The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-09-25
arieties.

The French Academy of Medicine have
held sort of coroner's jury on the body of
Julius Caesar. They find that though the
| number of his wounds was thirty five, only
one was necessarily mortal
Mr.. Nicholas Bratt, aged ninety, of East
on, Washington county, N. Y, with his seven
sons, seven grandsons, and five great grand
sons, will vote for Grant in November
First American Carpet Dagger Christie
| pher Columbus
The editor of the London Morning Star,
Mr.. Justin M Carthy, arrived in New York on
| Saturday.
Seymour said during the war, Better d.
vide the Union than abolish slavery" Lin
coin said, Better abolish slavery than divide
the Union" Which was right?
Paul Morphy, the greatest living chess
player. after long retirement, has again ap-
| peared in New York aai ~,
The Charleston Mercury thinks webster's
Dictionary should be expelled from the South.
"A Southern ballad-monger has shed new
light on the causes of Lees surrender, in the
following verse:
"When gallant Lee, exhausted bv
The Uictories he had ICON,
GdUe up his s,cord and stacked has arms
Ulysses work seemed done.
1t is said that grapes will keep fresh until
spring if cut with a piece of vine on each side
of the stem, one end coated with wax, and the
other inserted in vial of water, all kept in a
cool place.
The Daily News, the leading johnson pa-
per IN Philadelphia, hitherto strong Iy against
Grant, comes out in an elaborate article, de-
nouncing the Democratic leaders in the
strongest terms, and virtually predicting the
defeat of Seymour. L..
"A victim of woman's insensibility has per-
petrated the following:
Il sat me down in thought profound,
This maxim wise drew:
1t is easier far to love girl,
Than to make a girl love YOU"
"A man made $4,000 gathering mustard
seed in southern California last wear.
The Richmond County Gazette. New York.
EDITED by Democrat, heretofore neutral in
politics, comes out for Grant and Colfax
The mud baths used in some parts of Ger
many for medicinal purposes are we'll known.
In brazoria county, Texas, between the Bra
EOS and San Bernard rivers, has been d,scov-
cred somewhat similar deposit of medicinal
N~-' ~ ~ Z" SohiSssi uOunQ about half q |
mile in diameter, and rising 200 feet above the |
level of the surrounding prairie. On a mart of |
this mound is found an acid earth, nearly the |
same as that of Sour Lake. little of which. |
when put into water, acidifes it so strongly |
that it operates an ordinary telegraph battery
equal to the acids produced for that nurnose. |
1t is known as Damours Mound The earth
has recently been found to possess all the
medicinal virtues of the Sour Lake water.
For the relief OF an enlarged spleen, and the |
inauguration OF the system from the lassitude
following long attacks of intermittent fever.
the water in which this sour earth has been
stepped lisa sovereign remedy
M. Henri ROchefort most unreasonable de.
clines to come to France and take twentv.nine
months imprisonment.
"A noted divine was lecturing on tho srf8.
cheney of human testimony to establish the
truth of miracles, when pupil suggested q
practical application of the doctrine. "Wbat
would you say, sir, if stated that, as was
coming up College street, saw the lamp-nost
at the corner dance9" II should ask where
you had been, my son!" was the reply in the
instructors gravest manner.
Madame Anna De La Grange is on her
way back to this country