The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-03-29

from book published by that paper.
-Advices from Paris state that the simmer
style for gentlemen's dress will be a necktie
and par Of socks. This will be but slight
change from the dress of dandy in North
Carolina-a standing collar and a pair of spurs
"A woman in Hudson City, n. j., feeling
aggrleved at the castigation which her child
mad received in one of the public schools, retail
lated by cow-hidng two of the teachers-the
male principal and female assistant.
The World says "a cOlored man IN new
York who owns $3.50 worth of property, OH
which he pays tax, has the right to vote. lneSe
colored people are not all Republican, Dut
manv have steadily voted the Democratic tick
of during mast wears" This only shows that
eolored man don't know any more than white
man, and can 60 just as far wrong IN casting
his vote. .anI.. .aY
San Francisco has strawberries at only IS
cents quart. UI,,
Navigation is now free between New York
and Albany.
"A waggish journalist, who is often merry
over his personal plainness, tells this story of
himself: Il went to a drug story early the 9TH
er morning for dose of morphine for sick
friend. The night clerk objected to giving it
to me without prescription, evidently fearing
meant to destroy myself 'Pshaw. said I, do
look like man that would kill himself?'-
Gazing at me steadily for half a minute he re-
pGed 4 don't know. Seems to me if I looked
like you l should be greatly tempted to kill my
self %" 'H at+ '"' .' '
1t is so mountainous in the chill country"
of Colorado that many persons have to look
up through their chimneys to see who are
knocking at their next neighbours dOorl 300 7t
"A little girl in Columbus, Ohio, on street
corner, earnestly pleaded for q "chew of tobac-
co for her sick and dying mother" 7o sd q.
The Boston Courier-poor authority-says
the Massachusetts liquor law is driving multi
tudes of business men out of that State.
The Catholics of New York have only
thirty. two of the three hundred and seven
churches in the city, and yet their church at
tendance is nearly as large as that of all the
other denominations combined.
"A Texan farmer who recently put some
monkeys in his cotton field to pick the boles of
cotton has become disguised and concluded
that negro labor is best. He says he was
told that one negro would take charge of ten
monkeys and that three of the latter would
pick as much cotton as one negro, but he found
it took ten negroes to oversee one monkey
while the latter couldn't pick half pound of
cotton in whole day. He gave away his new
help, and thinks the next time he visits the
West Indies he shall not purchase any more of
the same kind. ll3Dl H'' tHf oI taH li'
"A grandson of John James Audubon, the
ornithologist, is broker in Wall Street. do ,iii
Gen. Sheridan declares that Texas furnish
es the finest hunting in the world. a.a r,-l gq.
| "A California letter says: "Only few
nights since, at party, asked lady who had
been brilliantly entertaining those present
with some exquisite selections from Verdi, if
she had any music from Martha and she re-
piled, You betp And she did have; and she
sung and played it well, too-you bet!" ii 'iii'
The story Of the four-and twenty black
birds that were baked in a pie is equalied by
one which comes to us from California. A
Pacific paper tells of PA baked mice having
been counted out of nest of rags they had
made in the cooking stove oven of vacant
hOuse-the oven door, having been partially
open and the house unoccupied for some
months, was closed by a new OCCUPANT, and
the fire made in the stove with result as report
ed. @th' %" ioil'" "a '' i'i'' -
Very extensive peat beds have been dis
covered in the tule land around the bays Of
San Francisco and Susan. uIillau0iI. isa
DIR. Holmes, in the Atlantic for April, haz-
ards the opinion that lawyers half learn
thing quicker than the members of any other
| profession"
Nearly twenty-five years ago, Governor
Andrew, then young member of the bar,
| was co-editor with James Freeman Clarke
and o. A. Brownson, of the Christian World, a
Unitarian paper published in Boston. d ha
| On the railroad from ST. Petersburg to
Moscow, 400 miles in length and opened to
travel in 1852, the life of a single passenger
has not thus far been sacrificed if 80 suof
| The French sold splendid cavalry horses
| for 50 piece before leaving Vera Cruz
| George B. Mcclellan graduated at West
Point in the class of 1876, ranking number
two General Grant was graduated in the
class OF 1913, and ranked number twenty-one.
| Lucy Stone and her husband have started
for Kanzas to canvass that State ON the ques-
ton of equal or impartial suffrage, by special
| invitation of the Governor and leading citizens
| of that State inns iap3 ..9 HG n~Tuo q {
The Paris Exposition viii be opened next
| Monday, without any state ceremonial ,affsa
| AT meeting of the colored voters of
Jacksonville, Florida, the following resolution,
among others, was adopted: "Resolued, That
we as body, will support Union ticket; we
will support no man who has ever been in the
| Confederate service voluntarily" -.
/ '-Tha 2.
ington estimates, ON the basis of the number
| already registered, that about ten thousand ne
gro voters will pc found in that city, which, it
| says, will be enough to control the elections
"A Ttusville, Pa, letter says that most of
the oil companies, whose capital stock exhibit
| ed such an appalling array of ciphers, have,
by a continued settling of their under-pin-
nings, at length reached the ground floor. and
their assets may be represented entirely by ci-
| pliers. ...f...... .......... .s ...-.,. ..,..f
| About every vessel arriving from Europe,
within the past week, reports encountering
immense fields of ice in or near the Gull
| Stream ~ N-- 20
| The price of gas has been reduced in Phil
adelphia to $500 per 1000 feet, and 10 per cent.
off for prompt payment. .t'9 'i "-'.
| -"Brick Pomeroy," of the La Crosse Demo
crdt, said in "a recent article: "Lincoln was
elected by fraud and bayonets. His heart was
not pierced, but his brain was, by pistol ball
fred by an agent of God, and that agent still
lives, although the mangled corpse of an un-
known man was used in Washington to recov-
er reward for the body of Booth" .-G i.lii
Brigham Young, thirty years ago, boarded
| at a hotel i'm Port Pryon and left it owing
800. This sum he has just paid, which il
strong proof either of honesty or repentance.
The friends OF the late Artemus Ward have
organized Monument Association, with q
view to a general movement for a national
monument to the lamented humorist. -
| The remains of the murderer Coon, exc
cuted at Troy last Friday, have been stolen
from their resting place. '' ~ y '.'''..'l Z.
The New York Tribune thinks the ques-
| ton of appointments and combinations seems
to have degenerated into a kind of horse Jockey
| business
A little boy having asked his mother what
"blood relations" meant, and being told il
meant near relations, said, after a moments
thought, Then, mother, you must be the
bloodiest relation I've got" ~ .7.b BE- d.
Eleven thousand yards Of toweling, 25Ot
white counterpanes and 10000 yards of liner
were required to fit up the Great Eastern
Intelligence from Tennessee saws that Gov
Brownlow counts upon q united negro sup.
| port.