The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-01
Original and Selected.

page-LoSs OF the 'Oisip" P""J' SAuuS
Ward, anecdotes.
The Richmond Times grandiloquently an
noupces tffat "Robert E. Lee has thrown the
nonderous influence of his great name in favor of
speedy, energetic and thorough preparation for
the duties imposed upon us by the inexorable
facts of our present situation. yIe does not he
leye that our honor will be COMPROMISED by
our citizens taking every step which may be
necessary for the preservation of the supreme
cy OF the white race in Virginia" -
The Portsmouth Ctronicle is informed thai
the breweries in that city are to'suspend opera
lions. ' iI''f .'-i-'.i' ''- -'
A writer in the Chronicle is urging the bus
mess men of Portsmouth to do something W
give life to the city--says young men are ieN-
ing for Portland and other cities, ana thtto oth-
ers win do likewise if something is not done IN
the way of home enterprise.
We see occasional paragraphs in our ex-
changes about the explosiveness and danger OF
rocE oil 1t must be spurious article, made
| nm nerhaps of benzine and other inflammable
materials. The genuine rock oil is petroleum.
and the refined article is as safe as any kero-
sene possibly can be. We have seen it in COM
mon use for year in Canada, where very lit
tie of any other kind is used land neuer heard of
an accident from its use. D .laI 17.1 3af 3
"A street car driver has been arrested in
Philadelphia, under the new law, for refusing
to stop his car to let colored woman get on.
He was bound over in the sum of $500 to ap-
pear at court. . .s,.. ..r.,,f,-.r l..,r,,78P
The eight-hour law in Illinois is producing
considerable excitement, the workmen endeav-
oring to get the same pay as for ten hours
work, and the employers attempting to make
them work by the hour.
The Macon (Ga.) Journal likens Andrew
johnson to confederate note as described in
the couplet: @ - i'-'.iA-uS " " N
Representing nothing on Gods earth now,
And naught in the waters below it," 4q
General Schenck has finally decided to ac-
cept the republican nomination for Governor
| of Ohio. h. ..,i I,,s. r.at.e
Wouldn't you call this calf of leg?
asked Dr.. G., pointing to the fat neither limbs.
| No. replied the gray headed Capt; should
| say it was the leg of a calf!'
| The annual rent of tables in the Chicago
| Chamber of Commerce is fixed at SIS. They
are then sold by auction at premium ranging
| The Springfield case of trichinosis has a
marked effect on the sale of pork in Boston.
The GENITAL system, of " Itch so much was
recently said, has already been discarded in
Chicago, Detroit Cleveland, Buffalo, Milwau-
kee and other cities. 1t will appropriately
bear the infant epitaph: ,t..i..E.,.,. f'...,
''Since have been so soon done for
j wonder what was begun for" II ]h91nt
A nv>sn oof, &oI-a -
the limbs of the young lady who died of re-
puted trichina spiralis at Springfield, was put
under a microscope of moderate power, and
the minute worms were seen in it. ,e,.-4 ,,.s,,
The types made the Chicago Tribune speak
Of Ristori as the Queen of comic tragedy
| Classic was the word intended to be used. =
| Two prize fighters in Scotland with their
seconds were lately sentenced, the former to
fourteen and the latter to eight days imprison-
| ment. .'.I .tl4lLata1 htiia'iiht D" O. -sti
| Wisconsin has, by vote of 60 to q, adopt.
| ed a resolution submitting the question of fe-
male suffrage to the State. Wouldn't it be
fair to allow the women to vote on this ques-
1 ton, and not make one-sided thing of it? i5l
| --Thurlow Weed, in taking the chair edi-
torial of the New York Commercial Advertiser,
| INDUCED in four-column salutatory. The
Boston Transcript suggests that though a gi-
| ,antic it was fruitless Weed. 4.
| The Connecticut election takes place to-
| day, April LIST. 1857 ma -'I-' '-'',''''-
| The New York World speaking of the
speech Of Beverly Nash, a colored citizen OF
Columbia, s. O., says. "In point of style it is
| equal, and in matter it is quite superior, to
many Of the speeches uttered by some of the
| representatives in Washington" Isn't the
/ World getting decidedly heretical? ,,,,i .,,rg
| The Catholic bish p of Philadelphia pro-
| nounces the pope 'hopelessly bankrupt" and
| appeals for a collection in his behalf. 49,
The readiness with which the South
| is coming to time under the reconstruction
/ Laws. suggests the thought that if she had been
soundly thrashed five and thirty years ago, in
| Nullifi cation times, and had the conceit taken
out of her, she would now be far in advance Of
her present actual condition. a1t I}1l GoiE
| Mr.. Riddle, senator from. Delaware, who
| has been in very poor health all winter, died
Friday evening at his residence in Washing
ton, after about three weeks sickness. His
term would expire in 1869. r., ..,s,a.f f.,t.
"A dealer in fire arms advertises in the
Rio Grande Courier that the pistols used on
the occasion Of the recent "dewel" were from
his establishment and advises all who wish to
do likewise to give him a call and supply
themselves. 1- lfsi.' fih1 A-iit aai = ''i"stt'
| -"Dixon" of the Boston Adcertiser,l says
the Booth diary, of which SO much has recent
! ly been said is an ordinary morocco-covered
book for the coat pocket, mostly filed with
into ie
also something in it concerning his flight and
his condition on Friday night subsequent. te
the assas nation. Judge Holt says the pages
now missing were missing when it came into
the control Of his bureau. They might have
been cut out by Booth himself, as some per-
sons believe, or by soldiers through whose
hands the book passed, or, as Mr.. Butler be-
lieves, by some one highin executive circles.
= Tn India they pack railway carriages so
full that death is frequently the result seven or
eight having died of this cause in one year
| on single road. -o.al lslI s1i4y flGJa1
The Argus takes exceptions to paragraph
| of ours, to the effect that it had labored to
prove that the southern people making war
| upon the government were not traitors and
| says, "we believe the southern people engaged
in the war were traitors, and liable to the pen
| alties of treason" We stand corrected. The
penalty of treason Is death. If the southern
people forfeited their lives by treason, what
right ha they remaining to property, much
less to representation in Congress? oJi odH %
"A terrible railroad accident has occurred
ON the Moscow line, in Russia. In turning q
sharp curve a part of the train ran off the rails,
and eight carriages were preeipitated down
an embankment fifty feet high. About thirty
persons We're killed and more than q hundred
received serious injuries. . ..-.-s ......,.,.t
The World says the transport of rage into
which Mr.. Butler fell at the "spoliation" of
Booths pocket-book, is mere jealousy that any
body but himself should "spoliate' the person
al property of rebels. "'' '-'' .' - 81
--One of the earliest cases Of Barrister Judah
P Benjamin in London was suit against the
United States 81 t.noH 9fa4 '01,ot Esd
la-Artemus w ard called his earliest lecture
"The Seven Poor Grandmothers," with the al
Tentative title "The Live Secret" . ora z1d 9m
Embroidered trousers at court balls will
now be considered breaches of diplomatic priv
ileges. I..-..,- l..F .r.f f.,-
Salt Lake City covers nine square miles,
and is described by correspondent as one of
the most beautifully laid out cities in the
world. The streets are very wide, with water
running through nearly every one of them,
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