The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11


A Marylan paper improves upon the usual
style of death notices by recording that an in
fant was "born into the order of fallen nature,
Dec. 3O 1869; into the supernatural sphere of
redeemLg grace, April q, 1870, and inlo the
kingdom of life everlasting, July 8, 1871. I"
1t is the popular thing now in the radical
line to ridcue Mr.. Greeley's book on farming.
In his recent address at Akron, O., MIR. Gree
ley spoke of the Almighty as the"Autlor of all
things" Thereupon the Louisville Ledger
hopes that Mr. G. did not design to involve his
Maker in any responsibility for that book about
farming.
Mr. Sumner declines to accept the .medeal
offered to him by the Haytian government.
The Massachusetts standing conundrum:
Will Gen. Butler accept the nomination of the
"odds and ends?"
In Cincinnati, at tne Ohio Medical College,
a few days since, Mrs. Annie Cochran, twenty
seven years of age, died while under the influ-
ence of chloroform. An operation was being
performed upon her and was rapidly nearing
completion when she came to her senses, and
suffered so greatly from the pain that she in
sisted upon again being placed under the influ-
ence of the drug. A few more drops were
spilled upon the handkerchief, and scarcely
had the latter been applied to the woman 8
nose ere respiration ceased, and the pulse
| could no longer be felt beating.
The Labor Reformers of Massachusetts. CON-
| trary to expectation, will not hold their nom
| inaring convention at present
A passenger on the steamboat Wesfield, at
| f,a of tlo Mt nj,
| of the crew were in the engine room during
the ten minutes prior to the explosion. An
other passenger testifes that five minutes be-
fore the explosion he saw the engineer asleep
on another part of the boat. There is evidence
of carelessness on the part Of the inspector
who recently exam mined the boiler. The number
OF deaths foots up one hundred.
The division of the Republican party ol
Louisiana has caused bolt OF the supporters
of Gov. Yarmouth, who held separate con.
| vention Wednesday. United States troops
| were at hand to prevent any parties from dsa
turbing the regular convention, which wa.
thus enabled to transact its business in peace
and in order. A resolution was adopted in.
structing the delegates to the National Con
ventiOn to vote for the denomination of Presi
dent Grant.
The Boston Journal says Mrs. Anderson
Bailey of New Gloucester, recently lest hersel
in her husbands cornfield, where the stock
are eight or nine feet in height.
The father of fifty-six children in Georgia j
we'll and hearty at eighty years of age, despit
his chewing, smoking and drinking freely.
The war on polygamy in Utah has com
menced in earnest. A woman, whose Norman
husband has taken a second wife, brings
charge of adultery against the intruder, and tn
courts are likely to have nice time of it befor
the case is finished. Now that a woman ha
led off in shis crusade against polygamy, W
shall not be surprised to see some progres
made in divestng Mormonism of its mos
marked popularity.
The n. Y. Journal of Commerce in a sepsi
BILE article on the Asiatic cholera, shows tba
while the dread disease is reported in Polls
Russia, it seems to be Of a mild type, and nc
to rage with great virulence. In England onl
one case is reported, and that OF doubtful an
tbenticity. Hence the chances of its comm
hither are much diminished. and the probabi
ity of its control improved. Own 1Y,
Hon. Nathan w. Gore, the late Secretary
New Hampshire, died in Concord, Tuesda
evening, after an illness of two months. Il
served in the army throughout the war, an
had occupied many places of honor and trust
An Illinois Agricultural Society offers pr,
MUM to the couple who will bring to the fa
grounds the largest number of children, grant
children ami great ditto. as., a..
In the neighborh hood Of Laconia, N H., IL
hay crop is SO thin that the grashoppers have q
got lame in trying to jump from one blade
grass to another. H. tH
The Sentinel says that at one of the low
Falls Sabbath Schools last Sunday the Supe
intendent was reviewing the lesson, and W,
talking of the verse reading "Let your loil
be girded and your lights burning" He aske
the question, "Why are We commanded
gird our loins p" One little, sharp, shay,
sung out, To keep your breeches up" ,.-.