The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-12-27
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

Gr A meeting of the citizens of Atlanta
Ga, has been called to organize argument in
order to clean the city of the scoundrels whose
business is murder and robbery.
bsB~ A man was in court in Fall River last
week, who, though he is fifty years of age, has
never moved from the house he now occupies,
and yet he has lived in two States and three
towns .l at,q ~ .lI
EY Some of the newspapers have stated
that the President has nominated and sent to
the Senate for confirmation the name of Hon.
L. d. Campbell, formerly representative for
the Third Congressional District of Ohio as
Minister to Mexico. lo
EE- MIR. Garrison, the editor of the Liberd-
tor, announces that he has put in type with his
own hands the official announcement of the
abolition of slavery for the last number of that
paper ts5s5s G s@
EB" p. A. J.. Russell, printer of the Leav-
enworth Times, challenges any compositor in
that city, for the sum of 800, or $3.50, to the
! following effect: That in one hour, one day or
one week, he can set more type and cleaner
proof than any composition in the city or State
g8- A man out West, while eating piece
of pie, swallowed bit of glass, which killed
uiLi III less biidu bWeuty-IOur HOURS.
VI A fire occurred in ball room in Brook
lyn, Tuesday evening. The party was under
the management of Engine Co. No. 49," and
the ladies left in good order without any panic,
saying they had only lost dance or two, and
the boys would put out the fire." an
EB Butterields overland dispatch compa-
ny are to place large force of armed men On
the Smoky Hill route, for the protection OF
their coaches. 1s .3ll,
EB- AT performance of ''The Lady of Ly-
ons" in Columbus, Ohio, last week, a spectator
was bold enough to hiss something which dis
pleased him. A policeman tried to put him
out without success, when Claude Melaotte left
the stage, carried the disturber into the street,
and then returned to his acting. 48 ~ -.
EBN P. Willis's poem entitled 1.-THE Maid
ems Prayer" begins thus: ail ,.l
She rose from her delicious sleep,
And put away her soft brown hair" 7
An exchange thinks this maiden must have
lived prior to the advent of the waterfall" At
present the ladies put away their soft brown
hair before going to their delicious Sleep"
GB Inc Boston Pilot, the Catholic paper in
Boston, thus alludes to the Fenian quarrel. be-
traying no hopeful view of Irish Iudependepce
"All true friends of ireland must denlore the
scenes enacted in New York the mast two
weeks. How John Bull will rejoice ON the ra-
ception of the news of the split in the Fenian
ranksi But SO it has ever been in the cheouer
ed history of Ireland. On the eve of success
the demon of discord creeps in to scatter the
hopes of her too-confding people" u EsAE-N
EB- The White Mountain Bank at Lancas-
N. H. s in no bon of oil mn
up-bills not current
e. Dsy 1t is said that Bierstadt's brush has
earned him $4,000 in the last three years.
He has the finest team in the Central Park
and is building q villa at Irvington, on the
Hudson. '" f9af' -1
GR- Smuggling between Switzerland and
France is reduced to a science You buy a
watch of a Geneva Matchmaker He asks YOU,
"hn you take it with you, or shall we deliver
IL at Paris" If you answer that you prefer it
densered at Paris, he gives you note, with
wmch, When you arrive at Paris, you 60 to an
appointed pace and receive your watch, as in
nocent of the paym Mt of duty as when il left
the goldsmith's hands in Geneva.
EY- Hon. John Minor Bolts is in Wasb;no-
ton, and expresses himself as opposed to the
admission as member of Congress of any man
who has had part in the rebellion. $40
E- A son was born to Gen. Mcclellan at
Dresden, ON the 10th ult. t @
Va Anderson, the Wizard of the North"
is in the Bankruptcy Court in England.
EB- Five men who slept in single room of
the Bremen House, Chicago, were suffocated to
death with gas on Saturday night, in conse-
quence Of cap falling off the gas pipe, which
bad been stuck on with wax