The Portland daily press., 1869-07-03
Gossip ana Gleanings.

Porter will continue on draff in the Navy
Department.
Hans Breiteman is writing a book on
Paris.
-Colfax has been made an LII. ID. BY some
Michigan high school
"A Wounan's Suffrage Convention has been
called 10 meet at ST. Louis, Missouri, on the
6th Of October.
The name OF the new son OF the Count Of
Flanders is Bard0nln Leopold Pnillippe Marie
Charles Antoine Joseph Louis-to be contin-
ued.
-Elizabethtewn, KY, boasts Of barn built
Of logs from the cabin where Abraham Lin
coin was born. 1t must be large barn.
-Robeson, even before he had the Official
robes on, must have known that to be Secreta-
~ OF the Navy after Borie were worse than
being thousand times rocked in the cradle
Of the deep ..f.
Tie Petersburg, Va, Index says: "All the
reports that have reached us represent the
crop OF wheat now harvesting as the finest
that has been reaped for a number Of years.
The ears are well filed, and the grain not af-
fected by rust tls eHa
"A Boston poet writes this fearful epitaph
upon New York:
"In refinement and in literature,
In music, arts, and all that's pure,
While New York turks la rhe background"
"A Tennessee paper, with mixed metaphors
worthy of Mullins, remarka- a-ahA-.A-n---
Rrownl,----l4ruc5 5enter party are welcome to
-rns tower Of strength which clusters around
his name. We don't want any of it in our'n.
We will never hitch our fortune to his spiral
wanderings in the great ocean of politics for
the feather-weight of his name."
-"J. McGregor, Canoe Rob Roy, and james
Mevards, Captain canoe Ringleader," have is
sued a challenge on the part Of the British
Canoe Club, addressed to the Secretary Of the
Harvard University Boat Club, begging him
to send a "canoest" over to England to con-
tend for the honor of being known A. "the
fastest canoeist in the world on behalf Of the
United States.
The opinions of Inspector General Marcy
on the Indian question sustain the Indian pol
icy of our Government He shows that where
the Indians-such as the Cher ,kees, Chicka-
saws, Choctaws, Creeks, &c.,-have been al
lowed to have a permanent holding OF their
lands they have done very wen, and his opln-
Dn that these lands should not be in any ma
tbnal thoroughfare is worthy Of consideration.
"A few days since, says the Hannibal (Mo.)
Courier, young widow purchased shirt in a
Hannibal clothing store, and gave directions 10
have itsanded to young man who would call
for it. The young man soon appeared and
"a =. H. IA than
hunted upshe widow, and the two went be-
fore the Recorder and straightway were made
one flesh.
The Russians are looking forward 70 the
| great Suez Caial, and hoping to take advan-
tage Of it from he port of Odessa, lately con-
pected with the centre of the empire by Gen.
Kotzebue's long nilway.
"A de vroye, noted French futist, is the
latest musical novaty in London. He Is con-
sidered the best sol, fiutist Of Germany, where
chieay-though F:enchman-he is known.
AN Enoch Arden case has appeared before
the New York polio courts; only this Fnoch
broke Philips head and carried of his wife
again.
From his repeated refusals of the Presi-
dency, the Democrats nomination for which
| he at last accepted, Horatio Seymour has been
called the Great Decinel. But this title will
avail him no longer. Miss Anna Dickinson is
said to be the heroine of tw, hundred declina-
tions of matrimony, and "he cry Is still they
come and still they are declined.
1T is absurd to be talking OF the failure ol
Grants Administration, and wehave no pa
tience with the persons and papers and ex-
Presidents who do so. Better wait until the
evidence is in before venturing on q verdict
The Administration has had no opportunity
for developing grand measures or great mel
thus far.
"A man died In New Orleans, few day
ago, leaving one Of the simplest and brieies
wills on record. 1t consisted Of only thes
wordsi "Mrs. Roper Is my heiress," with co
dicil of four or Eve words more; and althoug
it was severely contested in the courts, Its ie
ality was sustained