The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-22
News by the Latest Mail,

Col ID. ID. Morrison of Illinois, now in WASH
ington, forwarded Thursday to Jefferson Davis
the original commission of theilatter as colonel
in the United States army, signed by Andrew
jackson, President, and Lewis Cass, Secretary
of State. The document came into the posses
sion of the Illinois troops after the capture of
Jackson, Mississippi.
Within period of fourteen months two soci-
cites of iron workers in England paid out for
the support of men on strike the enormous sum
of $S,2S3,00O Half of this amount would have
amply stocked an immense cooperative manu-
factory. i-..i-e,
John Jay Knox, Deputy Collector of the
Treasury, has been promoted to the place made
vacant by the resignation of Mr.. Hurlburd
DIR. Paul Scheppe, who was convicted of pois-
oning woman at Carlisle, Pa, and who has
been waiting an order for execution for three
years. has been granted a new trial.
Massachusetts has one hundred and sixty say
ings banks, containing deposits amounting to
$166, 59S, 100. H ,-a
Since the autumn of 1870 twenty-five new
manufactures have been started at Fall River,
Mass. ..#- ..--.. -- ri.
William Britt, alias Burnham, belonging in
Augusta, was caught, few days ago, in an at
tempt to rob the house of Mr.. Seeking at Great
Falls, N. FL.
Friday. Aprii ac.l-, win, p. ~L...-va by tne
Odd Fellows of this country as the anniversary
of the foundation of their Order -
The Goodyear hard rubber patent expires
May 6, 1872 The Goodyear soft rubber patent
expired some time ago. i.-.- ..-i lib
On Thursday evening T. B. Simon, agent of
the Boston & Salem Express, took the train at
the latter place for Boston, and up to Saturday
night had not been seen. His coat, with sew
eral express pocket books, was found in an
alley near the Boston office. Foul play is fear
ed 49,.
A Norwich, Conn, lady started ON Monday
for the Sandwich Islands, to marry man whom
she met just twenty years ago, and with whom
she has been in correspondence for fifteen years,
not once seeing him during that time, while he
wooed and won her. Dab F-it s.-9aL s.-i
A little difficulty among the political leaders
of Quincy, Mass, resulted in the brutal assault
on Friday night, in the cars, upon Mr.. Paxton,
representative to the General Court by Mr..
Odorne, a partizan of Mr. Underwood, whom
Paxton charges with culpable Encouragement
as Selectman. sa 5-s sa.l..- .5s-,..,-
Mrs. Mason, almost famous in the arms in
vestigation, being leading rebel partizan dur
ing the war, naturally became familiar with
Andy johnson. She says she had good deal
of influence over that gentleman when he was
inebriated and drove successful business
A large and enthusiastic meeting was held at
Exeter Hall, London, Friday night, by the
friends of the Permissive Prohibitory Liquor
bill. j. B. Gould, the American Consul at Biz
mngham, gave an account of temperance leg
islation in the United States and the success
and beneficial effects of the liquor laws in Maine
and Massachusetts,.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson, who disgustingly
lbelled and carieatured Abraham Lincoln in
1854, now engaged in villifying President
Grant.
During the first fifteen weeks of the present
year Boston has doubled her exports. increasing
them from $780, 900 in 1871 to 81, 900, 900 in
1872. During the same weeks she has added
100000 to her imports. The increase of ex-
ports is remarkable, for it is astonishing that
the growth of single year should rival the
growth of two and half centuries
At the famous finishing establishment at Pc
dantry Centre, if a boy says he was running
fast, he is made to say Easily" if it rains hard,
he must call it raining hardly, and if drunk
ard is helplessly overcome he is not dead drunk,
but deadly.
One of the two signers of the Cincinnati Con-
vention, from this district, did not vote for
Grant four years ago. and rumor afirms, both
voted the Democratic ticket at the last State
Bedford Mercury.
John Scarborough, formerly Chief of Police
of Wheeling, Va, was shot dead on Friday by
a man with whom he had been playing cards.
The California Legislature has passed bill
that religion shall neither be taught nor prac-
ticed in the public schools"
1t is reported at Venice that Franc Abt is to
conduct the performance of his own
at Mr.. Gilmore's Jubilee.
The difficulties between the master and jour
neymen carpenters in Berlin not being settled,
the employees were discharged and the shops
The walls of the building in the course of
eTectlon at Kirkcaldy, Scotland fell Saturday
NINE masons and laborers were suffocated.