The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-08-21
Gossip and Gleanings.

1T is generally known that the sobriquet of
"The Iron Duke was bestowed upon the
Duke OF Wellington, but considerable misap-
prehension prevails as to the origin of it, 1t
arose out OF the building of an iron steamboat
which Piled between Liverpool and Dublin,
| and which its owner called the "Duke OF We'll
| lington." The term "Iron Duke was first ap-
| Piled TO tue vessel and by-and.b rather in
| Jest than earnest, it was transferred to the
| Duke himself II had no reference whatever,
certainly at the outset, to any peculiarities or
| assumed pecularities, in the Dukes DISPOSE
| ton.
| Some four of the bad young boys Of Sulli-
| van, Indiana, some OF them scarce ten years OF
| age, were arrested few days ago for commit
| ting an outrage ON the person of young girl
named Dexter whom they attacked in held
while gathering blackberries. They were
| tried ON Tuesday, before Judge Scott in the
| Com mon Pleas Court. His Honor acquitted
them, but gave them severe lecture for this
| misconduct and admonished them to be more
| careful in their actions in future.
| "A New Yorker at Mt. Desert says the
| Sunday Indian pudding there "is like mix
| ture of oats and molasses. II is well adapted
for boarding house purposes for no human be-
| in his senses would ask to be helped second
time
| Secretary of the Navy has named the new
man-of-war ''Mangowhaoketywhop after
| a deceased Indian chief, in order to comply
with the law. Indian names are the best after
ALL
The late Henry j. Raymond was just on
the point of going to North Carolina to teach
school at thirty five dollars q month when Mr.
Greeley rescued him by paying him the same
to work on his paper
1t is believed that the recent seizures of
whiskey and distilleries in Philadelphia will
nearly destroy the old ring in that city.
"A Quakeress in New Jersey thinks il an
insult to God to force vegetables and fruits by
the use of hot beds, which she calls an inven-
ton Of the Evil Spirit.
AT recent execution by the guillotne in
Paris. an unusual and horrible spectacle oc-
Cured. BY some inaccuracy in the mode of
strapping the criminal to the plank, his neck
did not come into the groove under the knife,
and one of the executioner's assistants had to
pull the head violently into the right place and
hold it there until it was cut off, when it fell
into his hands. ge4
"A gushing reporter for a Mobile paper de-
scribes tournament and praises the beauty of
the "lovely girl" who was crowned the Queen.
He adds:
But there were some-Quoruna pdrs fta-who
gazed with delirous rapture upon Miss B,
of Norfolk stands for Blonde mind you,-
a blonde beauty of ineffabe splendor. Were
not Benedick, would lie-quick as the
wings OF love could bear meat her feet, a
kneeng captive. i shall not forget that btush
celestial rosy -red"-but the cause OF which
l could not divine.
| The financial editor of the Bennington
| Bonner reports marriages dull; engagements
| depressed; oourtships good and prime; scands
| oyerstocked; bellies, plenty; beaux, scarce and
of poor quality. The market is about ditto
here, and we must add, that while the glri'
are super extra, the beaux are mostly put ON
the market in a damaged condition, body al
fected with tobacco or rum-often both.
"A Philadelphia paper says that rma
does not come soon the ee's and ca'ees - ~. 49,,
Scbuylkir will be swimming round WI"
ems in their mouths begging for a drihS
-"Wbv do YOU cryg' said bystanaer ~
mser who was witnessing an -;
.Alasr, said the miser, pointing 70 ", -
80, s.,bat i, one of my 'u2oeHae" oe'''
owes me fifty dollars. ,.,o,,oa ,onr son
NsMr swipes, 1 have just kicked your son
- he store" "Well, Swngle, it's
~ mn Won have footed Tor many day.