The Portland daily press., 1869-07-29
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The Ku- Klux prevent the collection Of In
ternh Levenue in the central and eastern
part of Georgia. No one can be found to ac-
cept the Office Of Assistant Assessor, on ac-
count of fears Of assassination We trust that
the Government will speedily arrange matters
80 that the scoundrels may understand that
they can no longer trife with it,
A madman got away at Succasunna Plains,
n. j., on Friday, overhauled mail wagon
and rifed the bags, then attacked family, vio-
lently resisting all attempts of parties to arrest
him, and fatally stabbed one man.
The steamship William Taber sailed from
New York on Saturday for Galveston, pur-
posing to bring back to that market a cargo of
fresh breef, slaughtered in Texas and preserved
throughout the voyage in the hold of the yes
sci by the refrigerating process. 1t is expected
the trip will require from thirty to forty-five
days.
private dispatch from Hartford, dated
Tuesday at II 0 o'clock P. M, says that the Hon.
Isaac Toucsy, an Ex-Governor of Connecticut.
once United States Senator from that State.
and President Buchansn's Seerstary of the
Navy, 10 In dying condition He was not ex-
pseted to live through the night
Tie French cable had very narrow escapa
while being laid. 1t broke during storm,
but was fortunately secured just as the end
was passing over the stern of the Great East
The poet Swinburns is very i'll, and it is
feared that he has written his last poem.
Handkerchiefs are now made in New Or
leans from the ramie plant. The texture is
liner than silk and the handkerchieis are Quite
pretty. r8SttyU nt
The passenger train on the Memphis g. Ohio
Railroad. whom near Clarksville, fell through
the trestle bridge over Budd's Creek. The
train was destroyed by fire, with the exception
Of enc car. The engineer and fireman were
both killed, and three or four others were also
killed and about twenty or thirty wounded.
Horace Greeley expresses the opinion that
Virginia will be admitted to the Union at the
next session Of Congress- and that the mem
bers elected to that body will be allowed to
take tkeir seats without taking the test oath.
A Scotchman has invented a screw by which
a ship can be propelled two or three knots an
hour, when overtaksn by calm.
An Austrian editor has been fined five forms
for calling Andrew johnson the most corrupt
scoundrel in America
Fiity-one per cent. of night compositors who
have pursued their occupation for several years
are short-sigthed.. DR.. Kohn, the famous ocu-
list, recommends as remedy flames protected
by glass chimneys, shades arranged to throw
more light on the cases, and the discarding of
small type in night work
Two barns in Auburn, Maine, belonging to
Capt John Penley, were struck by lightning,
and with their contents, fifteen tons Of bay and
farming tools, burned, during heavy storm
Thursday afternoon. ae .s..ssgs
There are too many people in Chicago
Three thousand people are out of employment.
The report that Secretary Boutwell, il about
to change his financial policy is pronounced to
be utterly without foundation. He will con-
tinue to sell gold and buy bonds as the circum.
Stances OF the treasury permit.
Mr.. A. o. Allen, a well known Boston law
yer, was taken suddenly insane while attend
ing the cable celebration at Duxbury. On ac-
count of his eccentric conduct there he was
taken in charge BY the police and conveyed to
the Massachusetts General Hospital.