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The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07
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Fruit.
Grain.

Idye1.... ..f 5U "a 4 75
Muscatel, AIS a 900
Lemons, 10 90 Mt1 on
Oranges. ~ b none
CranberrieS none
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

The Hay CROP IN CUMBERLAND Cousry-
Conversation with intelligent farmers from DIFF
ferent sections OF the county leads to the belief
that the hay crop will not be more than three
fourths of what it was last year. Some farm
ers estimate it at about two-thrds only The
crop generally will be of an excellent quality.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07
TIE KENNEBEC ICE CROP.

GARDINER, July 6.-There is only about 20,
600 tons OF ice on the Kennebec for sale. Over
warm weather continues ice will 90 up to the
highest price ever known. New companies are
now forming to put up large quantities of ice
next season. 1t is estimated there will be over
half million tons put up on thu Kennebec
next winter, Five tug boats are now on the
river running night and day.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

jon PRINTING. your orders for Job
Printing to the Daily Press Printing House
where they will be promptly attended to at the
lowest possible rates. WIN. nj. MARKS.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07
RriefLOltiuys

The First Parish Church Will be closed fol
the next three or four weeks while repairs and
improvements are being made.
There were one hundred and fifty applica.
tons for admission to the High School Tues
day.
Harry B. Brown, the artist, left on the boat
for Halifax last night. on his summer sketch
ing tour.
The Advertiser thinks that because twenty
four out of thirty-six arrested for drunkenness
on MONDAY belonged out of town they were
consequently not drunk.
A jigger loaded with barrels of beer broke
down en- Commercial street near the corner of
MoultOn street yesterday The barrels of beer
were thrown off into the street and the driver
of the jigger injurel his ann pretty severely
The man was not con his beer" although he
came very near being placed son his bier
The Adyertiser says it didn't mean paralyzed
but verbosity.
Fine day yesterday, the wind S. W., with
the mercury standing at $50 at noon.
The Juliet, of the P. Y. c., is at present at
Newport and will remain there till the 18th
inst, when she will go to Marblehead to take
part in the Eastern Club yacht race. The
Ethel will also take part in the race.
A beautiful photograph OF young lady by
M. +. King, may be seen in Hale's window.
The Jean Bart, French man-of-war, sailed
from Newport, r. l., yesterday for this port
They have been we'll entertained by the citi-
zens of Newport, and their stay made very
pleasant to them.
Several citizens have informed us they think
we are mistaken in saying that the city was
unusually quiet the night before the Fourth;
that in their vicinity it was noiser than for sew
eral years. We spoke for our own locality,
which is traversed by the principal avenue of
the city. and which was unusually quiet.
Our physicians have been complaining of o
general time of health in the city; but green
apples are becoming plenty and they regard a
revival of business as not improbable.
Yesterday, while passing the new Second
Parish Church, now building on Congress
street, we noticed rich silk costume imme-
diately ruined by hod of mortar which a care
less holman or mason had suffered to be tip
ped from the scaffold. Cannot people be more
careful.
The Haydns gave their last rehearsal last
evening for the season, and rendered the cho-
ruses from the Messiah spendidly.
Sonntag, the artist, is in town.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

NEW YORK, July f-HOrning-God opened at
lie and Sc to 11i3. Sterling Exchange 1857 @9
1lOs. Governments dull and weak.
Tie Government will receive on Friday, July 10th,
bids tor 81 6S6 in Gold, the July dividend the
U. s. 500 bonds of the sinkins and special funds
On Monday, July 18th, the Government will receive
proposals for the same amount of Government bonds
ter investment of the proceeds of the sale of Gold
There were fifteen bidders tor the million of Gov
eminent Gold sold this noon. There was 1fered
$2C63, 900, vt i1076-10O a Ill 3t-103. Tie awards
were from III 12-100 a III 3i-100.
NEW YORK, July 6--Afernoon.-The warlke ad-
vices from Europe and the financial dispatches from
Washington this afternoon, had marked effect on
tho Gold market, which advanced to 111s, and closed
firm at 111a a 11ia.
MMo o'a.i nrm in 81 mpathy with Gold.
1l9a "a lilo. - -o .eN "0
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

