The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-01-04
Gossip and Gleaniugs.

| Gen. Fremont pays $4,000 annual board
bill at the Arlington house, Washington.
Sixteen persons were beheaded in Ger
many in the year 1860.
The Panster is what new comic pa
| per at Mobile calls itself.
| The st. Gothard is to be tunneled, the
contractors being limited to seven years.
| - The Sand Piper is the felicitous title OF
new paper at Plymouth, Mass.
A French @ronaut is constructing a new
monster captive balloon on q new principle.
The prize fat boy in England weighs 739
pounds.
-One-fourth of the California Assembly
are old "forty-niners," and 13 more emlgrated
in 1850.
San Francisco has one million centals of
wheat on hand, only two-thirds as much as
a year ago.
John McCoole, brother of the st. Louis
prize fighter, is member of the Minnesota
Legislature.
Mr.. Stantons middle name was Macy,
from Thomas Macy, the Nantucket pioneer
one of his ancestors.
DIR. Cuyler has made the discovery, In the
Independent, that "many of our city church
es are dying of dignity"
railway train was recently struck by an
avalanche on Mount Gems and hurled down
aprecipice.
Mark Twain's wedding day rapidly ap-
proaches. Twain up a man and away he
will go!"
-Twenty-nine English peers and eleven
members of the House of Commons have died
within the year.
A free library has been erected in Sydney,
Australia, to contain 10000 volumes, at
cost of e75,O00.
Few New York families are now going
to Europe, but large numbers leave every
week for the south.
What is at once the most curious and
commonplace thing to be seen at the Souths
A knee-grow out at the elbow.
The Chinese railroad laborers in Texas
get $50 per month in coin and board them
selves. They engage for three years.
Gen. N. p. Banks is to be rendered Q
banquet in New York on his return from
Europe.
"A new establishment in Brooklyn pro-
poses to supply families not more than three
miles OIL with hot meals at low price, as does
the Rumford Laboratory in Boston.
We spent two weeks in Nashville, and
during our sojourn we never saw an acquain-
tance-1ennesee Paper. Did you so to the
pententiary ?-Nashrille Paper.
A new Presbyterian paper, edited BY
Rev. Arthur Swazey, will make its frs ap-
pearance at Chicago, February 8. Fifty thou
sand dollars capital has been subscribed.
-"Brick" Pomeroy thinks the fact "that
the Hon. Jefferson Davis does not prosecute
the government for false Imprisonment" Is
a proof of supreme magnanimty on his part.
An Irish rector has received bequest OF
$4,000 from George Peabody, for the pleas
ure afforded the latter by little book on
the Hope of Israel" The clergyman Is the
author.
The Boston Swedenborgians have taken
possession of their new rooms in Hamilton
Place, which are furnished with a library,
reading and dressing rooms, &c, and are to
be kept open day and evening.
Gen. Sheridan asks $4,000 for his aigh.
ty-acre farm in Pike township, Illinois. 1t
has coai, and will soon have railroad to IT,
This farm sold nearly year since at less than
$4,000.
The navy-yard men at Washington had
their wages docked for the funeral days of
stanton and Rawlins, work being suspended
per order. They naturally object to losing
time, and will ask Congress about it.
"A negro named Jackson applied for regls-
tration in Texas, and brought certificate
bearing the name Of Sam Smith, explaining
the discrepancy thus: "You see, massa Smith
be died, and l married his wilder and come
10 all his state, and you see dis here 'tifcats
vas among his property, and fell hare to H."
Birmingham, England, has just had her
.enth annual dog show, numbering thousands
Of CANNES, valued at 500 and upwards. The
'ent of the hall for the exhibition was $1,000;
$4,000 were given in prizes, and the receipts
we're some $4,000, and admission on the ar
.tocratic days being $1,25. One of the dogs
Exhibited has been sold for S2250 In gold.