The Portland daily press., 1869-07-02
Gossip and Gleanings.

"A citizen Of Easton has spent $1,000 in
suit-at-law about piece of land worth $50.
-Cocoanut rum is carrying off the MARQUEE
sas islanders
Australia is alarmed by the magnitude of
the South American wool clip.
Albany, Oregon, in order to be ahead of
everybody, will celebrate the Fourth of July
on Friday, the I'd.
The first cotton bloom OF the season arriv-
ed at New York from Shoe Hill, North Caro-
olina, having been grown in the neighborhood
of Wilmington.
Paris undertook to get up a subscription
to purchase house for JEFF Davis. Th
amount raised was $13O.
"A poisonous worm infests tomato vines in
Illinois. Several deaths have ensued from its
bite.
"A monument is to be dedica ated in memo
ry of Fitz Greene Halleck, at Guilford, ON the
Fourth of July next.
AT Newport the ladies carry neat little vel
vet memorandum books for noting down all
engagements to ride, dance, or for excursions
and picnic parties.
LIN New Orleans may be seen colored
uAAh-tAaStOA uAiihuS COmIIbuy Vi WuiIe men.
and the scene inspires the journals OF that city
with the liveliest forebodings.
5 Sugar is largely manufactured from pump
kins in Hungary, by the same process as the
extraction of sugar from beets.
"A Vermont man has written to lawyer
n Indianapolis, to know whether he can have
"devors," being unable to support his wife,
asking moreover what it will cost sTfit costs
$40, I can't pay that mutch.''
"A man lately appeared in an Indiana town
wearing vest made out of the skins of ten
rattlesnakes, part of nest of one hundred
and six snakes killed in one day by a Kentuc-
ky farmer.
The officers and soldiers of Rhode Island
who served under General Burnside are to,
have an annual reinion and clam bake at
Rocky Point on the 9TH of July. There are
some twenty or more Massachusetts, regiments
interested in this occasion, and it gives prom
Use Of great interest and enjoyment.
The Connecticut Legislature has done
good thing in prohibiting, under severe penal
ty, the carrying on of gam bling operations on
steamboats, or railroad trains
The first W ,man lawyer has just been IL
csnsed to practice in Iowa, and her success at
the bar will be watched with good deal of in
tsrest by the women ambitious of the honors
Of the forum, as well as by the public at large.
The lady's name is Mrs. Bell A. Mansfield
The Thunderer congratulates England
that the Lords have once more proved their sa-
gacity and their patriotism, and discovers in
the recent vote on the Irish Church Bill new
argument to prove h necessity of the Upper
House as an Independent and complimentary
branch Of the representation
----Tt is related that the Duke de Massa, pop
ularly supposed to be Nilsson's betrothed or
her husband, was arrested in Paris during the
recent disorders for endeavoring to prevent a
policeman from striking an inoffensive citizen.
He gave his name at the station, but the in
spectors became indignant, misunderstanding
him to say that he was the Duke de Massacre.
The Duke gave his card and was politely dis
missed with an apology
The Philadelphia Press thinks the at
tempt of Spangler to clear himself from the
charges for which he has SO long and so unjustly
suffered, "dissraceful attempt to impose up.
on public credulity," profoundly mean," and
degraded" Any man wrongfully accused,
convicted and punished, ought to keep as si-
lent as possible when he RECEIVERS his freedom,
so as not to spoil the example that has been
made of him.
The New York Express sneers at the ap-
pointment of Secretary Robson, and says
that sin ordinary times, a slight knowledge of
ships, tarpaulins, salt water, ropes, &C., was
supposed to be an indispensable qualification,
but now 1T seems, all that is necessary is a
knowledge, more or less, of Coke and Black
stone" We do not know whether the Ex-
press needs to go back more than twenty-five
years to find ordinary times" and wonder
whether it has any reference to the sea service
OF those old sailors, Bancroft, Mason, Preston,
Graham, Kennedy, Dobbin, Toucey, or welles.
The Utica Observer says: "a young wo-
man of prepossessing appearance has been 60
ing about the country soliciting charity, and
pretending to be deaf and dumb, when in real
ity she could talk as much as othe- women,
which is saying coed deal The other day
she married a porter of a Schenectady hotel,
giving him several thousand dollars as a bri-
dal present, and the happy twain have just
gone to Michigan, where they will settle down
and be happy" W
1t is one Of the most curious signs of the
etuACS W oCC eno OCAoott~Ao 1CCt0iAAs tuo kcot
of mankind" for their exclvsiveness The
Chinese leaders in California consider the
laws, regulations and customs of this country
altogether too exclusive, and not only desirs
our government to furnish greater facilities for
their getting here, but also greater security in
their rights and privileges after they arrive
here. This is admirable for Young China.
Il The Commercial Bulletin in its elaborate
notice of the New York Peace Jubilee, forgot
to add among other preparations being made
by the committee Of arrangements, that they
had purchased five hundred acres of pine tim
ber land in North Carolina for the purpose Of
securing a sufficient quantity of resin to use on
the fiddle bows. Hemi
AN Italian Hospital was dedicated at San
Francisco on the 14th by the Italian Benevo-
lent Society. 1t will be open to all without
distinction of nationality.
The Bishops of the Roman Catholic
church in this country will very generally at
tend the great Ecumenical Council, waich win
convene this year at Rome. 1t is expected
and demanded that every Bishop in the world
shall be present, unless particular circum-
stances prevent him from leaving his diocese
In such cases special application for dispensa-
ton must be made to the Pope himself Prob
ably a thousand Bishops will be present.
"A wonderful submarine steamship has
been examined and approved by the Prussian
admiralty. 1t is a modification Of the Ameri-
can monitor system, the deck and turret
alone being above water ordinarily, but the
vessel is capable Of entire submersion, and can
make an attack with submarine cannon and
torpedoes, or sail under the water during
storm.
When the dedcason services of the Rev.
Robert Collyers church in Chicago last Sun
day had been concluded the pastor made an
appeal to have the church debt cleared OF at
once. The response was in contributions of
$69, ,474 and - acres of land, sixteen of the
subscriptions being 81, 900 and upwards. -Four
were of $4,000 each, and the pastor gave 81, 600.
The total debt before these subscriptions was
about $4,000. a sl.af
"A German astronomer, probably evolving
the fact from the depths Of his inner conscious
ness, has discovered that this respectable old
earth is soon to have another moon, What
effect two moons will have upon human brains
as well as upon tide-waters, we cannot under
take to predict; but it is reasonable to suppose
with pair of lovely Queens of Night, brace
of bright Expresses of tho Starry Sky, that
the production Of poetry, lyric, elegiac, philo-
sophical and amatory, will be immensely in
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