The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-19
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Mrs Elizabeth Darragh has been appoint
ed inspector of Tobacco and snuff and cigars, In
the Fourth Indiana District, as successor to
her late husband. This is the first instance
of the appointment OF a woman in the In
ternal Revenue service outside of the Bureau.
"A box of Shamrocks fresh from the could
sod" arrived In New York on Friday a pres
ent to the knights OF st. Patrick.
| In the early part of the late war in this
country, London journal, alluding to Burn
sides capture of Newbern, North Carolina, in
formed its readers that the Union General
burnside had landed his army at the head of
the Mississippi, and marching through Ken
lucky had taken by assault Newbern, the can
ital of Western Virginia
Impeachment is to furnish material for
several illustrations in the Illustrated London
News. A special artist is on his way to
sketch the scene.
Morgan Owen, an eminent Welsh bard
and antiquary, has Just died. He was more
famed for his Welsh poetry than for his tray-
els, as he had never been four miles from the
place where he was born, and during his whole
life never sent or received a letter.
The New York Evening Post, takes ad-
vantage of the facts that the Prince Of Wales
is to make a tour in Ireland, and that several
Fenians are to be tried for treason in Wales.
to make the pun that 'Wales viii be feted in
Ireland, while ireland is fated in Wales.
"A young Solomon, not quite nine years
old, after seeing the White Fawn, as perform
cd at the Boston Theatre, last Saturday after
noon, while busily engaged over his toys, in
the evening, suddenly burst out with the ex-
clamatiOn, swell, when 1 get married, she
shan't be an actressp'
The latest specimen of juvenile literature
| is this: As William Wilkins was walking
in the garden one day, he met his dear sister
and thus he did say: "why is squash like a
little news-bOy?" She gave it up. Because"
said this wicked boy, "the older he grows the
more of yel-ler he will be-" His good grand
mamma oevrheard him and went 10 bed sick
I WIFI s,lfcr.--
Quebec is to nave a vvvsv1. ss.~G....
| = AArtain uannG Mathodist who felt that
he had call TO preach, was somewhat taken
aback by the question of an elder, who asked
him: Hast thou noticed whether people seem
to have a call to hear thee?"
Prince Napoleon, after a series Of flat
tering entertainments in his. honor at Ber-
lin, has LETT for Paris. His visit to Germany
| has given rise to many surmises and rumors
and is commented on by the German press;
but the object of his mission has not been di-
vulged. His reception everywhere in Germa-
ny has been most cordial.
Hon. @. G. washburn proposes to fill the
vacant cadetship in his district by appointing
a candidate recommended by board of exam
iners.
| A gang of thieves in Glasgow, Scotland,
have recently instituted prayer-meeting to
which they make a practice of enticing re-
| spectacle persons, to whom at the conclusion
of the prayers they appeal for subscription ia
behalf of some poor widow or orphan. If the
contribution be liberal one, the contributor
is allowed TO depart in peace. If otherwise,
he is robbed of all valuables and is fortunate
ifhe do not also lose his clothing. "a Glasgow
Sunday School teacher was enticed into one
of these places, where, after being edited by
readings from the Scriptures and commenta.
ry thereon, he was robbed and otherwise NAL
treated.
"A gang of women robbers has just been
suppressed in Paris. They were under the
CONNIE md of stout, middle-aged woman
named Catherine Keller, who planned the
operations and distributed the parts. Her
lieutenant, who did the active work out OF
doors, was young Geneyese girl, who found
an ally in her sweetheart, Eugene Delvaux
| The various women used to be posted at the
omnibus stations of Paris.
"A banner, containing the following in
scription, was suspended over the recent
Georgia Republican State Convention: "New
men, progress and harmony among ourselves"
"A man in Beckett, Massachusetts, the
other day. hitched his oxen to the butt of a
lodged tree and freed it from its first rest TO
fall into the fork of another tree, where the
top overbalanced and jerked the other end 20
feet high, carrying the oxen with it. To re-
lieve them from choking, he with q fifteen
foot pole managed to seesaw the tops so that
their hind feet could occasionally touch the
ground, and continued so doing for four hours
before aid arrived to climb up and release
the tree. The cattle were saved.
-"Bob, you say you believe most diseases
are contagious. How long have you enter
tanned such notions?" Ever since L sat
alongside of blue eyed girl and caught the
palpitatiOn of the heart
How to make rich jam-Crowd twenty
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ladies into one omnibus
There is story from California of bur
glars who at midnight climbed up to a cham
ber window and cautiously opened it. The
| occupant CHANGED to be awake, crept softly to
the window and Just as the robbers face ap-
peared, presented the smooth muzzles of two
revolvers, with the iniunction:-"You geti'
''You betl" replied the house breaker. drop
| ping and running. There is no more pithy
dialogue on record.
! "A recent writer upon the subject of an
Cling has devoted great deal of space in his
work to prove that fishes feel no pain from
fish hooks. He thinks that in this respect
they are like insects, who appear quite man
| fprent tn mutilatiops that would cause instant
death to animals.
IT. lo,,otb and severity of the winter
bovo dr;van the wild fowl much farther south
than they commonly go. flocks OF enormous
size are even found in many parts OF Florida.
-Tbe st. John IN. b. Journal complains
.,,o. the press of that city can make more lib
eral terms for getting cable news from Eng
land, or land kilograms from Washington,
New York and Boston, that it can for getting
intelligence from Ottawa
The ice on Lake Umbagog is three ieet
thick, and the snow and water on top prevents
all travel except on snow shoes, over Its sur
face.
.rbe Democratic State Convention OF
| caor,,;o hos dome n sensible thing 1t advises
the Soutberners to go to the polls and vote,
instead of standing like spoilt children, as
they have been doing, with their fingers IN
their mouths, and sulking,