The Portland daily press., 1869-06-25
Gleanings and Gossip.

Advice to Johu Bright-"Stick.
-Grasshoppers are at their old tricks in
Utah, 'roosting on the railroad tracks and stop
ping trains. --------
The Newburyport Herals nominates Bout
well for the Presidency.
-Autobiogram is the Worlds latest
queer 1r..
Mrs. Jno. Tyler will be q young mans
mother-in-law after June 26. % .4ff
lin one of the Nevada mines artillery is used
to knock down quatz.
"A child in Wisconsin swallowed forty per-
cusssien caps last winter. The newspapers are
still blowing her up. ff rl. ..
The wheat harvest in southern Illinois
has begun. The yield is most excellent in
every respect. s7a
The three leading journals of the Rcpub-
lican party in Tennessee, the Knoxville Wing,
the Nashville Press and Times, and the Mem
phis Post are now all for Senter.
"A high-toned Tennessee paper refers to
Horace Maynard as "that sniyeling, tallOw-
faced, long-nosed, black-hearted blossom of
loilty." aG9a -l .af
Almost every interest in this country has
its organ-[ Chicago Times. But there are
some organs that do not possess much inter
est. lliaE s.-l Be- iH
California produced last year nearly If
teen million pounds of wool, which was larger
by almost two million pounds than the pro-
duction of any other State.
The smallest real estate transaction on
record, and one Of the most extrayagant, oc-
CURED lately in New York. A man paid 800
for a lot ON Portland street, three inches wide
and thirty long. et. r' -
"A curious incident is related of a theatre
in Saxony. During performance of "Ham-
lei" when the melancholy prince sollioquized;
"But that the dread of something after death.
That undiscovered country nom whose bourn
No traveller returns"
q country fellow in the gallery exclaimed,
sStupidl didn't you see your fathers spirit
last night? Where do you think he came
from?" e9e lfl fs enfa s.
AN escaped nun, Douise Renetts, from
Nice, is creating quite stir in the cities Of
Southern France by her lectures on what che
saw and heard in an Italian convent. In Tou-
louse the p ,lice refused to grant her permis-
sion to lecture. sA
AT Bromberg, Prussia, q girl thirteen
years of age, a scholar in a woman's college,
committed suicide recently for having been
reprimanded by her teacher, She bade slo-
Semn farewell to her schoolmates, whom she
invited to attend her funeral and drowned
herself in canal
The following obituary notice recently ap-
peared in a newspaper in SPAIN '"fhis morn
ing our Saviour summoned away the jeweler
Siebald Illmaga from his shop to another and
better world. The undersigned, his widow,
will weep upon his tomb, as win also his two
daughters, Hilda and Emma the former of
whom is married.
The New York Commercial does not be-
lieve in the praises of early rising, especially
for students and those engaged in pursuits
which tax the brain. 1t is rather consoling to
hear an argument on the other side OF the
question. The Commercial holds that, for
mental fatigue, an interval of rest, previous 70
sleep is desirable, and that for men OF intsiiec-
tual labor, the best sleep is tnas "ncn u en-
joyed in the early morning noars'
Tba sso.,s compositors of New York have
. srv,o,rs.,,.cal Union, the only one of the
kind in the country
-The Augusta (Ga Chronicle and Seminal
sees only evil to flow from the decision OF the
Supreme Court Of that State that negroes are
eligible to Office. 1t says: "The deed is done.
Georgia is dragged down to the lowest depths
in the slime and filth of Radiealsm-at least
so far as the exercise of the high places OF the
State by unlestered negroes are concerned
For season we must submit to our fate. Let
all true men wait and watch and work for the
speedy approach Of that good day when the
children's patrimony, now fed upon my dogs,
will be returned to the true owners and the
government Of the State restored TO Its right
iul psoprietors."
The coming Senatorial contest in New
Hampshire is beginning to attract attention.
Thus far Senator Cragin's chances for being
reelected appear to be good, although ne mas a
strong competitor in Col Tappan Private
letters from Minister Hale say u is his inten-
lion to come home and enter the contest. His
strepgtb, It is thought, will be considerable
sufacient perhaps to. hold the balance OF power.