The Portland daily press., 1871-07-29
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The friends of temperance in Rhode Island
are arranging for a mass union convention of
the friends of temperance in Massachusetts,
Connecticut and Rhode Island, at Rock Point,
Il. L. The meeting is to be held the third week
in August.
AT the Round Lake camp meeting, Father
Jennison is reported to have said that women
and the devil tnrned everything upside down
the beginning. God had given to woman
special gift for influence that he had withheld
from man. But Satan had got her ear early in
her life, and she had kept her wickedness ever
since. told you, my dear sisters, the devil
hasn't left you alone yet. Satan refused to
smite Jobs wife because he knew she was one
of his best allies" "Father Jennison" will
catch it at the hands of some of the lady plat
form speakers for this ungallant preaching.
1t is quite probable that Col. Jim Fisk is out
Of danger from any unfavorable result from his
wounds" The New York Star says the Col.
is stopping at the Branch, and drives out in an
eight-in-hand drag, with four liveried attend
ants, and occupies suit Of ten rooms on the
ground floor of the Continental, where his
every movement may be noted by the passing
and repassing throng Yesterday he appeared
ia four different styles of costume-naval semi
military, civiland "court." The latter consist
ed OF black pantaloons, pumps, white vest black
velvet coat, white kids, satin necktie, land straw
hat trimmed with blue ribbon. The ct ceteras
were made up of frilled shirt, sparkling dia-
monds, natty whip, nosegay in the lett but
ton-hole, and fe:ocieusly waXed moustache
ends.
A four-fold tragedy occurred in bingham
county, Georgia, Monday morning. Mrs. Ash,
highly respectable lady, administered strych-
nine to herself and her three children during
fit of mental alteration. A physician was i'm
medately sent for, and arrived in time to save
only the father, who in his efforts to discover
what the drug was had swallowed enough to
render his condition dangerous
Gov. Bullock of Georgia, it is said, is getting
ready with some other Republicans and Dem
ocrats to declare for the "new departure" The
plan is for number to shout the slogan all at
once. 1t will, it is said save Bullock from i'm
parchment by the legislature.
The Cape Ann Advertiser says the mackerel
season has commenced in earnest and good re-
turns are anticipated. The prospect at the
ment from the provincial government is antici-
pated as occurred last year. A lower price
than that of last year is also predicted.
Senator Sumner came very near being the
innocent cause-or his picture did-of a duel
between Two Hayden legislators; the question
of dispute being about the room of the capitol,
ia which the picture of the distinguished Sem
ator, which had been ordered, should be hung.
The interference of mutual friends only pre-
| vented the shedding of blood.
An Englishman recently made out bill of
some harnesses to a gentleman in neighbor-
ing city, ard among other things in the bill
| were some itch rains" The purchaser OBJ
| iected.
1t is is said that some of the leading Demo-
Gratis of Maine were in consultation in Boston
within a few days with leading men of the
party from the New England States. OF course
nothing has transpired as to the result of the
meeting. The Portland democracy was well
representative which wing, is not revealed.
The mortality of the yellow fever in Ruenos
| Ayres previous to the first of may is estimated
| at 200; nine-tenths being men. Of the 3eC
grave diggers constantly employed, not one
has died.
| A Washington woman justly wanted di
| vorce from her husband, after her calling him
add rascal, dirty cur, her threats te
drug his cuffee, and her attempt to soften hi.
head with four-pound weight had failed tt
raise any resentment in his peaceful breast.