The Portland daily press., 1869-07-09
Gossip and Gleanings.

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The Detroit Post says that p. Funk has
almost become d. Funk in New York.
La Grange is living in domestic retirement
at Paris.
Suggestion to Robeson.-A hospitable
nautical motto-"Sail in.'
Edmund About is writing a work on
Workingmen's Unions for the Emperor.
The drum fish, it seems, appeared of the
Jersey coast just in time to celebrate the 4th
of July. .f s
"A Gloucester, Mass, correspondent in
forms US that Fanny Fern" and family are
enjoying the seaside at that romantic place,
having been invited there BY Gen. Butler.
"A new English daily paper to be started in
Paris is to be called the Continent.
--Splinters from six last ties of the Pacific
railroad have been sold, and the supply is still
equal to any possible demand.
The widow Of Major-Gen. Worth died at
st. Augustine, Florida, on the 21st of June.
The sea-serpent hasn't been engaged by
any wstering-place this season. iu4
Mr.. Henry Sedley will continue his edito-
rial connection with the consolidated journal
which is the Round Table and the Citizen.
Andy johnson went to Washington to see
his son, and found his sun set
The Commander-in-C Chief of the Imperial
Guard, Marshal 'Hilliers, is so infirm that he
can no longer mount on horseback
The religions papers of the country are de-
ploring the fact that the demand for ministers
Of the Gospel far exceeds the supply, and the
fear is expressed in some quarters that the
churches will utterly die out from the want of
pastors. M 4ls9i ra ,st.s
All over the country the Teetotal Party,
or the Liquor prohibition Party, are waking
zp to new life. II they are able to enforce the
new Prohibitory law in observation-disclosures
cially in Boston-we shall everywhere see
their energies renewed. NJ aat
"A New York correspondent says that Col.
Ryan has made much money out OF the Cuban
fllibusters, and that he cares great deal more
for greenbacls than for Cuba.
AN enthusiast in Georgia is SO fond Of rid
walked sixteen miles after horse for the
pleasure Of riding him back.
The Tribune's London correspondent
pitches into the management of the Cunard
steamers with as little compunction as he has
heretofore pitched into private regulations.
1T is said that ladies who carelessly sub
mitted to 1.-THE golden hair dying process, now
heartily regret that they ever attempted 10 be
abeautiful blondes" Badness begins to
threaten them. Also, in few instances,
paralysis of the facial muscles has resulted.
Never say dye, ladies.
- Sanatnr from one of the mountain dis
tricts of Tennessee, on his arrival at Nashville
to take his seat, put up at a irst-class hotel,
when the following occurred on taking his seat
at the table: Senator to 5eryant-"what is
your victuals?'' Servant-"What win you
have, sir, tea or coffee?" fsSenator-aTea."
servant-"What kind Of tea?" Senator
store tea, by -; do you suppose come
here to drink sassafrax?"
Here is Lamartine, who was supposed to
have died with hardly money enough to bury
him, all the last days Of the melodious man
having been mostly spent by him In bewailing
his own poverty. Now it is too late, 1t turns
out that, like very few Of US, he had money
Without knowing it; for, his executors having
practically and not POLITICALLY investigated his
affairs, it Is found that the bard was worth
quite handsome fortune.
Both in England and America there is
now complete lull in the dispute over the
Alabama claims. The London Times now
thinks that the question is not of q threaten
ing character. We have not yet had very au-
thentic information of the re-opening Of nego-
tiations by Mr.. Motley. If, however, he can
get fair and reasonable protocol ready for
presentation at the next session Of the Senate,
it viii have good chance Of favorable consid-
GRAFTON. -F @s4 sr
The usual religious and intelligent bear
has not yet been heard from this year, nor the
New England sea-serpent. But here Is new
claimant on the attention of editors athirst In
land dry of news. Mayor Williamson, in .
report to the commssary of Benar, in India,
solemnly AYERS that 1t is the custom Of families
in those parts, whenever a husband and father
has been eaten by tiger (which is rather the
rule than the excepton), to change their fam
lily name The object of this is to prevent the
tiger from exterminatipg the household, either
through appetite, if the father agreed with
him, or through rage II the fathey gave him
the dyspepsia.
The slippery Democratic organ which last
fall, in the crisis Of the battle, proposed to dis
miss General Frank Blair on account Of Ais
disastrous pronunciomiento declaring the Re-
construction laws of Congress "unconstitu-
tional, revolutionary, null and void, now fnds
the same views from Senator Stockton worthy
of lauding to the skies.
PROT. Butler, of Madison, Wisconsin, In
lecture, aGems from Three Continents" never
fails to bring down the house whore he de-
scribes Americans abroad. One sentence is
this: "The ocean with its heave offerings to
Neptune is such king of terrors that Yam
KEGS shrink from crossing it for the first tune;
but no sooner are they ushered into the old
world than they long to live there longer than
they had intended-and do so, IL their purses
and family will let them; so they may be fairly
compared to certain calf whose ears must be
pulled off before he would begin sucking
and then his tail must be pulled of before he
would stop"
1t seems from the latest mail advices tina Z
England is now in imminent danger of being
subjected to one of the greatest disasters that
can possibly befall country with dense pop.
ulation. a limited extent Of cultivatable land,
and large proportion of the laboring classes
| constantly living from hand to mouth on the
| very verge Of pauperism-a bad harvest
The Hon. Alexander h Stephens, late
v;ce-Pres;dent of the Rebel Confederacy, has
written letter giving his views upon the lega
stains of the expelled negro members OF tne
GEORGIA Legislature. Mr.. Stephens agrees
with the decision of the Supreme Court OIL
Georgia that negroes are eligible under 'ne
present Constitution and laws Of that state.
There resides in the neighborhood :. Sos-
ton an old gentleman well known in the city,
slightly deaf, and whom nothing so much an
gers as TO be disturbed by callers at mealtimes.
Inst seating himself at the breakfast table one
morning last winter, when light snow was
falling, he wos summoned by message from
nsrson at the front door, who declined TO send
his name, but must see him. Going to the
door, he found a somewhat seedy looking indi-
vidual, with red nose, that evidently shifted
the bre akfast in anticipation, and the owner OF
which, IN dismal whine, said: "Pve called,
sir, to see ifyou would allow me to leave few
tracts at vour door," 'Tracksp' said the deaf
and irascible merchant-"tracksl Yes, leave as
many tracks as you please, and leave teem al
once with the heels toward the door"
Beau Brummel, when he entertained feel
mos Of displeasure against the Prince Regent
Of England, threatened to cat him and BRING
the old King into fashion. A great many WIN
he reminded Of this facetious passage OF histo-
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