hartford 1t is
presumed, from the drift of the cross-examins-
tons, that the defence will put in plea of in
sanity.
GY- Mile Parepa, Mr.. Levy and Herr Rosa
were among the passengers by the Scotia from
New York on Wednesday.
EB The Louisville Democrat claims pop
ulation for that city of 100000 Five years
ago it was but $4,000.
Va The Providence Press makes the in
credible statement that Hartford photograph
er has succeeded in taking picture of himself,
trundling himself home in a wheelbarrow.
A special dispatch from Washington
says counsel for defence in Detective Bakers
trial threaten to summon the President as
witness. ----.,
HY The Portsmouth Chronicle speaks Of
peach trees in bloom in Greenland Only
think of it. But then it is Greenland N. II.
and they are in dollhouse.
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