The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-17
Original and selected.

First page-Five- Twenties at Home and
| Abroad; New Democratic Issue; N Y. Cen
| trail Railroad and Gov. FentOn; Climate of
the Pacific Coast; Secretary Goodale's Annu-
al Report; Planting Of Shade Trees; Moslem
Intolerance; February Report of the Agricul-
tural Department.; A Portland Musician in
| Prussia; Chapter from the Secret Service.
| Last page-Love in Cottage, poetry; Indian
Pony Trade; Mixing Babies; A Queer Bet.
The Pope of Rome has recently canonized
| two hundred and five Japanese martyrs who
were put to death between 1917 and 1852. 1t
must be pleasing announcement to their rel
atives et.'
1t is reported that Rev. DR.. Anderson,
President the University OF Rochester, has
been offered the Presidency of Brown Univer-
sity, in place ofDr. Barnas Sears, who has re-
signed. DR.. A. is, we believe, a native OF Bath,
son Of the late Deacon Anderson of that city,
and graduate of Waterville College.
The office seekers in Washington placed
between the President and the Senate, have
been compared to the menagerie mans descrip-
| ton of an amphibious animal-"He can't
live in the water, and he dies on land"
The whole Prussian feet was to be ready to
put to sea at a moments notice after April L.
An earthquake happened at Naples March
%. f'' .-'A 'H! "i.e
DIR. w. w. Hebard, who lectured upon the
effects Of alcohol on the human system, at
Boston, Sunday night, said he thought the
time would come when legislation would re-
strain the sale of opium, the betel nut, tobac-
co and pork, as well as liquor.
| Punch published no obituary of Artemus
Ward, and none of the writer's for Punch at
tended his funeral. i SRI
The Daily Vidette, published at Salt Lake,
is likely to pass out of Gentle hands.
"A Republican consoled Democrat by as
surfing him that his party might look forward
with hope to the time when other States be-
sides Connecticut would give Democratic ma
jorities. "What States?" "Oh! those to be
formed out of the newly acquired Russian ter
ritory!" He allowed that was "cold comfort
-"The Esser Eagle" is the name of new
Republican paper just started at Lawrence,
Mass s.tre.sdt
The recent chilliness of the atmosphere is
supposed to result from the acquisition of the
Russian American territory. 81
Water will be let into the level of the We'll
land canal on Saturday Goth, and the canal will
be ready to pass vessels on the 23d.
DIR. j. G. Holland of Springfield is about
to take trip to Cuba to seek the restoration of
his health. He is greatly enfeebled by his re-
cent illness. int l-.a 81 LIif4a
The New York Times says that, until this
season, Italian opera. has never been really
profitable in that city. N-t i.sis7
Wisconsin supports one hundred and
thirty-three newspapers. In politics, eighty
five of these are Republican, forty eight Dem
Ocratic. There is not a county in the state
which has not at least one local paper
Dickens, according to Dr. Mackenzie of
Philadelphia, is certainly coming to this coun-
try. The doctor adds: "He is in treaty with
two parties, one in New York and the other
in Philadelphia, to come hither toward the
close of the summer, and remain six or seven
months here, giving readings-dramatic read
ings they might be called-from his own writ
ings." d7 ~ ts .E
The following toast is submitted for the
next 4th of July celebration: The american
Eagle--Perched on the highest crest of the
ROCKY Mountains, he flaps his wings in the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, quenches his thirst
In the ice water the Arctic sea, and shakes his
tail feathers over the Gulf of Mexico.
-Advlces received at Washington from
New Orleans leave no doubt that General
Sheridan will remove Governor Throckmorton
of Texas, as he is embarrassing the Govern
ment in its efforts to enforce the reconstruc-
law in that State. Gen. Griffin, in command
in Texas recommends Gen. Sheridan to take
this course
At a Radical mass meeting in Athens,
Tennessee, one of the best speeches made
though Horace Maynard also spoke, was by
Rev. A. E. Anderson, a cOlored man. He ex-
horted the colored people to vote for Governor
Brownlow and the radical party, and forever
oppose the Conservative party. To this ap-
peal every colored man responded, aye"
"A Western editor is panied to learn that
his dear friend Brown has gone to heaven"