The Portland daily press., 1867-01-26
VARIETIES.

= = A Kansas correspondent of Chicago pa
per says that pools are sold in the senatorial
contest Just as they are at horse race. There
are ten choices on tho card
1T has been decided by the Supreme court
OF Appeals of Virginia that married wom-
ans clothing belongs to the husband.
The American Bible Society issues a
caution to the public against the quack doc
tor who advertises his nostrums from the BIB
le Hosue, New York, and who endeavors to
give the impression that he is connected with
that establishment. No. ~ is occupied by the
Post Office Department as Station ID; and it
is no more the Office of the reverend quack,
than ofany person who sends or receives let
ters from Station d.
Social progress in the South is indicated
by the fact that the Charleston Coulter edito-
rally protests against so much tobaeco-chew-
| ing.
The Petersburg Index, in commenting on
the firing of salute at the Inauguration of
Gov. Geary, amiably says:-'If the guns had
been double-shotted and fired at Geary, the
result might possibly have been more satisfac-
tory"
"A conductor on New York street car
pushed lady from the platform, while the car
was in notion and she broke her leg. A Jury
awarded her $1,000 damages
"A Riehmond paper boasts that Virginia
is not now dependent on the Yankees for ice.
The poles thar support the telegraph wires
between Aspinwall and Panama are encased
in cement, wood being incapable of resisting
the ravages of the worms and natural decay.
The value of the estate of the late Edward
Mott Robinson Of New Bedford admitted to
probate this week in New York, is sworn at
four and half millions. The will, as now
| finally sustained, leaves Miss Hetty II. Robin
son 5000 in her own right, $4,000 to each
of the executors, 10000, to the town of Soutb
Kingston, Rhode Island, for educational pur-
poses, and the remainder of his estate to his
executors, in trust for Miss Robinson. The
United States stamp duty on the will amounts
to $3.50.
| AN exchange says that such men as
johnson and Seward are the cream of the
country, II, they are the sooner the country
is skinned the better for it.
15r-Some Southern bachelor editor is growl-
ing because the dear creatures of that section
| will wear furs. He thinks it foolish fashion,
entirely unnecessary, and Yankee abomina-
ton. That editor ought to be kept out at night
| without an overcoat while the thermometer is
at zero. -..-
In the rural districts robbers disguise
themselves as peddlers. When they find but
one or two persons in the house they exhibit
their goods, which are beforehand sprinkled
with ohloroform, and when the drug does its
work carry off what valuables they can find.
! We are happy to note that bench ofmag-
nj hawa a0Naf
sentenced Jem Mace, Joe Goss and three other
less notorious pugilists, to months imprison-
ment with hard labor, for taking part in
prize-fight. i h
A New Bedford lady recently wrote to a
| Boston publishing house for a copy of "Gel-
lert; or, Trust in God,' and received, for reply,
"Fhere is no Trust in God in Boston"
| Cincinnati is troubled about its water. A
peculiar flavor and bouquet" distinguishes all
\ the water from the hydrants, attributable to
| the refuse washed down from the Slaughter
houses by Deer creek, near the mouth of
which the pipes take up the supply for the use
| of the city The theory is advanced that the
snow lying about the Ohio and its tributaries.
f,om Pittsburg down, absorbs the impurities
from the smoke which continually fills the at
mo ,picre in all that region.
q. The change going on in Southern popula-
tion is illustrat ID by the fact that on Thursday
OF last week, as the brig Derby was about to
sail from New Orleans to Rio Janeiro, with
disiffected Southerners as emigrants to ra-
zil, the Bark Sonora, from Bremen, was COM
ing np the river with company of German
4 emigrants.
'u-rhe steamer having Surratt on board IL
not expected before the last of next week,