The Portland daily press., 1869-04-02

The celebrated first baseman of the Atlantic
| baseball club, Joseph Start, died suddenly at
Brooklyn, last week.
The Bangor Wing, emulous of its exchanges
has its baby story. little girl, not old
enough to study her catechism, becoming puz-
zled over the vexed gu sstion, 'who made
your went with perfect childish faith to her
mother. Having learned that God made all
her friends, to her the whole human family,
she Immediately set about transmitting her
knowledge to Daisy Dean, her doll of but one
summer. Taking her loved pupil on her
knee, and looking as wise and as solemn as
possible with one pair of black eyes, she thus
commenced the impressive lesson:-"Now
Daisy Dean, look me right in the eye. Iwant
to tell you somefin. bod made Grandpa,
Grandma, me, and papa, and mama, but, Dali
sy Dean, bod seaoed you.''
Paper cofins have been added to the new
and useful articles made of paper in Europe
Southern orders for manufactured goods are
pouring in to Philadelphia. Iron fronts for
business buildings are in such demand that
foundries can scarcely fill them. Philadel-
phia heating apparatus is ordered for next
season to large extent. Southern cities have
been getting cotton and woolen machinery for
some time in considerable quantities. Boot
and shoe manufacturing is extremely active.
The Jackson (Mich.) Citizen gives an ac-
count of an egg which was quite curiosity.
A lady of that place, on removing the shell
from hard boiled egg, discovered on the white
of it, in plainly printed characters, what she
read Feed me no more corn" but which did
not exactly so read Still, the letters were
there plain enough, and the Citizen accounts
for the singular phenomenon by supposing
that the hen had swallowed piece of paper,
which in some way came in contact with the
forming egg and left its letters upon it.
Louis j. Bourbon, whose marriage to a
Havana belle in New York short time since
created SO great q sensation has some prospect
of becoming Emperor of Brazil upon the
death of the present monarch.
A chivalric Southerner, visiting in Indiana,
shot at "free niger" there, the other day, for
fun; and is now undergoing prosecution in
court ter it,
At a meeting of the English Atlantic Tele-
graph Company, Mr.. Stuart Wortley the
Chairman, stated that the income from mes
sages now averaged e7OO ($35OO) per day. The
question of still further reduction in the rate
of transmission was under consideration, and
it would probably be decided in favor of a low
er charge than that which now prevailed
A dispatch from Rome announces that the
Pope intends to proclaim an amnesty ON the
10th of April. His Holiness, it adds sent his
blessing by telegraph to the Prince Imperial
on his birthday, few days since, and the EN-
peror Napoleon replied to this mark of tender
ness on the part of the Holy Father, by thanks
Conceived in terms of affectionate sympa-
thy"
The French government, in imitation of
Prussia, which is new fortifying, and seAding
troops to the frontier, is sending new supplies
of guns and munitions of war to the northern
and eastern parts of France. The foundries
of Totulus, Bourges and Ruele are now ac-
lively engaged in manufacturing cannon,
which are no sooner made than they are for
warded eastward and northward.
The Washington correspondent of the Bos-
ton Advertiser says that the effort to secure
the removal of John Legro, supervisor of in
ternal revenue for Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont has failed.
The liquor bill passed to third reading in
the Massachusetts, Legislature, Wednesday.
1t restores the prohibitory law of 1867, except
that the cider clause is repealed. Druggists
are allowed to sell ON physicians prescriptions
for medicinal purposes. CE
Mrs. DIR. Walker denies that the President
will not receive her until she takes off her
nondescript garb and appears in female cos
tune.
Gen. Stoneman. military commsnder of the
department of Virginia, who has recently re-
moved Gov Wells and assumed the duties of
the executive himself, has been removed by
the President who is not pleased with his con-
duct
Senator Sprague is called upon by the press
of the country to name the individual whom
he referred to in his speech of Tuesday as
legislator and member of committee who
was asked to report in a certain way and had
the temptation of $10O, 900 held out to him.
Gen. Fitzpatrick has taken the stump in
Connecticut.
The economical Democrats of the New .Jer
sey Legislature have voted to increase their
individual pay $500 year, allowing them