Mrs. PARTIVGToN remarked thai, however
much the President and Congress might differ
on the countrys destruction, one thing was
certain, so long as the Scriptures were uni
versally disSembled, and Gold Medal Saleratus
promulgated, the glorious Stars and Stripes
would rave over the lard of the lee.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

Go to Burlesh's 81 Middle street, and get
your clothing at less price than the small
manufacturers can buy the cloth. We mean it.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

SOME LADIES suffer dreadfully 9TH the
headache, and this causes their hair to fade.
NATURES HAIR RESTORATIVE is a sure RENE
dy for the ache and will restore the color of
blanched. gray or faded hair. For sale by all
Druggists. iy6-2t
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07
BONDED TRANSIT oRTATIoN OF ,eoRr

The section relating to bonded transporta-
tion of imports, which was added to the tax
bill by the Senate last night, prouides that any
perishable or explosive articles or articles in
bulk imported at New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, Baltimore, Portland, Port Huron,
Michigan, New Orleans or San Francisco NAV
be transported under bond by common carriers
ury, who shall also be under bond to any of the
following ports of final destination, where the
duties shall be collected: New York, Boston,
Providence, Portland, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans,
Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Memphis, Mo.
bile, Buffalo, Portland, Oregon, and San Fran
cisco. Similar provisions are also made for the
transportation of merchandise across the Unit
ed States to os from Europe aud adjacent is
lands.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

If you wish for India rubber hose 90 to
Cooper q Co.'S, 100 Federal street. They keep
all kinds of Plumbing materials, and sell
them as low as at any store in the city. Try
them. Nov s,f
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

Go to 1872 Congress street for the latest styles
of Mems and Boys Clothing, manufactured
by Grin Hawkes. & Co.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

IMPoRTATIoNs.-Sugar and Molasses import
ed into the port of Portland from January list
to July 2 1870, as compared with the same
period of 1869:
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

ADDRESS r. V. Pierce, M. D., 1873 Seneca
street, Buffalo, N. Y, and get pamphlet on
Catarrh free, or send sixty cents and get DR..
Sage's Catarrh kennedy Five hundred do.-
lars reward is offered by the proprietor for a
case of Catarrh in the head which he cannot
cure. Sold by druggists. Look out for couaa-
;e:Jeits and ,corthless limitations The genuine
has DIR. Pierce's private Government Stamp
on it, Cut this out, as you may never sec it
again, ie3O-tst2yw
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

SERIOUS Acc1pENT.-On Tuesday evening
last a little son of Mr.. j. b. Matthews of this
city, was standing on one of the granite but
tresses at the foot of the steps of Rev. DR..
Shailer's residence, on Pearl street, when he
leaned forward to shout to some playmates in
the distance, and lost his balance and fell to
the sidewalk, breaking his left forearm short
off in two places. The little sufferer was con-
veyed into the house and o physician called
who set the broken limb, and yesterday the
patient was doing as well as could be expected
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07
THE HOWARD INVESTIGATION.

The House committee investigation of Fer
nando Woods charges against Gen. o. o.
Howard, will this week be submitted. The re-
port exculpates Gen. Howard so far as he is in
dividually concerned. Representative Rogers
will present the minority report strongly in
condemnation of Gen. Howard.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07
Portland aud Vicinity.

New Advertisementst his Dat
SPECIAL NOTICE COLUMN.
Fancy Goods, Get. Lohenstein
AUCTION COLUMN.
Furniture, &c.....F. o. Bailey a. Co.
Real Estate. Geo. w Parker 81 Go.
NEW ADVERTISEMENT COLUMN.
Bonds. w. II. Wood & Son. Swan g. Barrett.
Gold Loan. :. Turner Brothers.
Dog Lost.
DIR. Garratt's Electric Disks.
Lost. Anchor.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

ATTEMPTED BURGLARY. - Tuesday night
about 8 o'clock officer Cammett found three
men in a sied attached to the house of Humph-
rey Guptill, on India street, endeavoring to
break into the house. One of them, Michael
Reardon, had an ak which he was flourishing
around, and all three were desperately and
recklessly drunk. Cammett told them to leave
but they assumed belligerent attitude, and
opposed the officer with force and arms Cam
NETT got hold of Reardon and when he flour
ished his AK, struck him over the head with his
cane and brought him down, the blood pouring
profusely from his head. BY this time crowd
OF some thirty OF forty had collected, and eu'
courased the man with shouts and curses upon
the officer Cammett was fast getting INTO
hard situation, when Mr.. Miles, the Waterman
at the Grand Trunk, came to the rescue and
assisted him in getting Reardon to the station.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

