The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-09
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

G Australian papers make mention OF
sudden and intense heat in the middle of Nov.
affecting the health of very many persons.
! several animals, principally eats and dogs, died
of sunstroke. On the 21st the thermometer at
Adelaide reached 1875 degrees in the shade,
and 1855 degrees in the sun, as shown by the
register at the observatory. a,,,.s.... i.
BR-The New York Tribune says you never
saw proposition to "equalize" two salaries by
reducing one of them, or to "fix' them in any
way which did not take more money out Of the
Treasury. Whenever salaries are "fxed," or
regulated" or "equalized," the taxpayers are
| sure to suffer. -4 "a. r....7~
"Perley" sends very full and detailed
report of President Johnson's interview with
the colored delegation on Wednesday last. The
President spoke very fully and plainly, but re-
vealed heart all right whether his head is ex-
actly right or otherwise. He treated the dele
| cation with all due respect, and the interview
closed with mutual expressions of thanks and
| good will. s,e1E ...s.st,.rN -,y.
GB-The Matamoras Ranchero, paper seek
| ing notoriety by its violent abuse of the Gov
eminent of the United States, persists in as
sorting that President Juarez was in San An
tonic on Jan. 7th. Its statements are very
positive; but are nevertheless entitled, we be-
lieve, to but little credit. The arrival of Pres
ident Juarez at San Antonio early in January
would certainly have been Geographically an
nounced to the country by this time, from New
Orleans. That, however, the condition of the
Liberal Government, and of it's forces on the
Rio Grande, has for some time been anything
but satisfactory, admits of hardly Doubt
my. Tribune. Il w s-H Il.
% The Charleston Courier learns from the
interior that the plantations are being worked
profitably and the planters are cheerful and
hopeful 1t is thought the yield of cotton this
year will be fully one-half that of ordinary
times. The freedmen are behaving remarkably
well. Al. tfr .stsf5 ~ --.'e- -
GB Governor Orr, upon the invitation of the
Collector of Charleston, visited the United
States steam revenue cutter Kewanees last
Thursday. The Governor was received with a
salute of seventeen guns, the first instance
since the close of the war of naval salute to
the Governor of the State. '-'si 'sae
By-A colored man was drawn at Worcester,
Mass, on Monday, to serve as Juror, at the
present term of the Superior Court. The Spy
says it is the first instance of the kind in the
county, if not in the State. iHtat
GY- Miss Maria Baldwin, graduate of
Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio, has filled
the chair of Professor of the Greek and Latin
languages in the Baker University in Kansas
for the past year. Sheis only twenty-one years
old. iS1L{- .l.t GrCt2 ~. -sltIfE
ER "Burleigh" writes from New York to
the Journal, as follows civilian B. Astor
owns from 1900 to 1900 houses. He controls
the rents of New York, and is greatly respon-
sible for the awful rise in rents. One of his
small houses was rented for $500. Last year
he raised the rent to $500, and charges this
year $500 for the same. OF course, all feel
justified in following the lead of Mr.. Astor."