The Portland daily press., 1865-11-13
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

BF Why is a faithful printer like an ardent
lover? Because he "sets up" great deal, and
employs an occasional brace
It is said in the Georgia papers that A.
r. Stephens will not decline the nomination
for Governor. sf-.-g-s5a laT
Love-an emotion much written about
by novelists and much dreamed of by school
girls, but nearly obsolete in practical life.
B5~ An inveterate bachelor gives as a reason
for not getting married that he Wishes to pre-
serve his good opinion of the gentler sex.
BB~A Washington despatch says the Rus
sian government has renewed the contract
with the Winans of Baltimore for supplying
rolling stock on the st. Petersburg and Moscow
Railroad.
ga Washington despatch says the French
Minister states that there has never been any
unpleasant feeling in his relations with our
government. ,st
w By the new fire alarm system in New
York no bells are rung, but each engine COM
pany will be informed by telegraph in its own
house of the locality of the fire - !
1.-The first ascent of Mont Blanc was made
in 1886, since when there havebeen two hundred
anu lihOCy 1ncIS have Decu bulTty-uNc
ascents during the present summer.
G" The correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette says there is not newspaper writer of
average position in Washington whose salary
is not equal to or greater than that of Con-
gresham, while his expenses need not be half
so grea'. -r-...s-.s rv
B3~ 1T is stated that Abd-el-Kader expended
several thousand dollars, while in Paris, in
dolls for the amusement of the ladies of his
harem.
GB~ Hon. VIM. B. Calhoun of Springfield,
Mass, died this residence in that city on We'd
nesday. He was born in Boston in 1896 and was
graduated at Yale College. He represented
Springfield in the House of Representatives
from 1925 to 1885, and was Speaker for two
years, and was member again in 1861. He
was member of the Senate several years, was
Secretary Of State three years and member
of Congress from 1886 to 1913
Ground was broken on the extension
portion of the E. & N. A. Railroad at st. John
on the 9th inst. Quite jubilation was had.
FThe colored men of the State of New
York held a convention at Poughkeepsie on
Wednesday, and appointed a State Central
Committee to urge the Acknowledgement of col
ored Americans.
The apple trade of the present season
puts into the pockets of the farmers of Michi-
gan not less than a million and half dollars
The trade has this year assumed a greater i'm
portance than ever before. The prices paid
have ranged from So to 81 %.
EAF~ Mr.. Henry Coppee, the editor Of the
United Service Magazine, has in press volume
eatitled Grant and his Campaigns" The au-
.nor has been spending week or two with the
GENERAL, who has revised the text of the
book. ....' =.
gB MY. William Swinton, formerly of the
New York Times, has nearly finished his Cam
paign of the Army Of the Potomac,
General Burnside is building q ro;lrood
in the oil regions, ten miles and half lone
which is to be completed in ninety DAYS
Seven hundred men are employed in the con-
structioD. --A 80 -
Eg-The Newburyport Herald says the hum
bug Commission on the hours of labor are
holding sessions at the State House,