The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-09-18

Asa Packer was a carpenter when he lived
in Connecticut
Thomas Hughes, NJ. p tom BROWN is en-
| gagged on life of Alfred the Great
Mrs. Margaret Forney, mother of Hon. John
w. FOrney, died at Lancaster, Pa, on Tues
day. She was in her list year.
A young physician at Mecklenburg claims
to have discovered specific for consumption.
The Berlin Academy are testing it.
Several members of Colts armory at Hart.
ford have contracted to 60 to Russia to make
guns for the government. They will get more
pay and expect to live cheaper than here.
The plot of ground known as Hampstead
Plains, recently purchased by A. 7. Stewart,
is estimated by good judges to be worth two
million Of dollars.
GovGeneral De Rodas of Cuba has been in
terviewed by Herald reporter and says that
he expects to subdue the instruction in few
weeks.
Prince Napoleon told the Senate that the
best form of government was that of the United
States. But" says the Journal des Debats,
"he only told the Senate what everybody but
the Senate thinks''
Governors Clafin, Chamberlain, Hoffm an
and Stearns, Generals p. H. Sheridan, r. E.
Lee and others wrote letters declining an in
vitation to be present at the Salisbury Beach
festival.
The Spanish iron clad frigates have been or
dered by the government to proceed to Cuba
with troops. 5000 men have already sailed for
the Island and two more will leave Spain for
the same destination during the present week.
The movement to remove the National Cap
ital to the Mississippi Valley has failed 1t
was evident that the Western cities could not
all be National Capitals, and nothing else
would be satisfactory, if the Government was
to be moved in that direction at ALL
In reply to the foolish and unworthy taunt
OF the London Athenaum about Mrs. Stoves
writing her Byron article for money, the Hart
ford Cour ant, in the name of Mrs Stowe. saws
that she received for it the same sum- neither
more nor less, than she would have been paid
for any other article of the same length.
The Time, of India, Bombay, announces
that Capt. Geo. Hanscom, of Saco, of the
British steamship Neera, has received from
the French government ga gold medal of the
first class, for saving the lives of five French
sailors. Capt. Hanscom commands one of the
hnest ships in the Indian Ocean, running be-
tween Bombay and Suez.
The Connecticut tobacco crop is the largest
and fairest ever raised in the valley. 1t is too
early to determine how well it will cure; but
the weather has been fine for that purpose so
lar, and it is reported that the cured leaf is
coming in rich. This makes the owners of
large quantities of old tobacco feel blue, as
there is no demand for it except as the home
trade takes it.
The most interesting contribution to the Oc
tober Putnam is the continuation of Mr.. Put
nam's own experience as apublisher. 1t brings
burly and self-important but genuine FEM
more Cooper, the modest, genial, and good
natured Prescott unique and independent
margaret Fuller, eccentric and morbid Edgar |
a. roe and courtly Edward Everett, freshly |
before us.
IL mas been ascertained from a trustworthy |
'ousce tnat the Powell Exploring Expedition |