The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-11-22


Brownlow is sixty-nine. Co.,. --. ..-s
Mrs Edward A. Pollard is keeping hotel
in Washington.
in sooty Pittsburg. fFA
Hon. A. II. Stephens, of Georgia, is again
confined 10 his bed. ----------.---- ----
Henry Ward Beecher's salary will be re-
duced to $21 900 this year. ESQ
General G. w. Cole, who ''mental-aberrat-
ed' Hiscock, is {. candidate for clerk of the
United States Senate. r g..,l -.- Z Z
Miss Kate Fisher threatens to sue the Hart
ford Times for libel in asserting that the
calves she revealed were stuffed. % 4, --,-r
Two Japanese youths are attending the
Highland Military Academy at Worcester, and
third VIII soon enter the academy. ---. e..
b Clara Louise Kellogg has bought brown
stone house in New York, furnished it and TAX
EN- her parents there to live.
Daniel a.: Tompkins has been nominated as
Deputy Collector in the New York Custom
! House in place of Blatchiord, absconded. 80
Rev. Henry Boom is the oldest living Meth
odIst itinerant preacher. His age is ninety
i've and for sixty nine years he has been in
the ministry. teFlz -sssy q eu HgT
Charles O'Connor, of New York, was to have
gone to Rome to attend the Eeumenieal Coaa-
Gil, but was induced to remain to argue 81
100000 law suit. -gt.-.s..-4 = =, -
The Lite Hon. Robert j. Walker, at the time
Of his death, was engaged in the prepaI alton
OF statistical article showing that New York
i" time would surpass London as a Commercial
center. fssIfe elo5 air oI - ID
Al Great Fails the house of George Fl. Horn
was broken into on Sunday nigit 6y burglars,
who stole from his pockets about 500 in money
besides piston which was lying near tor their
especial beaetit, and watch. -------
The New York Sun G argos Secretary Robe
son with outraslng The religious sentiment of
the country by comp ling the naval cadets II
pursue ordinary secular studies on Sunday,
and demands his removal. n1igss5se-B
A drunken man, named Jerry Denvene, at
Westfeld, Mass, pounded one of his befses
with a rail un u he had nearly exhausted his
strength. He then in demOnaic fury went Into
a olachsmith's shop, and taking led hot iron
began to pierce his horsa with it. sE
The private library of Clement March, of
Greenland, n. b., consisting OF fifteen hun
dred and thirty-five volumes, was sold by auc-
ton on Friday last. Most of the books brought
good prices Giroy's caricatures sold for SAG,
and copy of Hogarth tor $40. % 81. ...9lr
Elder Smith, at Salt Lake City, recently
married the widow and two daughters OF hi.
brother, and reporter of the Telegraph In
CURED what relat on the children OF The two
daughn rs would bear TO Smith. Thereupon
smiths son thrashed the reporter, and his Gu
riosity is supposed to be satisfied.
A young gentleman named Harry Stewart
is said to have travelled about during his ado
lesence in a condition Of uulettered destitution
bearing document with him which be could
not read, but which on recent examination
turn out to EMIT him to 100000 in the
Bank OF England. 20 "a ft
Female fddlers are becoming abundant.
We have here Camille Urso, Matilda Toedt,
Josefina Filomeno and the Frankie Sisters
In Italy the Ferni Sisters were very popular
until they went on the operasle y, stag S, r l.
name of Hamilton, have lately played at the
Gewanhaus concerts at Leipzig. WI
Two young men in Wilmington, Del, pro-
posed to fight duel recently (abont young
aay,, ct coufsalL but when their seconds ar
.auseu tnat tney sheuld be securely bound
knee to knee, and fight will, small swords uu-
I'll one OF them them at least was mortally
wounded, the thing lost its charm to them, and
an apology from one and its acceptance by the
other arranged the difficulty.
A young man and his intended presented
themselves before the city clerk at Davenport.
Iowa, the other day for marriage license. 1t
was found that the young man W as under age,
and had neither parents nor guardian. In Or
DER to make the proceedings regular the lady
suggested that she herself should be appointed
guardian. AS she was over eighteen she was
eligible, was duly appointed as guardian, and
then gave her consent that her ward should
marry herSa1f NN'A