The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-01-22
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

quartz into gold.
nsy- WHY is firt like a hollow India-rub-
Der bali Because she is very empty and has
great deal of bounce.
Ew Why is an offering like matrimonial
engagement? Because it begins with an offer
and ends with ring.
BB- Inc proposition to reduce the mileage
of members of Congress to ten cents a mile,
which Is three times the cost of travel, meets
with no favor in the House of Representatives
at Washington. E
W. Thirty-two persons over 80 years old
died in New Hampshire last year. Mrs. Lucy
Whitcomb, of Fitzwilliam, was the Oldest
nearly 1O2
E- A savings bank for freedmen has been
opened in Savannah. The first day the depos-
its amounted to sixty-six dollars.
Ezr A Southern gentleman announces in
the Mobile Register his intention to emigrate to
Mexico, He is ready to, fly from land dark
ened by the power of New England supersti-
ton" Let him fly.
Vs. Mayor Lincoln, of Boston, says the
claims of the poor in that city are more press
ing than they have been for a number of years.
The Saturday Press says:-"A rubicund
old gentleman in Wall street was pointed out
to us yesterday, as having been Collector of
the port of New York for over fifty years.
He looked so, and the port seemed to agree with
him." TX
E Ex-Gens. Heath, Pillow, Hood, Long,
street, and other southern leaders, have been in
Cincinnati lately, and engaged 1900 white la
borers and purchased eight hundred cotton
plows.
6 U.s. The bill for public printing last year
was $1,7OO,OO0, and the estimate for this year
is two millions. Eal--4t CSC
t. De A newspaper editor says he felt called
upon to publish Father Lewis sermon on the
Locality Of Hell" as it was a question in
which nearly all of his readers were deeply in
terested. sKl&B.A 81 gS1 a EA lBSi y
Vs. Mr.. George Wilkins Kendall has re-
turned to New Orleans, after an absence of
seven years in Texas, and resumed his editorial
chair in the Pscdyurse Office. ~ xzs2 a
| . Ia At the dedication of the Colored High
| School, at Nashville, on "Wednesday last, Gov.
Brownlow asserted that, if the military were
withdrawn, forty-eight hours would not elapse
before a mob would break up the Legislature
| of Tennessee.
By- The Toronto Globe says the action
against the Messrs. Allan, for lossH of property
on board the Bohemian, has been settled by
their paying half what was sued for with costs.
G- 1t is well known that hogs are killed by
steam in Chicago. A great iron claw, with five
/ fingers, hooks out the pigs which are quarreling
in the pen below, and lifts them to a gibbet near
by, and then pluuges them into scaling water
By this machine fifty are killed, scalded, clean
cd -
within an hour.
GB" The American Home League, organic
! ed in favor of protection, has presented re
monstrance to both Houses of Congress, against
| the petition of the Free Trade League, Pull
bear pull devil ~
DB The fire which occurred in Quebec on
Saturday of last week was very destructive
Ten buildings on Peter Street. occupied as
stores and offices, were, with their contents, en-
4 tirely consumed The loss is estimated at up
wards of 100000, about half of which is COW
cred by insurance. The heaviest losers are the
ladies of the Ursuline Convent, to whom be-
longed the fine new block of cut stone stores
known as the Nuns Buildings, in which the
| fire broke out A young man named McGrath
it reported to have lost his life by the falling of
one of the walls The fire was believed to be
j the work of an incendiary
| EH A Chicago paper says that if those who
are in possession of the Lincoln medallion,
sold for the benefit of the late Northwestern
Sanitary Fair, will examine it closely, they
will discover that by strange coincidence a
line made by an accidental crack in the die
marks the exact course of the bullet which de-
prived the President of his life. laof7 Fl ai3
- On dit on the street that the Especial
correspondent of the Boston Post in Washing.
ton is the agent of the associated press. This
would account for the striking similarity of the
: Posts specials" to the associated press dis
patches.-[ Boston Adv A TIIfl 81
BR~ Mrs. johnson, wife of the President
has received from Sir Morton Peto, since his
return to England, a most elegant and costly
present, in the form OF a Christmas box of rare
and exquisite device, filed with Partisan bon.
bons.
E- The Chicago Republican of Saturday il
"sorry to learn that some instances of pocket
picking and larceny have occurred at the revi
val prayer meetings in that city.
4 Vs. The Taunton Gazette thinks Boston
I. without the old State House would be "hub'
with the linch-pin out.
i "Dixon" telegraphs from Washington
to the Boston Advertiser that letters have beer
received from Columbia, 8. c., which report
continued disturbed condition of affairs in thu
upper and western parts of the State They
say that in the Barnwell District negroes ani
whites have both organized bands for self-de
fence, and the result is that collisions have oc
CURED in which blacks have been killed.
"a An alligator over six feet long was late
ly caught near Cincinnati It is supposed tt
have fallen overheard year ago from steam
er which came up from the Arkansas River
Z with troops. si4&AaE@sl 6 1s 'hsa 4o 10 ,s't'
4 g A couple who had been married only
eight days were divorced in Chicago last week
| on the ground of incompatibility Of temper
The wife was less than sixteen years DID, "a
EB% 1t appears that 514 emigrant passenger
vessels arrived at the port of New York during
the past year, carrying 200,0d passengess. In
1864 the number Of emigrants landed at Castle
Garden was 1896 4 % a,' ii-t a p
/ BThe internal revenue collections in st
Louis last year amounted to $6049,00O, an in.
crease of 100000 over 1884
Ca The St. Louis Republican estimates the
loss by the destruction of shipping during the
ice-break, at $697 800. Thirty-nine steamers
and other boats, owned in that city, were sunk
| GB The failure of a firm in Boston engaged
in the petroleum and refinery of the same took
place Friday. Their liabilities are said to be
about three hundred thousand dollars. =. .5,
VIZ The freedmen of Columbus, Miss are
giving concerts and tableaux. White people
are admitted at half price, and front seats re.
served for their benefit.
W An oil well in Eagle creek, Oyerton
county, Tenn, has sent up column of oil ten
feet high since it was struck. What makes ii
)! remarkable is the fact that the well is only 70
feet deep.
j 20 cotton mill-a new thing for the West
I is soon to be established at Bridgeport, Ill.
by Chicago capital and Massachusetts, brains
S1O0 0OO of tho f,rnoar 5bo;,o, s,,Iso,;hoa r.