The Portland daily press., 1865-03-15
0RgervsE AND SELECTED.


with an army of $4,000.
ETA juvenile convict in chains is era ,hati-
cally fast young man.
EWhat is the difference between successful
lover and his rival 7 0nr kisses his miss, and
the other misses his kiss
RThe Savannah ladies are SAID to be in
blissful ignorance Of "mice, y ''rats," and ''wa-
terfalls.''
- The n Y. Express has a rumor that vir-
GINA Whiting Lorini, the prima donna, died re-
Gently at Santiago de Cuba.
80 Mr. Vallandgham declines to be a can
didate for Governor of Ohio. This is a sign of
returning sanity. e
81 Mr.. Macready is giving series of graz
tultous dramatic readings to the insane in the
different London asylums.
%, Mr.. Secretary McCulloch does not propose
making any changes in the heads of the bureaus
of the Treasury Department at present. Il
- The Bergen tunnel on the Erie railroad,
which has been the scene of SO many accidents,
is now lighted with calcium light.
% In late hunting excursion the king of
Prussia killed 26 deer and "a wild boar, and the
r 1t was one of the sayings of Gen. Sher-
man--''Ihe hand that drops the musket must
take up the ballot" 3
% At recent levee given by the Baptist
society in Hallowell few evenings since, 1910
were realized. t ~
% The finance committee of the Massachu-
sets House of Representatives have reported in
favor of state tax of 50, 900. te
B Stirring times are soon expected in Gen.
Grants army. If he is successful rebellion will
wilt faster than ever.
- Some students skated from Berlin to Mag
deburg-one hundred and forty English miles -
in two days and half.
Cyan English paper advertises ga piano fol
sale by lady about to cross the Channel in an
oak case with carved legs
81 A cat and six kittens were the only priso-
ners captured in Sumter. The presence there Of
such a category would imply the feasibility of 0
ratification jubilee
80 A regiment of white troops is being en-.
listed in Charleston, by order of General Sher.
man. The negroes enlist with remarkable will.
lingness.
e pretty girl was arrested at New York
the other day, for being pickpocket. She sale
she had been in the business since she was II
years old, and had realized $4,000.
~ The society newly formed which is to wor
ship in the old Universalist church in this city
has taken the name of s'Pearl Street Universalis
| Society,""
BA lady lecturerin New York, having com
pared James Buchanan to Judas Iscariot, tn
Springfield Republican exclaims, " Poo
| Judas p
Cyan Irishman in Scotland said there is Cd
river that requires milk an sugar before ye'
drink dhrap ov it, When asked what river
was he replied, s'Sure, it's the river Toy."
VA letter from Charleston says man VIII
had $40 900 in rebel notes was willing to ex
change the whole for $500 in greenbaeks, ant
could iud NO purchaser.
~ Five hundred Hungarian families want t
emigrateto one of our territories. An agent
at Washington trying to arrange for their trans
| portation from Europe to Arizona.
HOne is in danger of inferriDg from til
Bangor Jefersonidn that the recent unfortunat
exhibition of the new Vice President was so,
of retribution visited upon the Union party 70
its omission to renominate Mr. Hamin.
% Goodwin Smith says of President Lincoln
little Gettysburg speech-a perfect gem, by tn
by, and the best speech he ever made: SIT ma
be doubted whether any king in Europe woul
have expressed himself more royalty
RSays the Wateryille .MaiI: s'We think
apparent to every one that the enforcement {
the LIQUOR law during the past year has ,brougf
about an improved condition of thinxs in on
town"
EFIt is said that the first well in the Penn
| sylvania oil region was sunk in 1859. On th
28ih day of August in that year the first vein
oil was struck at depth of sixty mine feet fou
inches from the surface.
The Geographic line between Calcutta an
Bagdad, just opened, by meansa OF It's come!
ton with the telegraph between Bsgdad an
Constantinople, opens up direct communicate
between Inda and all parts of Europe.
n Edwin Booth played Hamlet for the nine
ty-second time at the New York Winter Garde
Monday night. The play is to be withdraw
next week, after the number of performance
has reached hundred.
F-The master of all trades. He beats th
farmer with his fast hoe, becarpenter with hi
rule, aud themason in setting tall columns; h
surpasses the lawyer and doctor in attending t
| his case, md bests the parson in his managemeI
OF the deril. OF such is the printer.
81 Bluejays are killed aud brought to til
San Francisco market and sold for their wing
Only, which are used for ornsmenting hats fo
| mic nd hn dos,
be credited with few less years than they al
really entitled to.-[San Jose Mercury.
~ A neat little semi-monthly pictorial pape
is published in Rockland. by 2. Pope Vose, en-
titled "The Youths Temperance Yisifor"
has circulation of 1000; price single, so cent.
in clubs of twenty IS cents each. 1t deserves
wide circulation.
20 The Lewiston Journal says Col. Charlie
81. Howard of Leeds, at the solicitation of Ge1
Saxton, will take command of the first colore
regiment now raising in Charleston. Col. How
Gen. Howard a
The Unitarian Church in Charleston,
c., has been uninjured by the fire. Since tt
death of Rev. Samuel Gilman, d. D., in 1856;
this church has been without pastor, as n
Unitarian clergyman could be found sufficient
pro-slavery for the service.
81 Negroes enjoyed the right of suffrage i
New Jersey from 1776 to 1874, period of G
years; and in North Carolina from 1776 to 1888:
Have these states been any better governe
since negro suffrage was abolished than the
were before? @
~ "A contemporary has seen black spir
hand. We had hoped that in the bright spir
world, as there is no distinction of bond an
free, there would be none of black and white
that all, washed in the cleansing tide of grac
would be pure and white as the driven snow.
WGov Aiken Of South Carolina, was col
sidered, before the war, the largest slaveholde
| in the Union. He declares the rebellion TO be o
its last leg and says that all will soon be gla
to come back again, even if slavery is DESTROYED
and that the pride Of a few leaders is all tbs
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