The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-24
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First page-A New Democratic Develop
ment; Sunshine from Icebergs; Not quite so
fast. Last page-Good Night and Good Morn
ing-poetry; All Nations but One; Anecdotes
MIR. z. L. Barnum evidently got out of his
sphere when he undertook to run for Congress.
He received in the district 614 votes less than
Hawley while his Democratic competitor had
220 more than English. Doubtless many vote
was withheld from him on account of his hum /
bugs, by poorer specimen Of that kind of
insect than Barnum himself z co SIS
Three men shot 48 wild geese and 80 looms,
near the mouth of the Connecticut river, the
other day. -s-lf faat zali.I 4a5
"A very handsome vessel named the John
Wesley was launched at Aberdeen, Scotland
on the LIST inst. She was built by the Wesley
an Missionary Society for missionary purposes
Walter Brown has arrived at Pittsburg,
where he is to row match with Hamill. Both
the contestants are in training tor the match.
Brown is in his twenty-seyenth year, is five feet
nine inches in height and weighs one hundred
and sixty-eight pounds. Hamih is five pounds
heavier. asl t.. lH ae aroaT
Edwin Booth has consented to play Ham
let one night in Providence, by request of cit
liens headed by Gov. Burnside.
"A new daily paper is proposed in Jersey
City of which it is said that Major a. K Pang-
born-formerly the very able editor of the
Times will take charge ltl.l 5l 800 {
The aggregate receipts at six different
places of amusement in Boston, for the month
of March, were $685. varying from $21 207 at
the Boston Theatre to $6O05 at the HI oward
Athenaum. The receipts at the Museum were
$12,2s2. ..1 -atH s
Lawrence papers say the strike there is
ended; most of the strikers who can get back
to work at the old hours, have done So
The Richmond Wing learns that it is now
establishing beyond a possibility of doubt that
the recent catastrophe at the Glover Hill coal
pits was the result of carelessness.
-Ristori's last engagement of three nights
in Chicago brought receipts to the amount of
$10,6OO lrE-a.a
Fred. Douglass was beaten in the Union
Convention in Monroe, New York, for dele
gate to the Constitutional Convention, by Hon.
freeman Clarke. The vote stood, Clarke sc,
Douglass A.
An immense mass meeting of the citizens
of Daren county, Georgia, was recently held,
at which patriotic resolutions were adopted,
and harmony between both races was advoca-
ted Er 1916
The Republican majority in Michigan at
the recent judicial election was q 874. 1885,
--Colored citizens voted few days since at
the Colorado election without any intenup.
ton.
DIR. Abrahams, who died suddenly in New
York the other day, left nearly the whole of
tic l.,aa o1,o
tons. ) ~ rE--
james Merrill killed in Berkshire county,
Mass, last week, five eagles, the wings of one
measuring five feet six inches from tip to tip
Says the Boston Post, the Round Table
doesn't like the Russian treaty; other papers
make game of it, and some say it is ''fishy"
We can "bear' all this and re-"f1r" the whole
matter to the judgment of the country.
The farm of Daniel Webster in Franklin,
N H. containing $50 acres, is offered for SALE
Robert Toombs says he prefers the polite
al advantages of America to living anywhere
else in the world. But for these political sad |
vantages" it is probable he wouldn't be living
anywhere in the world 81 E- 5ar |
-The supply of gas to the governors man. |
sion in Richmond was recently turned off be- |
cause the governor refused to pay his gas bill |
without the five per cent discount, which he |
had forfeited by delay. |
1t is estimated that upwards of 1900 men. |
over 1000 boats, and IA 600 traps and at least |
capital of $15O,OOO are employed in lobster |
catching in the New England States.
"A regular bounty is paid by the English |
government for every authenticated case of a
triple birth. The Court Journal complains
that they are becoming too frequent, and calls
for an investigation. Judging from such works
as those of Dr. LIE Prohon and Rev. DIR. Todd,
it will soon be necessary to pay regular boun-
ties in this country, in cases of single birth.
The Young Mems Mercantile Library As |
ISOLATION of Cincinnati is much agitated on the |
questlon OF allowing colOred persons TO- join the |
association.
"A New Hampshire democratic paper char
acterlzes Mrs. Stoves visit to the South as an
exhibition OF cheek quite worthy of the
Beecher family"
Private letters from Paris state that the
snobbery of many Americans is disgustino-
Abbotts interview with the Emperor ,pclnd-
ed. s-..,...
The Milwaukee Wisconsin thinks that the
breadth of land in that State sown to wheat
will be one-third larger than was ever before
put in.
A Texan gentleman writes to the editor of
the New York Times that there is DISPOSE
ton at the South to unite with the conserva-
tive wing of the Republican parry, rather than
the Northern Democracy
The Boston Transcript says dramatic en-
tertalnment in aid of a church in that neigh
Dorhood' was recently given. The same soci-
ETY. mas CLAIMED great credit for not having raf-
fes at their fairs.
Five monuments have been erected in
Massachusetts to the memory of the heroes who
fell at the battle of Lexington
"A superior quality of roofing slate is now
quarried in Minnesota. The quarries are ex-
tenSlve enough to supply the whole North