The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-17

1t is rather curious that the two defamers
of Charles Dickens-Dunn and Fulton
should both at once be brought before the
public in the most awkward manuer-the
former accused of plagarizmg sermons and
the latter OF drinking lager beer in a Bowery
saloon. assn
The great "Woman's HOTEL" now under con-
struction by Mr.. A. 7. Stew art, in Fourth Ave
nue., N. T., will be an elegantstructure, and will
accommodate fifteen hundred women, in sin
gle and double rooms. Food will be served
at private restaurant, and the entire cost to
each inmate will not exceed $500 a week.
The populace of Great Britain has recently
been subjected 10 severe criticism from Prof.
Huxley, who, several years ago, made intimate
acquaintance with the unnteilectual aborigi-
mes OF Australia. Prof. HUXLEY has recently
declared that a walk through the streets of
Liverpool had shown him fully as many and
as degraded savages as he had seen in the re-
hottest of the British Colonies. 1t had been
great shock, said Prot. Huxley. to see I'M
washed, unkempt, brutal people, side by side
with indications of the greatest refinement
and the greatest luxury. a..stl
A railroad conductor of Troy, N. Y, recent
ly "iarIuped" his own wife and ran away
with his nelghbors. The neghbor has fallen
heir to nice little fortune OF $4,000, and
now the fugitive wife wants to come back
and live with him. Some woman are strange
creatures, but their heads are usually level
on the cash question.
In the Pennsylvania oil regions is one ma
bob who survived the deluge and now has an
oleagineus income of So 200 per dav. Anofh-
er is in still easier circumstances, receiving
regularly S. a minute. He formerly fabricated
wagon-wheels for living, but has shaved his
last spoke and given up the business. His
wife now wears her bonnet only one year,
makes her pie crust with butter instead of
BETS suet, and INDUCES in other extravaganza
Injuries.
At the fair recently held in San Francisco
for the benefit of the wounded French SOL
diers, things seem to have fetched exorbitant
pr.ces. We read that a bottle of cordial
which was dealt out in tiny gold cup real
lied $3.50; one thousand bottles of brandy
sod at $40 per bottle; and matron who at
tended the fair with box OF snuff, in half
hours time sold the snuff by the pinch for
$500.
The Ottawa Times says that at Saginaw
last week an old miser was discovered by
little boy buryine gold. Thereupon, not de-
string the secret of his wealth made known
he cat out the boys tongue and chopped off
his fingers. The hoy, however. managed to
let his parents know who bad thus maltreated
him, and the people of Saginaw turned out
III d oouJ duu SuOL tue nlSer QCaQ, ana buried
him in the hole he had prepared for the recep
ton Of his treasure.
From the Tpo Republics, printed in the
city OF Mexico. we learn that new tablets, tor
warded by the Secretary Of State to Minister
Nelson, were placed upon the American SOL
dlers' monument on the 18th ultimo-the
twenty-third anniversary of the storming of
Chepultepec. The monument was apprOpri-
ately decorated upon the occasion with gar
lands OF flowers, and number OF beautiful
trees were planted by Mr.. Nelson id the name
OF the President and Vice President of the
United States, Senator Morton, Judge Wafs-
WORTH and OF the several members of the
American Cabinet, Il
Last week the habitues of one of the faro
banks in New Haven, Conn.,, were greatly
startled and Mortified by seeing one of their
number, in apparently good health, die while
sitting in bis chair, without scarcely showing
a sign of his approaching dissolution. The
name OF the deceased is Joel c. Osborn. He
belonged to a most respectable family in the
city, and served during the war in the Sew
enta Connecticut with credit. For the last
two years he has been a dealer in faro bank.
Saturday afternoon he was sitting in the faro
bank room opposite the depot, when he died
without struggle, of heart disease Hia
body was laid upon the faro table and viewed
by jury OF inquest, who rendered verdict
in accordance with the facts.