The Portland daily press., 1869-10-04
Gossip and GleaningS.

The proprietor of the Reuolution is cruelty
styled pantaoonatic.
"A Minnesota girl dismissed her lover on
learning that he gave her father a drink of
whiskey. '.a f.a. .lu4
"A Chicago girl says that she don't get mar
ried for the reason that she don't know whose
husband she might be marrying.
| AT recent marriage in London, the ser
vices lasted two hours-nearly as long as the
marriage itself sometimes lasts in Chicago.
The original press used by Benjamin
Franklnis said to be in 176 different Amer-
can printing Offices.
Milwaukee has an original way of getting
| rid of street loafers. An artist photographs
them, and places the picture in store windows
labelled ''Street Loafers." b .
Response of Peter Cartwright. at the Cart
wright Festival:-"Mr. Cartwright was intro
duced, and was received with many express
sions of applause. He had been called strong
man, but to-day he felt weak as a child, SO
overcome was he by this manifestation of the
love aud esteem of his fellow Christians. He
was the Oldest preacher in the Methodist
| church now engaged in the ministry. For
sixty-five years he had labored for his Lord
and Master, and during that time he had ouly
received at three times the amounts allowed
/ him by the church. He had the oldest preach
| ers wife in the world, and had lived happily
| with her for sixty years. He had seveL chill
| dren and sixty grand and great grandchildren.
| He was born in Virginia, and had been citi-
| zen of the West from the time he was six years
| old, and he is now eighty five years. He had
no language to describe the situation of this
| country at that time. He had suffered much
| in body, mind and purse. He had been
caught five hundred miles from home, in q
strange land, with an old blind horse, and sew
enty-fve cents in his pocket. He had never
been officially complained of in quarterly
meeting but once. In his young days he wore
knee breeches and top boots. AT the first Con-
ference he ever attended a complaint was laid
against him for corrupting the morals of the
| people by wearing a pair of suspenders, and
| they sent him home. But the Lord always
| provides for the lazy and His lame, and he
| found that Bishop McKendree had INDUCED in
the same luxury. He was then shouting, hap
| by enough. When he lentered the ministry
| there was but one collegebre preacher, and
| he was only half-bred. Through the efforts OF
DIR. Akers he got d. ID. stuck to his name,
| and that very day he was taken with a bad
| main in the back, and he rather thought it
| arose from his title. He was poor soldiers
| boy. and his only SON. There was but one mill
| within forty miles, and no paper in the coun-
| try. His father wanted to make an educated
man of him, but he missed it badly When it
pleased God to give him religion, it was of tho
true backwoods style. He knew he had OBJ
| tanned the pardon of his sins, and the knowl-
| edge of that had sustained him in all trials.
| He had preached as many sermons as any liv-
| ing man, although he could not say how good
they were He hailed with delight the success
| of all who preached the true gospel He had
not strength to labor as a regular preacher,
and he now entirely dissolved his connection
with the church as travelling preacher; and,
notwithstanding the crosses, trials and troubles
of a travelling preacher, he would rather be
one than President of the United States; and
| glory be to God He sustains us all, if we have
| His love In our hearts; and he bids farewell to
his brethren with much love aud feeling. He
did not originate this jubilee, and is not
worthy of Il. AiteI a long, hard life, be had
na,formed nothing but his duty. FAREWELL
| farewell, L ask your sympathy ana prayers
for ~, old man who has spent his life IN Eods
service; and may God bless you now anu ior-
evermore."