The Portland daily press., 1870-06-16

A benevolent old lady of New Haven, Conn.,,
has presented the police Office with large
pulpit Bible.
Mr.. T. B. Aldrich is spending the summer
with his family in cottage by the sea-at
Swampscott.
The parishioners of Rev. E. P. Parker. of
Hartford, have given him $1,000 in gold and
leave OF absence for three months tour in
Europe.
Jay Gould pays $4,000 for Newport house
for eleven weeks. Nothing like railroad that
don't pay dividends.
Rochester cemetery, where Dickens would
be buried, is two and halt miles from Gadshili
and joins the ruins of an ancient Norman
castle. -''.1-
A loving wife at Newport, said: "Tbe bor-
rid surf makes me keep my mouth shut" Sar-
castle husband" Take some of it home with
you."
There is family of summer residents at
Newport, consisting of four ladies'; they have
brought with them twenty-sx servants and
nine horses. What a household and without
a"head!"
The seventh and the ninth regiments from
New York will both visit Newport this sea-
son. The latter will camp out on Jay Gould's
lawn, which contains nineteen acres
Mr.. Dickens's publishers have completely
finished manuscript material for three addi.
tional installments of Edwin Drood," and
Mr.. Dickens left memoranda almost sufficient
to complete the story.
A Minnesota School Board have voted light
ming rods dangerous, because they attract
lightning, and ordered one off the building in
their charge.
A Rhode Island paper is very severe upon
mean man in that State. 1t saws that he
would take his grandmother's coffin to slide
down hill on.
In New York State, on the same dav last
week, a lady, her daughter and her grandchild
were buried. The elderly lady had lived i'm
one town, ard her daughter and infant in an
other. n l. -
A Texas paper asserts that the bitterest
Radlcal in the Legislature of that State is an
ex-Coniederate General who went to Brazil
at the close OF the war because he would not
live under the hated government of The Yam
KEGS. lie is wiser now than he was at the
close of the war.
Indignant at the false reports which have
been published, New Hampshire man, who
| evidently ought to have been born In Ireland
declares that he will give dollar for the au-
tograph OF every member of the New Hamp.
shireaLegislature who is unable to write his
own name.
Canadian papers complain that some of the
patriotic young men who calamity went TO
the front to repel the armed Fenian invaders.
found on returning TO their employers, after
successfully discharging their perilous duty,
that they had been discharged and their
places filled by sneaking stay y-at-homes.
Mail advices state that Russian noble
man, Count Koucheleff, a man of enormous
wealth and ell-known amateur of art, has
| just died suddenly at st. Petersburg from the
effects of an aploplectic attack. BY his will,
his property passes to his nephew, and his
| brother-in-aw, the spiritualist medium,
Douglas Home, derives no benefit from that
| document.
A Boston dealer in ladies' goods has lost
his trade by getting the small pox. He had II
at Halifax and looked so bad aterward that
he went to Europe to get used to il. Tn the
meantime choice lot or imported Goods
came, but story was started that the owner
was sick with the foul disease 10 the store.
and that the goods were injected. His clerks
have plenty oil leisure
The city government of Hartford voted, on
monday night, to ask permission OF the Leg
lsiature to appropriate $4,000 for monu-
ment to the late DIR. Horace Wells, the discov-
erer OF anesthesa, to be placed IN the fark in
| that CITY, The State will be asked to appro-
pirate a like sum and it is expected $4,000
will be raised by subscription, making $4,000
! in all.