The Portland daily press., 1869-11-18
ern's $500 per annu,,e, i'm adramce.
me November meteors" are again making

ihomas j. Durant declines the circuit
Judgeship in Louisiana.
Charles B. Curtis, formerly of Macbias b..
been elected Assistant Clerk of the House of
| Representatives of Washington Territory
A plan for the settlement OF the difficulties
between the naval staff and line will be pre-
sented in the forthcoming report of Secretary
Robson.
Nearly every farmer in Crawford county,
Ind, has raised large crop of sorghum.
lney are busy just now in grinding the cane.
Ihe frost has materially damaged the crop.
In 1910, the only religious newspaper in
America was issued fortnightly at Ports
mouth, N. H., and called the Herald of Cos
pei Liberty.
Five more Brunswick students have been
suspended. The trouble is supposed to have
grown out of the demonstration made when
the two boys were sent off two weeks ago.
Reverdy Johnson's diplomacy didn't amount
to much, but his married life has been great
success. He is the father of ten children, and
the grandfather of more than fifty.
Revenue officers are visiting business hous-
es and examining notes, checks &c, in New
York, and whenever any document that
should be stamped is found unstamped tie
fines are imposed.
James Fisk, Jr., is reported to have settled
two mill ON dollars on his wife in such a way
that it cannot be touched by creditors. 1t 10
believed that the Atlantic and Great Western
suits in Ohio will collapse Gould and Fisk.
Jay Cook and William 81. Seward are each
owners of fifty thousand acres of land In lows,
and Horatio Seymour owns a watermelon
patch of twenty-five thousand acres in the
same State.
A woman in Alexandria, Va, who swal-
lowed laudanum, was so bent on having her
own way that it was deemed necessary to
knock out some of her front teeth to use q
stomach pump. She is recovering.
Rev. T. S. King, who was badly swindled
by the Vanderbilt line of steamers on his
passage to California, in one of his letters to
the Transcript, called the sharks he saw in
the Pacific ocean "the Vanderbits of the
Deep"
The next legislature will be organized un-
der the new law of last winter, which pro-
vides that the clerk, or, in his absence, the as
sistant clerk OF each House shall preside at
the election, as found by the Governor and
Council, for his guidance.
Secretary Robson some time ago directed
| that for greater convenience to navy employees,
they should be paid twice per month. Com
plant is made in some of the yards that the
paymasters are not complying with the Secre-
tary's instructions.
| Don't advertise, it is bad plan. 1t will call
| attention to your place of business, and 1t Is
much better for people who wish to trade
with you to hunt you up. 1t gives your Gus
toners exercise, and makes them healthy.
Besides, if you advertise, somebody will buy
your goods and you will then have to buy
more, which will be great bother to you.
Private letters report that Senator Grimes
has not improved in health by his summer in
Europe The first paralytic shock was not so
severe as at first, but it left him in a feeble
| condition. At last accounts he was getting
ready for an extended trip ON the Mediterra-
mean. 1t is not stated whether he thinks OF
returning to the United States.
| A stranger visiting the navy yard in Brook
| lyn, conversing with some seamen who had
been engaged in the navy during the war,
asked one of them if they had received any
prize money. "Och, indade, yer honor, yis, q
little; it was sifted through ladder, and all
that fell through wnt to the officers-all that
stuck to the steps was lift to the men,"
One of our well-known physicians, while
conversing with a friend one day, observed
another physician driving past in his chaise,
accompanied by one of his patients, who was
fast recovering. "Well," said DR.. B., 81 never
took patient to ride in my life" "No," said
our friend; "the undertaken saves you the
trouble"
The Rochester Courier says Boston de-
tective who was there on visit at the time
the Rochester bank was entered, and saw the
tools used, after the arrest of burglar there
who had procured quite lot to be made.
sent there for the jimmes used and and left
behind in the bank, which have been idsnti-
fed by a Boston blacksmith as made by him
and for the man now in custody.
The Cincinnati Enquirer states that three
|
ted States, Pru: sia, and Russia, were unknown
in 100, one hundred aud sixty-nine years
ago. Prussia was the offspring Of Frederick
the Great, who began his reign in 1790; Rus
I sia was the offspring of Peter the Great. who
died in 1925; and the United States was born
three quarters of century later.
Charles Sumner Is reported to have said
that his greatest temptation to violate law OF
late years has artisan from HE desire to blow
up with gunpowder Clark Mills abominabls
statue of jackson at the capital. He thinks
one of the most wonderful exhibitions Of
politeness he ever saw was in the case o
Thackeray, who, in passing it with an Amsri-
can friend, never betrayed by word or look q
consciousness of its existence.
The following is the verdict Of negro
Jury: "We, de undersigned, bein' a Koroner'i
jury to sit on de body OBJ de niger Sambo
now done dead and gone afore US, hab beer
sittin' on de said Niger aforesaid, aud find
dat de same did, on de night Of fourteenth oh
November come to death by fallin' from de
bridge ober de riber in de said riber and brokin
J his neck, where we find he was subsequently,
drown and afterwards washed 10 de ribsl
! side, whar we suppose he was froze to def"
Secretary Belknap takes hold of the wa
l department and its responsibilities with
firm grip, and is running" its affairs with IN
accustomed energy. Having thrown ava!
Z the annual report, which Gen. Sherman ha'
r written for him on his accession to office, h'
! has now superseded two of the generals or
ders to the heads of the bureaus in the wa
: department, instructing them to report Il
: him personally as general of the armies, ant
: directs them to render their accounts to hin
a as head of the department.
There is some official authority for sayin
that the government has concluded treat
with the Dominican authorities for the pu
chase of the bay of Samara, and that the n,
val expedition which sailed on Wednesds
: from New York intended to take possessic
n of the new purchase, which viii be held unit
II the Senate either rati6es or rejects tne treat
- 1t is reported that as part of the contrac
the Dominican authorities required tne ohi'
y ed States government to take immeuia.e po'
u, session. in order to prevent the revoiutionaE
Id ror,v fror, obtaining control of the bay an
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