The Portland daily press., 1870-07-02
Rtf ms.

Mrs. Sally Setchell Of Cuba, N. Y, was the
only person in that village who observed Dec
Grafton day. She visited the cemetery alone,
and covered with flowers the graves of the
dead soldiers.
By a curious coincidence, five names on one
page (iour consecutively) IN the Norwich,
Conn.,, city directory Tor 1870, read Slack
Thomas, Slow George, Sly John, Small Ma
than, and Smart Mary.
Notification has been given of the appoint
ment by the Pope OF a number of new bish-
ops, including three for America TO fill the
Sees OF Springfield, Havre de Grace and Port
au Prince.
The friends of juvenile reformatory institu-
tions are holding an interesting conference at
Middletown, Conn. The superintendents of
most of the institutions in New England,
New York and New jersey are represented.
Two Iowa girls, named Bosser and Locke,
have formed partnership and purchased
good farm in Warren county, Ind. One of
them "bosses" the farm, and the other keeps
the ''lock" OF the larder and treasury.
Charles Reade's new novel has frontis-
piece representing yOueg man seated very
| close to a pretty girl, and when we look at
this picture, and are told by the tite-page TO
"put yourself in his place" we feel like taking
his ajvice.-Louiscitle Journal.
A tourist writes from Mount Mansfield, VT,
that the new carriage road to the summit is
great and successful enterprise. The bears,
fearing that trouble was bruin, have left the
mountain in body, but the dears are arriving
in trains.
The bill for the burial of Gen. Rawlins is
about $1,000; that of Mr.. Stanton $1,000. Some
of these charges are enormous even for Wash
ington. The carriages for m6urners are
charged at IS each. The coffins are charged
at $500 each, and the number of white gloves
charged is very large.
A singular event transpired in West Troy
on Friday. little girl, playing among some
fowls, incensed cock, who flew at her head
and drove his spurs into her temples. An
hour afterwards the child was totally blind,
and at last accounts she was expected to die
from her injuries.
Joseph Nelson was kicked completely
through the side Of stable covered with an
inch plank by an unmanageable horse, at
Bloomfield, Ind, last week. He escoped with
a couple OF damaged ribs.
Idaho territory has at last got church bell,
which is working wonders in Boise City. 1t
has called together full congregation, many
of them not having attended place OF wor-
shin for years. The first time it was rung,
one man remarked, as he passed into church:
"Well, have not been into church for eight .
cen years, but that bell has called me out"
The first fatal Alpine accident of the sea-
son is reported News has reache.. Cam
bridge that Mr. E. Royds, of Trinity hall, has
been killed by fall over precipice while on
a mountaineering expedition on the Alps
Mr.. Royds was an ardent athlete, having sew
eral times represented Cambridge against
Oxford in the inter-university athletic sports
An eccentric phlanthropist has spent most
of his tima for a UnaE in mo-
details of the most horrible crimes he could
hear of or imagine. On being rebuked tor
his bad taste, he excused himself by saving
that during the heated term, he felt it to be
his duty to chill the blood of his acquaint-
ances.
Two colored men Zone of them a clergy
man, with their wives, were refused admit
tauce to an ice cream saloon in YpsiIanti
Michigan, on account of their calor. They
were Informed that they could buy the ice
cream and take it off the premises, sacred to
white men, and eat it. Another entirely re-
spectacle cOlored man was refused admiltance
to a temperance Sunday school in that place.
A southern insurance agent is about en-
ploying lot OF pretty girls as canvassers, not
however, to exercise the power of their per-
sonal charms upon the men, but to urge the
thing on the married women, that they may
allow their husbands no peace at the domestic
flreside until the better halfis assured good
thing on their departure.
The telegraphic story of the Wisconsin
Episcopalians having adopted a rule that
every Episcopaan who married outside of
the church, or was married by any other than
an Episcopalan clergyman, should be excom.
municated, happens not TO be true. Such a
proposition was submitted to the church, but
was received with delisioT, and promptly re-
jected.
Governor Navarrete, of Lower California,
has a son seven years old, and the latter lale-
ly as god father, held up at the baptismal
font an infant who is his grand uncle-that is
the brother of his grandmother. The great
grandfather of the boy and also father of the
child were present on the occasion.