The Portland daily press., 1867-07-09

| The sherry-wine merchants at adiz told
| our consul that "the stuff sent to the United
! States was not sherry at ALL but merely slops
used to wash out the tubs, and for other dirty
work ab out the stills" - ''
"A church is to be erected in London te
| commemorate the abolition Of slavery, and to
| be at the same time memorial of President
| Line oln. -ss '--- F@s'
Cheerful Chicago now complains of q
plague of fishes. The bed of the river is said
| to ba strewn with dead fishes which send up a
horrible stencil to the nostrils OF the city's den
| izens. .
| The railroads running west from Milwau-
kee, Wis, have offered to carry destitute emf
| grants going beyond that point free of charge
The city has also provided an agent to look af-
ter their welfare and See that no imposition is
| practiced upon the ignorant foreigners.
John G. Underwood in communication
to the editor of the Washington Chronicle
states that the registration in Virginia is half
completed, GOO names having been enroll
ed. Of these 5000 are colored and $4,000
white 10000 of the whites are radical Repub-
licans.
The Mexican ministe at Washington
thinks that Esoobedo's barbarous wish that
"the blood of every for reigner in his country
might be split" is Brownvlle fabrication.
The Washington correspondent of the Wor-
cester Spy says that Mast, the humorous art
ist of Harper's Weekly, has formed an alliance
with Nasty, and that the latter will furnish
the letter-press for Lives of Distinguished
Gov ,vx-;ll 4,
illustrations.
I'VE have to pay for everything" as the
man said when mosquito, after serenade,
sent his bill into him. ...
1t is said there is widespread objection
among the colored women of the South to
have their old plantation marriages legalized
by being remarked in church. The objection
is that as they are they can control their own
wages; if married according to law their hus-
bands will control the wages and them too.
"A correspondent in Mississippi writes that
the freedmen are told that the object of a reg
istration is t. identity the marketable negroes,
go that they may be taken to Cuba ami sold.
Very few Of them are simple enough to be
"sold" by such a transparent fiction.
1t is fact worthy of note that the crown
ed heads of Europe did not discover that
shooting prisoners of war was murder until
one of their own number was victim to the
cru ell CODE
1t was on the third of July, the anniversa- :
ry of the battle of Sadowa, which forced Aus
tria to loose her hold upon Venice, and lower
her flag to Prussia, that the Austrian court
ool1o od IN mt
Archduke Macmillan. The Princess Matilda
who died on the day following the coronation
at Pesth, had been In her grave but few
days. Another member of the family, Prince
Macmillan of Tours, had followed her after a
brief interval. Last Of ali came the tidings
from Queretaro; and on the anniversary of the
great defeat, the House of Hapsburg clothed
itself in mourning for sorroHs more bitter than
defeat.
Some Juveniles jim Gardiner set fire to a
store-house in that city on the morning of the
Fourth, and it was burned down.
"A friendly match game of base ball, took
place Saturday, June 29 between tho first
nine of the Feattoot base ball of Mechanic Falls
and the Phil Sheridan base ball club Of Gray,
on tue Gfouuus VI the ioriiier. Ihe SaHic i.iSt-
ed three hours and quarter, and was won by
the Phil Sheridans by a score Of 62 to 56 for
Fleetfoots. Ft o. Clll-
The steamer Belle Crown on leaving the
wharf at Calais Wednesday morning caught
her line under the wheel stopping its motion
and before it could be cleared she drifted
ashore. She will be hauled up for two or three
days during which the steamer Queen will
run In her place. -Ta .E-