The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-08

Queen Victorias portrait for George Pea
body cost $4,000.
The New Bedford Mercury, with the Bos-
ton Jonrnal believes most fully, that "to-day
the prohibitory law is not approved by ma
iOrity of the people, 1t thinks a secret ballot
would show such result.
A poor fellow in Montpelier, VT, lost both
arms and leg while firing salute in honor
of the rebel victory in Connecticut, the other
day. He probably shed more blood than all
the Coppe rheads of that State did during the
war. Gs if. .... ...fa
The Copperheads have greatly rejoiced
over the result in Connecticut, and there is
| not an unrepentant rebel in the South but re-
joices with them. Birds of feather"
Said grumbler to one taking care of poor
children,-"Aint you afraid you will make
these boys and girls discontented with their
homes" "Afraid! That's just what we want
to do. 1t would be their ruin to grow up con-
tented with such homes as they have now"
Gov. Grape of Michigan recently vetoed 20
bills at once.
"A man has been fined $40 for whipping
his sister in Wisconsin.
Eight brick school houses, TO cost S37O,OOO,
are about to be built in Chicago.
The railroad fare from Great Falls, N H.,
to Boston, is fifty cents; the distance about
seventy-five or eighty miles. So much for
competition.
Mrs. Lusbington, the sister of Alfred Ten
nyson, once engaged to Arthur HaIlam but
now the wife of the Greek Professor of Glas-
gov, is a remarkable singer, and renders her
brothers songs, it is said, with fine expression.
-Four hundred and twenty-three of the
London clergymen have recently signed pro-
test against ritualism.
New married people who advertise mo
Cards, may be said to have played all their
cards before marriage.
"A leveller, perceiving two crows flying
side by side, said: SAY, that is just how it
should be; L hate to see one crow over an
| other ...
| --Spurgeon sometimes comes out with
good thing. "Brethren," said he, III God had
I referred the ark TO a committe naval affairs,
| it's NV opinion it would not have been built
yet
| "A wag in Albany approached the member
| of Assembly from the Second District of Onei-
| IN county the other day, and offered his hand.
| penny" said he, you'll be sent back nexr
year" The member looked not at all displeas-
ed, and asked, allow do you know" "a had
penny always returns was the response of the
wag.
-"How is your son to-day?" asked friend
of broker. "Very ill.," replied the old gentle
man, struggling to maintain his composurc,
tears coursing down his agitated features
very ill; would not give ten per cent. for his
chance for life
II there is anybody under the canister OF
heaven that have an utter exerescence, saws
Mrs Partington, ''it is the slanderer, going
about like boy constructor, circulating his
calomel upon honest folks"
Admirers of Charles Lamb saws tho Ion-
don Bookseller, will be glad to hear that Bell
u Daddy, in republshing the ESSAYS of Ella
have restored many important passages which
were suppressed in previous editions. II il
hoped they will also add some of those charm
ing essays which have not hitherto appeared
in his collected works, but which ar, well
known to collectors of Eliana.
The Boston TrapeHer claims to be the only
daily paper in Boston that upholds the Pro-
hibitory Liquor Law and the Jo'"nai says 1T
may challenge those in the city who believe IN
the license SYSTEM to find in ITS column any
ed;tor;oi endorsement of the law which it CLAIM .
] to support,