The Portland daily press., 1869-07-12

Cincinnati is to decorate Its Red Stock
ing nine with gorgeous medals Of honor.
20, for thousand tongues" said O little
urc'bin who had crawled inside of huge sugar
hogsnead.
St. Louis to claim the reward Of 800 advertis-
ed for news Of a missing girl. he married her
the other day otter a successful elopement.
"A man in Acair county, Iowa, has invent
ed cannon which he claims will shoot four
teen miles. He is now on his way to Wash
ington to get patent. We proposes to offer it
to the government for 81 900 900.
The British soldier is about to have his
straight jacket tunic. iron stock and snug
breeches changed to an easier uniform, more
like the light and serviceable dress of the boys
in blue.
"A ballet dancer has sued Fisk, Jr., for
$1,000 damages. from falling through an inse-
cure doorway at the New York academy of
music.
Bayard Taylor refused to furnish the press
with copy of his poem at Gettysburg.
"A gushing poet begins his lay with: "I lie
On the shin gle, waiting" VIII somebody car
ry him out, and oblige2
the raging waves, is about to rescue poor fell
low from the yawnipg abyss Of bachelorhood.
"A Methodist church in Michigan has ex-
PEELED member nominally for betting on the
last Presidential election. We suspect he bet
on Seymour
The Connecticut Legislature, which be.
gan its work the first of june Is still in session,
anothe people down there are so Ignorant Of
the penests Of long sessions, lasting five or six
months, that tAey are grumbling because the
old fashioned iimis- -~as over passed and an ad-
| journment not effected bore the 4th of July.
| The Boston fourth-ofJuly ors>.r dared to
| lift up his voice and say: "Women shoafo-at
vote because God has not given them the pow
er to enforce their will, and law without
means to execute it is not law" ~
i "A Pennsylvania farmer writes to bis coun-
ty paper, that he cured his daughter Of the
Greeian bend by pouring water on her and
holding her out in the sun until she warped
back again.
| Alexander H. Stevens has written another
letter, taking leave of all participatons in pub
lie affairs, and speaking good word for the
| Constitution which he and JEFF Davis have SO
near their hearts. Alexander takes final leave
| Of public affairs about as often as Rip Van
Winkle swears of drinking in the play.
Near Cheyenne has been discovered an
immense tract Of land covered with edible
mushrooms Of extraordinary size and delicious
flavor One is spoken Of which was sev9n
inches in diameter, with stem two inches
thick, and which weighed pound.
| "A Paris letter says: ''The marriage season
has setin with extreme severity. The English
keep one chaplain constantly in his robes; and
as for American young ladies, they are married
by scores, and do not think that one will be
left single by the end of July"
The editor Of the Wisconsin Banner says:
wednesdays mail brought us letter ad-
dressed Rev. another Hon., another Col,
one Mr. and the last Esq On the way to
dinner we accidentally stepped on woman's
trail, aud she said, You BRUTE" ea-lif
Major Fersen, distinguished Russian ON
| Ger. who has led warriors life IN many coun-
| tries, recently effected q miraculous escape
from the dungeons Of Paraguay, and fully
confirms all the stories in regard to the cruel
ties Of Lopez ......
"A rather funny thing was developed in a
yecent trial between two Germans in New
York city. It came out that the great whale
which used to disport himself SO furious y in
New York aquarium, to the great awe and
amusement Of visitors, was nothing more nor
less than piece Of mechanism, with man In
side it,
Cooking the food Of cattle isa powerful
agent In the extirpatiOn Of weeds.
Anxious mother to grandfather: "Papa,
where's the baby? Nurse says she left It with
ronp erandpapa: "Bless mel 50 she did;
let me see I've only leen to the club, and to
| the bank; suppose must have left it there"
Truth is straight and falsehood crook
ed, line. ID rsrr .f. -sd aal
John T. Alexander's $1,000 acre farm in
Douglas, Champaign and Ford countless lii-
uois. included 5000 acres in corn, three feet
high. and 5000 acres in wheat, harvesting
| twenty. five bushels to the acre.
| The Congregationalist thinks that SOME
Baptists have crept "out Of the she'll anu, -
evidence of the fact, mentions that 'ne pas.'s
Of a certain Baptist church in the c''s ~ ~
baptized a Presbyterian lady 'ne WIG " "
pon.,st gentleman, Notwithstanding she ex
rrsssed ss the opinion that "her baptism IN m
pov 49,, was both scriptural and valid" and the
.a,.os "os,',naton to reserve the rightto commune
with other churches.