The Portland daily press., 1870-05-16
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The appearance of Junius Browne on the
witness-stand in the Mcfarland trial is said
to have suggested sort of metaphysical Beau
Brummell-a compound of Illegal and Veri-
sopht. He wore dainty kid gloves of the col
or known as the ashes of roses, velvet coat
small tasselled cant, e,whiskers la Dundreary,
pepper and salt trousers. Before he kissed the
Bible he wiped it daintily with handker-
chief edged with Cardinal lace, and after
kissing it drew its soft, downy folds with all
the air OF petite maitre, across his lips.
"The fat contributor" is responsible for this
yarn about an ex-conductor in his new condi-
ton as train dispatcher: Habit was exceed
ingly strong with the ex-conductor As he
sat in the office he would start every time he
heard bell ring, and yell, "All aboard.n He
pined to be again on the road. One day he
begged the boys to put him through a collis-
lou, which they did to his entire satisfactiop
They tore his clothes nearly of, blacked both
his eyes, broke kerosene lamp over his head,
and piled a red-hot stove on top of him. Billy
was 10 an ecstacy of delight, and declared he
hadn't enjoyed himself so much since he had
a bile.
In arecent excavation of cellars, Bostoni
an has dug up quite a number of tombstones
bearing record Of the early settlers. Among
the most interesting is one lot "Jobu Alden,
CI., d,Cu uCCCdoSu Isl, tUl. III Is
believed that this was the son of the John
Alden and Priscilla .immortaized in the
"Courtship of Miles Standish." Those temb-
stones will be carefully preserved undefaced.
and placed among the other stones of the
building that is to be erected.
Tie founders of the families of the present
Earls of Essex and Craven were William
Craven, a tailor The modern dukes of
Northumberland derive their male descent
from Hugh Smithson, an apothecary, and the
modern earls of Warwick from William Gre
vile, wool-stapler. The earls of Dart
mouth, Radnor, Ducie, Pomfret, Tankerville
and Coventry, are descended from skinner,
| silk worker, a tailor, a Calais merchant, and
| the two latter from MERGERS. The ancestors
of the earls of Dudley and Romney were Jew
eers and gold-smiths, and those of the duke
of Leeds, the earls of Cowper, Fitzwiiam.
and Darnley, Lords Dormer, Leigh, Hill, Da-
ere, Willoughby de Eresby, and Carrington
were all tradesmen of one kind or another.
Lord Ashburton, Lord Overstone, Lord Bel
per, and Lord Wolverton, are instances in our
own day of merchants, manufacturers and
bankers who have been raised to the peer
age.
A letter from Rome says that the American
prelates have made their mark there, II
Archbishop Spaulding of Baltimore had CO.
operated with the archbishops of Cincinnati.
st. Louis and New York, there would have
been a splendid and sublime phalanx from the
New World against the PRONUNCIATION of the
dogma of the Jesuits; but the Archbishop
of Baltimore has chosen heretofore to sit
straddled across the theological fence, and,
like the master of an oyster boat waiting at
anchor in the Potomac for fair wind 10
bring him to the nest of the bivalves. look
over the Roman side and see if the chances
were promising to be ''the first American car
dinal," and over the other side if the opposi-
tion were strong and liable to carry the day.
A cool way spectators have of securing land
under the homestead law, which was intended
to benefit the poor man, by allowing him to
select and exempt 160 acres OF .he public lands.
The sharp ones secure a half or whole section
of 64O acres. As the sections are laid out
in squares, the speculator, il he happens to be
a man of family, buys q small, frame cabin, saw
12xS feet in size, and setting it in the centre
of a section, has one corner resting in each
quarter OF the section. He puts one daughter
in each OF these corners of the building and
himself and wife in the other, and exempts
the whole section, making oath that at the
time OF the exemption each resided in a house
on the land! The provisions of the law are
thus seemingly complied with by sharp trics, TICS
winch is only on par with some Oh 'io A'''
OF the railroad corporations. -,
The city hospital, in Springfield, Mas, p WI, VIII
| receive patient only when some onJ I,as y
| to guarantee the payment ol nso 49,
| week while he remains conse :" P'o' Pooa'
| unknown old man, of respectape appear"nee,
| found in the street IN an apopieS',o , 49,
oaNvm on the a floor with log of wood tor pillow.