The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-03-07

E8 w hat Is the difference between q bantam
cock and dirty housemad The one is
domestic fowl and the other foul domestic. II
% The Italian journsls announce the death Of
the poet Felice Romsni, author of the libretti Of
Norma and Of the '.Somnambula.''
~ The population of st. Louis is 165, 446.
The American population is in a majority. Only
one-fifth of the buildings are of wood
R-It seems that lawyer is something of a
carpenter; he can file BILL split hair, make an
entry, get up a case, frame an indictment en-
panel jury, put them in box, nail witness,
hammer sJudge, bore a court, and other like
things. & taa sn4ss ssfs s.a5
RT The Ethiopian Opera House in Richmond
advertises for old cork, and says the highest
price is paid for any kind of old shoppers and
cork at thehall. The Constitution" is SO nearly
played out that even its color cannot be kept up
except by hitherto unheard of means
R- In the rebel House on the 14th inst, re-
port was made of the names of the men who had
sold wheat to the government at extraordinary
prices The first man on. the list, is the Hon.
Jas. A. Seldom, late Secretary of War, who sold
500 bushels at $40per bushel
% Artemus Ward says that ssthe chaps who
write for the Atlantic know how to sling ink.
went in an saw 'em. 1 told 'em that theirs
was high and holy mission They seemed
quite grati6ed, and asked if had seen the
Crate Origin"
W0ne of the Shetland mares lately impor-
ted by John s. Rarey of Ohio, lately gave birth
to q colt, which is considered as the smallest
specimen of the horse kind in the world, being
only twenty inches in height, and only weighing
twenty-one pounds. The mother of the colt
weighs only seventy-fve pounds.
VWhen Senator Morgan wouldn't accept
the treasury portfolio, Horace Greeley innocent
ly made this suggestion to Nicolay, the presi-
dents private secretary: s1'll tell you whom to
appoint secretary of the treasury. Our old New
/ York politician, now Nevada senator, Jim Nye,
of course. He's the best man at borrowing, and
troubles himself the least about payday of any
man in the United States p
An exchange paper says that youth of
nine or ten summers who attends the Sabbath
Schools, and is one of those "infants TERRIBLE
was asked by his teacher, not very long since,
what the phylacteries of the Pharisees were !?
"Broad hens such as ladies wear on dresses"
was the reply. But the Pharisees didn't wear
them for the same reason that ladies do did they?
so, YES" was the wicked answer, s'to be seen of
men," - 7lsif1 slss Isisi8 a5sfes q sza5gf-- 1l
80 Nicholas Wiseman, Cardinal Archbishop
of Westminster. died at his residence in London
on the 18th of February, at the age of sixty
three years. For nearly fifteen years he held
the first ecclesiastical rank of the. Roman
Catholic church in England, having been rais-
ed to the dignity of a cardinal in September,
1850. 10
gin a recent trial in New York, of Ger
man, for kidnapping little girl, four years old,
District Attorney Hall stated that in his pro-
fessional experience he has known of very many
cases in which parents had lost their children in
this manner, and had never discovered any
trace Of them to this day. notwithstanding the
perfection to which our advertising, telegraph
ing andpolice systems have been brought.
81 There is new sensation in the popular
lecture field. DIR. Dulany, the learned African,
who has been much admired in Europe, has ar
rived in this country and gave lecture in WASH
ingten, Monday evening, upon the condition of
Africa, Thelearned doctor is described as fine
specimen of his race; he has Travelled much in
Africa, and he insists that his race is much more
civilized and intelligent than is generally sup
posed. aa9
~ Mr.. Gholson of Va. in his recent speech
in the rebel congress against arming the slaves,
stated that the white population of his district
was but 10, 1872, while the slave or black popula-
ton was 81 1923. He then said-and as slave
holder he revealed his wise forecast in the re-
mark-by arming these slaves and promising
them personal freedom, ewe shall be teaching
them the use of firearms. and that Liberty is
worth fighting for !"
% LOWS Josselyn, Esq, editor of the Lynn
Bay State, having failed to effect sale of his
paper, has decided to discontinue it. The Bay
Slate was loyal Democratic paper, and we are
sorry il should be discontinued. Mr.. Josselyn
says he does not stop it because he cannot con-
tinue its publication, but because he has become
weary and wants rest-wishes to go fishing
and visit the country He is veteran editor,
and, we believe, has not labored without "ma-
tsriaP results, - 'oE4 os
RA correspondent of Massachusetts paper
says, "A sentiment of enlightened. charity has
cast its beams on Springfield. The orthodox
and the free-thought minister now sup together
on oysters at John Madden's; the Episcopal
rector and the Baptist parson play at billiards in
the Phelan saloon and the colored preacher dan
ces in the quadrille with the Catholic priest
1t is just 80 with their focks. Two years ago,
their members were as distinct from each other
as the Esquimax from the Hottentots, or the
Wababeesfr from the Digger Indians. Now they
mingle in genial communion, and High Church.
men go off on benders with Orthodox and Uni
versalists. =,
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