The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-07-15
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| her SOP, at the residence of brother in law.
| physician, in Cumberland, Md. She is sal
| still to be in deplorable state of mental an
| bodily health, usually seeming scarcely awsr
| of the presence of friends.
Cheering words come to us in the Montgom
| cry (Ala.) State journal. 1t says: "Reasol
and justce are gradually returning to our PEG
pie; their love Tor the Union of Onr forefather
| is being rekindled, and soon the day will com
when the hearts of our young men will leaI
with joy at the sight of the old flag kissing TIL
gentle breezes of heaven"
1t was a somewhat awkward but successful
expedient that a youthful Virginia couple hi
upon to facilitate their elopemeot. TIE youns
lady at dead of night lowered herself from heI
cham window in the paternal mansion tt
the ground by means OF pulley and rope.
Just at that critical moment, however, the
cruel father appeared, and that enraged sire
seized the young man, fastened the hook tC
his clothing, and left him dangling in the air
until morning.
At st. Albaps, on Tuesday, the supply Of
butter was very large, and prices ruled from
20 to % cents per pound; glt-edged sold at q
cents
Son Saturday next Nova Scotians will have
another reminder OF their political humiliation.
On that day the law authorizing the assmila-
ton OF our. currency to that of Canada comes
into force"-is the agoDized wall Of New
Glasgow newspaper.
A Virginia paper is puzzled to know wheth-
er whiskey SHOULD be spelled with an e. Spell
ed any way it is a bad spell for most people
and 1T would not be bad to drop all the letter.
and so get rid of the word in hope the thing
itself wonld follow.
Experience has proved at the inebriate asy-
lum at Media, Penn, that thrty-eight per
cent. of the patients can be perfectly and abso-
lutely cured, and yet the Legislature will do
nothing 10 help on this reformativ work.
Took ont tor c,uota.cat c1 IN Hill, -,
mers' and Manufacturers National Bank of
POughkeepsie, New York. There are large
number OF these in circulation, and so well ex-
ecuted as TO battle aught but the closest scru-
tiny
Presden Grant delights to have Sherman
with him at the Branch. The crowd of usually
impOr.unate Office-Seekers are SO afraid of old
Billy Tecumseth that they relapse into un-
wonted modesty and gentleness.
While the family of Mrs James S. Salter of
Portsmouth, N. H., we've at tea Tuesday even.
lng,sOme scoundrel fired twoshOts from pistol
through window, doing some damage to fur
niture, etc. Had Mrs. Salter been in her ac-
customed seat she would have been killed.
The N. Y. Tribune's special Washington
Boutwell, difficulty, says: GAL reports from
Long Branch received here, though vague in
their nature, seem to indicate that the Presi-
dent, if be has not already, will very soon give
zen Pleasanton to understand that his resg-
nation would be acceptable"
Hon. Charles Francis Adams is now en-
ploying his whole time in the ORE paration of
the biography and works of bis father, and de-
sres to be let alone SO far as political matters
are concerned
The wheat crop in East Tennessee is almost a
but the corn, hay and peach crops are
remarkably fine.
meeting of eleven persons has undertaken
to define the political position of the temper
ance people OF Pennsylvania AMI to inaugurate
a third party.
An Ohio Inventor claims to have devised a
process LOT converting irOr into steel of so Ii
quid quality that it can be cast into threads
and ready-shafpened edged tools, all at one
process.
The New York Nation says: Mr.. Boutwell,
has held enormous power over the money mar
ket ever since be took Office and the absence
OF all suspicion OF abuse of it is certainly a
strong testimony to his character.
Shortly after the close of the war the War
Department sent train of wagons to Airing
ton for the furniture belonging to Gen. r. E.
Lee, which was removed to Alexandria, Va :,
and still remains there, untouched. 1t filled
eighteen wagons.
John Sherman, fruit dealer, was arrested
10 South Boston Friday On a requisitOn from
Gov Perham. He was wanted in Bath for OBJ
fences.
Tue New York Commercial says the history
OF wooden pavements in that city is s'the tale
of stupendous imposition, iugeniously con-
trived and successfully prosecuted"
Rev. Charles d. Barrows. native of Maine,
was ordained pastor OF the Kirk ST. Church of
Lowell, Thursday. The sermon was by Rev.
y. ~. Manning of Boston; Rev. S. II. Merrill
of Portland, offered the concluding prayer.
The New Hampshire Senate has disagreed
e to 6-with the House in the removal of GER
tain sheriffs of counties The House, after
much opposition, passed the bill making an
appropriation of $4,000 for the Agricultural
College.
Ohio is the only State, so far as we are in
formed; which can boast county without
rum shop. Such is the happy condition of
Noble county in that Commonwealth. With
IN year past every whiskey shop has been
closed, and as a result vice and disorder have
been largely diminished
AT the last meeting OF the California Acade-
my of Sciences, the desert ship was declared to
be myth by the committee appointed to in
vestigate the matter.
Mr.. Greeley says "soap is sign of Uiviiza.
tlon. Soft soap, we presume, says the Boston
Times.
Two Richards are in the field in Illinois for
vice Logan, pronounced Rich
ard Yates and Richard Oglesby.
1t is reported that the three Republican pa
pers at Concord, N. H.. the Monitor, Demo
GRAFT and Statesman, will be united
The Springfield Republican thinks that sick
beds are excellent places for meditation and
expressed the hope that the New Hampshire
Republicans will profit by their present Attic
ton.
Amherst College has made Horace Greeley
a LII. D., and the Springfield Republican adds
one of the best honors the college has ever Civ
en-. But what a figure Mr. Greeley would
make if he appended the letters in his own
hand writing.
At Amherst Rev. George Harris, jr, of Au-
burn, made the presentation speech on the oc-
casion of bestowing the '66 Glass Cup upon
the first boy of whom member of the class
was the father.
Rev. George McCreery, recently assistant
priest of the Catholic Church at Greenfield,
appeared before the police court of Springfield,
Mass. Thursday, for drunkenness and was fin
ed S735, in default of which he was committed
to Jail. He didn't get behind the CRATES, but
was committed" nevertheless, The turnkey in.
sistipg on doing his duty in measuring the
prisoner and making the record of his commit
ment The policeman who accompanied the
penniless priest to the prison Office was allow
ed to go with him to the parsonage of Saint
Michaels, across the way, and they soon re-
turned with the money.
TEI.E(s " A PEl UTEMS.