The Portland daily press., 1867-03-28
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First page-The Maine State Press, What
will promote the Growth and Prosperity of
Portland?, Cumberland Bone Co.'s Super
phosphate, Difference in Taste, In Memoriam,
"Bully" for Nasty Recent Publications Last
page-Winter's Harvest--poetry, A Partisan
Story, A Domestic Drama, A QueeriL Lawsuit,
anecdOte. iers4f 9dl Ge1rstr..r 10 .rf hsI
Burlington (Vt. Press says that the
farmers around the country are tapping the
trees in their sugar orchards. The sap runs
freely, and there is promise of a good sugar
season. .s,
Two Mechanics became involved in quar-
rel on Front street, Cincinnati, on Sunday
afternoon, and one, named Mackey, killed the
other, named Connolly, by cutting his throat
with penknife. The wounded man lived but
a few minutes. aii il5H Es.td i;W c
q "A cook at one of the fashionable hotels in
New York receives salary of sixty dollars per
week beside his board and lodging. $3.50
The nomination of Gen. Frank P. Blair as
Minister to Austria, was referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, who promptly
reported that it be rejected. ,.Y
Secretary McCulloch contracted the cur
renry during the month of February to the
amount of four millions of dollars
-Mosby the once notorious guerrilla leader,
is now contentedly engaged at Richmond Va,
in the manufacture of corn-cob pipes, which
he offers for sale to the tobacco smokers Of
that REGION. .Eu 7H. -i 1910
Frank p. Blair, the recently rejected ap-
pointee to the Austrian mission, was invited
the other night to address the copperheads of
Hartford but he was heoted from the stage. The
audience refused to hear him. .,
The English papers are well posted. They
mistake Morrissey, the captured Fenian, fer
oar Morissey, the most striking representative
OF New York Democracy, and the London
Herald says it will avail him but little that he
represents New York in Congress
1T Is stated by the Springfield Republican
.has oohh b. Cough has been offered $500
YIN sold, night and a furnished house, for
ye"r lectures at London, one in week fl
-General Sherman has expressed his desire
and intention, if he can obtain leave of the
President and Ganeral Grant, to 60 ON Cantain
Duncans excursion to the Holy Land, which
is to sail in June next. r.l..... f...
The Montgomery Nail says the project of
annexing West Florida to Alabama is serious
Iy entertained by both sections. .r, ~.
-Ex-Presdent Fillmore is a prime mover
in society for prevention of cruelty to ami
mails, in Buffalo . al.s.-.r
The set-to between Messrs. Butler and
Bingham on Tuesday last was more malignant
and disgraceful than the previous one, and the
House would do well, if it has no mules by
which to punish such outrages upon parlla-
mentary decency to establish one without de-
lay. 'r 'a-a
The fire which consumed the house of
onas' T. Cove Of Deering, N. H., last Friday,
was set by his wife, who is insane and has
sihce peen sent to the ASYLUM at Concord
lt was with difficulty that she could he hinder
ed from destroying her own life AMONG tho
burning buildings -
The Springfield Republican has a detailed
account of six cases of trichinosis in that citv
one of which resulted fatally. The disease ia
| traced to eating raw ham.
Says the Boston Advertiser with a degree
of Justice that should preclude all apologies;
"We do not wish to insist unduly upon un
pleasant facts, but it does appear that if Con
necticut had only been willing to take the
medicine which she prescribed for the South
few hundred voters would be very accepta
bic at about this time, as a provision for con-
! tnSencles to say the least"