The Portland daily press., 1866-01-19
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

EB line last OF the South Carolina Pinck-
neys, Mrs. Rebecca Doyley Pinckney, died re-
Gently at WATERFORD, aged 90. 6E
GB- Mr.. Joshua j. Rand, 48 years of age.
fell dead while standing in his doorway, in
Portsmouth, on Monday evening last He had
been in i'll health for some time
Gp A man who was guilty of great crime
near Albany, N. Y, has been all the time at
liberty on bail, and finally escaped altogether,
while his victim was kept in prison from Nav
until January-eight months-as witness.
EB On the wagon route which they are
now opening between Denver City and Utah,
are two very prominent mountains which
Judge Hughes, the builder of the road. has
named Mount Grant and Mount Sherman.
BT An analyzing dame reports that "she
had heard of but one old woman who kissed
her cow; but she knows of many thousands of
young ones who have kissed very great calves. /"
EB A person who fOrswore going to church
because the minister preached politics, was
asked the other day to 60 to another church.
saying he would hear nothing about politics.
He went. The minister preached from the
text, IF the righteous are scarcely saved, where
will the ungodly and sinner appear ?" In the
whole sermon there was no reference to "poli-
tics" Being asked, after the service, how he
liked the sermon, he replied-'I didn't like it
at all. 1t was all politics. He meant we should
understand the text to read IF the RepubI-
cans are scarcely saved, where will the Demo-
Gratis and the Rebels appear ?"--TLewiston
Journal. ~
EF Governor Stone, of Iowa, approves the
PraSidanta or ok;o
Gates negro suffrage, and opposes the re-admis-
sion of the late rebellious States to the Union,
until political guarantees are received that
their inhabitants have abandoned their often
sive theories
va A man in Newburgh offers to skate
with any body this side of the Equator for
$500 side, the distance to be five miles.
VS. The Washington correspondent of the
Traveller says, it is possible change may be
made in the income section of the internal rev.
enue law, increasing the amount deducted
from 5000 to $780,
w The World calls Congress "The Rump
Congress" which can only mean that it exists
without any authority. No members are in of
right we suppose, unless elected by demo
Gratis. The Tribune wants to know if the Stu
arts are coming in
B The Mormon paper at Salt Lake CITY
notices the new demonstrations of eastern and
congressional feeling against polygamy under
the head of Hell Boiling Again." The editor
is United States postmaster $500
Vs. The London Lancet thinks that the cat
tie plague in England is analogous to if not
identical with small pox.
B- The Springfield Jnson says the stock of
certain oil companies in Pennsylvania has
dwindled from ten dollars to five cents a share
which'1s half a dime more thanit is worth.
va A thief entered the front door of a house
in Brooklyn, N. Y, while the family were in
the basement at tea, few days since, and stole
$4,000 in government bonds, and valuable
watch.
BR- The Secretary of War has ordered dis
continuance of the advertising of his Depart
ment in the National Iatelligemcer and Cogssts-
tutionG Union, opposition presses. Of course
the copperheads are lavish in their abuse of
the Secretary for such an act of perfect propri-
ETY.. The funniest thing about it is that for
such an act Mr.. Stantonis accused of interior
ing Nth the liberty Of the pressi We suppose
we shall next hear business men charged with
interfering with the liberty of the press be-
cause they refuse to advertise in and subscribe
for newspapers that they don't like!
DD- A Connecticut deacon was attaching a
very poor and feeble pair of oxen to yery
large load of wood. A neighbor asked him
how he expected to get so large a load to mar
ket with SO poor team. The deacon replied
that he expected to have some assistance from
Divine Providence. His neighbor asked him
whether it would not be as well to dispense en-
tirely with the oxen and let Providence dram
the achole load
ES- DR.. Stevens, of st. Adams, VT, one of
the most eminent medical practitioners in that
State, died on Monday last.
vs. On the question of setting aside the
test oath, the U. S. Supreme Court bench is
said to be equally divided.
gH- Roberts, the English billiard champion,
was to leave Liverpool for New York, on the
18th, in the Java.
GH The ex-rebel chieftain, Mosby, is now
under arrest to answer the charge of hanging
two Federal soldiers during the war in retalia-
ton for the murder of some of his gang.
BB- The two Cummings, in Jail at Lancas-
ter, N. H., for the Northumberland assault, and
the two Libbys charged with burglary at Milan,
made their escape ON Saturday nigh, by saw
ing off the iron bars of the window CRATE
,EB Senator Sherman of Ohio, has been
nominated by the Republican members of the
Legislature of that State, for reelection.
EB- Isn't it about time that the Fenians,
now that their hedd-centre has absconded,
should substitute head-boards 7'~
Va A manuscript by Copernicus has been
discovered in library at Warsaw. 1t is
treatise on the revolution of the heavenly bod
les. ..--....
EY- It is said that there is a young man not
yet out of his teens, in Rochester, who has
made about million of dollars by speculations
in oil stocks. ------..-----
EB- The Emperor of Austria is expected to
make his coronation unusually brilliant and
memorable, by passing an act of amnesty,
which will allow every political exile to return
to Hungary. 1t is said that Kossuths name
will head the list.
I EB- Rev. j. G. Fletcher is to deliver twelve
lectures on Pompeii, at the Lowell Institute
in Boston. 81
G1r Rufus Choate, only son of the late elo-
quent lawyer, died in Dorchester, Mass. on
Wednesday last. ff.
I'D In describing the Iowa giantess. a paper
gravely remarks:-"The bride did not falter or
tremble upon being led to the altar"
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