The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-01-05
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

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81 Al :he Boston Museum the play called
"rhe Road tn Ruin" has been very successfully
acted during the past week. II is elsewhere
very successfully acted, and the play is largely
patrnnized.--A rich Mr.. Neald has bequeath-
ed to Queen Victoria 81 go 0OO.--A man
and his wife in Worcester, Mass, died FROM in
haling gus frou, defective coal.stovs.-A
man ON Hanover street. Boston, signalized the
departure OF the year by cutting the throat Of
his vile and then his own. Both were alive
at last accounts.-Secretary Seward and fam
ily have gone TO Havana, and frum thence to
the Rio Grande.--Gen. Logan is said to have
aspirations for the U. s. Senate. from Illinois,
and we hope he will get there.---The negroes,
much to the disappointment and chasrin OF the
great reconstructed, have been very quiet and
law.abiding during the holidays. An uprising
oi negroes in the South would be a god.send to
the copperhea,ls, and would Justify Nasty in
issuing "sam." in the closing number Of
the Libcrator, f.. Cady Stanton il out with an
appeal for the elective franchise to DO extended
to the weaker but prcttier sex. That won't do,
Cady. Petticoats arc beautiful and handy
things to have about the house, and perhaps We
might venture to call them indispensable to any
well regulated family; but the family OF Amer
lean sovereigns know too much to allow the bal.
lot box to get demoralized. Just think, Cady,
of the languishing black or blue eyes appealing
for our vote The eyes would have it, Tor the
man in such case, who could withstand
lovely woman's elOquencc, would no fit for
treason, stratagem, &C., and wo should be pat
riotc.-Thc Androscoggin, and Bates Mills,
nj Lewiston, have declared seni.annual divi-
dcnd of - per cent, and tho formers three
last dividends have equalled the amount Of the
original capital stock.
~ The cattle plague is alarmingly on the
increase in England. learned Frcnchman
has discovered that Adam was l23 feet tall,
and Eve lis feet ditto. but he fails to mention
that as high up MS they were in the world they
were able to have only one cane between them,
AN English magazine says that American
women have degeuerated physically, because
they live too much in doors. 1t has long been
the opinion of our own physicians that they
wasto too much time in staying in doors
Gen. Grant has had three houses presented to
him one in Galcna, one in Philadelphia, and
one in Washington. Unfortunately he cannot
occupy them oil at the same time. -One-
third Of tho nation is supported by manuiac
lures There are 100000 destitute individ-
uals In Arkansas. Mutual Friend" is
being dramatizcd. - Lawyer Bradley paid
500 for the privilege Of calling Judge Oliu a
lar.-The new Colorado Senators are Radi.
Gals; that is, they are not Rip Van Wrinkles.
"A son has been born to Mrs. Gen. McClel.
Ian. Tho little fellows arrival was not SO soon
looked for, but when tho announcement was
made to the father, true to his instinct, he did
not start. -Kctchum, the gold forgcr, has
been sentenced TO four years and a half mpris
onment.-The Chilians have captured
Spanish gunboat and launch.--llon. Henry
Winter Davis, Of Maryland, is dead. lie was
an able and patriotic man. and in the beginning
of our troubles, if We can call n culmnation
beginning, "was faithful among the f,ithlcss
found"
- Rarey, the horse tanner, has been struck
with paralysis. 1t ought to have been kind to
him, he was SO merciIu.-They make large
pumpkin-pies in Massachusetts, ut the ladies'
Fair in Charlcstown there was one measuring
4 . feet 10 circumference. wind recent
ly blew Pat Murphy 1000 guineas when il blew
of the thatch Of his cottage in lrelaud.-
Col 5. s. Goode, formerly Colonel Of General
Grants first regiment, has fallen heir to an
English estate and the title of OF Sir. Good
luek.-Thc celebrated Strong divorce case in
New York, costing $4,000, has been brought
to a close, the jury being unable to agree
Those bonds Of affection are uncommonly
strons.-About 81 ,OOO,O 900 have just BEEN
destroyed by fire in Philadclphh.-Six chill
drcn have died in Illinois Of hydrophoba by
drinking the milk Of u COW bitten by mad
dog -Congrcss was to assemble ON the 3rd
inst but We find no mention made Of such
assembling, in the reports from Washington.