The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-03

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| Fast or West. Early Cut Hay, The Colored
p.onla of VIRGINIA. Beautiful Moral Spectacle,
| /, ,tortvr IN an idea, Establishment in the
White House, Lincoln and Herndon, Changes
in the Navy Yard, The Pardon of Deserters.
The Chicago Tunnel Tossing the Pancake at
Westminster School. Last page-How to treat
scandal-poetry, An Old Proverb illustrated.
Perls of Frontier Life. -. ass
"A lady Of Hudson N. H., whose maiden
name was Elliot, married for her successive
HUSBANDS three men, respectively named Winn,
burns and Dakin, who We're Yankee soldiers
III the Revolutionary war; and fought together
IN the Battle of Bunker Hill. Some of her
sons also served in the war of 1872, and some OF
her grandsons likewise aided in suppressing
the late rebellion. 'i -
Fast Day in Connecticut is appointed TOR
the 10Th inst re-
The Lindell House, destroyed by fire at
| ST. Louis on Saturday night last, was SAID 10 De
the finest hotel in the country. ~"
Gov. Brownlow writes to friend at w ash
| ;no+on that Tennessee will send an entire rad
ical delegation to Congress, THAT the Demo
crafts will not be able to influence the negro
| vote The Republicans of that State deserve
success for their fidelity to right and practical
regard for justice. We trust they will not only
put Connecticut to shame, but make up for her
copperhead congressman H Jnt i-ts.i
1T is significant fact that white Northern
Democrats are trying to crowd colored people
out of the cars, out of the schools, out of the
churches, and away from the polls, in the
South the Democrats are coaxing them to send
delegates OF their own color into the constitu-
tonal conventions, to sit side by side and coun-
sci with white delegates. sf.-.....-...., ,t...5
The President has neither vetoed nor pock-
eted any of the bills lately passed by Congress,
but has signed them ALL
No less than four females have committed
suicide in New York during the past week, by
swallowing Paris green. 500 '5i f''',e
a. The Cincinnati Inquirer tells of young
man arrested in that city 'for attempting to
kiss girl whom he had been counting for some
time" Perhaps he was arrested for simply at
tempting; because he did not succeed. soy
Since the negroes of the South have been
| turned into voters, we hear nothing from the
leading whites of that region Of the Course Of
Ham" the incurable inferiority of the negro
| race, or the certainty of its soon dying out.
| The blacks have become all at once masters OF
the position. Cd" ''
A law passed by the New York Legislature
| Furnishes the offence of selling and exhibiting
obscene pictures by fine Of 81 900 and i'm
prisonment in. ai'a
"A manufacturer at Ballston Spa, N. Y,
has invented an arrangement for lighting his
factory by means of kerosene oil conveyed
| from reservoir in the upper story, by means
of gas pipes, to all portions of his mill.
"A suit was tried at Bnghampton, n Y,
last week, in which lady brought an action
for assault and battery against a young man,
| the accusation being that he kissed her while
occupying the same seat in a railroad car, she
being asleep at the time with her head resting
upon his shoulder. "We1l bet" she was no
better than she should be, or she would not GO
into court with such cause. A real lady, thus
waite as possible. l.r 81. f7uaa8 iG8altr.
"A fashion editor thinks the new short
dresses will be god send for those who like
morning walks in the country. No more dew
| bedraggled skirts, no more extravagant wash.
| ing blls-"seeing the sunrise" will simply re.
quire the exercise of little moral courage---it
will cease to be an expensive luxury. -'
The mayor of Gonzales, Texas, on hearing
of the passage of the Reconstruction bill, felt
so badly that he caused the public square OF
Gonzales to be draped in mourning. ei
The new railroad and wagon bridge to be
thrown across the Mississippi at Davenport is
to cost not less than one million dollars
Among the items in the list of government
| loo txpo &c nnn n,
for cable telegraphing, by Mr.. Seward. An
exchange thinks it will puzzle most people to
remember any occurrences in Europe during
the past twelve months, of sufficient impor-
lance to warrant the Secretary of State in
spending 100000, and the majority Of tax pay
ers will probably agree that until Mr.. Stewards
dispatches deal with more weighty matters
than the reports OF McCrackens, the public
safety will not be imperilled by using the mails
instead of the cable. si ..a aasl4,- lssa3 d.
The rapidity with which improvements
are being extended in Philadelphia is indicated
| by the fact that, during 1866, more than nine
| miles of streets were newly paved.
An old fellow forty-two years old-at
Davenport, Iowa, the other day kissed wo-
man against her will, and it cost him sixteen
dollars and forty-five cents. i s1 5li'-
L. The brutal, beastly and inhuman sport of
cock-fighting has been stopped in New York
through the agency of the society for the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals. I5g14 JILL "
Wendell Phillips was recently invited to
| lecture at Mount Pleasant, Illinois, and on
reaching the town, was met by the Secretary
of tae Lecture Association, who informed him
that the people could not decide which they
most wished to hear-the lecture on "The Lost
Arts" or that on ''The Perils of the Hour" Mr.
Phillips was ready to deliver either, but the
Secretary gravely proposed that he should de-
liver both! The lecturer thought it pity to
| spoil a good joke, consented, and beginning
with "The Lost Arts" gracefully glided into
"The Perils of the Hour" occupying three or
|. four hours, and entirely satisfying his hearers
"A letter-writer from Edinburgh reports
the author of "Rab and his Friends" DR.. John
Brown, as still manifesting the effects of con-
tinued illness.
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