A CURIOUS CAsE.-On Sunday evening last
young woman very neatly dressed and of pre-
possessing appearance C lied at well-known
boarding house in this city and requested a
nights lodging. She stated that she had come
from Boston in the boat the night previous and
had remained at the boat all day expecting hel
sister who lived in the city to call for her, but
she had not come and for the past two or three
hours she had been roaming about trying tt
find where she lived. No accommodation
could be giver her there, but one of the gentle.
men escorted her to a hotel where she WAS pro
vided with a room and lett carly the next
morning aser paying for her lodging. Sever
al ladies state that girl has called at IL ell
houses during the past fortnight telling the
same story, and in one or two cases has been
accommodated and left the next morning -
The case is curious one for if it is the same
girl it is hard to tell her object.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

MASSACRE OF FRENCH RESIDENTS, PEK I.
A dispatch dated London, Wednesday after
noon. states that adv:ces from Pekin give the
particulars of a fearful butchery of French res
dents in that city by mob of Chinese, upon
the 21st of June. An organized mob. imbued
with intoIerant hatred of foreigners, and es-
pecially the French residents, in great mass
appeared in the quarters populated by the lat
ter, and Immediately commenced beating and
maltreatiug all Frenchmen whom they en-
countered. They, however met with some re-
sistance. The residence of the French Consul
was broken into by the party, and himself and
the Secretary of the French Legation brutally
massacred. Some of the attaches were wound
ed. The rabble also killed several Sisters OF
Mercy and a number of priests, all foreigners,
mainly French. They also beat to death sew
eral Russians. All the French people who
were oyertaken were killed or shockingly
MANNED. In fact, infamed with fury, the Chi
nese procured all manner OF weapons, and with
these began the dreadful massacre of the
| French They entered many dwellings, sacked
them, attacked the inmates and dragged them
| forth into the streets, where they were beaten
with istaves and bludgeons and stabbed with
| knives. Many were killed or will die from the
| mi lries inflicted. Some of the Chinese used
| firearms. Not content with their fiendish
| work. they repaired to the Roman Catholic
| cathedral, drove forth the worshippers, and
| took possession, and after sacking the building
set fire to it, and it was totally destroyed.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07
Domestic News.
WARRINGTON.
THE CURRENCY BILL,

WASHINGTON, July 6.-The sCurrency bill
was passed by the Senate this p. m. from the
Conference Committee. 1t provides for the is
suing OF $54 700 600 of currency and the retiring
of only $45, 600 900 in three per cent bonds. The
comptroller of the currency is to provide imme-
diately for distribution an Increased circulation
giving the western States what they are entit-
led to, under the existing law, and as soon as
the census returns for 1870 are in redistribu
ton is to be made. The clause providing for
free banking on gold basis was retained.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

AS Iowa is market for lumber and coal,
and the supply IS adjacent to the best MAJ ket
IN the world for the articles named, the inn
proved view of this road over any other must
be explained on that ground. American rail-
way stocks may be proud of their superiority
over any others in the world; but railways in
the Northwest, where wheat, corn, stock,
lumber, COAL iron ana the great farm house
staples abound, and the soil is the best, chem
ically, for their increasing production, must
have the preference over any other railways in
the market. They c,st less per mile, the land
being prai- e, and they earn the most, as the
charges for freight and passenger traffic are
the greatest, being substantially unrestricted.
~ Y Commercial advertiser.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07


