The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-08-23

The News.
Milwaukee claims 10000 people, of whom it
is said $4,000 drink lager.
Gen. Hooker is at Saratoga in very feeble
health.
Gen. Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, and
and Worden of Monitor fame are in Dresden.
DR.. Aver of Lowell is said to be the largest
stakeholder in the New York Tribune.
Mr.. Burlingame denies that dissensions
have broken out in the Chinese legation.
Potatoes are selling In Canada at Is cents o
bushel and all other vegetables are proportion
ately low.
Senator Wilson, General Butler, ex- Senator
Wade Of Ohio, and Collector Russell have gone
to the camp-meeting at Martha's Vineyard.
A lady while taking trip on train bound
for Pittsburg, on Wednesday night last, gave
birth to three babies
The gossips of New York are telling of a mag
nifcent banquet given to President Grant by
Mr. James Fiske, Jr., at his residence in New
York.
An unreconstructed citizen of North Caro-
lima having been solicited to give something
toward building monument to the memory
of Lincoln, offered to give niger" worth
$1,000.
Gigantic revenue frauds have been discov-
cred in the Cincinnati and Dayton Districts
by Supervisor Conklin of New Orleans, who
was recently sent West on tour of investiga-
ton. Supervisor Young of Ohio is implicated
President Grant has accepted an invitation
from Governor Stearns of New Hampshire to
visit Concord. Col. NJ. w. Tappan, chief Of
the Governors staff, left for Newport Saturday
morning to arrange definitely the day, which
will be some time this week.
Thomas NJ. Logan, brother to General John
A. Logan, was shot by his brother-in-law, a
Mr.. Blanchard, at Murphysboro, Jackson coun-
ty, ILL.,, on Tuesday last The condition of the
wounded man and the cause of the difficulty
are not stated
Mauch Chunk dispatch says that all of
the golfers have struck in the Hazelton region
except those at Ashburton and at Buck Noun
tain, and all at Beaver Meadow region except
those of the Honey Brook Company, and at
the colliery of the Upper Lehigh Company lin
the upper Lehigh region.
At a meeting of the freight agents of West
ern railroads, held at Cincinnati, Thursday, it
was agreed to raise the price of fourth class
freight five cents per hundred pounds and -four
ten cents per barrel. This refers to eastern
bound freight only. Nearly all the Western
railroads were represented.
About haltpast six o'clock last Tuesday
evening, as Mr.. Silas l.. Hoxie was standing
behind the counter in his store in Boston, he
suddenly sank to the floor and died instantly.
lie was fifty-two years of age and a native of
Sidney, Me, to which town the remains have
been taken for interment.
1t may not be generally known that Maggie
Mitchell is married; but she is, and, with ten
der reference to the character which has made
her famous tho one that has done all that
purity, brightness and personal charm could
do to exalt the modern drama,-has named her
first child "Fanchon." This character is the
creation of George Sand, who has produced 50
many beautiful characters in her later novels
AT a recent meeting of the Trustees of Dart
mouth College, Prof d. j. Noyes was trans
ferred to the chair of Intellectual Philosophy
and Political Economy from that of Theology
and Moral Science. The salaries of the Pro-
fessors were raised to $4,000, and an appropria-
ton of $4,000 was made, on suggestion of Prof
q. A. Young, for the purpose of putting the
apparatus in the department. of Natural Phi.
losophy in the best possible condition.
Mr.. Charles Dickens, whose health is en-
tirely recovered, gives this early notice that he
will resume his series of farewell readings, in
terrupted by his sickness, at st. James hall
London, next January. He will give twelve
evening readings, all of them in London, and
two morning readingsfor the special benefit of
members OF the theatrical profession. 1t is
positively stated that Mr.. Dickens will never
appear as reader again after this series is
finished, and undoubtedly the rush to hear
him will be very great.
There is now living in the town of Smith
field, r. l., man aud his wife, Jonathan and
Saloma Buxton, he being 1O2 years old and his
wife 101, both enjoying perfect health and able
to attend to the duties and management of
quite large farm. They have now living nine
children, the eldest 76 years of age, and all en-
joying remarkable youthful appearance The
old gentleman and his wife have enjoyed an
unclouded matrimonial life of Is years. he new
er having had to call the services of physi-
clan since his remembrance. His father being
one Of the early emigrants from England, NAM
ed the town Smithfeld and the street Buxton
street, after the place he left in England
During recent circus and menageric exhi-
bition in Dayton, Ohio, a violent storp, arose.
and despite the great efforts to prevent it the
loose tent was torn from its fastenings and
thrown to the ground, upsetting in its fall two
OF the wagons containing wild beasts. The cry
that the animals are loose" Of course created
intnse excitement, and in the wild efforts
made by the audience to free itself from the
wreck OF canvas, ropes, and benches, large
number OF women and children were severely
bruised, and two or three were trampled under
foot Many frightened persons fled to ada
cent houses and closed the doors behind them
to escape from being overtaken by the wild
animals, which they imagined were in pursuit.
The whole scene was q novel one, and it ia
strange as well as fortunate that the casualties