The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-01-06
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

e1 VS. Go to Japan. You can buy first-class
house there for thirty dollars, and live comforta-
bly, in it for two cents a day. Servants charge
3 fifty cents month, and horse and groom
L may be had for the same time for one dollar and
fifty cents. alC ss7
BY- William. A. Stiles, formerly American
charge dafdires at Vienna, and known as the
author Of austria and the Austrians,' died OF
Savannah, on the Goth ult. He commanded a
regiment in the rebel army y !. nlts,5d ~ Z
90 BS Edwin Booth, on Wednesday, made his
temperance in New York, in the character Of
Hamlet. He had magnificent reception.
/ BT Garibaldi has offered his services to the
authorities of Naples to nurse the cholera pa
tients in the hospitals, but the Syndio of the
city would not permit him thus to expose him
self to danger. No act of Garibaldi's in the
height of his military fame is nobler than this.
Garibaldi offering to nurse the sick of Naples
is grander than Garibaldi entering the city in
triumph by the side Of, Victor Emmanuel the
king. 5,si .a5lua.1s
B3 A sad scene occurred in a ball room at
Detroit on the night of the 18th ult A young
man, Charles Windeck, was dancing schot-
SAS<Ao ."ASAA q AoNy,A VhOl IC ouuuculyg grew
faint, fell upon the floor, and almost immedi-
ately breathed his last. The dancing was i'm
mediately stopped, and all departed to their
homes with sorrowful oountenances ia
DB Says the New York Tribune, '"Jolly
Jack McGruder is displaying his fancy uniform
in the Halls of the Montezumas, and they say
yes, they will say it-that the emperor is not
as happy husband as he might be-that the
good man has really occasion for concern, and
that we may soon expect rare scandal in high
life. This we can believe, for Jack, with his
red breeches was always an irresistible Lo-
thario."e ,is -------
BY-An address has been issued by the freed
mems Equal Rights League of North Carolina,
in which they disavow any secrecy of organ
ization, designs or proceedings, and state that
their principal object is to endeavor to secure,
by political and moralmeans, the repeal of all
laws that make Determinations on account of
COLOR They pledge themselves to maintain
good order, and place their services at the dis
posal of government, demanding in return le-
gal protection for their property, schools
presses and churches" ssg aasI -5gssy q +
90 The Nashville (Tenn.) Banner very sem
sibly advises that abuse of the Yankees be
discontinued, because "all of Us wilTbe Yam
KEGS fifty years hence" That paper has evil.
IDENTIFY discovered that the smaster race is not
entirely what Southern boosters supposed it to
be few years ago. Tas.h efar
EB- The Toronto Leader is publishing, in
loaded type, series Of medical articles, writ
ten by DR.. Blackburn the practitioner charged
with of au 10 int e.
smallpox among the United States troops dur
ing our late war. tcdlI3 ~ sAUoHr
! BB- Josh Billings says he has waited pa
shuntly for more than twenty-five years for the
millennium tew commence, and-jist look at
butter so cents pound N.'A- q I'd y "a
DEP" There is a vast bed of coal underlying
the city of La Sale, Illinois. The city fathers
propose to sell the right of mining coal under
the city (Which lies at depth of 800 or 400 feet
below the surface) to the highest bidder, and
expect to get a bonus oriroyalty of 30 cents per
ton for the privilege. 1t is estimated that there
are $1,000 tons under each acre, and as the city
plat embraces $40 acres, the bonus may amount
to three or four millions of dollars. ar4!.
BB- Chicago is nice place for getting up
lively horrors. Last week sig men were suffo-
Gated by sleeping in close den in one of the
public houses where was a defective gas pipe:
and now the whole city is in spasms over new
sensation, mutilated human hand and two
fingers, evidently torn from hand, having
made their way through hydrant into the
gutter. ~, H.
E- The lately discovered lead mines in
Owen County, KY, are being successfully
worked. Large quantities of ore have been
taken from the mines bordering on Kentucky
river, and on Twin creek afurnace has been put
up, and small quantities of lead have been
made suitable for the market. l1
G- Punch says that a Yankee baby will
crawl out of his cradle, take survey of it, in
vent an improvement, and apply for patent
before he is six months old
i gB~ The lake tunnel at Chicago is now COM
pleted for distance of 1890 feet under the bed
OF the lake. The shaft at the crib end has beer
successfully sunk, and the boring towards the
shore commenced. Jto4lif III ri l
DB- Here is an old prophecy about Christ
mas: