The Portland daily press., 1867-03-11
Original and selected.

Hrhe Fenian Rising, Lo''oi hoAAi ooston,
.eRecent Publications." On last page, Life
Now-a-davs, "-poetry, and letter from Par
son Nasty" a A
Mrs Betsey Baker, aged 81 years, died at
West Dedham, Mass, on the oath ult. She is
said to be the woman who made the first straw
bonnet ever fabricated in this country. She
saw an imported bonnet, examined the braid.
and, by her own ingenuity, prepared and
split the straw, and fashioned the bonnet. A
friend at our elbow suggests that this state
ment is only partially true; that Mrs. Baker
made the first bonnet ever fabricated in this
country of Sp.H straw or Dunstable straw, as
it was called. Coarse bonnets of. whole straw,
OF domestic manufacture, were fabricated at a
much earlier day.
1t is said that Queen Victoria is preparing
work for the press, illustrated by plates Of
her own execution,
-Oharies Dickens was spectator of the re-
cent demonstration in London, from the bal
cony OF the Athaneum Club in company with
the Archbishop of York, who about year and
a.hali ago denounced the reading of novels as
perniciousa y1riileaoa Ab.V o + at ,A
"A gay and festive preacher in Richmond
is now undergoing the slow torment of church
trial ON charge of having promised to marry
twelve different woman. E9u ia3m ,df
"A submarine mountain 5000 feet high was
discovered while making the soundings be-
tween Cuba and Florida, for the new cable.
A carpenter in New York placed loaded
pistol in his tool-chest, SO arranged that it
would explode on opening the lid, He meant
20, n, Al. L. IL, r.,
the box himself, and was shot dead.
ID Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
worth of property was destroyed in Kansas by
the recent freshet in the Kaw river. 800
"A partial eclipse of the moon will take
place March Goth, which will be visible in New
England. sfiiHr asiBi1 uI 10 B
The Fall River Neacs relates case of re-
juvenation in the marriage in Little Compton,
last week, of an old gentleman of 80 winters to
buxom widow of As. 1t was the third mar
riage Of the bridegroom and the second of the
bride. His last wife had been dead three
months, and her husband one
The popular branch of the Missouri legis-
lature has passed the bill allowing negroes to
vote by the decisive vote of 76 to 46.
Speaker Colfax will visit Colorado with his
mother and sister next summer. He has sis
ter out there. 90 pai Il aI a5j goo
Less than 40 quartz mills are at work in
Colorado this winter. The gold product is very
light. ..-tl--. t'...-....tt 49,
This is avery gentle world if you do not
rub its back the wrong way ofthe fur. ,....,,
An excitable man uptown says he has
been warm but once since he had a new fur
mace placed in his house, and that was when
the bill was presented. 80 7ii i'o4 '''.@
1t is asserted by western man, as one of
the funniest condolences in the world, that
almost every alternate section of land on each
side of the Pacific Railroad belongs to some
member OF Congress. 4 grGd sasm 8g5-a 80
There is in operation in Cincinnati at the
water works monster Cornish engine, which
cost the city half million. , It is the only en-
| CINE OF the kind in the country, and though at
first thought failure, has got into successful
| operation, and is reported as pumping one
million gallons an hour. 'h $50 %
| do you believe, sir, that the dead ever
walk after death?" mo doubt of it, madam
have heard the dead march in Saul" % Hf
| An lrishman says the best remedy for bald
ness is to rub brandy on until the hair grows
out, and take it internally to clinch the roots
An eloquent clergyman, discoursing on
the ministry of the angels, said, "Hush! hear
whisper, whereupon a drowsy deacon re-
piled, Its the boys in the gallery ,.-,
"A new street in Paris is to be called the
Boulevard Jeanne-d'Arc, it is said to be en-
blemished with a statue of the Maid of Orle-
ans. WuN4 i.- Atb 'r 1900 ' ai. --.' p ''i-4
-TMr. Bergh, the president of the New York
society for the prevention of cruelty to animals,
is stirring up the Brooklyn swill milk establish
ments faa afi "a Ysb lEi. 9iheiHJA f't
The experiment of transporting loaded
freight cars on float across the North river
at New York was successfully made, Wednes-
day. ,......-.s ,,f..a,f.roaq. ..-,
An association of mechanics and inventors
has been formed in Detroit, to enable poor in
yentors to realize the benefit OF their own pa
tents, which often goes into the pocket of some
rich assignee fal si- CO.
"A Baton Rouge paper says: whenever
we take up an exchange and fail to find the
Duty of the South in its usual place, at the
head OF two columns of editorial, we feel I'M
easy until another paper is unfolded.~ "'Aa
The man who was slipping from a roof and
stopped at the caves, said, until then he never
thought he should be glad to find himself in a
gutter. go. ,,.,, b.,s r-,,- Z. f vs.
When the rebel General Johnston surren-
dered his army to General Sherman, President
johnson said the rebel States ''were deprived
OF all civil government" Since that time thew
have had no civil government except such as
has been inaugurated under military authori-
ty, the President having not the slightest con-
sttutional grant, as civil executive officer, to
create such governments as those he has set I'M
at the South .E''Vn99i lo 5'i1i
g -Goyernor Wells of Louisiana has issued q
proclamation declaring the reconstruction act
to be in force in that State u.idnu b3A3s9a u
/, Major General Towards statement of the
condition of the South represents that 1892
whites and "a 234 colored people will REQUIRE
food before the next crop. -.
The Senate of Virginia on Tuesday passed
bill to call Convention under the military
reconstruction bill, on the second Monday of
May. The vote was yeas %, nays 4; Of the four
who voted in the negative, Robert Ould, for
merly member of the Washington bar, then
rebel commissioner for the exchange of prison
ers, and now State Senator irom Richmond,
was the most active and unyielding in his OPP
dostion to the measure. s,,fF,Ir f.,sftiF h3a4H
-Chief-Justice Allen, of the Superior Court
OF Massachusetts,, has resigned his position.--
de was an original Free Soil leader, in the
days when tho cause of Freedom was strong
only in its justice Judge Allen is lawyer of
rare ability and learning, and now leaves the
bench from long continued ill-health. He first
came into marked prominence as member of
the National Wing Convention that nominated
Gen. Scott,when ne took strong ground against
Mr.. Webster because of the latter's supposed
leaning toward the South, as ev;nced in his fa-
nous 9TH OF March speech. Hon. Henry Wilson
the "Natick Cobbler" as he was called, was
Judge Allens's coadiutor in that convention. &
-Ticknor & Fields press is unusually busy
this spring. The Diamond Editions" are
great success; and besides Dickens and Ten
nyson, the house is now adding to the diamond
series the Waverley Novels and owen Mere
dith's, Longfellow's and Whittier's poems
William Cullen Bryant now travelling in
Europe, writes to the Evening Post that the
of Spain, taken as a whole, are the
he ever saw in the world. 81 4 3D. Il
Some persons are above our anger, others
below it. To contend with our superiors is in
discretion, and with our interiors in indignity
- He that listens for what people say of him,
shall never have peace. ...,.
The highest evidence of noble nature is
that candor which receives the truth without