The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-07
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

England are about to send vessels OF war to
the Piraus to sustain his faltering dominion.
E~At Williamsburg last week, they gave
gold medal to the lady who distinguished her
self as the best skater.
EY-Iudia has a new sensation. Widows,
instead of burning themselves on the funeral
piles of their husbands are, like sensible women
marrying again. The first marriage of ma
tive widow in Bombay took place on the 22d of
November last. Both bride and groom are sin
good society," ..--..FE eN.rE-
va By keeping steadily drunk for one yea,
in Missouri, you can be divorced without fail.
Ia Strawberries have made their appear
anee in New York. =- 5
Ia Mr.. Gustavus V. Brooke, the noted trag
edian, was one of the passengers recently lost
ON board the ill fated City of London.
EY Rents are up in New York. A building
on Broadway having lease of three years to
run at an annual rent of $4,000, was bought
out recently by another firm. who gave in ad-
dition to the rent a bonus of $4,000.
EB-A poor Ir:shman who applied for Ii
cense to sell ardent spirits, being questioned as
to his moral fitness for the trust, replied, "Ah !
sure it is not much of character that man
needs to sell rum p ., ~
Mrs. Darlington says the only way to
prevent steamboat explosionsis to make engi-
neers bile the water ON shore. In her opinion,
all the Dustin is done by cooking the steam on
board.
EB A man in Pittsburg, Pa, has made ar
rangements to feed 1000 persons per day, at the
average price of 80 cents meal
Mr.. A. R. Wilson, inventor of the sew
ing machine, which made him millionaire,
left North Adams, Mass, some fifteen years
ago, forlorn and shabby, with his pack and his
dinner on his back, and with scarcely dime in
his pocket d To G t
The two things that do most to stir up
the bile between England and America, are the
London Times and the Atlantic Ocean.
Gen. Cass, who is at home in Detroit, is
said to be seriously ILL., and falling fast.
GB- Silk growing will be largely prosecuted,
this year, in California. In Sacramento county
Wilson Flint devotes 100 acres to the White
italian Mulberry culture. -
DThe spcifc contract law is reaffirmed by
a recent decision Of the Supreme Court of Cal
| ifornia; but where the contract is not specific
| States gold coin or the equivalent of such gold
coin if paid in legal currency : the court de-
cides that in law dollar of legal paper curren-
| cy is worth as much as dollar in U. s. gold
| coin. sa+ AA
GY-A bill to increase the salaries of the
| justices of the Supreme Court of Massachu-
setts is to be considered in the House of Repre-
sentatives of that state early this week. 1t pro-
vides for an addition of one thousand dollars to
the salaries of the chief justices and of each OF
the associate justices, making them respectively
ffty-ive hundred and five thousand dollars.
GR-Admiral DUPONT kept his ships outside
the Charleston bar and made $4,000 thereby
President Lincoln issued an Imperative order
to him to move his ships inside and seal the
harbor against blockade running. Dupont dis
obeyed and was relieved. Dahlgren succeeded
him, and moved his ships, and blockade run
ming was so completely destroyed that Dahl
green's prize money only amounts to a little
over $4,000.
| Frederick Douglass, making a speech
the other evening in Brooklyn, was induced to
consider the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and
| some of his recent utterances affecting the
| rights of negroes. 81 do not find fault with
Mr. Beecher," said Fred, though do not al
| ways agree with him. I remember that, not
many years ago, he declared that, if he could
abolish slavery on the instant, or, by waiting
twenty-five years, could have it so abolished
| that its overthrow would wholly rebound to
| the glory of the Christian Church, he would
prefer the latter. I presume he was entirely
eli in bic a,,d xyat xraro n
Maryland stakeholder, and Mr.. Beecher were
my slave, and had a rawhide, could take
this opinion out of him in less than half an
hour."-[N. Y. Tribune. '1 !
E~The homestead of Henry Clay has been
sold for $4,000.
Sat Acapulco, it is said, the pretty peas
ant girls have an ingenious device for selling
necklaces made of shells, principally on the
days when steamers arrive Handing you a
necklace they say, "Me give you present, senior"
and then retire with low courtesy. Returning,
however, in few moments, they say, sweetly,
"You give me present. senior, of quarter dollar"
and they get the money. o.
BB-In Rochester, N. Y, a few days since a
Mrs. Rochester fell dead in church. She was
sister of Hon. Roswell Hart, NJ. c., and her
death was caused by disease of the heart
General Miller, Collector of the port of
San Francisco, has appointed twenty-five ex-
mi itary officers and soldiers to places in the
Custom House. Mere politicians are left out
in the cold. f.ss 5g- a-.
YEA gentleman who has served on one of
the Committees on Public Institutions. in Mass,
informs the Boston Bulletin that the new style
which the ladies have of frizzling their hair
over their foreheads reminds him forcibly Of
his visits Of inspection to the female ward of
the lunatic asylam.
% The Tennessee legislature has passed
resolutions complimentary to the late Henry
Winter Davis of Baltimore. n
B-The Kansas House of Representatives
laid on the table resolution endorsing Presi-
dent Johnsons policy, with only two dissenting
votes.
EY- Edwin Forrest recently played five
nights in Crosby's Opera House, Chicago, and