The Portland daily press., 1867-03-18

Original and Selected.


First page-A Startling Discovery, How
far Criticism may go Labor and oapitai' hot
beds, Loafers, st. Francis. Last page-The
Hopes of the PARLIAMENTARY, An Extraor-
binary Hoax, Sold, &C.
A lfe-size marble statue of President Har-
rison is to be placed in the public grounds at
Columbus, Ohio, at the expense of the State
Tariff makes strange bedfellows. Wendell
Phillips and Horatio Seymour are advertised
to speak at free trade meeting in Cooper In
stitute next month. e
1t is estimated that the late flood has
damaged East Tennessee over $4,000, 900.
-George f. Wright of New York has been
commissioned by the Governor of Illinois to
pant for the State full-sized portraits of Lin
coin and Douglas.
Mrs. Lucretia Pope, mother of Major-Gen'
eral Pope, died in st. Louis yesterday. M
wild Bill" of Harper's Monthly fame, IS
coming East. and has been lionized at various
points in Iowa.
Hon H. w. Benchly, formerly OF Worces-
ter, Mass, and prominent member OF the
American or "Know Nothing" party during its
brief career, and for the last few years resi-
dent of Texas, died in the latter State recent
ly.
The Worcester Spy says Rev. George
Trask, the anti-tobacco apostle, at the close of
temperance discussion in Fitchburg on Mon
day evening last, arose and said he was ain IA
vor of a license law!' The announcement
caused great sensation
The democratic Philadelphia Age, less sa-
gacious than the New York World, advises
the Democrats and the South to obstruct and
resist the congressional reconstruction by all
possible means, in the hope of change of
public opinion in the North.
Victor Hugo is going to offer us something
cheerful in his next drama. The hero commits
half a dozen murders, then poisons his wife,
and blows his own brains out.
"A woman in St. Louis advertises for a girl
who "knows fiap,jack from boot jack" and
who will not "wash her feet in the dish-tub in
stead ofthe wash-tub."
The Michigan House of Representatives
recently passed seventeen railroad bills in a
single day. t-" '3-- '- w
We are told by an European paper that a
servant girlin Berlin fell against red hot
stove and burned on her arm the date 1909,
which was on the stove. The physician who
was called on to minister to her looked at the
date branded ON the arm, and shakink his head,
withdrew, remarking that for SO old an injury
there was no cure. s.-.
"A few evenings since, in Philadelphia,
Kate Gamble, girl sixteen years of age, went
out of an errand. A little way from her house
she was accosted by man who suddenly seiz-
ed her by both hands. She was terrified and
struggled desperately. Don't you know me?'
asked the man. "Nol mol" was her piteous
reply. The next instant the man drew from
his pocket large phial, the contents of which
were caustic potassa This no threw into the
face of the child, and then took to his heels
In few minutes the caustic penetrated the
cuticle, and began its course into the flesh
Since then the sight of her left eye has been
completely destroyed, and great seams have
been eaten into her cheek. 1t is believed the
girl was mistaken for some other person.
For the months of January and February
the losses by fire in the United States amount
to $5,44S,0OO aam
MIR. F. B. Carpenter settles dispute about
his having substituted Speaker Colfax for
johnson in his picture of the "Death-bed of
Lincoln" by writing to the New York Gazette
that he never painted such picture.
There is renewed activity in oil wells, re-
minding Pennsylvania OF the exciting times of
1854 and 1865.