The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-01-30
arieties.

The Atlanta (Ga.) Era urges the claims OF
General Meade for the Lieutenant General
ship to be made vacant by General Grants ac-
cesson to the Presidency.
The Memphis Avalanche makes the fol-
lowing heading for sad case of accidental
shooting: "a Woman Shot, and Killed Proyi-
dentially at Dance"
Two prominent Bohemians amused the
passengers of Broadway omnibus the other
night by continually asking, Friends, is this
(hic), is this the (hic) Hartford boat7"
"A white person has just died natural
death in the Yo Semitic valley, and the circum-
stance is causing sensation, it being the first
instance of the kind in that healthful region.
"A Philadelphia paper relates how man
from the interior of Pennsylvania lost his
pocket-book in that city day or two ago. A
bystander saw the theft but refused to describe
the piokpocket. In explanation of this strange
refusal he asked the victim, "Why did you
charge me ten cents for drink of water when
was in the army at Gettysburg?" There was
nothing more to be said after that.
Fishing has been good on Lake Winni-
pisaukee this winter. The fishing parties
number from two to fifteen, and they take
trout and cusk by the barrel full. A new hsh
called "bag fish" is now taken.
Judge -, who is between seventy and
eighty, speaks pleasantly of the passing away
of the "old-school gentlemen" Says he: Il
was born at the wrong time. When was
young man young men were of no account.
Now am old, find old men are of no ac-
| count"
Lively young grasshoppers three inches
| long have been seen within a week in the
northwest busily preparing for spring cam
| paign.
observations upon the duration OF earth-
| quakes are not very trustworthy. The person
| al equation of fright comes i'll to modiiy 'no
apparent length of time. They rarely commune
more than few seconds but the mag i""'ion
| of the observer magnifies the time soou many
fold. .he New Yorl, news
| bovs that to be rich tney mus. "e noheS',
OVls ''.' .s,,ice was considered, by many OF
49,, IN the highest sense satirical.
'ne e,rmer and his wife in Webster, Mass,
,,ve kept house twenty-eight years, and have
never used a cooking stove, or any other kind
| Of stove. They have adhered to the noble old
open fireplace.
"A play bill for the first production of Don
Giovanni in Leipsic was lately sold. 1t COM
menced, Tonight will be given Herr Capell-
meister Mozart's fine Singspiel; The Rake's
Doom, or the Lieentious Don Juan"
The Japanese chestnut trees-said to be
yery handsome and prolific-are to be tried in
| San Francisco, specimens, one and two years
old. having been received there. Black ana
English walnuts and the pecan are easily ralS-
ed. Next to locust, the black walnut Is 'ne
most hopeful timber tree. The buttethut,a
handsome tree, making lumber superior Tor
MANY uses, to black walnut Is e"siiS raised
Tho olive. also, will grow from cuttings.
One e H. Cummings writes to Chicago
- =, c,vor Of the immediate transfer Of the
Tn,;oral capital to that enterprising and mod
&C, town. He says at is conceded by all that
| chicago is to-day, and must ever remain, the
political centre of the United States; and if so
why not have the capital here?"
The Rev. Olympia Brown denies 1.-THE soft
impeachment" that she is about to enter the
state of wedlock. An intimate personal iriehu
of the lady is authorized to declare "that oe'ns
already devotedly attached and lawfully WeU
ded to her profession, she has no lnten''oH
being divorced, or of entering upon ""' go,
caqement which would interfere VIZ W
emJ ta;thtrl discharge of her present duties.