The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-12-09
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The ladies have the lyceum platform almost
wholly to themselves just now in New York.
A baby show was one of the principal fea-
lures of Congregational Church bazaar at
Chicago last week.
In Troy, New York, on the 1st inst Mrs
Edward Herbert was burned to death by her
apron taking fire from kerosene lamp.
Although Sig. Brignoh and Miss Isabelli
McCulloch were married in Canada last sum
mer, their bridal reception was postponed un-
til last week, when it took place at their resi-.
7dence IN new York.
Several prominent business men of Burline-
ton, VT, have lately been kept in q constant
state of fear by the almost daily receipt of let
ters threatening to burn their houses.
The trial of Gerrish, the former City Treas.
urer OF Lowell, Mass, has ended in his ac-
quittal. The precise date on which defalca-
tion of any particular amount had occurred,
could not be proven, and thus it was that the
prosecution fell to the ground
The novel spectacle of woman presenting
ner grown-up son as witness TO suit for
divorce from his father, was lately witnessed in
the Superior Court at Chicago. The woman
declared that she had endured life with saw
age for quarter of a century, but now that
ner children are grown up, and able to protect
her, she could endure it no longer, and was
resolved to have the knot united.
DIR. L ?. Mccartney, the countcrfeiter, who
escaped from the Cincinnati gaol, has the rep-
utation OF having done some smart things dur
ing his career. A few years since he travelled
through Missouri, and gave lectures on the
pest way to detect counterfeit notes. Before
leaving town he usually managed to pass
several hundred dollars worth of his bogus
stuff upon the very people he had been in
structing the night before.
Clark County, KY, has lately been the scene
of several checking murders. The latest case
was that of wealthy old man az New Wash
iDgton, who had been in the habit of living
alone and keeping considerable amount sf
money always on hand. The law-abiding citi-
zens az considerably excited over the matter,
and So 1usly contemplate the organization of
vl6oldnce committee.
A movement is on foot at Philadelphia look
ing to the organization of a Woman Sebastian
Association. Mr.. Wananaker, the Presi-
dent of the Y. M. A. in that city, has offered
to pay the hrst years rent of building t. be
used as home for working women under the
control OF the proposed association.
The list of accidents from the careless use of
kerosene still continues to be largely augment
ed. Last week, at Elmira, young lady nam
ed Carr, in her impatience to see the fire
ablaze, poured some of the fatal fluid upon the
stove, and the next moment was herself wrap
ped in sheet of flame. She is not expected
to recover.
We read an odd enough larceny in Cincin-
natl. One of the medical schools there had se-
cured fine fresh subject; but before a single
scalpel could be brought to bear upon it, the
students OF rival school broke through and
stole it. Il is an interesting legal question
whether an indictment coald be sustained for
stealing corpse from dssecting room, the
same having perhaps been originally stolen
from some cemetery.
The Roman Catholic Bishop Baltes of Quin-
cy, ILL.,, has communicated, for the period
of one year, nearly the entire congregation of
the Roman Catholic Church at New Athens,
ILL.,, for engaging IN dance on Sunday, No
| vember 9th. The dance was given in honor of
q new church and was in opposition to the will
Of the priests.
The vault of the Bank of New York, in New
York city was securely closed on Monday
night as usual, and next morning, when it was
necessary to open it, the lock resisted all eff
forts. The cashiers, tellers and clerks all had
try at it, and then sent for the maker, who
sent HIS man, but the door was obstinate and
would not open at any ones bidding. Thus
far it has resisted all efforts and the conse-
quence will be regular siege.
One DR.. Duvail, who is in the Wisconsin
State Prison for life he murdered his wife),
has presented to the authorities a rather sin
gHaar petition. He sets forth that he has be-
come extremely pious, and also that he is a
person OF ability; he therefore respectfully asks
that he may be appointed chaplain of the in
stitution in WHICH he is incarcerated. 1t GER
tainly rebounds to the credit of ary prison
that II Is able to grow ,(so TO speak, its own
chaplains.
be childish or worse. Here is a Methodist Con-
ference in Wisconsin denouncing the game OF
| croquet "as an evil, to be avoided by all good
| people, because it does not tend to the glory of
God" OF course the answer IS that it Just
| much tends to that "glory" as a hundred things
| which the very members of this Conference do
every day of their lives with good conscience.
/ II would be well If religious men and women
| would try to comprehend the mischief which
i they do to the cause of which they assume to
i be the champions and examplars, when they
| condemn that which equally good people be-
lieve to be, If not practically useful, at least
| harmless. Tribune.
In Memphis, John f. Thomas, white man.
| and an ex' soldier OF the Confederate army was
| in open church, soon after the conclusion of
| the war. marriedSto Chrsty woman of Afri-
| can descent, since which time the twain have
| lived as man and wife. On the 23i of .Jnne
last, the parties were arrested upon a charge
of "cohabiting," tried and fined sos each. The
woman paid the fine; the man was subse-
quently released by the writ of habeas corpus,
after being compelled to work in the chain
gang. He has now brought an action against
tne city OF Memphis, in the y. >. Circuit
| court, for false Imprisonment. laying his DAM
| ages at $25000. The law of the State of Ten
| nessee prohibits the marriage of white and col
i Ored persons and it is surmlsed that it will be
declared unconstitutional by the Circuit
| whether these mixed marriages are desirable or
polite
| A clergyman (the Rov. G. G.. Ames) at San
Jose, Eal., has wife who is a helpmate in
deed; for recently, when he was absent IN pur-
| suit of health which preachers seem to lack
rather more than they do grace, the Rev
| Mrs. Ames arose, one Sabbath morning, got
breakfast, washed and dressed the baby, put
| him to sleep, sat down and reviewed her SER
mon, and then went to church and preached
| ii, "to the entire satisfaction of large and
| critical audience" 1t will be observed that
this good lady attended to her domestic duties
first, and not until these were fulfilled die she
| go to the pulpit. We mention the facts, in ac-
| cordance with our rule of honorably recording
i all WIN raallu do snrnathin, hnsihna