The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-07-12

Gov. Yarmouth of Louisiana, will save his
foot and his life.
A soda lake near Rawlings, on the Union
Pacific is capable of furnishing $1,000 tons of
soda year.
An old lady. who lost her purse a short time
since in New Haven, declared, on its being re-
stored to her, that she would not attempt to
interfere with the reward which was stored IN
in Heaven for the finder by offering him any
money.
1t is said that when Brigham Young was
asked the other day which son he had at West
Point, the conundrum SO staggered him, that
he was obliged to refer to the family record to
solve it, "DO they miss me at homer? is not
much sung in that family,
The Rothschilds lost about seventy five mil.
lions of dollars by the results of the Franco
Prussian war.
The report that Mr.. Harry T. Blow, nephew
OF the ex-Minister, was murdered on ;he
Fourth Of July, is denied on apparently good
authority; that is, the young man himself in
ssts that he has not been killed.
The Western Waterman, the Roman Catho.
lie organ of st. Louis, is getting into go.d
deal of not water, being SO far ahead of most
Catholics as to denounce the appropriation of
public money for sectarian purposes
There is hope for Virginia. Its best papers
are ridiculing the tournaments" and. telling
the young men to stop fooling and go to work.
Among the visitors at the Round Lake
camp-meeting, near Saratoga, were the mus
cular Christians, John Morrisey and John G.
Heenan.
A man in Plttsburg, ninety years of age
married woman fifty years his junior. They
fought, and the old man is no more.
The BostonGPost has an announcement of
the death of several citizens "from throat dis
ease, superinduced by razors."
Four George Washingtons, six Andrew
Jacksons, five Henry Clays and two James X.
Folks, all negroes, reside at present in the
Louisiana penitentiary.
"Rise puden" is what a New York restaur-
ant placards. Bars all close conscientiously
| on Sundays. Entlance through the cellar.
"a vndication of Lady Byron" is announced
| in England, and it is feared that the ugly con-
troversy is all to be tonight over again.
A pitched battle took place in Robson coun-
| ~, N. c., Monday afternoon, between band
of outlaw negroes and the sheriff and posse
| three killed and three wounded in the sheriff
party.
Hon. r. M. Dix, NJ. c., of Alabama, testified
before the Ku Klux Committee that Rev. Mr..
Larkin did not possess good characterized
| there were no ku klux in his section. He
said that the community abhorred miscegena-
ton on the part of white men and c0lored
| women.
Legal delays having been interposed there
is no prospect that Mrs. Fair will be hung be.
fore January.
The Pennsylvania Central R. r has leased
the Jacksonville & Indianapolis Railroad.
The Communists of New York he'd coop
erative conventicle in the Bowery on Sunday
evening. at which they gave their wild notions
full swing: One delegate openly declared him
self an infdel, free-lover and atheist; another
endorsed Jim Bludeo as the type of true
Christian manhood, another believed in q
"bran-new God, not the old, e.horse one;'
and there was more to the same effect.
The wool clip in this country is unusually
short the stock on hand of all kinds 10 very
small, and nearly or quite all of the foreign
sold to arrive some months since. For certain
grades parties are paying higher prices than
during the war. when gold was $50. A mum
Der of buyers are abroad and mary left by last
steamer, carrying with them letters of credit
and sterling exchange to large amount.