The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-05-17
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will probably be engaged to make the survey"
Original and Selected.
Robert Balm who died recently in Scotland,
was one hundred and eight years old. He was
given to telling stories of events which happen
ed in his childhood, one hundred years ago.
1t is officially announced that the sum to
be applied to the reduction of the national debt
of England during the current quarter is ESQ.,
1913. -o 9i'i 500 b"-.-
The Emperor Napoleon completed his fifty
ninth year on the Goth of April
Gen Dow, in q recent letter to the Bir-
n,ingham Post touching the Massachusetts Pc
titions for License law, hits off Dr. Adams
of Boston as follows: @ .-,
American rebellion, gave all his influence to
repress the anti-slavery sentiment of the North,
and IN that interest wrote book which he
called "a South-side View of Slavery" to
which circumstance he is indebted for the SOU
oraquet by which he is now everywhere known,
MASSACHUSETTS, Adams" This gentleman
now takes rum-side view of the Maine Law.
Next week will witness a series of great
demonstrations in honor of Neal Dow in Lon
Hale presiding; Tuesday, in the Beaumont In
stitution, J. A. Smith, NJ. p, presiding; We'd
nesday, at the Hanover-square Rooms, Regent
street, Thomas Chambers, M. P presiding;
and Thursday at the Horns Tavern Kennine-
ton park, Sir John f. Davis presiding Among
other distinguished speakers advertised we no
tice the name of Prof. f. w. Newman. Sir
John Davis was the first Governor of Hong
Kong and is known as the author of some ex-
cellent works on China and the Chinese
The American Institute of Homeopathy
will hold its twentieth annual session at the
gallery of Fine Arts in New York the first
week in June. Reports will be made by the
Bureaus of Materia Medica, Clinical Medicine,
Obstetrics, Surgery, Organization and Stats
tics; and report will be made on a complete
code of ethics. -rr
Enormous sums of money are staked on
the result of the Hamill and Brown boat race.
a "A local burlesque entitled "The Eight
Hour Movement" is one OF the theatrical at
fractions in Chicago. ---------
Inc New York World greatly admires Mr.
Greeleys superserviceable anxiety to become
jeff. Davis's bondsman. "It is not an act of
generosity" cries the World, 'but of moral
courage, and at q time when moral courage is
so rare, this is no small praise" Yes but con-
slider the source s4a4.tsf sat.ot.
The Washington correspondent of the Bos-
ton Adoe"tiser says: "As a specimen of the
kind of people who obtain pleasant and profit
able occupation under the present administra-
ton, case has just come to light where an
officer, cashiered for treachery and cowardiee,
and whose sentence was approved from the
commanding general up to Mr.. Lincoln, and is
not yet set aside, is now confidential agent in
one of the departments here"
The New York Tribune is informed by a
Western railway director that the railway war
fare at the West is more bitter than ever The
roads are now carrying freights at less than
canal and lake rates. The Michigan Southern
is losing in this way at the rate of over $1,000 a
day, and the Fort Wayne and New York
Central are losing nearly as much.
1t should be remembered that the Asso-
ciatod Press dispatches from the South are, in
many instances, prepared by exConfederates,
which explains their uniform bias against the
newly -enfranchised race and their Northern
friends. i.-.-... ...... ..,.... ..s,-
"A correspondent of the Eoening Post
thinks JEFF Davis ought to be arrested for trea-
son against the State of New York and tried
by her courts--if the law will allow. ssr
"A man in Indiana who had been overpaid
five dollars, hanged himself for fear that he
would be indicted for receiving the money.
The health of the French Prince Imperial
still continues to excite anxiety. The an
nouncement is made in The London Court
Journal that the Empress Eugene is again
eaciente, bat the assertion seems to have been
generally discredited. .n.... $3.50
Gen. Schofeld has revoked the order of
Gen. Wilcox prohibiting the lecture of H.
Rivers Pollard on Southern Chivalry," and
Mr.. Pollard will deliver said effusion in LYNCH
burg during the present week, providing he
fails Of soaring up personal difficulty in the
mean time.
Among the artists who have been awarded
the second prize for paintings at the French
exhibition is +. E. Church of this country.
Mr.. Church seems to be the only one of Eng
lish or American artists who has received a
prize.
"A Wo rkiDgmen's meeting" was exten-
sively advertised, to be held in Faneuil Hall
Wednesday evening, but the workingmen
themselves did not come. Wendell Philips
and Mrs. Karshmen, a Western lady, made
speeches and a friendly letter was received
from President johnson. How would John
son and Phillips" sound for a "Workingmens
ticket" for the next Presidential election?
We are sorry to see that the argus, in
copying the dispatches which appeared in the
evening papers respecting the Mobile riot, has
omitted the particulars furnished by the Her.
asa reporter who was an eyewitness, prefer
ring the version of the Mobile agent of the
Associated Press, and mangling even that by
inserting violent and infammatory senti-
ments," instead of Judge Kelley's own words
which were given in the dispatch. There is
nothing to be gained by tampering with news
in this way.
The whole number Of prosecutions by the
State Constabulary of Massachusetts, from
Jan. to May 1, this year, is 1884. The fines
paid amount to S3s,575, exceeding the expend-
lures on account CT the Constabulary during
the same period by the sum Ct $8257. ID
John Tyler, son OF the late ex-President is
lecturing on jamestown and Plymouth Rock"
Jamestown of course gets the best of it.
--Ihe New York correspondent of the Prov
lden ce Press is responsible for the statement
that the leading illustration of the last number
Oh Hdrper's Weekly, covering two pages and
representing scenes in the newsboy's life, en-
W oou'es TWO Old cuts of Andersonvile prisons.
linus, Tor the newsboys' sleeping rooms" we
are SHOWN number of haggard, emaciated
Andersonville victims reclining upon and sit
ting around their couches. The "work.roon,,, |
is also reproduction.
"A printers puzzle,
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Solution-a little darkey in bed with moth |
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