The Portland daily press., 1869-05-26
Gleanings and Gossip. /.

Joe JenerSon IS IN his f0rtleth year.
Cora Pearl has found new protector and
got out of Jail.
The state OF the South is again claiming
considerable attention in Washington.
Mr.. John A. Poor is in Chicago, working
for the Trans Continental Railway interests.
The Attorney General it is said, is greatly
chagrined at the proclamation of the Presi-
dent setting aside the eight hour law
Judge Hoar is declared to have uttered
the very heretical remark that he did not take
his Office to please the politicians.
There is no truth whatever in the report
that there Is or has been difference of opin-
ion on the Alabama matter between General
Grant and Secretary Fish.
"A bind organ-grinder Of Cincinnati is in
clined to grumble because soldiers who receive
pensions compete with his business. He wants
protection"
One of the editors of the Paris Steele late
ly committed suicide on being told that his
brothers illness wss mortal. He stabbed him.
self, crept to his bedside, and died there.
The Lynn Reporter states that Prof Park
of Andover has been ,rdered by his physician
to abstain from work of every kind, under fear
of blindness.
All of the late Confederate States, with
the exception of Georgia, are manifesting a
most encouraging frame of mind, disposition
which argues well for the future.
The suburbs of Jersey City, following the
example of Jersey City itself, are becoming
quite notorious for mysterious disappearances,
suicides, muaders, Sc.
The approaching elections in Mexico seem
to have developed to their utmost the revelu-
tionary elements of that faction-cursed Com
monwealth.
"A. T. Stewart, who is one of the Commis-
sioners for the location OF the New York Post
Office, is said to favor the purchase of his
building at the corner of Chambers street and
Broadway, instead of erecting building in
the Park.
"A number of clerks were discharged yes
terday from the Interior Department, and
nearly three hundred other victims are on the
black list for execution within the next fort
| night.
The heads of the new drum for the jubilee
are made ofmammoth OK hides and nobody
can build larger one without using the hides
of elephants 1t will be hard to ''beat" We
have heard sevefal Boston "drummers" speak
OF 1t. a.nf | oss ". -. fa.a
Gen. Btthr is of the opinion that gold
will advance much higher than it is now, and
that the Secretary Of the Treasury cannot
keep it down for the reason that the balance
of trade with Europe is largely against us. i
The Old School Presbyterians in New
York, on Saturday passed resolutions against
| the evils Of divorce aud infanticide, recon-
mending in regard to the first that all the min
listers of the denomination should speak to the
| people of their respective charges, as to the
Scriptural dpctrine concerning the marriage
relation.
1t is reported that of / $50 bills passed by
the last Legislature of Pennsylvania only sew
enty.one were general laws. All the rest were
grants, in some way Of special priv leges or ia
vors; bills which were for the particular bene
ft of some person or Of few individuals; bills.
therefore, to pass which was plainly contrary
to public policy and the general good. ~
"A Minhdsota school teacher, lately appear
| ed in some phrlor theatricals, and the school
board, Indignant at such objectionable con-
duct voted his discharge. The public, indig-
nant at the board, met and offered that body
the alternative of resembling their action or re-
signing. e1sa ii6p as ssiavs
Commissioners Delano has reeonsidered
his determination to appoint none but lawyers
as Supervisors of Internal Revenue, ithaving
been demonstrated to him that merchants OF
largo experience can, generally speaking, be OF
moro practical service than gentlemen OF the
legal profession. aaa e s's aai..'lfm s-i
An Englishman was telling the late Col
Isaac o. Barnes Of the great rate the cars runs
in England. l''Why, Colonel, in my country
they 90 IS miles the hour "Fhey do says
the Colonel; 'they could not run long at that
rate or they would run off into the little did
island.s p -sl 20 hsf9igma Tr,i i9i
The people of all countries are forcing
their way 10 the front. This is true even in 2
imperial France. The Comte de Paris,
Bourbon heir to the throne, has ceased to look
to the aristocrats for success, and has written
book in which be goes over to the hard-hsted
workers. The latter have taken to buying
and reading the Comte's book so eagerly, that
the Emperor has become alarmed, and is him
self "gong i'm on the same tack. This is an
interesting spectacle. The arstocracy are ev-
erywhere becoming of less account, aud the
working men and women who produce the
wealth of the world, are beginning to have
their right to its enjoyment recognized
The records OF the Bureau of Vital Stats
tics reveal some singular facts as to the ages of
persons who get married. Among other facts,
they show that the age at which most men
marry is from 25 to 30 years; while the favorite
marrying age" Of women is from 20 to 25.-
After woman has passed the age of forty
years, she does not seem to stand much chance
for marriage unless she is widow. 1t is an
interesting fact that the chance for marriage
of widow of forty is just about equal to that
of spinster of twenty-five. The "old boys
hold out well, away up among the fiftiss ana
sixties; but in the matrimonial, as In the Dond
market, the five-twenties are the favorites'
AT the meeting of that ancient society
which grew out of tho Revolutionary war; the
Cincinnati, the proceedings were in private,
and reporters were not admitted even to the
dinner.