The Portland daily press., 1869-07-10

Books of subscription have been opened for
the capital stock of proposed ship canal be-
tween New York and Newark. The width of
the cut over Bergen Neck will be two hundred
feet. 1t is estimated that the enterprise will
cost six million dollars.
The Halleck monument at Guilford Ct, was
formerly dedicated Thursday, with elaborate
and imposing ceremonial DIR. Holmes read
the poem and Bayard Taylor an address.
Some colored Policemen have been appoint
ed in Washington.
AS there are a few small Post offices left to
be hungered and agonized for seekers for po-
litical honors are not all away from Washing
ton yet.
The Internal Revenue Collectors office, Sd
district of Ohio was robbed this week of o
large amount of stamps &c.
The 7th Newark Regiment will make a
grand excursion to Troy on the 21st.
An old man named Merrill, from New
Hampshire has been arrested in Lawrance for
selling stones in a load of hay.
Elijah Hodsdon, an aged citizen of Efing-
ham, N. H., died very suddenly recently of
heart disease He was noted in his youth as
being one of the few post boys in New Hamp-
SHIRE His route extended from Portsmouth to
Plymouth. He brought news of peace at the
close of the war of 1872, riding the entire route
without rest, other than to change horses.
A most singular and surprising realization
of presentiment of death has just occurred in
Washington. A lady on the eve of becoming
mother anticipated she wou id not live after
the birth Of her child. This being SO deeply
Impressed npon her mind, she mentioned to
friends visiting her that it would be the last
time many of them would see her in this life.
Her death followed the birth of her child in an
hour and half
The 1000 mile pedestrian, j. L. Taylor, has
issued challenge to young McEttrick, to walk
100 miles for the championship of New Eng
land. He also offers to make a match with
Weston, the pedestrian, on the same terms Of
fered by McEttrick.
Ex-President Fillmore has been "interyiew-
e1' by newspaper correspondent. He ex-
pressed his views on national and political
topics with some reluctance, and does not ap-
pear to entertain hopeful anticipations with
respect to the future of the American eagle.
The State of Massachusetts, came out of the
war with debt of $2s 900 900. The debt now
amounts to $28- 100000 and the appr-a ans
-naue BY starures VIII swell It to $35, ,000, ,000
The political commotion in France still con-
tinues. 1t is rumored that the Emperor has
consented to some important government
changes but our next advices may contradict
it all.
The semi annual review of the commerce of
San Francisco shows that 554000 tons of ship
ping has entered this port for the last six
months of which 279, 900 tons were engaged in
the domestic Pacific coast trade.
There is great excitement in England over
the conduct of the House of Lords on the
Irish Church Bill.
Col. Warren, late from British Bastile"
is pressing President Grant to interfere in be-
half CT Fenians in British prisons.
There will be mass meeting of the citizens
Of Concord, N. H., to-day, to inaugurate meas
ures in aid of the Concord & Rochester rail-
road.
In Central New York yesterday the storm
was very severe. A yesterday dispatch says:
"Travel ON the Utica, Chenango Valley and
Susquehana railroad is suspended, the bridge
at Chickerville being gone. The bridge be-
tween here and New Hartford is washed away,
stopping travel on the Utica and Clinton rail-
road. The premises of the Utica Cotton Mill
Co. at New Hartford are damaged to the
amount Of $4,000. Two dwellings and three
barns are gone. Six feet of water stood on abe
first floor of the factory doing great damage to
the machinery, and the dam is injured.
A New York dispatch Of last evening says
1.-TWO highway robbers named John Murray
and Ed Gibson, knocked citizen down at
about one o'clock this morning, tore his
clothes off and robbed him of about 5000 They
were both arrested.
Columbia and Augusta railroad companies
have been consolidated auder the title of the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railway
company.
The New Hampshire Legislature adjourned
yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, with grea
calmness and satisfaction. Can't Maine and
Massachusetts learn how to d. this thing?
e. Wiswells barn in Troy, N. Y, was burn
ed night before last, to the owners loss O
$4,000.
1t seemed to be stormy all round yesterday
according to telegraphic reports.
Some of the Southern railroads are sadly
out of repair. A local journal says of one Of
them: "This route is slew and sure. An expe
rienced surgeon and undertaken are on every
train. Passengers valuables will be taker
care of, whether slightly, seriously, or fatally
injured, or otherwise"