The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-23
Original and Selected,

First page-Gleanings from the Provincial
Press; Turkey in Europe; Original and Select
ed Items Last page-Lost Margery, poetry;
A Bankers Son; The Game of Yewker; Anec-
date. 7'.- Lon u AhA' .--i'+iht
Rev. Robert Collyer of Chicago will
preach at the Boston Theatre, on the first two
Sunday evenings in May.
The house is still standing in good preser-
walton in Lexington, In which the wounds of
the British soldiers were dressed in ITO.
The Boston Journal recommends meet
ing of persons who have been deceived into
collecting postage stamps. What hall, inquiries
the Transcript, would be large enough for the
gathering?
"A. B. Prin0le, of Ryegate,, vt, has a
twelve-m nth old buck lamb, weighing 2O7 10
pounds, and said to be the largest of its age in
the State. ~ -'-i'S 5-i' ~ f--i
DR.. NJ. G. Houghton, Of. st. Johnsbury,
VT has an Attorney heifer, three years old,
which gives twenty-five pounds of milk daily.
The Southern ex-rebels are fast becoming
"negro worshippers." Sambo uotes and that's
what's the matter" '"- 7'.
- Laura Keenc has recovered $2,16S, the en-
ti1e receipts of twent y-four performances of
sour American Cousin" from John S. Clarke,
who played it at the Winter Garden theatre
when he had no legal right to-use the play
She claimed $1,000. ''"
President johnson is going to Raleigh, N,
G, al May, to be presen. at the laying of a
cornerstone of monument in memory of his
father, whose place of burial has only recently
been discovered. He will be accompanied by
Mr.. Seward and one or two others of his cabi-
net. r- .-....-... -..-
Mills, the Eranconia murderer, who is un-
der sentence OF execution, escaped from the
jail at Haverhill N. H., Saturday night, by
saving off an iron bar an inch and quarter
thick. Up to 10 o'clock Sunday forenoon no
clue of him had been obtained His escape
caused much excitement at Haverhill A re-
ward OF five hundred dollars has been offered
for his arrest ,.
-"Perley" says that on the first of May
fresh flowers are to be laid by fair hands on
the grave of every rebel between the Potomac
and the Rio Grande, in nemoridm 49,. .
The Chief of the Ordnance Bureau of the
Navy objects to naming two large, recently
cast cannon Satan" and "Lucifer." because
"death-dealing instruments of war should not
receive Christian names"
The Traveller says the only vile thing abont
Boston Common is its walks. These are
rough and in very bad condition.
Henry Ward Beecher has abandoned the
idea of going to the Holy City, and instead is
going to the New York convention. The fact
reminds US of the fellow who called On his IA
ther--old DR.. Lyman Beecher-and wanted to
join his church, saying he was determined to
join church or an engine company, and he
didn't care d which 5000.
1t has long been known that there is a
great deal that is artificial about some fash
ionable ladies'; artificial hair, teeth, breast
works, complexion, &c. but according to the
n. Y. Home Journal some ladies' wear false
hps' maze OF pink india rubber, which are
attached to thin lips in a manner that defies
aetecron' ana which give pretty pouting ap-
pearance to the mouth" The Journal say there
as way to test lips which may appear Doubt
full, but many ladies might object to the on
GRAFTON unless it were performed by verv
near relatives"
The Coming Crash is the name of a new
newspaper, devoted to the interests of those
families that are out of towels.
Charles Reade has adapted for the stage
his novel, Griffith Gaunt, in which Miss Avo-
MIA Jones will personate Mrs Gaunt. 1t is
understood that the same lady has purchased
the right to produce this new version in the
United States, and will soon bring it out in
this country ..
The Salt Lake Union Vedette urges Con-
gresS to authorize the Pacific railroad to begin
work at that point at once, alike to facilitate
the completion ofthe great enterprise and swell
the ahti-Mormon strength in that territory.
The officers ofthe Colonization Society oro
fitting out the Societys ship Golconda which
will sail from Baltimore early in Nav with
full cargo and twenty-five passengers, and
will touch at Charleston, S. c. for three hun
dred more passengers, then sail direct to Libe-
ria.