The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-03-22
Original and Selected.

First page-Lettcr from Augusta, False
Modesty, An Indignant Senator, Codifcation
of the Revenue Laws, Literary Flunke yism,
Stand Corrected. Last page-A Morning
Hymn and the Recall, both poetry, Stealings
from Harpers' Drawer, An Afectionate Son.
Masculine Etiquette.
The correspondent from whose commu-
nication we have omitted paragraph will par
don us for the liberty and will be perfectly sat
isfied when we have opportunity to explain
the reasons, as we will do cheerfully.
The Petrolia, C. W., Sentinel states that
Hon. Donald Mcdonald member of the Cana
dian Parliament, is offering 81 per barrel for
100000 barrels of petroleum for shipment.
TN afraid you'll come to want" said an
old lady to nice young gentleman. Il come
to want already" was the reply, 81 want your
daughter" .-
"A man who suddenly became poor in Gin
cinnati this winter says he has suffered less
from cold feet than from the cold shoulder
The Richmond Times asks: "What gentle
man in Virginia can bring his mind to be a
candidate for negro votes?' II our southern
Democratic friends decline to receive Office at
the hands of negroes, we dare say they can i'm
port any number of Northern Democrats who
are troubled with no scruples of that kind We
can spare them large number whose motto
is "OGice, from white men if convenient, but at
all events give Office"
Women" said Brigham Young to a re-
cent writer on Utah, will be more easily saved
than men. Men have more knowledge and
more power; therefore they can go more quick
IT,, ;,,lx 10, bail ..f
The Express says that there are 10000 cats
in New York city. With such staff of cats
there ought not to be rat whole in New York
Lord Palmerston, when told that if he gave
up Office he would die, replied; "Dying is the
last thing that shall do" "a i..-g.... o..
The man whom the Democrats of Bidde-
ford carried to the polls on stretcher died the
next day, and his widow threatens to prose-
cute the city for damages.
The cotton crop of last year proves to be at
least two millions bales, which is equal to the
most hopeful estimates, and shames the croak-
ers of every class
"A Chicago caterer has put cooking ranges
into the sleepingscars that run out of that city
so that passengers may have warm breakfast
without leaving the cars. f.la N.
Madame Parepa-R Rosa made her first ap.
pearance in opera last week in New York, and
with the most satisfactory success. ,..r f.. e
"A sexton of fashionable church in New
York, it is stated, has sold during the past sea-
son, two bushels of "bugle trimming" found
in the pews and aises. 1t is said to be sorted
up and used again.
"A fashionable Boston clergyman was COM
planning to married daughter, whom he was
visiting, that he was unwerl and had lived for
the two previous weeks on water-gruel. "Per-
haps, father" said the affectionate daughter
"some of it has got into your sermons"
The Chicaso Tribune says the rumor circu
lating through the public press to the fec
that Fitzhugh Ludlow is an inmate of an in
sane asylum, is without foundation. e.
"A new work on Utah says, "in the Nor
mon heaven, men, on account of their sins
may stop short in the stage OF angels; but wo
men, whatever their offences, are all to becom
the wives Of gods"
-Mohammedanism and Mormonism maxi
quite difference in their estimate of woman
Inc former denies to her soul, and of course
hoids that She is not worth saving; the lattel
denies to her that degree of sense and strength
which alone can make her worth damn;po
Very consoling
while William Sprague is a Renubl;c,,
Senator in Congress from Rhode Island ii,
brother and partner in business Anaso :,
chairman of the Democratic State Comm;tto.
OF the same State. .t-.
"A coquette in Ashland, Ohio. was mad
to return $1,000 worth of presents and nav 81,
cents damages to the blighted object that sh
had Tilted.
"A st. Adams, VT, liquor seller defende
himself by stating that his whiskey was SO re
duced by water that it could not intoxicate
T.. AT banquet at st. Petersburg, March
the Grand Duke Nicholas proposed toast t
the creek volunteers in Gambia w..o ha
rougnt so heroically and sacrificed their live
iof great cause, and whose brethren were tn
only allies of Russia in the Crimean war.
After the first of March the name of Pc
land is never to be mentioned in Rr..;on AZ.
patches, which will refer instead to tbo @Do
partment of Varsovia."
Punch says the practice of smokno 10 ,
older date than is generally supposed, Ever
s5giaheosel'eoy has heard If Haeeha ef tbs fuyI