The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-21
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"A number of Wisconsin people have pre-.
sented to Mrs. Randall, wife of Postmaster
General Randall, purse of $4,000 and paid
up life insurance policy of her husband for
$4,000. With the money Mrs. Randall has
purchased fine farm at Summit, Ohio, where
the Ex-Governor and herself will reside at the
expiration OF his term of service.
During the progress of tearing down an
old chimney in the house belonging to Mrs.
johnson, of Essex, VT, recently, fur hat con-
tanning an old-style blue aud white home made
linen handkerchief was found buried in the
hollow portion of the chimney. The hat was
in good state of preservation, and after .
burial of sixty-five years is now in style again.
"A lady preacher in Chicago has announc-
ed that she does not believe in the doctrine Of
mans depravity. This is thought to be very
good, considering that it was uttered in Chica-
go.
The Boston papers are complaining, as
well as the Portland papers, of the condition
OF their streets. The Transcript says: "Dor-
chester avenue, within the city limits, is dis
grace to Boston; and where the sidewalks are
used to accommodate teams, the entire street
being of mud, as is often the case, pedes-
trians are grossly outraged in their rights and
comfort"
Punch gives the following as Possible
Publications.:
Wiped at Sea. A Romantic Novel, by the
author of washed Ashore"
The Bachelor Inkstand. A Narrative, By
the author of "Family Pen"
Crushing Cockchafer. Sensational Novel,
by the author of Breaking Butterfly"
The Discovered Matchbox A Domsstis
Tale, by the author of the "Lost Link"
Banjo and You. A Niger Novel, By the
author of "Bones and l."
The Springfield Republican says Of Mrs.
fuckers life of Mark NJ. Pomeroy:
"'Keep what you get, and get what you can,
That's what call the chief end of man.
This maxim, and his mothers Bible are the
guides of Brick PoperOy; the native generos-
ity of his character has taught him also to hats
negroes, and all white men who began lite
with two suits of clothes. He is now thirty
five years old-the middle age of life, when
Dante, as he has told us, visited hell. That
journey Pomeroy has not yet made, but he
need not despair, nor come back to tell as the
story
The calico interestlof the United States Is
an Important one. The total product of print
ed goods in 1926 was about 100000 yards. In
1886 in reached 120OOO,O00 In 1855 there were
twenty-seven print works in the United States,
which produced in the aggregate 350,000,ooo
yards per year. This amount, at an average OF
ten cents per yard, was worth S35,O0O,0O0. In
1854 our exports OF printed goods amounted to
S3O0O000 Our imports of printed cottons In
1856 reached S17, ,110,752. Our exports in 1857
were only S1,785,685 worth. The total products
of printed goods in 1860, according to the CEN
sus of that year, was S7,74S644. There are
5000 900 cotton spindles now in operation In
the United States, of which over 1000 900 are
running on cloths for printing, and produce
450, 900 yards.
The Rev. James p. Wilson, the predecess-
or of Albert Barnes in the pastorate of the
First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia,
used to carry his politeness so far as to say,
when commenting ON the third chapter Of
John, "There was a gentleman OF the Phari-
sees called Nicodemus," Sc; and invariably,
when speaking of the parable of the ten vir-
gins, he called them the ''ten young ladies'
which took their lamps and went forth to meet
the bridegroom"
The Trenton Gazette says: Game this
year is very scarce, we are informed oy spors-
men. Not many years ago the iorests ana
fields of New Jersey were wen s'oeKeo "HA
| ouail. partridees and woodcocks, and the
,,,,,.,,,,a,, oouId have day of real sport. But
-. .,,,se beautiful birds no longer constantly
-,,s in whirring covies at almost every step, or
t,vitter and scratch in busy activity in every
buclwheat patch, or rustic in sunny hooks
among the fallen forest leaves. Whenever
these birds are now encountered they are found
in the wides. and most inaccessible places,
solitary or in very small flocks, and as wild a.
the pgeoE Ehawk. Still there are ruthless and
cruel louts who eagerly prowl the woods In
search of the few poor, harassed remnants OF
the once numerous flocks, and unless these
fellows are stopped, game will become entirely
extinct in New Jersey. In some counties We
obsarve that the sportsmen have mutually
agreed to lay aside their guns for lew years
and give the decimated game time to reouper-
ate. This is good move, and we hope 1t viii
become general throughout the State"
-Maretzek inaugurated season of italian
opera at the Academy of Music, New York,
Monday night, with Miss Agatha States, Mms'
Cellini, Brignoli, and Orf16dini in the prineI-
| pal roles. The opera was "Trovatore' ana 'As
Evening Post says it was decided success.
st. Patrick's (Catholic) Church IN HAT
ford. Connecticut supports nearly one nun
dred ornbaps in an asylum. In seventeen
49, - ,housand children have been pre-
| vided tor