The Portland daily press., 1869-08-25

The President called Upon Miss Ida Lewis
while at Newport
Illinois is the frs Northwestern State to
employ colored militia.
Gen. Sheridan, like the sensible man he is
has declired the degree of LII D.
An Austrian queen of the demi- monde
keeps herself plump by drinking fresh human
blood.
A New Hampshire jockey has traded horses
three thousand times in five years, and never
lost dollar.
Frank Blair has been spending day at the
Pequot House, New London, CT 1t is said
that nobody spoke to him.
jeff Davis is homeless and houseless. The
attempt to raise funds in Kentucky, with
which to purchase house for him, has proued
abortive.
A Detroit paper gives among it's miscel-
laneous paragraphs wood cut of an immense
eye, with the explanation beneath PORTRAIT
of Andrew johnson. By Himself"
According to the Houston (Texas) Times,
(Dem.) a feeling apathy has taken possession
of the ex-Rebels of that State That paper
calls upon them to arouse and organize, or the
Radicals will carry the day.
The Inebriate Home of Kings County, N.
Y, is yet to be built, but the pre- operations for
the 'erection of the building are so far advance
ed that work on the structure will probably be
begun next month.
The East Tennessee & Georgia and East
Tennessee g. Virginia Railroads are to be
taken possession of by the Government agents
on account of their indebtedness to the United
States.
George Barnacle, Louisville German, be-
ing newly married, and hearing that his wife's
former husband was still living poisoned him
self and his bride by putting morphine and
arsenic in the beer they were both drinking.
A Mrs. Levi, who died in Patterson, N. j.,
last Saturday, before breathing her last, called
her family (amongst whom are grown-up chill
dren) to her bedside, and said that in all her
married life of twenty-five years, neither a
cross word or look had ever passed between
herself and husband.
NEW HAMPSHIRE farmers are taking great
interest in the New England Fair. Col Need
ham, Secretary of the New England Society.
has made arrangements for the free transpor-
tation of stock and articles to be exhibited
over all the New Hampshire roads and the
Connecticut & Passumpsic road.
There are a very large number of soldiers
discharge papers detained in the office of the
commissioner of pensions. All others the bu-
reau returns after acting upon the cases which
they accompany. After final action in the
Pension Bureau they are retained, but can be
obtained by direct application to the commits
sioner. Those signing their letters by mark
must have them witnessed by two persons and
verified by some officer having a seal.
Mr.. Colyoe, one of the special Indian com.
missioners, telegraphs from San Francisco
that Gov. MitchelPs unwise proclamation, de-
claring the Navajos outlaws, will break up the
agency and school at Fort Defiance He
charges that the war with the Apaches was
begun by white man, who killed their chief,
teamsters who killed dozen or more of the
Indians at meeting to which they were in
vted for the purpose of signing a treaty of
peace.
Captain Samuel Foss, who commands the
ship Pacific, now lying in New York, had re-
Gently been troubled by wharf thieves, who
had stolen about $500 worth of his cargo. He
applied to the police for protection, and was
told that he had better arm himself and pro-
tect his own goods. Accordingly, when he
found little boy stealing some phosphate of
lime he assaled him and also the woman, a
fruit vender, who employed the boy to get the
lime. A man named John Harrison, Jr., a
wealthy and respected junk dealer, went to
the assistance of the woman and in the melee
Captain Foss drew his pistol and shot Harri
son, and also little girl who was in the crowd
both of whom are mortally wounded. The af-
fair is rendered additionally sad by the reflec-
ton that if the police had done their duty it
need not have happened.