The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-05-01

The lower branch of the Massachusetts,
Legislature has rejected the eight hour
labor bill by a vote of 100 to 81.
1t is stated that the Morgan horses of
Vermont stood the campaigning of the
late war better lhan any other.
The Boston Advcrtiser refers TO the
fires in the oil regions, and says that the
"oil regions must be an oil-hred hard place
to live IN nowadays"
\ Nevada paper says :-"Folks in this
region feel safe on the cholera score, as
Devils Gate has to be passed before get
ting here, and we live on the inside"
The law prohibiting the sale of iutox-
lcating liquors in the Capitol building at
Washington, has passed both Houses of
Congress.
Letters not properly stamped are trans
mitted to the Dead Letter Office, from
which they are returned-not to the per-
son addressed-but to the writer.
II. j. ElIicott, youth af Is, Las exc
cuted in plaster life, size statue of Mr..
Lincoln, which has been placed in the
Capital Rotunda, where 1t attracts much
attention.
Ia the United States Senate, Mr.
Sprague has Introduced a resolution d.
rectpg tue Secretary ef War to change
the names Of the forts called after promi-
nent rebels.
Some experiments made at the Exper.
imental Grounds at Washington, seem to
show that slight covering, mere board,
over grape vines, prevents mildcw-
In the Scpate $4,000 has been placed
at the disposal Of the President for suit
ably rewarding the officers and sailors
who aided in rescuing 500 Americans
from the Ill fated steamer San Francisco
An agricultural writer says of the
childrGn's favorit9 pop corn, that abounds
in phosphate Of line, just the ;hihg to
furnish material for their growing boues
and brains. 1t is very easily dlgested.
A FIRE in Genesee, N. Y on Thursday
Of last week destroyed five new blocks, of
the value of $4,000. holding
lamp close to the faucet of kerosene
barrel, while drawing oil.
The municipal authorities Of Boston
have enacted that the bowling and billiard
saloons of that city shall be closed at ten
O'Clock every evening except Saturday,
and from six o'clock on that evening until
over Sunday.
The rapacious New York landlords
have o7crshot their mark. Since the
moving tine of April l, there. are many
houses for rent and no takers. -Four
hundred houses are noted by one news
paper as labeled "For Rent"
The question of the reduction Of the
army has lately been discussed in Con
gress. Ii is thought that the House will
not sustain an aggregate of more than
SO 0 or 10000 as the peace footing Of
our army.
There are Oh file at the War Depart.
ment between seven and eight thousand
applications from officers Of the volunteer
service for positions in the new regiments,
to be raised under the army bill now
pending in Congress.
Among the reports from the capital is
is one that Congress will not adjourn, but
hold in session until the new session .
commences on the first Monday of De- .
cemberj to prevent any covert act BY the I
President in the vacation.
A vault fer the Union dead who fell
on the Virginia battIe-1e',,s h1~@ been de-
signed for the Washington cemetery. !;
will be in circular shape, with an iuterier
diameter Of 20 feet, and covered with a
hcmisI herical arch or domo. In the top
f this dome will be an elliptical opening,
covered with a stone tablet, on which
proper inscriptions nay be made.
Since the President issued his late cir.
cular to the ff.rent heads of the Gov
ernment apartments, recommending that
in all cases Of clerical appointments pref
crence be given to ex soldiers and sailors,
the rush of app.i,ants of this class has
been unusually large. As the depart
ments are already over crowded with en-
plOyees it is impossible to find places for
one in hundred of the new applicants.
One Of the new style of hats is de-
scribed as not unlike the barber's basin,
which Don Quixote fashioned into a
helmet 1t is stuck sqaarcy on the wear
cr's head, like the cover of dinner-pot.
1t is fastened to its place by means of rio.
bons about as wide as your two hands,
and tied under the chin, forming gigan-
tic bow, rather larger than the leaf of a