The Portland daily press., 1869-08-04

Gen. Phil Sheridan Is attending c0flliiience-
tnent the exercises Of the University OF Yer
mont, at Burlington, vt.
It has lust been discovered that one Chaplin
who was removed from the constabulary force
of Massachusetts, sold on private speculation
lot of liquor that he took from the liquor
agent OF the town of Holyoke.
Admiral Porter is making arrangements to
reduce the number of engineers in the Navy.
The man who threw the first stone in the
streets of Baltimore at the old Massachusetts,
Sixth is living in Lafayette, Ind, in straitenoe
circumstances.
John G. Whittier is guest at the Isle Of
Shoals. There is great rush OF visitors TO
the Shoals this year.
The Portsmouth Chronicle says that Fort
Constitution seems wholly given over to the
grasshoppers, and that the hundred thousand
dollars laid out on il by the government have
been lost.
The Advent camp meeting which has been
going on for two weeks at Rye has not been
wanting in success Monday six persons
were baptized.
Daniel Pratt, the Great American Traveller.
has been elected from the city limits of Hart
ford. The minions of the law in that place
didn't understand him. and the students, al
ways his friends, were out of town.
The Governor of Massachusetts with the ai-
vice of the Council, has appointed Hon. Henry
X. Oliver, of Salem, Chief of the Bureau of
Statistics on the subject of Labor; DIR. Henry
/. Bowditch, DIR. George Derby, and Warren
Sawyer, Esq, of Boston, Hon. Richard Froth-
ingham of Charlestown, Hon. P. Emory AID
rich of Worcester, VIM. G. Chaplin of Lawrence
and Robert @. Davis of Fall River, members Of
the State Board of Health and Vital Statls-
tics.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lincoln have returned
to Chicago.
The reports from all parts Of Ireland as to
the state of the crops are highly encouraging.
The general appearance of things in the north
have been greatly improved by recent rain.
In the south rain is wanted, but wheat gener-
ally looks well; potatoes are good; turnips
promise a fair return. The Irish harvest is
not likely to be a very early one, but hopes
are entertained that it will prove full aver
age.
The latest railroad sensation is plan by the
management of the Erie Railway to illumin-
ate the whole line of that road at night, by
electric lights at the ferries, in the tunnels on
all dangerous curves, and on every engine. Mr..
E. c. Morse, who has charge Of the matter,
claims to have made several important i'm
provements, among others, plaa for pre-
serving the carbon points from wasting
away and keeping them for months in good
condition, selfsustaining battery, and an
invention by which the turning of the wheels
Of the engine shall collect electricity for use in
illumination.
The London National Society for Woman
Suffrage, held on the 17th of July, was attend
ed by many of the most eminent people in
England.
A Frenchman named Rollie has appealed to
the Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, to protect him
against witches. The mayor, humering him,
gave him an official document with which be
expressed satisfaction.
Eighteen deaths from yellow fever occurred
on board the man-of-war Eclipse on her pas
sage from Rio Grande to Halifax. Among the
victims were the commander and first lieuten
ant. Another ship, the Barracoota, has arrv
ed at Halifax with the fever on board.
The street fights, preparatory to the election
tomorrow, have occurred in Memphis.
The Prussian government has undertaken tt
cut a canal through Schleswig- -Holstein to con
meet the Baltic and North seas.
The prospect in Spain is gloomy, though th,
Carlist insurrection is at end.
A man named Cook stabbed and MORTAL,
wounded Herbert Hunt, in Covington, KY.
Monday. Cook was q brakeman on the Cen
trail Railroad, and Hunt driver of a transfer
wagon. The quarrel was about dollar and .
half isss
By an accident in coal mine in Saxony
Monday, 800 persons were killed. There ar,
no particulars yet.
The colored men in different parts of th,
country celebrated the anniversary Of emanci
patton in the West Indies, Monday.
At the annual meeting of the Norfolk art
Great Western Railroad Company held a
Danville, Va, on the 2Sth ult., it was voted
with only two dissenting voices, to ALLOW
Messrs. ROLES @. Link Sc Co., of Philadelphia
to subscribe $1,000, 900 to the capital stock q
the company, they paying down 10 per cent
or 100000, az required by the bylaws 1t i,
believed that the amount subscribed will bt
sufficient to complete the road to Bristol By
the first of january, 1862
On the Mth ult., the Mormons of Utah cele
brated the twenty-second anniversary of thei
occupation of Utah. .s s1 ~ +