The Portland daily press., 1870-07-16
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Fuller of Boston.
James Dawson, once speaker of the Missis-
sippi House, is now police reporter in New
Orleans.
The heirs of the Anneke Jams estate, who
claim the Trinity church property in New
York, have started an "organ" in Phadel-
phia.
Kentucky has Homeric bard of African
descent, who has written an epic poem of over
| 1900 verses, recounting the history of the re-
bellion, and entitled Columbiana, or the
North Star"
An old farmer said to his sons Boys,
don't you ever spekerate, or wait for sutthin
to turn up. You might just as well 90 an sit
down on stone in the middle OF q medder
with pail atTixt your legs, and wait for
COW to back up to you to be MIXED"
The receipts ON the Provincial end of the L,
u n. A: Railway for June were S19,74S 49,
against S17, 62 in the same month OF last
year, and against SIG 324 55 in that of 1868, as
we learn from the Pioneer.
A case of feminine daring is related of a Vir-
ginla belle, who rode to the edge of precipce
ana dehed any man OF the party with whom
she was riding to follow her. Not a man ac-
cepted the challenge; but tantalizing youth
stood on his head in his saddle and dared the
lady to that.
In Nashua, New Hampshire, on the 5th inst,
thirteen year old girl, named Badger, climb
ed up between the wings of the new eagle on
city hall and sat down on its neck. The girl
sat in this elevated place, hundred aud fif-
teen feet from the grouod, for ten minutes
She should have been well spanked when she
came down.
The old bark Maria which has buffeted the
waves for SO years. hailing from Nantucket
and New Bedford, and for the last few years
under the Chilian flag, with her name ch9ng-
ed to Maria Pochoeo, is reported sunk in the
harbor of Payta, Peru.
An elderly gentleman in Madrid last week
had his eyes suddenly covered in the streets by
| some one behind, who paytully said, "Who is
| it? Guess?' He went on guessing through
| the rounds of his friends, when the playful be-
| ing darted off, and left the old gentleman Of
| Spain still bewidered and thinking who it
| could lie. He found out when got home, and
missed pocket-book with fifteen hundred
| francs in it, also gold repeater and handsome
chain and SEALS
Some time since, gentleman died who du-
ring his life, refused to believe in another
world. Two or three weeks alter his demise,
his wife received, through medium, com
muncation, which read as follows; Dear wife
1 now believe. Please send me my thin
cotheS.
The editor OF an Augusta (Ark.) paper saw
Mr. Davis the other day at hotel in Memphis
He says: ''The last time we saw him he was
dowAin Georgia, riding thinly by our thin
lines, reviewing. And there he sits there
eatinG-a gray-headed confederate postage
stamp. He wasn't insuring lives when we be-
longed to him.
"Compositors in the New York Tribune Of
fice," says New Brunswick periodical, 'are
fined ten cents for each profane word uttered
on the premises, the money so gathered being
given to the poor. a new hand lost nearly
weeks wages one night over bit of Greeleys
manuscript" OF course great deal of swear
ing is done in the Tribune office from pure
charity. Hundreds of dollars have been be-
slowed in this way by its foreman TO help the
poor.
The high price of pork and cheapness Of
flour is illustrated by recent trade at Bloom
ington, Ind, when farmer exchanged ham
for barrel of flour and some groceries. The
time has never been known when ham
would buy barrel os flour.
James Keogh, who died at Pttsburg on
Sunday at the age of 1856, was educated al
Rome. where in his youth he made defense
of the Catholic church in the presence OF the
pope against learned cardinals, and at the
time OF his death was one of its most promi-
nent theologians.
Col. Griffin Halsted, father of Murat Hal
sted, proprietor OF the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, died at Hamilton, Ohio, on Tuesday, from
the effects of injuries received in an afifay
with man named Lawrence Brown, about
ten days ago. Brown struck the old gentle
man with brass knnckles, knocking him
down, and then kicked him in the side until
he becrme iusensbe, Col. Halsted was elSh-
ty years of age and the oldest citizen in But
Ter county.
The sophomores of Trinity college had their
annual burning of Anna Lytics on Monday
evening. Some six hundred invited guests
were present, and the police kept order.
Mathematics was personided by stuffed fig
ure of female, and after the scene of mock
trial and conviction, the unfortunate female
was brought first to the executioner's block
and then the body was committed to the
flames.