The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-12-02

Paris each year has some new toy OF inven-
ton adapted especially for New Years gift
The article which promises to be most in vogue |
this wear is a musical chair, which commences |
to be melodous as soon as set upon.
At Mason's Depot in Upton county, Tenn, |
over seven hundred Republicans have made |
affidavit that they have cast their ballots for
Republican candidate for Congress, VIM. j.
Smith, while the entire number returned by
the canvassers was eighty-six.
DR.. j. c. Aver has declined the Republican
nomination for Mayor of Lowell
A Washington special says that the Speak
ership question for the next Congress is al
ready discussed by members of the House as
they arrive. If Colfax should resign few
weeks previous to the 4th of March, it is prob
able that Pomeroy OF New York would be
elected to fill the vacancy. His Congressional
life expires with the present Congress. If he
had been elected to the next, he would have
been a formidable candidate for the Speaker
ship.
The St. Stephen bank has made arrange
ments for redeeming its circulation dollar for
dollar if necessary.
1t is expected that Ex-Governor Bncking-
ham of Connecticut will preside at the Tenn
perance Convention in Boston, to-day and
Thursday
The Commissioner OF Agriculture has re-
ceived the trade and navigation returns of
Great Britain for the nine months of this year
ending with the first of October, and they
show that of the whole amount OF cotton inn
ported during this period the United States
are credited with fifty five per cent, while all
other countries furnished but forty-four per
cent. The receipts from our country were four
per cent. greater than those for the correspond
ing period of last year; Egypt five per cent.
| Jess; British India twenty.six per cent less;
| Turkey forty three per cent. less; all other
sources twenty per cent. less.
A Washington paper draws a comparison
| between the murders of Pollard and Larkin,
| calling one the 'gentlemanly rowdy,' the 9TH
| er the brutal rough" Whereupon the New
| York Herald remarks: "It the Congressional
| rowdy had been thrown in the picture would
have been complete"
| A Guaymas letter gives a graphic descrip-
| ton of the storm in Sonora about the middle
| of October The United States steamer Lack
| awanna lying in the horbor-a very safe one,
| lti W SoeuP w hOOp hlOih S5oils3 oohoiO
| The town OF Soreto in Lower California was
| destroyed, the mining works on the Yaqui riv-
| er were swept off, and water spout burst over
the city of Alamo, destroying the town COM
pletely. Seventy dead bodies had been picked
up, according to the Observator of Matamoras,
| Nov Both.
1t is supposed that Senators Chandler and
Stewart will be reelected to the United States
SENATE without serious opposition. In Min
nesota Ramsay is also likely to be reelected.
Dickens readings in England are so popular
that not one fourth of the people who desire
to hear them can procure tickets. After COM
plotting his readings in England, cotland and
Ireland in May, he will go to Paris where he
is always received with great favor.
The Louisville papers say the season has
been a splendid one for the sugar planters and
they are making preparation for more extern
sive cultivation OF the cane next year. The
yield of the cane is everywhere greater than
has been known for years back and the quail
ty of the sugar is superior to that of past times
At the present prices of sugar and molasses
the planters will relieve themselves of many Of
their embarrassments.
Gounod is said to be making important
additions to his "Faust," to ensure for it a
fresh success.