The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-01-15
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED,

B% A Chicago clergyman missed his stock
ings on Christmas morning, and after long
search found one on each horn of new milch
COW, which had been presented to him by his
parishioners, and ornamented in this way to in
dictate that it was Christmas gift. .as-o
Va Mr.. NJ d. Conway is announced to lee
ture in London, on the topic, " How Should
Sunday be Spent by the People,"
B- The practical advantage of the under
ground railway in London is, that the traveller
may ride as far for two cents in ten minutes as
above ground he can ride for twelve cents in an
hour.
The rebel rioters of Alexandria, who
killed one man and wounded several others in
that city on Christmas Day, are now on trial
there by military commission. Two of the
counsel for the defence have been excluded be-
cause they could not take the test oath. syL
Bdy" The Libby Prison is now grocery
store. -
BB- The New York Herald says the Oldest
inhabitant of that city has not experienced
such cold weather as that Of Monday since the
early part of the eighteenth century, The old
est inhabitant must be very old-at least an
hundred and fifty years. :
go John b. Galway, who was married to
Julia M. Webster, in Neriden, n. Y, recently
adds, to his marriage notice the significant
words, "no cards-very little money! 6as
L. c. Hopkins, a merchant Of Cincin-
matt, has presented to that city m acre of
ground on Mount Auburn, valued at $4,000,
for use as apark. y 20 --. = Aoi1a.i-!sItJJ
EE- 1t is estimated that s9,375, 9sSs7 will be
required for the support of the city government
of New York for the present year, of which
s7,S75, 96S.37 are to be raised by taxation.
BY Miss Harriet Lane, who presided with
so much grace and dignity over the White
House during the administration Of her uncle
President Buchanan was recently married. at
Wheatland,to MIR. Henry E. Johnston, Balti-
more banker. -A1alaA .'-ri . sa.I
An exchange gives the following infalE-
BILE remedy for tooth-ache "Catch flea, and
tickle him in the short ribs until he sweats a
drop of blood, then put the blood in your ach-
ing tooth, and you will never be troubled any
more with that TOOTH" #s ..r
BS- Rev. Leonard Bacon, of New Haven,
who has lately returned from tour through
the Southern States, says, in lecture on their
condition, that of all Southerners, the women
and the clergy are the most malignant, and
that he would have been glad if President
johnson had added to the classes excepted
from amnesty the preachers of all denomina-
tons and the editors of newspapers.
EB- The persistent effort being made by the
Canadians to renew orextend the operations
Of the Reciprocity Treaty, OF to negotiate new
one, find little favor at Washington, and make
no progress. The truth is, the other party have
nothing better than the old treaty to pro-
pose that we, with our internal revenue system
ian afford to accept ~
BB- The N Y. Tribune says "The Post is 50
eager for Free Trade, that it surrenders the
Freedom of man." '4n-il f'is
Va Gov. Brownlow, on Friday last, was
riding from Knoxville towards Nashville in
train OF cars. About twenty miles from Knox
vile the car containing the Governor was sep
arated from the train, thrown off the track and
he had his left foot and ankle bruised, but was
not otherwise injured. Some malignant rebel
is supposed to have tempered with the screws
and fastenings of the car
30" A correspondent of the Toronto Globe.
writing from Wanstead, station on the Sar-
mia branch of the Great Western Railway. |
says there is to be new oil centre in that vi |
cinity, and that capitalists about to test the
district, being well satisfied with the indica-
tons. A score of engines are already on the
ground.
Dg- Gen. Tobin, one the largest planters of
South Carolina, is making the free soil labor
system progress very satisfactorily on his plan
tations. He says the chief difficulty in the
way of the success of the system is the fore
gone conclusion on the part Of the majority of
the planters that it must fail. /
E's The not very promising son of an anx-
louS parent has been employed, at board, in a
store, for about six months Parent writes to
head OF concern, asking how boy gets along;
and if he sleeps in the store. Head of concern
writes briefly: Boy good as ever. Sleeps in
the store daytimes; don't know where in thun-
der he sleeps at night"