The Portland daily press., 1869-10-01

Hon. William Evarts is visiting his old
friends in Boston to-day.
Vesieal hemorrhods is said to be Napolc-
on's trouble. e.E .aas aTtf.s {
Information from New York is to the effect
that Mr.. Bigelow has resigned as editor-in-
chief of the Times.
Hon. Charles Sumner will open the Bay
State course of lectures in Boston, and will re-
ceive $500 therefor.
The City Council of Independence, Iowa, has
raised the license of beer shops from $25 to 5000
year.
The Mexican claims commission has adjourn
ed till December to give claimants time to
prepare their claims.
The body of Waterman who had been
murdered was found yesterday in the dock in
Brooklyn.
at South Dighton was entirely destroyed by
fire September 10Th. Insured for about one
third of its value.
A circle of Spiritualsts down in Connecti-
cut, have interviewed the spirit of Lord Byron,
and he has forcibly pronounced Mrs. Stowe s
scandal I'D lie.'' That settles it,
Hon. Moses Hodgdon, of Weare, raised this
year 1872 IL bushels of oats from four bushels
of seed. The secret was in the culture, moi
the variety.
An old hitching pest has been found in Nor
witch, Ct, six feet below the surface, around
which the old settlers used to play marbles
more than half century ago.
Herxog, the famous running horse, that
made mile in 1 43 IL, the best time on record,
is dead. His owner refused $4,000 for him
within a week.
Rev. DR.. Porter has secured the services of
Mr.. Evarts, and also applied to Gen. Butler, to
prosecute libel suits against those charging the
Methodist Book Concern frauds upon him.
The Harvard crew have presented their boat
to the London Rowing Club. The London Tel
egraph regards it "as token turned by the skill
and grace of the vanquished into pledge of
kindly brotherhood"
Secretary Boutwell, has addressed letter to
the Ship-owners' Association in New York in
reply to one received from them in relation to
the decline of American commerce, in which
ne promised heartily to operate, -4r,o,,,
in promoting our commerce, and to prevent its
further decline.
The Boston banks will pay on Friday Oct.
/, their usual semi-annual dividends, amount
ing in the aggregate to $2,250,0OO, an increase
of about $3.50, 900 over the amount paid in April
last. Other dividends, amounting to 1,137,-
aggregate, $3,3s7,O65.
In Philadelphia in July little girl II years
old was bitten by rabid dog, and on the 21st
of September she was seized by the Fremont
tions of bydrophobia. The most distinguished
of the profession of medicine were called to
her rescue. By their sanction with that of
friends, relatives and all to whom the life Of the
child was dear, her sufferings were stayed by
the merciful interposition of poison.
There is additional evidence of frauds in the
Book Concern. A morning paper says, edito-
rally, there is now no doubt that trusted en-
ployees of the Concern have been for long
time systematically cheating it. Paper has
been bought at one price and charged for and
paid at prices very much higher Commits
sions have been allowed by paper dealers to
the buyer for the Concern which it is impossi-
BILE to doubt were added to the price, and the
Concern thus made to pay much more than the
fair market rate. Goods, such as morocco and
velvet, have been purchased for the bindery
aud paid for by the Concern which were never
used in binding the Concerns works, but were
disposed of for private purposes. 1t is an ex-
aggeration to characterize these transactions
as defalcations, and to estimate the amount
lost by them to the Concern at the extrayagant
figures mentioned by some, but that they are
both deeply fraudulent and large in extent adj
mits of no denial.
Captain Hall has furnished a short narrative
of his voyage to the Arctic regions to Henry
He encountered many difficulties and
that the Esquimax allowed Crozier
and his party of loo to starve to death when
they could easily have furnished provisions.
ne says that whenever the Esquimaux have