The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-11
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"A blaekbird that was caught and Gagged at
Leydon, Mass, the other day, and afterwards
set at liberty, refuses now to leave the premis-
| es, and at night roosts with the chickens
Harvest work has begun in Minnesota in
! earnest, as number of persons who had Nor
| wegian girls working for them discovered
| when the latter left to work in the harvest
| field, where they earn nearly the same
wages men.
MIR. Thomas Ball has completed very ad-
mirable statuette of John A. Andrew, which
has been much admired by those who have
seen it. 1t is to be cast in plaster. Mr. Ball
returns to Florence in October.
General Santa Anna has sued the propri-
etors of E Pals, at Havana, for language used
in an article of the 18th ult. These gentlemen
propose to advise the public OF the result as
soon as the case is terminated.
The statement that the Gar of Russia had
written letter of congratulaton to President
johnson upon the result of impeachment
probably grew out of o communication recent
ly received, announcing the birth of a son to
the heir apparent.
An American student at Heidelberg rath-
er astonished the German youth there by ac.
cepting challenge and choosing pistols. Their
| ridiculous sword fights were too small play for
him. He shot his antagonist dead, and since
then Americans are allowed to study in peace.
"A physician of Fall River wrote pre-
scription the other day, one ingredient of which
was aromatic sulphuric acid. BY blunder OF
the apothecary pure suphuric acid was put up
instead of the aromatic. The fortunate arrival
of the doctor before the prescription was taken
saved the life of the patient.
"A few days ago, robbers cave was found
on the Sangamon river, near Decatur, Illinois.
Mr.. Halleck, city marshal Of Decatur, and a
| party of citizens, made a thorough examina-
ton of the cave, and, to their horror, they
found the bodies of four men carefully con-
cealed in a grave in the rear of the cave, with
| a heavy rock as a covering Scouts are out t.
catch the robbers.
| Nothing remained of a celebrated tenor in
| Paris, after the great heat, but his voice and
| the brass buttons of his coat. The first was
available asset.
The Rev Mr. Finney once said to a young
man who was dropping part of his course in
order to get into the work of saving SOULS
| "Why. young man, if the Lord had wanted
| yon to go to preaching now, he would have
| made you just three years earlier"
The fifteenth predicted appearance of
| Encke's celebrated comet is now at hand. Cal
4 culation assigns the last of this month as the
| time when it will be nearest the earth. This
| little comet whisxs around the sun in an ell
| liptical orbit once in a little more than three
years; and is always seen from some part of
the earth, for short time, when passing to or
| ftom the vicinity of its periheliop. When far
thest from the sun it is nearly midway between
the orbits of the Asteroids and the orbit Of Ju-
| piter; when nearest the sun, inside of the Or
| bit of Mercury We may now expect to hear
| of its discovery very soon. Its pathway is
throucb Auriga, Gemini and Cancer, constella-
tiops visible in the morning sky at this season
| of the year.
One of the latest fashions for gentlemen,
said to have been introduced into Boston, con-
sists in wearing white vests made of Turkish
toweling One or two have been seen on
| Broadway.
-"WeIl, Jones, / suppose you have been out
to look at Texas. Did you see anything OF our
friend Smith out there?" yes; gone derang-
ed" "Has hep" "Yes, indeed; he doesn't
know his own hogs from those OF his neigh
| borsi" , ,,u,
| initiation buSt VIC nave lohS dpprenenueu,
| which we have hardly dared to contemplate,
has come upon us Our market is mainly
supplied with Massachusetts, clans"
| One more victim TO science has fallen on
African ground. lie Saint, the geographer'
who had left France about eighteen months
ago on journey of exploration, has died AZ
| Abn Kbuka.
Lolita and her father are quarreling again.
The paternal prohibition has been interposed
to prevent her from appearing in new play at
wailack's Theatre, and the grabbed old gem
tleman went so far as to threaten to sue out
; an injunction if she disobeyed his orders.
Mrs. Crabtree sustains her daughter and the
indications are that the other member will
| have to give in.