The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-03-09
EDITORIAL BREvITTEs.

u The Morris Fire Insurance Company OF
New York has COMO up.-Potatoes are As
cts. per bnshcl in Skowhogan.-The Freed
mems Fair in Portland has been an immense
success.-In Ossipeo, N. H., boy fourteen
years old has been sentenced to six years in the
State Prison for horse stealing, the meanest
kind of stealing latest invention is
paper hats; paper shirts will come ncxt.-lt
is announced that the President will use his
patronage to enforce his plan of restoration.
This will cause shaking among those who
hold paying Offices. A large number will swal-
low their heads, ears and all, and go back on
their friends; Others will act on the principle
that the highest type OF manhood is manhood
itself, and will speak their honest convictions.
Let them know that the people are the source
Of power, and the people never desert the man
who regards their interest paramount to all
other considerations, and that when father and
mother forsake them then the Lord will take
them up.-Doolitrlc does not appear to DO
endorsed at home, the Wisconsin Legislature
having, by vote Of G2 to 80, passed q resolu'
ton against the Veto. The Minnesota Legis-
lature has done the same thing; so has Iowa.
The Presidents private secretary, VIM. A.
Browning, is dead. The habed, corpus has
been suspended in Ireland, and the Fenans In
this country are terribly excited, and general
call to arms is issued. II the Fenans succeed,
we will call them good fellows, and help them
after they show that they don't need our help
but il they fail, we shall pity while we call
them fools. It's hard and selfish, We know,
but nations arc hard and selfish. Success alone
wins national homago.-We print letter
on the outside from Maine boy who evidently
wishes he had staid at home. Many young
men who think fortunes arc made anywhere
but ut home, would meet with good success, IL
they would c1pcnd half tho labor and money
in building up.a business where they arc, which
they must necessarily cxpcnd in seeking "new
openings"
- The Republicans Of CT. and N. II. are
making gallant fight for the common veal in
their respective States.-P. NJ. General Den
nison Gays when he cannot work and allow his
subordnates to work for the success OF the
Union party. he will resign and 90 homc.-
Another tremendous fight in Richmond! The
local of the Examiner and the manager OF the
theatre in that city recently fought duel and
several shots were exchanged, but of course no.
body was hit.-A public meeting has been
held in Lewiston which pronounced in favor of
Congress Folks down there are not waiting
to see which way the cat jumps.-A woman
in South Acton. Mass, jumped in front OF u
railroad train to save her little child. Both
were killed instantly, and eight children are
now left fathcrlcss and mothcrlcss. - The
legislature of California has passed resolve
sustaining the action of Congress. There seems
to be but one voice in the West upon this mat.
tcr.-Fasting in this State April 10Th.
X The cities of Bath and Portland on Mon.
day made a clean sweep Mt their municipal elcc-
tons not a cop. got in. In Bath the repub'
lican candidate for Mayor, John Hayden, was
elected unanimously; in Portland, A. e. Ste
vens was elected by majority of SS9-a gain
of 3O0.-A close canvass shows that with
one exception, Chicago Journal, every repub-
lican paper in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Iowa sustains Congress against the Presi.
dents veto.-Somcbody says the copperhcad
clamor at the present time is tor their own res.
toration to public favor. "Wake, snakes! and
como 10 Judgment !'-Gen. Meade says no
has not consented to be the democratic can
didate for Governor Of Penn. If he has any
regard for himself, he never will.-l5OO bales
of cotton were burned by the fire Of an incen
diary in New York on Neutrality-suspicious. is
trying to negotiate with West Virginia to unite
in one State. That would not only be state
of fooishness, but OF misery to the w. VS..
- Greene, the Maiden murderer, is to be
hung on the 18th prox.-Scvcro earthquakes
in Central America. That kind Of quakes arc
numerous this year, and II was unpretty in tho
President to seek to increase them. But they
sometimes engulph pcople.-The republican
canvass in New Hampshire gives Gov. Smyth
4T74 majority. We shall know next week oil
about i,.-A now paper called the KcnnObec
Reporter Is to be started to-day at Gardiner,
.ncutral in politics, bu. opposed to wrong and
oppression" Curious neutrality, that.-Thc
President has ordered tho release Of Semmcs
Holster Clymcr is the democratic candidate
for Governor in Pennsylvania. lilo will be un.
able to climb into the gubcrnatorial chair this
ycar.--Thc delay in the report of the Recon-
structon Committee is owing to the withhold
ing of information called for since Jan. 10Th,
by tho President. p. Shat information