The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-15
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Register IS patriot of the first (Southern)
water In his issue of the Sd inst he says:
ITO give and take the customary rest on the
Fourth of July, there will be no issue of this
paper tomorrow morning." and in another par
agraph he explains that "to celebrate it now
for what il was, would be mockery of the
glorious dead past and satire upon the living
present"
Among the passengers by the Scotia,
which arrived at New York ON Tuesday even
ing last, was +. o. @. barley, the artist, who
has been passing nearly two years in Europe.
During the recent stay of the English
screw steamer st. Andrew at Mavsbank, a
pair of enterprising sparrows built their nest
in the bunt OF the ioretop-gallantsail. One of
the seamen, on proceeding to uncover the sail
preparatory to the ships going to sea, discov-
cred the nest, which contained four eggs.
| AT Berlin milk market, with official quo
| tations, Ia, been established.
Many of our readers are aware that the
| Chinese in California send home their dead
| for interment But it is not generally known
| that there is an organized company who take
charge of the whole business. Such, however,
| is the fact An exchange says: persons are
sent from time to time all over California, Ore
gon and Nevada on bone collections. After
preparation they are labeled and sent to Hong
Kong, where friends of the deceased receive
them. The remains of the friendless are cared
for by guilds or benevolent societies. Reli-
eious ceremonies accompany the final inter
ments, in which the attendance of priest is
| not essential"
Mr. John Stuart Mill is no friend of game
,.,,.. IT, A. NJ
| tional Reform Union, in London, he observed:
| "The landlords would get on much better with
the laborers were it not for the accursed sub
| ject of game. Such was the state Of feeling
that had taken possession of the landed inter-
est on the subject of game that he could not
conceive of any agricultural laborer choosing
to be represented by any man who kept a
| gamekeeper."
There is another story of Sheiidan's in
tended marriage, this time to a daughter Of
Judge Foster, of Louisiana, who owns one of
the largest plantations on the Bayou Teche.
| Though an expedition has been fitted out
in England to 60 in quest of DR.. Livingstone,
later intelligence appears to remove all doubts
of his death. DR.. Mellor, formerly q member
of the Livingstone expedition, has arrived at
Cape Town, and pronounces the statement Of
his death authentic. The Times of India, of
May 23, says hopes raised of his safety have
been dispelled and "there can no longer be any
doubt that he was killed by q savage of the
Matte tribe" r as
The Springfield Republican learns on good
authority, that Rev. s. M. Merrill, recently re-
ported drowned in Plattsburg, New York, has
been seen and recognized at Detroit. There
are very lew people in Plattsburg now who be-
leve that he was really drowned, and, indeed,
the evidence to the contrary il conclusive to
any unprejudiced mind. The clothes that he
had on when he fell into the water have been
found scattered along the railroad track at
different points, and there is no doubt as to
| their identity, while his family acknowledge
that another suit, with a small black bag, are
missing, the clothes having probably been ta-
ken to enable the clerical runaway to make a
change after his voluntary bath
Letters from Rome state that the excaya-
tions at Austria, which have been carried on
| principally at the Pope's expense, have lately
been rewarded by important discoveries
| These include seven marble statues of great
beauty, and variety of ornamental sculptures.
Gen. Sheridan was invited to attend the
| laying of the corner stone of a Soldiers Monu-
ment in Detroit on the Fourth, but declined
| ON account Of pressing official duties His let
ter of reply contains the following suggestive
paragraph: "It would give me the greatest
pleasure to again meet those with whom first
started to assist in crushing the Rebellion, the
| officers and soldiers of the Second Michigan
Cavalry, also the gallant soldiers whom 1 had
the honor to command up to the surrender OF
the rebel armies; but the war with me has not
yet closed, and now prevents the qualification
| of this desired pleasure"
The Journal of Chemistry says Massa-
| chusetts wastes more than $50 600 yearly by
| destroying confiscated liquors instead of dstI
| ling them and saving the alcohol.
| The Atlanta Era says that from all the
| lights before us, we perfectly satisfied that
Georgia will go thirty thousand for Recon-
struction, the articles of Ben. III. Hill to tho
\ contrary notwithstanding"
| Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell has been in
Washington for several days obtaining sigma
/ lures to a declaration favoring equal political
| rights for women, 1t has been signed so far
by Senators Wade, Anthony, Sprague, Nye,
1 Pomeroy, and Ross, and Representatives Ju-
lian Trowbridge, Broomall, Loughridge, and
some others al.
San Franc isco is to have a seawall which
| Is described by the Bulletin as follows: "A
pit or channel sixty feet wide at the bottom, at
n level of twenty feet below mean low tide,
win be excavated for the foundation cf the
| wall, which will consist OF rock ombankment
thirteen feet wide at the top, at the level of
mean low tide. When the settling of this wall
| is complete, a body of concrete two feet thick
| and ten feet in width will be laid on, and upon
this will be constructed a wall of solid mason
| ry, seven feet three inches wide, and nine feet
eight inches high, vertical on the land side
ahd sloping on the water side, with an Offset
for the reception of timbers. On the line of
each street sewers will be constructed through
| the wall. The face of the embankment on the
| water side will be protected by a riprap wall
of stones to weigh not less than five hundred
pounds each"
! Constantine de Bodisco son of the late
Russian minister to this government, has just
married Charlotte E., niece of William
Barton, Esq, one of the editors of the Com
mereial Advertiser @'~-