The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-02-21
VARIETIES.

/ Frederick Douglas was few days since
admitted within the bar of the House of the
Michigan Legislature, introduced by the
Speaker, and received with applause. This in
State that ignores negro suffrage
The Chicago journal makes an uneener-
ous attack upon George Peabody and accuses
him of cashing Confederate bonds to aid the
rebellion. The Post of the same city quotes
a Southern paper to show that Mr.. Peabody
treated the financial agent OF the Confederacy
ve,y cavalierly, and refused to touch his trea-
sonabie promises to pay. t.-t
Rev. George Trask of Fitchburg, the vete-
ran warrior against tobacco, is in Washington.
He has addressed four page tract to General
Grant exhorting him to drop his cigar.
The Surveyor of the port of New York, on
February Is, seized a package from Europe ad-
dressed to Jew in that city, which, on being
opened, was found to contain a package of cork,
in which were $1,000 worth of diamonds.
"A New Orleans woman recently gave
thousand dollaas to poor man, formerly her
husband, who had deserted her ten years be.
FORE After his abandonment she married
again, and was made very rich by the death of
her iege lord.
3
ture, after lengthy effort, stopped for drink
of water. II rise" said Bloss, ito a point of or
der" Everybody stared, wondering what the
point of order was. "what is it?" Il think,
sir" said Bloss, "it is out of order for a wind
mill to go by water" .....l .....
MIR. Doolittle prays the Almighty to give
him power to utter truth, and then declares
that the title of the bill to restore civil Govern,
ment to Louisiana should be ito organize hell
in that Statep'
The Oldest military officer in Europe, Col
onel Andre Marechal, who was born in 1764.
and served through the French Revolution and
also under Napoleon, died recently at Chalons.
The death OF Mrs. w. HI. Russell, wife of DIR.
Russell, the well known correspondent Of the
Times, is also announced.
"A Boston paper says a schoolmaster not
many miles from the Common was whiting
stick, one day last week, and accidentally cut
his finger, which brought out the exclamation
'Godp Instantly, having several boys near
him, he added-"save the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts"
"A gentleman who left Philadelphia on
the Camden and Amboy cars for New York
was much troubled with flea that bit him
perseveringly. The conductor passed through
the cars, looking narrowly under the seats and
among the overcoats and valises, as if he sup
posed some one were endeavoring to smuggle
himself to the next station. Soon after he had
collected fares, the flea-persecuted man said to
his friend: 81 seem to have gotten rid of that
insect at last" 81 presumed you would" was
the reply; II know what has become of it.
That conductor found it, and put it off the
train because it did not have a ticket"
Sancti-Spiritus, Cuba, is agitated by the
receft suicide of two foolish lovers. A young
man. rendered desperate at being refused the
hand of his adored one on account of his pow
ertv proposed to her the fatal alternative from
which Hamlet shrank back appalled,. She con-
sen,ed. and leaning her head on the shoulder
90 her lover. received from him that death
which was welcome in his company:a second
.hot from his revolver, and the pair were unit
ed in death.
There was fire at Fairfax Court House
Virginia, week before last, which burned
down five houses. 1t was successfully fought,
in the absence ofengines, with snow. A good
story is told of very old gentleman, farmer
of the neighborhood, who came in af er tho
fire had died away and asked the first man
whom he met-"Are they gomez" "Who
| gone?" Why, the Yankees. see they've
been in agin and burnt something"