The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-11-22

Gossip and GIeanings.
A two-penny edition of "Robinson CRU
soc" has just been brought out in Holland.
Admiral Raphael Semmes is announced
as candidate for mayor Of Mobile, at the
election in December.
The police force of Portsmouth, Va, not
having been paid for three months, has quit
the business and gone a-lshing.
The project Of admitting women to the
medical university at Ednburg has received
the express disapproval of the Queen.
"A boy at South Bend, Ind, intended for
the gallows, confesses that he has broken 900
panes of glass by the use of the brickbat.
"A devout Mormons wives quarreled as to
precedence in the funeral procession, and fol-
lowed their deceased lords remains twenty
abreast
I'm consequence of the late food and de.
struction of crops in Texas, corn has risen to
a dollar bushel on the Guadaloupe.
All the unoccupied women OF England
are hard at work devising secret alphabets for
communication by the new postal cards.
The income of Barnum from the concerts
OF Jenny Lind far exceeded the sums Ieceiv-
ed by the managers of the Nilsson concerts,
though they are very large.
-Gratz Brown, governor elect Of Missouri,
is described as a SMALL homely, red-haired
man, but bis wife il said to be handsome
enough tor BOTH
| Gen. Walker has pushed the labor of the
census bureau so vigorously that work there
is growing light, and it is expected that sever
al clerks will be discharged, the first of next
month.
New Jersey thieves are devotng them
selves to church robberies and within a few
days have stolen carpets from four churches,
in one case also carrying off the pulpit Bible
and hymn book.
AN unfortunate editor in Germany has
been sentenced to two months Imprisonment
because he objected to the manner in which
the ex-Emperor is treated at Wihelmshohe.
The Russian army has just received
new uniform, similar in cut and pattern to the
naval Uniform of other nations. The color
dark green, with epaulets and gold lace.
THE grand duke of Meckenburg gave or
ders to his troops while marching through
Champagne, not to disturb the vintage in any
way.
Ten or twelve full-blooded Indians have
applied for admission to Highland university,
Kansas, with view to enter the Presbyterian
ministry.
When Secretary Cox issued his order
making it a condition that any clerk who
went home to vote should have the time de-
taI l,,s v,o All
on a visit to friend on Staten Island.
John Bull-"Got all the arms you want?
all the ammunition Pail the coal ?"-
France---"Yes, ALL" J. B.---"And you don't
want anything more from me ?"France---
No." j. B---"Then think its time for me
to interfere"
An absent minded Indianan who started
out after his COW, found the cow-bell in the
road, and pocketing it, followed its tinkling
for over twenty miles before he remembered
that it was not on the cows neck.
"A French man-of-war and a German mer-
chantman, that had sailed in company for
several days, exchanging friendly signals, en-
tered the harbor of Sydney, September A,
when they first learned that war existed.
"A Santa Fe editor remarks: "Death,
with deshless knuckles, raped at the door Of
Mrs. j. N. BIS soul, and obedient to the mex
orable call, the spirit of that loved woman
fioated up to its Creator, leaving her husband,
children and friends to mourn over the NOR.
tai casket."
Should King William hold review Of his
soldiers on the Champ de Mars, in Paris. it
will not be the first in which he has taken
part on that renowned parade ground. More
than half century ago he was promoted
there to field rank, and took command of a
battalion of the 1st guards, as Prussian
major, under his fathers eyes.
-Zion's Herald is the funniest paper we
know Of 1t divides its obituary list into dead
and righteous dead" and now it begs its
friends not to send in notices of marriage for
publication, ''except in extraordinary circum-
stances" as though there was ever marriage
that was not considered to be an extraordina-
ry circumstance by the parties interested.
Horse stealing has been brought to SCI
ence in Texas. At San Antonio, the other
day, saddle was stolen from horse while
the owner and sheriff were standing looking
at it, and at another time horse was stolen
while the owner had his arm run through the
stirrup of the saddle.
Queen Victoria has now nine grandsons
and eight grand-daughters, together seventeen
grandchildren, of whom the Crown Princess
of Pussia gives five, Zone died in 1861 the
Princess of Wales FIVE, the Princess Alice five,
and the Princess Helena two. And the
queen has still five unmarried children.
There is in Springfield, Massachusetts,
family OF nine members, each of whom, with
single exception, was born upon holiday,
the father upon the Fourth of July, the moth
er on Christmas, the first child on Thanksgv-
ing Day. the second on Christmas, the third
on Independence Day, the fourth and fifth
each on New Years's, the sixth three weeks
before Christmas slight discrepancy there),
and the seventh on Christmas. Probably
parallel case cannot be found.
Upwards of a thousand cases of muskets
are now upon the dock at Troy, N. Y, await
ing shipment. Work upon cannon still con-
tinues, day and night, and forces employed
at the West Troy arsenal largely increased, so
that all arms can be completed by the 25th
for shipment on the Vile de Paris. Reming.
tons factory at Ilon is unusually active, rifles
being turned out at the rate of 500 per day.
The Connecticut State soldiers monu-
ment, Tor which the State in 1868 voted
$4,000 was on Friday last placed in tue SOL
ders' lot at Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven.
The monuments of Westerly granite, thlrtyss
five feet high, and is surrounded BY the statue
of a selLier at parade rest. The figure was
Gu, from one block of granite, and six months
were required for its execution.
We learn that the United States prose-
cutting officers have received instructions from
the Department of Justice at Washington to
investigate thoroughly the charges OF viola
| ton of the acts of Congress May 3lst. at the
recent election, and if the allegations shall be
| found true, to prosecute the offenders with
the whole force of the Providence Jour