The Portland daily press., 1870-04-13
Il HI e p RE S s .
Gossip and Glennings.

Ole Bulls famous violin is 400 years old.
Mayor Stillman, of Tulahoma, Alabama,
has mysteriously disappeared.
Newman Hall is picking up his health
beyond his widest hopes at Jerusalem.
"A sist4 of General Thomas married Dr.
Gamaliel, well known as the editor of the
National Era of Washington.
"A Pennsylvania coal mine intrusts the
weighing Of coal to young lady.
-Newburyport, Mass, has an evening
school conducted by fourteen ladies.
"A Boston printing house is sending
through the press a novel of modern life and
society by George Alfred Townsend.
-Whiskey sometimes carries elections; but
in Connecticut the Republicans claim that
they were defeated by (rain) water.
Senator Yates, who has been dangerous
ly ill from hemorrhage of the bowels, is fast
recovering, and will soon be in his place in
the Senate.
An illinois girl of twenty has hung her
self. from having such dreadful luck with
husbands. One froze to death and two
drank so that she had to set divorced from
them.
Father Starr, Vicar-General of the State
of New York, says that the Pope has not is
sued a bull against the Fenians. He say
the English bishops addressed communca-
ton to the Holy Father, and the so-called
bull was simply the Pope's reply to this docu-
ment.
"A story is told that NJ. Robert A. Shop
ard, of Walton County, Ca, killed a sheep
last fall, took care of the skin and sheared it.
In the course of few months heavy coat of
wool presented itself, which he sheared off,
and now he says it is ready to shear again,
there appearing to be as much as he got at
any previous shearing.
The "Schleswig- Holstein question" is said
to be looming up again, and, now that Lord
Palmerston is dead, nobody alive understands
The British Chancellor of the Exchequer
Mr.. Lowe, proposes that the government shal
undertake the business of life assurance, as
the only means of giving the assured an en-
tire security.
1t is said that Mr.. Thurlow Weed will
contribute to the May number of the Galaxy
chapter from his autobiography, which will
be of especial interest to the people of Cen
trail and Western New York. His remnis-
cences, running back for forty-six years, re.
vive our interest in many Of the prominent
men living in the towns along the old stage
route from Buffalo to Albany, whose descend
ants are to-day among the most conspicuous
citizens OF the State.
Miss Kate Field is writing up Fechter for
the Atlantic Monthly.
"A new volume Of poems by Mr.. Dante
Gabriel Rosetti is to be published in England
about the middle of next month.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has been
writing series of short tales, each complete
in itself, to be called Oldtown Stories. They
will be published in successive numbers of the
Atlantic Monthly, beginning with that ior
June. As the title indicates, these stories
will be workings of the same vein of New
England life and character in the last centdry
which was opened in "Oldtown Folks"
The English papers report the circum-
stances of an extraordinary funeral. The de-
ceased was single lady, seventy years of age
Five years ago she had coffin made, of
which she was so careful that she would new
er allow it to be removed from her room, ex-
cept when she paid an occasional visit to
Weymouth, and then she took it with her.
She always kept eight half crowns in it, being
five shillings apiece for the bearers when their
Office became necessary. The old lady died
of dropsy, and the cherished coffin, being too
small, it was found necessary to have another
made. Her relations, however, would not
separate her from ner constant companion of
her old age, and so they had the smaller cof-
fin chopped up and buried with the corpse IN
the same grave.