The Portland daily press., 1869-06-02
Gossip and Gleaninxs.

General Butler is said to have his eye ON
Senator Wilson's place, vacant in 1871 Which
eye?
The man who erected the $4,000 veloci-
pede hall at Long Branch is feeling quite un-
well.
There is a report that Peter Cooper is about
to discard the gig built in 1892 for new one.
Mrs. George Francis Tr hin will spend the
season at Newport, where she has a cottage.
-Vanderbilfs grandson runs daily train
to Troy. 'Train up child, ana away he will
CO."
"A London purvevor has been sent to jail,
for attempting to can diseased meat.
"A writer in the Revolution demands for
wives equal pay with wet nurses.
The notorious Belle Boyd was lately mar
ried in New Orleans.
Happiness consists in being perfectly sat
isfed with what we have got and with what
we haven got.
"A diamond valued at 100000 has recently
been found at Cape of Good Hope.
The Louisville Journal advises Secretary
Fish to weigh the chances of a foreign war
with all his scales.
Edwin Booths engagement with Edwin
Booth closes on Saturday, shortly after which
he will enter upon an engagement at Long
Branch, to play Benedick to Miss Mary Me-
Vicker's Beatrice.
The removal of General Emory from the
position of Commandant of the Soldiers Home
at Washington, was ordered because the law
says retired officer unfit for active service
alone shall hold it.
-Chignons are said to be going out of fash
ion in pious Paris, because the Pope refuses
his blessing to wearers of that historic pile.
"A schoolmistress in Porter county, Indi-
ana, construing physical punishment literally,
gave a tremendous cathartic to a refractory pu-
pill few days since.
-"Jim,'' said one youngest to another on the
Fourth, "Jim, lend me two cents, will yer? I
got up so early that spent all my money be-
fore breakfast didn't think the day was GO
ing to be so long,
"A St. Louis court has fined a man 800 for
shooting lead boy who was picking peach
from bis orchard. Boys are very plenty and
peaches very scarce about st. Louis
-Carlottas idea is, that she is still in Mex
co. She frequently says to her attendants:
"All of you are prisoners; but am Watching
you too close for you to do me any harm"
Indiana presents for the "Championship''
an old gentleman of 81, who, not content with
reading without spectacles, has just plowsd
up three acres and planted it in corn.
-Archdeacon Case recently died in Hng-
land. During the period he was serving bis
divine Master in orders, he managed to ascu-
mulate the pleasant little sum of 81, ,000, 900.
"A Bostonian, writing from WellAeet,
Mass, recently, says: you think mackerel
cheap in the city at eight cents each I saw
about seventy live 'wash-barrels' full sold here,
undressed, for l IA cents each, the fish having
been caught in the bay the night before"
How many more people win have to be
killed and MANNED, and how much more prop
erty destroyed, before our authorities take
measures to enforce the law for tho prevention
of the sale Of explosive kerosene? 81
The official journals OF Paris assert that
the election returns extingush the old politi-
cal parties and lelve the "hberal empire" op
posed only by a few revolutionists. ss 81
The statistics of divorce In Connecticut
are startling During last year the divorces
numbered 478, or more than one-teRth the num-
Der of marriages, ,t-
Fanny Fern says: ''The silliest man who
has ever lived has always known enough, when
he says his prayers, to thank God that he
wasn't born woman"
Hon. Joseph Segar has opened the cam
paign in Virginia on the Grant plan OF recon
struction. A good cigar is fine way to open
any question on the Grant plan.
We have, at length, some information
oh< nox AfoN Tt~.tsk LUab
ad 7iees that he is at Asuncion, the capital OF
Paraguay, and in good health.
AT Lockport, N. Y, few days ago, the
seat of juryman absent from the Supreme
Court, was taken possession of by dog. The
Judge, addressing one of the counsel, said,
"You see, Mr.. Lanning, that the iurymsn's
seats are all occupied Are you ready to pro-
ceed?'' The lawyer raised his glasses to his
eyes, and after brief survey Of the jury-box
made the witty reply: ''Your honor, that tel
low might do for Judge; but should hate
to trust him for jurymau." The Judge join
cd heartily in the laugh that followed.
"A new pantomime is brought out in New
York called Hickory, Dccory, Dock
An English gentleman has brought be-
tween 5000 and 1000 acres of land in Nelson
County Va, on which he intends to settle
800 English families.
Western farmers offer high reward to
the inventor of a successful grasshopper trap.
The Prussia Postal Reporter doesn't think
much OF our latest attempt in the postage
stamp hne.
The Penns ylvania Central Road Is first in
the field In making through connection from
the seaboard to Chicago.
I'm opposition to the microscopic bonnets
of the fair, the men have taken to wearing
telescope" hats.
Frank Swift, by Fred Hanlons failure to
come to time, holds the vslocipsde champion
ship
The past winter in nerthern Vermont has
been the hardest for farm stock that has been
experienced for many years.
The exposure Of the bogus strike of the
coal miners has led to its failure and partial
abandonment. .ef
If labor does not reform" at once. aftsr
all the New England League has just done for
it, then labor Is very obstinate, ungratetui
and scurvy fellow.
The railroad fare for the entire distance
from New York, or Boston, to San Francisco,
is now nearly 5000; meals and sleeping-car
charges amount to about $50 more. Another
year, at least, will reduce the SUN of the trip
as low as S16O .Ga hzls