The Portland daily press., 1867-05-13
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Since Henry Ward Beecher took to story
writing, Providence paper styles him the
Reverend. Romancer. 10 a.--y. 81 .l...4-D. id
Boston is to have drought, as the various
hotel proprietors have been notified by the
State Constable that on and after the 18th Of
May they must close their bars and cease the
sale of liquors thereat. 800" g,
The London Lancet says it is certain that
many ladies carry about with them in their
chignons the seeds Of rngworm, which it calls
an "intractable malady." ..,s
The Connecticut railroad commissioners
recommend steel rails and steel tires. Over g..
100000 passengers have been conveyed in the
cars in Connecticut during the year. Of these,
one was killed by falling between the cars, and
five bya collision. ''' '-''.f -I-e Ell.
"A den OF thirty six black snakes was dis
covered in Leicester. Mass, a few days since.
The reptiles were Of various sizes-some being
about four feet long. - .. -.
I'm oder, we suppose, to keep their people
from visiting this city, our eut-of-the-State ex-
changes are telling that the hotel keepers in
Portland have been notified that they will not
be allowed hereafter to sell liquor to their
guests. ~ .---''. u .ii -ia-s- .a.A At
The New York Gazette says present APP
pearances indicate that the opening of the door
of the American Union to admit Russian AM
erica to the ante-room of territorial position
"may make other little Invaluable areas look
wistfully at the doors. The Victoria (Vancou-
ver's Island) Co!onist says editorially that
mine out of ten men in the colony. under their
present state of indebtness and poverty, would
welcome annexation tn the United States
This is exactly what might have been expect
ed There was an old woman that lived in
shoe, and had so many children she didntknow
what to DO Mr.. Seward has done it. All sorts
of little countries will be slipping in while the
door is opening to admit big Russian America,
and our American omnibus, always having
room for one more, will soon be like the old
womans shoe, quite uncomfortable"
Said Senator Wilson in his late speech at
Raleigh n. c., "Your State is seven times
ior5so 49,, Va wurruerTuf are our
improvements. We take your timber, and cot
ton and hides, manufacture them and send
them to you. Our rivers work for us as they
roll along to the sea. Now elevate yourselves,
toiling white men and black men. Tear the
shackles of ignorance from'your limbs; be in
dustrious, honest and patriotic, and do not try
to elevate yourselves by kicking others down."
40 Gov. Brownlow is in too feeble health to
stump his State in the approaching guberna-
tional election. He has issued an address to
the colored voters, reminding them that the
radical Legislature enfranchsed them, and
that the section of the law excluding them
from holding office originated with rebels, and
that he was personally on the floor of the
House working to strike out that odious Sec
ton.
The vote at the municipal elections OF In
diana stood about the same as last year. The
republicans carried Fort Wayne by majority
of 600, thus counte balancing their loss in In
dianapolis. The Raleigh IN. c. Standard says
that Gen. Logan, Gen. Butler, Mr.. Stephens,
Mr.. Wade, Gen. Hawley and other dis |
ting shed republicans are expected; there on |
the 4th of July. ..t-.
"A man in New York has written book |
entitled, Glow to make Money and How to |
keep it," The process is very simple; keep |
your eyepeeied, steel your heart, don't look
upon poverty except to see how You can take |
advantage of its necessities, and then "keep |
what you get and catch what you can" This
is not the theory Of the book in question, but it
. is the short cut 10 wealth. -'-
The street car question still agitates the |
people of New Orleans. A portion of the cars |
marked with Il star are set aparo for the colored |
people, and whether the agitation afises out Of |
the exclusion of white people from these, or
colored people from those not thus marked, we
are hardly able to tell. 1t makes no difference,
however; the agitation is as eroundless as it is
silly, and in many instances has not color of
excuse. a' .,.t .''l-1 .;.,
1t is said that Beccher's novel is likely to
create a schsm. To allay apprehension the
author of the assertion explains by calling it
crit cism Al
1t is estimated that there will be deficien-
cy in the sugar crop of Jamaica this year ow-
ing to drouth, of third, equal to IL GOO hogs
heads. asa
The st. Johnsbury (yt) Cdledonian has
been enlarged and greatly improved. When
the railroad shall be opened through that town
to this city, we trust the Cd!edo;aian will become
a city Daily. l.r.
-tlorez g. Gorhsm, aged "A years, by the
upsetting of a small boat in the swollen stream
at st. Johnsbury, Vt, on the second inst. was
swept over the Falls and drowned. in sight of
scores who were powerless to aid him.
-BeienGaria, wife of Richard Cosur de T;o,
is the only Queen OF England who pever sat
foot on English soil After the death of bar
husband, preparations were frequently made
to receive her in that country, but she never
visited it.
"A New York correspondent says: "Thom-
as Mast who draws those remarkable allesor-
ical and illustrative designs which appear in
Harper's Weekly is only twenty-seven years OF
age. He isa native of Bavaria, but came to
this country when lac was six years of age"
Tho London correspondent of a Boston
paper, in speaking Of Spurgeon's preaching
says between the heads of his sermon he
paused. 1t allowed the audience time to re-
heve Their pent-up feelings, of which they
TOOK advantage. Twenty thousand people
sneezins' coughing, signing. produce a sound
not easily described" T
-Charies Dickens is to write story to be
published in the New York s,tndav Mems
"A young New York broker lately raised /,
sensation in horse car by paying the fare of
all the PASSENGERS on board. One Young man
said he would take cigar too.
William Z. Dodge, Of New York. one Of
the trustees of Williams College, has given
that institution $4,000 as u presidential fund
The comments Of the Brooklyn Union on
Mr.. Beecher's novel include the following
NORWOOD falls below tie Beecher standard
Norwood one think Mr.. Beeoher wrote it,"
Minnesota is popuating at the rate of a
thousand day.
milwaukee is to have $l5OGOO hotel We
have not yet heard the same news from Bul-
fllo. |.
An Old h'dy of ninety is building hand
some house in Rockford, H., in which to snend
the reRdtn:jer OF her days.
"A Connecticut Democrat coneratuiatos
his fellow-copperheads on their having "cone
to tine polls and voted without fear of God or
man"