The Portland daily press., 1865-12-11

gy A party of Yale students had to answer
for unhanging and carrying off two hundred
gates, in New Haven, the other evening
BY- Mr.. Glenn, manager of the theatre at
Norfolk and lessee of the one at Richmond has
mysterlously disappeared, and is thought to
nave been foully dealt with, as he had large
sum of money on his person when last seen. s-s-
G8- William Gilmore Simms has inst sail
ed for Charleston, after long visit to New
York. He will have position on Charleston
daily, and write serial novels for Northern
weeklies. ia rys rF4~{rN
GB Dennis Cokely was shot dead i'm a sa-
loon on Washington street, Boston. Thanks
giving evening, by John Gallagher, the keeper
of the saloon. 1t was case of poor liquor
stimulating quarrel. k &kSs v
vs. During the gale ON Tuesday nioht of
week before last, the steeple of the Coneraga-
tional Church in Sullivan, Nh. was broken
off at the balfry, and fell, breaking through the
roof, and filling the singing seats with the
wreck .2EtTGsN NnreFFG
"a widow in Pennsylvania obtained SO.
600 of railway company for killing her hus-
| band. ere IN Essp,Rt5
va In blasting rocks :he other day. in Sails,
bury, the Eastern railroad threw out a niece
that weighed twenty-five TONS -
EB- Tnesfifth wife of a wealthy farmer in
lllinois-a young woman-made herself a wild
ow by putting poison in the cup of her ancient
| spouse. @..,-r-
va" The Southern States seem disposed to
do almost anything to restore their former re-
lations to the Union. Who believes they
| xvnuid how Co =
frage had it been insisted ON {? 1A@ &
| Vs. The Louisville Journal says that Speak
er Colfax collected a good many coal facts dur
ing his recent trip across the continent.
GH- A special dispatch to the Boston Herald
says there appears to be general understand
ing among Senators and Members of the House
that an exception will be made in the case of
the Tennessee delegation, and that they will be
admitted during the next two weeks.
| Vs. A sad and fatal accident occurred at
the ship-dock of Dolliver and Sleeper, near the
old Peoples Ferry dock, in East Boston, about
quarter before three o'clock, Friday, by which
young lad was instantly killed and several
other persons severely if not fatally injured
1t was the exploding of a steam boiler. H.,
EY- Baron Rothschild once complained to
Lord Brougham of the hardship of not being
allowed to take his seat in Parliament. "You
know" said he, II was the choice of the peo-
ple." To which the Ex-Chancellor, with his
usual causticity, replied, $50 was Barabbas."
-The number of Poles in Russia renders
telegraph building an easy work. .s-isi x
ER Gail Hamilton says one can be daughter,
sister, friend, without impeachment of ones
sagacity; but it's dreadful endorsement of
man to marry him.
BR"A critic says of Walt Whitman's last
that lit exhibits the efforts of an exceedingly
prosaic mind tolift itsefby prolonged mus
cular strain into poetry"
There is at present living in Sweden
ysung man aged 10, who is nine feet Eve inches
in height; at eight years of age he was five
feet four inches. Barnum should send an
agent for him. ia '''l"
I. gY The Rocky Mountain Meas tells of an
enthusiastic yonng Missourian who eulogizing
the beauty of his "gal," said: "I'll be doggoned
if she amt as pretty as red wagon" ~ q
EY-M. About, in a recent publication, says
of an avaricioas man, that sit had been proved
that after having kindled his fire, he stuck a
cork in the end of the bellows to save the little
wind that was left in them" bsa1rs aAry (