The champion fire company of New Orleans
are on their way to New York. They bring
Their engine and tuck and $4,000 worth of
prizes won by them. They will remain in New
York week, having received challenges OF
trial and skill from companies in that city.
A large block on William street, New York,
occupied by business concerns, was burned
Wednesday morning. Loss, $55,000
One Sheridan is ON trial in New York for
the murder of his wife. His daughter Mary is
a witness against him.
The President, accompanied by Senator
Buckingham and others, arrived in New York
Wednesday morning from Connecticut. He
was to leave for Washington at $40 P. M.
Nellie Nelson, aged eighteen, committed sui
eide Tuesday night in her mothers house in
Boston by shooting herself with pistol. The
probable cause is betrayal by young man
named George s. Jones, who is under arrest
pending an investigation.
The Fourth of July celebra. on at the Roman
Catholic Protectory at West Chester, New
York, ended with a platform crowded with
children falling 25 feet to the ground and in
Turing over forty boys and two men. Twenty
two boys had either arms or legs broken while
| others were badly cut about tho face. The ac
cident was caused by pillars that were used
| for stays for the platform giving way.
The purchase by Benjamin Halliday of the
Astoria railroad franchise gives him the con
| troll of the entire railroad system of Oregon.
The census takers in New York city are sac
| to be performing their duty in very bung
| ling and unreliable way.
The name of Thomas A. Viii ley, No. 1877
| has been discovered on the inside vest pocke
| worn by man that was found murdered a
| Hambur.h N. Y.
The annexation of the city of Mobile TO tn
State of Mississippi is talked of.
| At Wesson, Miss, on the 4th, there was
| fight between blacks and whites and ID colore'
men were badly wounded.
| The new school board of Cincinnati ha
elected officers in favor of keeping the bible il
| the schools. John Hancock was re-electe:
Superintendent.
The betting on the ocean yacht race is We :.
lively in New York city, with the odds in fayo
| of the Dauntless.
The great Mississippi steamboat race wa
j ended on Monday by the arrival of the Lee a
st. Louis in three days eighteen hours an
fourteen minutes. The Natchez was detaine
below by fog. The trip was an exciting on
from first 10 last, all along the river. Thou
sands flocked from the interior to see til
racers pass, and bonfres, cannon, anN.ls, an
everything that was explosive was used on til
occasion. The crowd at the levee at st Lou
was immense. The banks of the river frou
Carondalet TO above the city, distance of S
miles, was lined with spectators. No simila
| event ever caused such excitement or brougl
forth such crowds. A. million dollars has prol
| ably changed hands on the resule.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07
MASSACHUSETTS,.

BOSTON, July 6.-Jerome Fl. o. Perham,
aged Is, had both legs cut off at Wakefield last
night by an incoming train while crossing the
railroad track.
Sarah w. Gilman, lady of 80, committed
suicide by hanging this morning, at her board
ing house, on fremont street. She was ma
tive of Maine.
MURDER CASE.
SPRINGFIELD, July 6-James Burke was
struck in the head with an axe in the honse OF
Michael Flynn on the night of the 4th, and
will probably die. He was not discovered till
Tuesday night Flynn, who is Bnrkes father
in-laW, has been arrested as the nerpatra.Or
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

ICask.. So. 50@ OC0
Naval Stores.
Tar y brl. . a 90 "a 5 %
Pitch &c. Tar)3 25 q
vii. Pitch -. AIS
R0sln .......3 90 a 500
Turpentine gal so "a 81
Oakun1,
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07

A FOURTH OF july INCIDENTAL Fourth
Of July incident, not laid down in the publish
ell programme, has come to our knowledge
that may prove interesting to our readers
gentleman who resides in seaport town
OIL the east coast of Maine possesses lovely
and accomplished wife aud the two preside
OYER very fashionable summer boarding
house. About week ago the household was
increased by the arrival of lady, very hand
some and of charming manners, FRONT -four
ishing town on the Penobscot. This lady was
DESTROYS of making her home at the house for
some little time, but the lady of the house OBJ
served some pecularities, which only woman
is sharp enough to discern, and unfOr. uoately
had not the room to spare. Tha strange lady
left, and on the next day but one the host was
missing. The wife wondered where he had
gone when she received telegraphcc des-
patch from him from Portland requesting her
to send him some funds. At the slime time
she received letter from the husband of the
strange lady stating that he had ascertaned
that his wife was in Portland and inquiring
when she left her house for that city. Now
this lady, down in her far Eastern home, was
up to thing or two She could put this and
tudO tOScJucf anu Oh tuo TcCcipb vi buiS IcIJcT
she naturally concluded that the truant hus-
band and the stray wife were together in the
Forest City. She accordingly forwarded the
money by the Express Company, and the same
boat that carried the money took her as PAS
senger She arrived in Portland just as the
bells were announcing the rising of the sun on
''the day we celebrate After proper time
had elapsed she posted to the Express off ce
and found the money had not been called for.
She therefore departed to our worthy City
Marsha's Office on her errand of vengeance
Now the City Marshal is always ready to aid
the cause fjustice and particularly to succor
lovely woman in distress, but alas! in this case
his services could be of no avail. He could not
arrest the truant husband on mere suspicion
and so the lady (who believed firmly that her
husband had been more sinned against than
sinniDg) returned to the Express Office. Here
she took concealed position and awaited. In
shost time the husband was seen coming and
then occurred the meeting. We will not dwell
upon it here. Suffice to say husband and wife
returned on the next boat. The husband Of
the remaining wife also was in town, but the
sequel of that case we cannot tell.
The Portland daily press., 1870-07-07
r O Il E IG N

