The Portland daily press., 1869-06-15
Gossip and Gleanings.

-Mazzin smokes thirty cigars daily. At
thar rate he will soon be prepared to : stump"
Italy. tt sa.A =
A z. -.ansas City paper contains the follow
ing business card: "Notary public-Miss Fan
ME Lyons M'ain-st.' afh.
The head W alter at the National Hotel and
the barber at " lizards are among the new
Counsilmen of Was hington. rHusf
Rev. DIR. Bushnell calls the womaa suf-
frage reform "an attempt to make trumpets
out OF flutes and sunfowers out OF violets"
Now it seems that the Central Park Car
riage system is objected to because is is found
that improper women ride in the carriages.
"A writer in the Nation says that to speak
of ssthe granite hills of Berkshire is slightly
poetical, as there is no granite found south of
Hoosac range.
The Saints in Utah execute capital pun
ishment by shooting. Three murderers SEN
fenced in the Utah District Court on Satur-
day, were sentenced to be shot on the 2sth of
July
The Speaker is going to California, aud
proposes to travel as far Sitka, where he will
be chill l-Blaine.
Petroleum V. Nasty is said to have gained
$4,000 during the past year by his lecture.
james Robinson, the bareback rider, fs
out with a challenge to the world to ride him
bareback, or with pad, for $4,000 Respect
fully declined.
-Ex- Governor Extra Billy Smith is out
in letter on the political situation, in the
course of which he says: "It is a deep humil-.
iation for Virginians to have to chose one o.
two carpet baggers for their Governor"
Texas is calling loudly for immigrants, but
will never get them till Texas stops welcoming
all decent men with ''bloody hands to hos
pitable graves" iaie aea % ST VI n.l
"A lady vocalist appealed to the musical
critic of the Tribune the other day for lenient
notice of her forthcoming concert, because she
"had bad cold and large family of chill
dren.'' CA. sii sll W IS i.'s5asNfi
Wine is cheaper than milk in some parts
OF California. ,eaas 3. III ai..,.. ..4a1
"A wooden wedding-marrying block
head. Western Journal eN
The officials of the Kansas City and LeaS-
enworth post offices are on such terms of cor
dial reciprocity that they propose to get mar
| ried shortly. Col. Foster and Mrs. 81. P. John
SON are the names of the happy pair.
Mr.. Dutel, OF Pau, France, married New
York girl named Miller, the other day. Dutell
| is the same fellow that the old women have
been calling for, in connection with marriage
engagements ever since the landing OF the
| Pilgrims. .. s,. ...r.
"A Chicago clergymen calls sin "moral
| measles" .ta,,,ai .....
-Ossian E. Dodge the famous singer, is
now Secretary of st. Paul Chamber of Com
merce.
A Tx,d A.
| ground that red men are addicted to tamper-
ing with the polls. ~. .a1 a
1T is announced in most of the French pa
pers that the principal shops in Paris will
henceforth be closed on Sundays.
| by typographical error Jersey paper
| dubs some one the old horse of the De-
mocracy. v.he 7ff -, e-t
The Fifth Avenue Hotel is the largest in
the world. At least it held Burnside and
Sprague at one time last week. lN,l .t
The use of absintha is said to be increas-
| ing to an alarming extent in New York.
MANY of the bars retail it as they do other
liquors. One of the most brilliant writer's on
the New York press has nearly ruined himself
| physically and intellectually by the use of this
permit sedative for only year and a half.
"A Western paper 'enumerates'' Mrs DIR.
4 Mary e. Walker alter this style: ''she is
enthusiastic, quick-tempered, out-spoken, un-
malicious, exceedingly vain, sensational, en-
ergetic, wilful, self-asserting irrepressible To-
| quacious, and everything else that constitutes
| a sort Of George Francis Train in petticoats'
The press generally commend the course
| OF the Narraganset Park Association "a for
b;da,nr r.ha nse of the park for the match
a,,.,o.t time. Says the Springfield Republi-
-, sThe association deserve the thanks of
tho prevention OF cruelty society, and of all
humane souls, for closing their grounds against
! so barbarous procedure f.
| The feuilleton:st of the Paris Steele says he
| lately overheard the following conversation
between two distinguished young diplomats.
| A very tall and dry gentleman, sort OF Don
| Quixote in modern costume, entelsa tue room
| "Oh, look at that fellow; what ntucolous
head he has gotr' exclaimed one of the
Young men, "why, that is my father" re-
| piled the other. You do not say that is your
| father? Well. then, If you could see my faith
| er, could tell you you would find him looking
a thousand times more ridiculous" "Ah, bah,
you astonish me- "No, it is the literal truth
| Whereupon these two excellent sons and ris-
! ing diplomats shook hands amid loud laughter,
| and parted company. .1 II. lt-..f .l ti..-
-Beauregard, during Che war, issued an Or
| der calling on the South to call Northerners
"Aboltionists.' He thought this would end
the war. Jordan, his chief-of-staff, is fighting
in Cuba for the abolition OF slavery.