The Portland daily press., 1866-04-16
ORIGINAL AND SELECT ED.

EY-It is again reported that Preston KING
has been seen in New York city.
Kate Reynolds is in Mobile.
U.s. Senator Saulsburys sardonic smile is
said to be straight whiskey.
ESSeThe foolish stories about the advantage
of arsenic to the complexion, have occasioned
the death of girl in New York, who tried the
experiment. lH|
BY There was successful April hoax in
New Orleans on the first. A rope was stretched
between two buildings on Canal street, on
which tight-rope performer was announced
to walk. After waiting several hours viewing
the rope the immense crowd began to whisper
april fool" and dispersed.
E9-The title of Tennyson's new poem is
"The Death of "Lueretius." The hero accor-
ding to the conjecture of the Boston Advertiser,
is Titus Lucretius Carus, the Roman didactic
poet who fell by his own hand at the age OF
forty three, having been driven mad by love
philter administered to him. fe4
E9-A divorce case in the English courts
has brought in question the validity of Mormon
marriages. A reconverted Mormon sought
divorce from his wife, who refused to leave Salt
Lake. They were married by Brigham Young
in person, but the Court decided that the cere-
mony could not be recognized as legal mar
riage. 't5~7.
DS~ On Wednesday evening April 4th, the
Union League of Camden, N. j., after passing
a series of resolutions deprecating the conduct
of James M. Scovel, President of the New
Jersey State Senate, for his action in regard to
the election of u. S. Senator, expelled him
from their body. sfa,s .,f.-g
The London Times is as oracular as ever.
That solemn journal expresses the opinion that !.
/. San incursion into Canada, if it should actu-
ally be made, must inevitably demonstrate Ell
ther the strength or the weakness of American
Fenianism." just so. ~ bag
EY-The New York Herald recommends to the
National johnson Club" of which Mr.. Mont
gomery Blair is president and Mr.. Bion Brad
bury one of the vice presidents to drop their
present style and take the more appropriate
name of "the Washington Conglomerate Club
of Ancient Office Seekers"
The people of East Tennessee, DISCUS
ted by the conduct of the "bolting" members of
the state legislature, and believing that Central
and Western Tennessee have interests totally
distinct from that section, are agitating the
question of division of the state. A writer
in the Jonesboro tTenn.) Flag asserts that he
has talked with large number of citizens,
and finds them almost unanimous for the
measure. 5s2- az .l.& 80 aat0H gIt5s OFT w"Z
The sixth and last Symphony concert at
Boston will be on the 18th of this month, when
aprodigy eight years of age-Ernst Tuabo----
will make his debut as pianist N r zaaI5 .aiii
Ey At a dinner party in New York on
Tuesday night, Mr.. Greeley stated that since
the commencement Of the Tribune in 1871 some
thing like .foe hundred daily newspapers haze
been started an the city Of Neac York, of achich
not more than five survive The Tribune was
started on capital of one thousand dollars
and that, as Mr.. Greeley states, borrowed
money. To establish the World the editor
thousand dollars. st, M ,.e 57r. u -5f 3 n
U.s. The Tribune has Washington item say
ing that distinguished military chieftain has
lately been sounded by two noted politicians.
one of whom was in the army, to see to what
extent he could be relied upon to favor coup
d'etat by which the Southern Representatives
are to be placed in both Houses of Congress.
No encouragement was given, and the project
will perhaps be abandoned. rj .--ss-, 2
gY -Private Miles O'Reilly's new volume,
which Carleton will publish in few days, has,
for comic book, the singular title of Baked
Meats of the Funeral, and proposes to stir up
the dry bones of many prominent people of
thatilk. Mr.. Carleton will at the same time
issue the strangely interesting novel by Victor
Hugo entitled Jargal, and Madame LIE Vert's
gossippy volume, Souoenirso of Irauel Ia I
DB~ Dixon" of the Boston Advertiser
states that much discussion goes on in Wash
ington concerning the trial of Jefferson Davis
1t is believed that the trial will take place in
the civil courts within two months, and that it
win be for high treason. The counsel men
toned for Mr.. Davis are Charles o. Conner
and James M. Brady of New York, VIM B.
Reed of Philadelphia and prominent southern
lawyer, while VIM. M. Evarts of New York is
named as one of the gentlemen who will APP
pear for the government with the Attorney
General. bs5Eg III g8ElsatHr.
BB~O On one of the New Hampshire railroads
charge of twenty cents extra is made upon
all fares paid in the cars, check being given
for this sum. On presenting the check at the
ticket Office the money isrefunded. The object
of this is to stop the regulations of conductors
DB Women were logged in Jamaica with
"wire cats'5the ordinary cato nine tails with
No. 1S brass wire twisted among the strands
England is the guardian of civilization
20 Some papers having made the state
ment that butter should not be kept in a room
with kerosene oil, as the kerosene would spoil
the butter giving it a peculiar flavor-the
Elmira Gazette remarks that some of the butter
nowadays is enough to spoil Kerosene.