IL CEsc.
THE IFALLIBILITY DOGMA.

ROME, July 6.-No proclamation of the dog
ma of infalibility will be issued before the
10th inst Several sittings are yet required for
taking the votes on the separate characters of
the schema. The correspondent CT the Brus-
sells Independence Beige says the proceedings
OF the Council are all dictated by Father
Becks, general of the Jesuits, and known as
the BLACK Pope" He adds that the Jesuits
experimenting expulsion from North Germany,
have postponed the execution of their more
ambitious projects to safer times. The gov
ernment of Hungary urges the bishops of that
country to resist to the last the dogma of infai-
libilty
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27
American Slang-HOw 1t Bothered an
Englisllman.

The utter ignorance Of the English OF
the signifcation Of American slang ex-
pressions often causes some curious scenes
between them and Yankee buyers in Eng
land, who seem to think that because their
language is generally understood, all their
American idioms will be. An expert
buyer junior partner in one of our large
American firms, at a recent visit to his
correspondent in an English manufactur-
ing city, was complimented by the senior
partner of the house, who insisted on per.
sonally showing goods to his American
customer.
"There, SIR said Dowlas, throwing out
roll of goods, "what do you think OF
that?" .,.......
90, that's played out" said the Amer
ican
IT'S WHAT" said Bull. #
!" It's played out, tell you," said his
customer. .,I4lftelft ...
Played-ah! really-we call it pad
h'yar in England, but this isn't plaid
PLAID, you know" iiIstl lt
"No," said the Yankee, 81 don't mean
plod, mesn ter say it's gone up"
40, no." said the Britisher, "not at all ;
it has not gone up--auite the contrary.
We've taken off from the price,
cover the left; it's three pence too
high, now" E,tt
"No doubt of it, but our neighbors, you
know, on the left are not manufacturers,
you know" t.} I',t
Every likely; but | don't care to be
stuck when get home"
"Really. Most extraordinary. Is it as
dangerous in New York as the newspapers
sayy"
"Yes, but I don't want these goods
I've got some already that will knock the
spots out of 'em.
"But, my dear sir, there's no spots on the
goods, ! assure yah. They are perfect"
"Well, we'll, suppose we Switch oil on
these goods, and try something else"
Certainly and the Englshman, to
the infinite amusement Of the Americans
friend, called clerk with a wisp broom
and directed him to switch Off any dust
he could find, while he proceeded to show
something else, There said the Eng
lishman, triumphantly, spreading out
another fabric, there's the handsomest
piece of goods in England, arr guinea
a yard"
II pan't see it" said the customer.
"'Can't see il 2 why you are looking
straight at it; however, suppose you try
the light of this window"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27

"No, don't mean that" said the Amer.
lean, Z" l haven't got the stamps for such
goods"
60 Stampsr No stamps required but
bill stamp, which We are happy to fur.
nish."
This misunderstanding might have con.
tinued longer had not one of the younger
members of tie house, seeing his seniors
perplexity, rescued the American and
put him through" after the manner of
his countrymen.-Boston Commercial Blu.
Lstin I'D
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27

"A kind of oil.paper hangings., calleSg
"Oleo Charta, is now made in EnSiana'
which, il is asserted is impervious to WEI,
may be placed on new or damp WIZ
without risk of damage OF discoiorasIon,
may be washed with soap and water %
often as required, and will last tWen.y
years. The process of manufacture Is no'
explained.