The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-05-08

London.
The loss to the sugar crop by the crevasse
at Bonnet Care, will exceed thirty thousand
hogsheads.
"A paper called magnolia Flower" blooms
In Texas, but the editor complains that be
does not make a cent.
"A son of George Sand, the novelist, has
book nearly ready which will reveal much
Of the secret history of the second Empire.
"A wretched little article of Chinese dog,
without particle of hair, is the latest add-
tion to the pampered pets of fashion in New
York.
"A boy eight years old couple of weeks
since was sent to prison for month by three
magisiratrates OF Tamwcrth, England. The
poor little mite had thrown a stone at bird,
and missing the bird, had broken Ipane of
glass in shopkeepers window.
Brigham Young, with his staffand brass
band, Is to give formal welcome to Deelgate
Hooper, on his return from Congress.
The citizens of Leominster, Mass, cleaned
out saloon there the other day, aud pitched
the rumseller's entire stock in trade into an
adjacent pond.
The congregation of the Fourth Pres
byterian Church in Syracuse, on Sunday last
pledged the handsome sum of S3417451
toward the erection Of new church ediace.
General ID. Fl. Hill, formerly of the rebel
army, is now editing seven by nine weekly
in South Carolina, called the Southern Home.
A very aged couple, Reuben Mason and
his wife after living together for sixty-fye
years in Morrisville VT, died suddenly few
days since-she at II o'clock Ia the morning,
and he only ten minutes later.
The N. Y. Tribune publishes a queer
story regarding the sudden death of Cots
chalk, the celebrated pianist. Gottschalk,
while making arrangements for a concert
near Rio Janeiro, incurred the displeasure of
the college boys Of that place. Alter the
concert he was prostrated by blow from a
sand bag in the back. He was momentarily
stunned, but death was the final result. It Is
not known who was the assassin.
"A saloon keeper on Grand River streets
Detroit, Mich, has hat, which was pawned
for whiskey, displayed in his window, and in
side the hat is the name of the owner.
"A Vermonter has had 50 damages
awarded him for being butted over a fence BY
his neighbor's bull. The smalness of the
sum is due to the plaintiffs avowal that he
was trying to get over the fence as quickly as
possible, 50 that the bull only helped him Ia
carrying out an intention conceived of his
own free will
John Prentiss, formerly editor of the
Keene IN. H. Sentinel, is ninety four years
OF age, and yet travels about unattended, and
Is a. sprghtly as most men a score of years
younger.
Rev. William Morley Punshon has been
offered 1.-THE presidency of Belfast College,
Ireland but the indications are that he will
decliue it, and continue some time longer in
America.
Somebody has said, that, on an average
there Is about $50 lbs. of lead fired away in
bullets, mans weight, to every soldier that
is killed. Looking at the report of the Bu-
reau Of Ordnance we do not wonder at this,
such is the excitement and confusion OF mind.
1t states that on the ield of Gettysburg there
were 1854 guns picked up, and of these a.
600 were found to be loaded, and half of them
were double loaded. One fourth had from
three to ten loads in, and many had five or
six balls to one charge Of powder. In some
cases the powder was above the ball, in 9TH
ers the cartridges were not broken at the
end, while in one musket twenty-three balls,
sixty-two buckshot, and a quantity of powder
were all mixed up together.
"A story is told Of soldier, who, about
one hundred and fifty years ago, was frozen in
Siberia. The last expression he made was,
ut Is ex-." He then froze as stiff as
marble. In the summer of 1860 some French
physicians found him, after having laid frozen
for one hundred and fifty years. They grad
ually thawed him, and upon animation being
restored he concluded his sentence with "ceed.
ingly cold"
The climate of California embraces all
the zones-Temperate, Torrid aud Frgid-
You can experience them all in six hours.
Leaving Arctic cold and snow on the Sierra
Nevadas, you will see tropical flowers and
fruits long before you reach Sacramento. In
the winter 1t is bleak, cold and snowy In Shas-
ia, but mild and balmy in Los Angeles and
San Diego.
The venerable Jacob Barker, once so
well known as Quaker merchant in New
York, and subsequently as banker in New
Orleans, is now spending his declining years
in Philadelphia. He resides on Spruce street
with his son Abram, who surrounds him with
every comfort which wealth can command
Jacob Barker is now in his ninety-second
year, having been born In ITS, on Swan Is
land, at the mouth of the Kennebec River, In
the state OF Maine.
"A fond mother in Kingston, N. Y, keeps
, an old fashioned rocking chair sitting In a
corner as an ornament, because in it she ha:
rocked ten babies, all of whom grew up to be
: men, and are now living and married.
, Those who look rather coldly upon Cana
da will be perhaps astonished to hear tha
she is the fourth maritime power in the
world, and has 1901 ships, with a tonnage o
100000 tons. She stands ahead of every ma
tion except Great Britain, the United States
and France.
The State geologist of California say,
that from the top of Mount Diabolo th
! broadest and most magnificent view in th'
r world can be obtained. Not that 1t is th
highest elevation in the world, but it com
mands wider unobstructed view than an
other-any view from the Alps being no e1
, ception.