The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-26
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War: Mr.. Gladst on the American Debt; A
Model Correspondent; Bad Speculation; Items
Last page-Letter from Parson Nasty. .
One of the ST. +. VS." undertakes to replv
to senator Wilson's speech at Orange Cont
House, Va, the other day. H. undertook the
soft-soap process, telling the negroes how he
ana they had grown up together, fshcd to-
gether, and were good friends generally. But
his dark skinned auditors could not not lie de-
ceived by such blarney. One of them speaking
for the rest, threw in the following expressive
interruption, which was duly appreciated all
around "Oh, yes, bat you shut the schoo' door
IN OurJdces" That was a sumner for Con
servatism;" it was we'll aimed handful of
grape-shot well fired in reply to weak DIS
charge of soft soap;.' and it did good execu-
ton. 1t nullitied fattery, and tore cajolery in
flinders. h+ IN
Agent wanted-by every single woman
The Boston Advertiser says the jury bill
which has long been pending in the Legisla-
tire, and which makes persons following an
illegal business incompetent to sit as Jurors
as result of the thorough discussion of its OBJ
jectionable features which has recently taken
place, has at length reached shape in which
perhaps the only serious question about it is
whether it is worth passing at ALL '--.i +.
The Manchester Mirror and Lowell Cour-
ter caution the farmers against agents who are
engaged in selling town rights for Elliots Hay
and Manure Loader, an article of no value,
proved to be 30 and known to be SO by those
who are imposing it upon the public. -..
AT Greensville, Conn.,, paper mill has
just been erected, which is thought to be the
largest in the world. 1t will turn out twenty
five thousand pounds of printing paper every
day. 5lt la4 .s52lo3 ~ as7 10 -. p
Hon. Nathaniel 8. Berry, formerly Cover
nor OF New Hampshire, now residing in An
dover, has been drawn as juror for the SUI
preme Judicial Court, at Salem. He has been
appointed measurer of wood for the same
| town. -ds3hst p tlfz 20 atirt .a3aa
| AT the next Commencement at Dartmouth
College, Senator Patterson of New Hampshire
will deliver the address before the Alumni
| and Theodore Tilton the address before the
United Literary Societies Jos Hse" -,f5t]
Rev. Benz F. Clark of Chelmsford Mass.
| proposes to claim patent ON his plan for pro
noting the cause of temperance by peculiar
license system. Next thing some ingenious
clergyman will apply for a patent for ladder
by which to scale the battlements of the king
dom of heaven. 90 sAl 10 go ~ ~ ~ X
| General Sheridan has appointed coloreG
man, Mr.. L. @. Thomas, as one of the Regis
| trars of New Orleans He is freedman, q ma
tive of the city, and a most respectable com
mission broker. sa----''.tf99 hEoliia~
Henry Ward Beecher having failed in his
purpose to visit the Holy Land, and having
been defeated in his efforts to reach the Con
stitutional Convention, has nothing now tx
prevent his joining fire company. Perhap.
this will suit him quite as we'll llc9
The contractors for building the Chicago
Lake Tunnel cleared $4,000 5l1- -l.ieas
: AT a recent meeting of the colored PEG
| pie in Nashville, Tenn, one of the speakers
said he was uneducated, he didn't know much
but he thought he knew his friends, and Al
Governor Brownlow had proved to be the col
ored mans friend he should stand by and vot
for him. This sentiment seemed to be th,
unanimous one of the meeting.
The Post-office clerks at Virginia City, Ne
vada, came across a suspicious-looking box
partly open, in the mail matter, recently, ant
one of them thrust his pencil into it, where up
on outjumped huge terantula, which raj
across the distributing table and fell to thu
floor, where it was summarily dispatched Oh
inspection, two tarantulas were found in tn,
| box. el--1yA EiHI hG, llzE .5glsaE -2a
| "A resurrection" horror is the sensation O
the day in Chicago The graveyards have beef
robbed by wholesale. The excitement is great
and the cemeteries are guarded by stron:
1 force. lsa sSt Re -a5
1t is said President johnson has about de
termined to spend week in New England
passing the 18th of June at Charlestown, thel
going to New Hampshire for two or three, days
and returning to attend the dedication Of tn
Masonic Temple in Boston u ss4a
"A suit for $4,000 damages has beel
brought against the Boston and .Worceste
Railroad by DR.. Samuel Shaw of birmingham
for injuries received by his wife last fall, b
falling from the platform Of the station at tina
place. 1858 lasl 21l i-tlD
The Massachusetts Legislature, whicl
commenced the same day that ours did, is still
in session. The members are doubtless PAL,
by the day. 'ia.iit's2 l.., .3t g
Near st. Adams, VT, the other day, in les
than two hours, two men caught p pickere
weighing 129 pounds. s1p