The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-06-12

The July atlantic will be brilliant with
posthumous paper by Hawthorne, a paper on
the piano manufacture in this country, by
James Parton, and contributions by Lowell,
Whittier, Holmes, Howells, and DR.. Hayes.
The following are among the signs over the
shops of negro traders at Fort Smith, Arkan-
sas; "Camphein And burnn flewd.'' "Chest
Nuts billed and Roar" "Can sect cheers Re-
seeted Hear" "Washin, ironin, & goin out
doin dais wurks dun here ......-
ID The Marion (Ohio) Independent says that
thirteen human skeletons, of an extinct race,
were found in au excavation for cellar in that
place lately, and expresses the opinion that the
hill upon which the excavation was made is
full of similar remains. A singular til ing about
the skeletons found was that the arms had all
been broken between the elbow and the Shout
der, and the thigh bones had also been broken.
1.-TWO of the skeletons were of females, the rest
of males. The females, when living, must
have been taller than the average of men of
the present day. The males must have been
seven or eight feet high"
DIR. s. G. Howe writes from Athens to the
Secretary of the Cretan Relief Committee in
Boston, under date of May 10th, 81 have been
here and at work a week. The number and the
sufferings of the refugees have not been exag-
gerated. The funds, however, from Russia and
England were not quite exhausted, and 1 am
therefore in time as far as the application of
our funds is concerned. They will be of un-
speakable use. Assure our contributors, men
and women, that their gift will do great good
and bring down thanks and prayers. The de-
feat for such it is, of Omar Pasha's grand ex-
petition, settles the Cretan campaign, if not the
ultimate fate Of the island"
Some of the Western farmers who have
been holding on to their grain in exp ctation OF
| famine prices have had their fingers badly
burned. They are now hurrying it to market
| at reduced prices. In Delaware county, Iowa
according to despatch from that place, there
is considerably more wheat for sals than any
| one supposed few weeks since, nd farmers
are now bringing in whatever they have for
sale and selling it at $3.50. insteld of 1925
which they could have sold it for a. few weeks
since.
There is some discussion as to whether Mr..
Johnson's continual desire to "repair the
brooches made by the war;" does not indicate
that the instincts of his original profession are
still strong in him?
-Thackeray says that the soothing plant of
Cuba is sweeter to the philosopher after din
ner than the prattle of all the women in the
world.
Mr. Kangabe is the somewhat alarming
descriptive title of the new Greek minister to
Washington, where CAB is all too lenty
-Thaddeus Stevens's new projeo It of confis-
eating property enough in the Sout h to pay for
damages done by the rebels in thu North re-
minds the New York Matt IN OF the old proverb
about the difficulty of taking the breeks off a
Highlandman."
The Malta Times of the 9th of May says
"Within the next month there will be in the
Mediterranean waters no fewer than nine
feets-the English, the French, the Italian
the Russian, the Austrian, the Am erican, the
Spanish, the Turkish, and, finally, the Prus-
sian, which is just announced as having des-
tined Naples as its first station''
| creosoted sleeper, put down on the
o'ooA'oh and Darlington railway in England
III August 1884, was taken up March IA, 1867,
aIter heariy 20 years service. The grain of the
WOOD, aiIhough slightly discolored by creosote
is as fresh and apparently as tough as that of
newly-sawed timber, and the odor of crao.ota
is as strong as if the wood had Just been onar-
ated upon.
The latest illustration of rneanness has hean
furnished by the Democratic State Committee
of Ohio. At time when good men of both par
les, at the North, are raising money and buy
ting corn to help the starving So uthern poor
this Democratic Committee is send ing circulars
all over the South, asking for tie II cent sub
scriptions to help carry the mex: o hio election!
The Baltimore Commercial tells about q
Spaniard, belonging to the re, ,enue cutter
Boston lying in Portland harbor," who got in
to disreputable fracas in the City of Monu-
ments last week. There is no such cutter
here,