The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-07-11

Items.
Gen. Sherman's family spend the summer il
Vermont. The General is to be at st. Alban,
the present week.
The civil service commission finds itself con
frOnted by article I'd, section of the Constitu.
ton, providing that Congress may by law vest
the appointment of inferior officers in the
President alone, in the Courts of law and
heads of departments 1t is claimed that this
clause prohibits Congress from vesting an.
pointments in an examining board.
"A lady in. Pickway, Ohio, packed away he,
silver ware in an old clothes bag, and forget
fully sold the lot for three cents pound,
II am delighted to see you, boys; which is
Mr. Mendessohn?" was the question of a
committee man to the Boston Mendelssobp
Quintette Club. DEt
A Cleveland merchant lately received a
package labelled, Il box Tom Cats" 1t took
him some time to decipher the fact that the in.
scription meant a box of tomato catsup.
The american Baptist Year Book for 1877
gives total Of 917 ,455 regular Baptist
churches, with 10, 818 ordained ministers land
having 6627 more churches than ministers)
and ], 4lO 1913 members, averaging nearly 81
members to each church. There are also about
GOO. Don Baptists separated from the main body
making total Of upwards of 1000, 900 Baptist
church members in this country. Making the
customary allowance, that each church mem
Der represents on an average five persons con
nected in family or other relations, it will an
pear that the Baptist influence reaches 10 900. :
600 of our people.
Out of 307,000,000 people carried on ENGLISH
railroads IN 1869, only seventeen were killed by
causes beyond their own control, while in the
streets of London 140 persons were killed. and
1t is estimated that the orange peel on London
pavements kills more people than all the Eng
lish railroads. t
The Washington correspondents now reiter-
ate the statement SO many times made, that
Secretary Fish is soon to retire from the Cabi-
net. 1t would be economy to have it stereo
typed.
The Travellers Washington cores pondent
predicts that Commissioner Pleasanton will
retire upon the return of the President to
Washington.
Minister Thornton. together with other men,
bers of the British Legation, are constant at
tendaats at all the base ball matches p'ayed at
Washington, occupying, by courtesy, seats on
the reporters stand, and all manifest great in
terest in the finger breaking national game.
There have been several applications already
for space in the exhibition building of the New
England Society for the coming Fair. which is
to be held in Lowell. Parties in Kansas and
California have signited their intention Of
sending specimens of early fruit and vegetables
for the exhibition.
Col. Gardner Banks, brother of Gen. Banks,
who commanded the 10Th Regiment Massachu-
sets Volunteers during the early part of the
late war, died at Waltham. the place of his
birth, at thirty minutes before o'clock Sun
day morning, the 9th inst, at the age of Al
years.
Edward Brown, OF Pitt county, N. c. took
10 the swamp nine years ago to avoid being
drafted into the army. The other day he was
discGvered, and was greatly astonished at
that the war had been over for six
years.
A peddlar went into sly grog shop in the
town OF Lee last week and got a glass OF whis-
key, which made him sick. He went back and
threatened TO inform. on the proprietor unless
he got S., The V was shelled out. Cute ped
dlar that
Somebody says that the best patronized
places are the mouths of milk cans
A Boston paper says:-"When the truth is
told the hay harvest is reported to be turning
out much better than was expected" Where?