The Portland daily press., 1870-01-08

Hunnicutt has turned cotton-planter.

-Hunnicutt has turned cotton-planter.
Victoria has 16 grandchildren.
Ex-Governor Solomon OF Wisconsin Is
living in New York this winter.
Stores in New York that have rented for
$4,000 year, are now offered for $4,000.
"A nephew of John @. Calhoun drives a
Charleston street car.
The Buffalo Express calls the wool tariff
the poll-tax on negroes.
"A Red Oak (Ia) hotel advertises "the
most polite walters, dressed in pea green
jackets, fitting hoops, and high-heelcd button
ed CATERS"
Gloucester, Mass, caught and sold three
million dollars worth of fish IN 1862 Five
hundred and ten vessels and COCO men did
the business
Medical literature contributes a new
term to the 'slaus dictionary" The SWELL
ing of the knee, formerly called the "house-
maids knee" is now known as the ritualistic
knee.
-Stotistics in France show that relaxation
of corset laces has reduced female mortality
Is 1-2 per cent, and the introduction OF
ehignons has increased brain fever " s-4 per
cent.
"A Parrot shell, one of"Gilmore's pills."
was found the other day lodged between two
buildings in Charleston, S. C. A fire nearly
destroyed one OF the buildings, but fortunate
ly did not reach the unexploded shell.
The New York World, describing the
gathering at masquerade in that city Mon
day night, says: "There were present several
of the m ost noted pickpockets, aldermen, Of
fcials and gamblers in the city; and there
was probably not one virtuous woman In the
house."
The anti-papal Industrial School for
Girls in Connecticut has been opened. Ac-
commodations for about forty pupils are al
ready provided, and by May next all the
buildings will be completed. They are now
all rooted it, and present an attractive and
imposing appearance.
Ashley of Montana is hard at work try.
ing to prove that his action. and character
have been misrepresented to the President.
He has sent communication to Washington
denying the statement that he had made
speech against universal suffrage. The
Chronicle intimates that the President vii
give the subject consideration.
"A New Orleans paper tells this story:--
A little four-year-old son of believer In the
ancient faith of Israel, said to his mother a
day or two before Christmas, mamma, may
fire crackers on Saturday. "No, my son;
Saturday Is your Sabbath" swell, It Is
Christmas, too" "But you have nothing to
do with Christmas" "I-don't-see-why-
the Christians should have -all-the-
fun"
Private Malloy (goaded to madness by
the goose step): "Corpril O'Slaughtnessy,
your honor! Av was to call ye dirty spal.
peen O. misery, what would git?" Corporal
-"Faith, it 'ud be round Dozen" Private
Maloy-"An' av I on'y thought it?" Cor
poral-"Divll harm, so long as ye don't spaka
it." Private-"Thin 7 on'y think 1t, Corpiil."
Judy.
-tdrs. Lincoln occupies small apartment
in the immediate neigbborhocd Of the board
ing school attended by her youngest son, Tad,
at Frankfort, Germany. She lives IN tne
style, does not mingls in society,
wears mourning up to the present aay, re-
ceives no gentlemen visitors, and Is entirely
with the count with whom her
her name has been coupled.
philadelphia has a novel literary club
called "The Little World" The members ara
known as "North Po!e," Equator" Degree
etc. The weekly meeting is called "revolu.
tion" and the series OF meetings are called
"epochs" At the last revolution" South
Pole read a paper on The "Cardif Glant,s
FrioiI Zone had an essay on "Politeness" and
Parallel oave some very humorous verses.
The andpapal council that met at Nh
pies on the same day that the EcuusnisI
Council met at Rome was quite a success, tiu
me of the speakers passed from liberalism b,
elieion to hot Republican barangue whicl,
,xcited his hearers to such an extent that
hey cried out "Death to Napoleonw Then
he police broke up the council.
"A family in Manchester, N. H., was re-
,ently poisoned by eating squash at dinner.
A portion of the squash which was not mash
ed up was examined, and 1t was thought
traces Of a white powder could be discovered.
The suppostion is that poison was put into
The squash while it was In the field, with
view of poisoning the family who raised 1t
But instead of keeping it at home 1t was Ia
zen to the market, and the result was nearly
atal to the persons who partook OF it.