The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-13
ORIGINAL AmD sELRorEn
-HOraao seymeur has besh msss..0 tai,

persistentiy maintained that the ex-governor
at Chicago had thrown the party into the
hands of Vallandigham, and islangh tered the
party, when it might have carried its candidate
ON a straight-out war and U mon platform. --s-.
B8-T Two fri gnds were ilistsningt, ayou1g
preacher, whose sermon was made up Of IN
acknowledged plagiarisms. They did little else
than nudgeSeach other as one anazinpserib suc-
ceeded another, until one whispered. "I,ool at
him ] declare his very whiSkers are curv;ng
into inherited comBsds, and his face looks one
entire quotation" Na,-es ssA
30 Talleyrand once took the conceit out of
a young coxcomb at some table in Paris. where
he CHANGED to be dining. My mother said
the dandy, "was renowned for her beauty. She
was certainly the handsomest woman ever
saw y "Ah r taking his measure at once
"it was your father then who was not good
looking p y -s,,ga 4, 's z ~. aisg =
gB- Ghosts are getting very fashionable
Fresh ones turn up every day. First We had a
report of haunted house in the vicinity of
Philadelphia; then the streets Of Toronto
seemed to be the chosen scene of ghostlv an
partitions; and now we hear of church il
Jersey City which is. nightly ha1nted by I'M
earthly shrieks and groaas. We live in daily
expectation of hearing that the Sugar House
Ghost" of two years ago has revived. and is
''revisiting the glimpses ofsthe moon."a b W.
DB-The British naval force on. the southeast
coastof America in commission at the present
time consists Of eight vessels, mounting in the
aggregate sixty guns, with a complement of
one thousand and sixty officers and men,
EY- The Buffalo Express says COMPANY has
been organized in Detroit for the manufacture
of COARSE linen goods, such as grain bags. crash
toweling, burlaps, Irvine, &C. There are only
two similar manufactures in the United States
one at Delaware, Ohio, and one in Nfassaohus
sets. The establishment of this factory win
give an additional impetus to fax Gu ture.q
BY- When our Massachusetts neiehbors
don't know what else 20 do with their monay
they can always drop few thousands into that
bottomless pit the Hoosac tunnel. The latest
intelligence in regard to the tunnel is that the
workmen have struck an obstacle worse than a
crock of adamant, viz, aquielsand The New
Bedford Mercury hopes the State Treasury
may not get swamped there. sssla.s5f W Is
eB- What is the use Mr.. aEconomyo of
talking to the ladies, young and DID, about ex-
travagance in dress {? Who encourage them in
it, pay their bills and boa TOT it 4? who set the
example in expenditure by purchasing 2.aO
horses, driving two and four in hand, with ele-
giant carriages, coachmen, tigers and footmen in
fashy livery :? Who think it @the thing to
visit faro banks and an honor to be familiar
with Morrissey p Its n-boys-not women
or girls-who court notoriety by extrayaeance.
and crafty vanity at the expense of wisdom
and honor-Boston Post. hea sse seHga
BB The Columbus Statesman saws that Mr.,
Kilppart, secretary of the Ohio Agricultural
Society, will have on exhibition at the State
Fair soma three hundred Varieties of wheat
heads which he gathered from the fields Of
Europe; also many varieties Of rye, oats and
barley. y Fsse as.a .ali a4s'ils5f 159s
B Extensive Preparations are in progress
at st. Joseph, No, for a grand welcome festi-
val in honor of the soldiers of the North
west.
BE-A New Yew York correspondent of
western paper says ::ls'I met a man the other
day in Broadway rather the worse for wine,
who told me he had been to Saratoga and the
White Mountains, and returned home without
experiencing any harm from railway accident,
atwhich his friends had congratulated him so
often, and insisted upon drinking to his good
fortune SO frequently that he had become
quite obfuscated mentally, and very unsteady
physically" 81 1900 saslS.sssge,, ~ rs
. gY~ The great Homestead well, at Pithole
Greek, has ceased to flow, though it recently
yielded five hundred barrels per day. The
Philadelphia Herald wiclsedly. says 1t was the
well in which Wilkes Booth owned thirtieth
interest, and it is barely possible that he has
tapped it at the lower end. 'iss' q e s.
E- Coleridge was acknowledged to be a bad
rider. One day, riding through a street, he
W aceosted by a would-be-wit :: II say, do
you know what happened to BALKAN 2" Came
the answer sharp AID quick aThe same as
to me. An ass spoke to him r
! DB- The New York Evening Post says that
recent letters from Rio Janeiro state that Pro-
fessor4 Agassiz has had a continual ovation
from the Emperor and influential men. He
hes made vast collection of objects, ana has
left for the Amazon, where the Emperor has
placed steamer at his disposal. He has al
ready as he prophesied before leaving the
United States, found the traces of glaciers in
the neighborhdod of Rio de Janeiro. sSF
B-"Go to Tropical America, If you wish to
inhale enchanting fragrance" says one of Pha-
Ions Night Blooming Cereus" advertisements.
Bosh The flowers within the tropics like the
birds are gay in colers and delightful to look
upon, but they are as destitute Of fragrance as
the birds are of song. The rose and the bobo-
link are of the temperate zone.
EB The famous Thames Tunnel has been
sold for amillion of dollars to railway com
pany. ~ asrar5.s .iqa 1esf'i 1od iaslls
A German festival in honor of Dante, is
to be held at Dresden on the 14th inst. The
results contemplated from this proposed meet
ing are firstly, the foundation of Dante IL
brary; secondly, the foundation of Dante ne
thirdly; the preparation af criticals
edition Of Danteis smaller works, which even
in Italy is still wanting. The periodical, it is
proposed, should appear in German, Italian.
French and English. All German libraries are
to send their Dante manuscripts and
other. rarities in connexion with the subject. to
Dresden.A s5sS8A Ste5S8As EHas
B Thomas Chandler Halliburton, better
known to the world as Sam Slick, the Clock
maker" is one of the two celebrated me whose
Heath is announced by the last steamer. He
was born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1896.
His first literary adventure gave him name.
when in 1884, he contributed to a weekly
paper series of articles, designed to caricature
the Yankee character under the title, aLubri-
cations of Sam Slick the. Clocknlaker.gs They
were soon after collected in aivolume, which,
under the title of "The Clockmaker, or Savings
and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville.' had
a wide circulation both in England and the
nlueu states. i,ea a3lletHaa sd aaE .fY4E8s Ed
"a The notices Of property HbelIed for com
fiscation occupy thirts-two columns of Fridays
Richmond Republic. The list includes about
two hundred estates. 80 -
B national bank has been authorized
for Portland, Oregon, the first on the Pacific
coast. isnea e.fH .ils1 Us-sllss
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