The Portland daily press., 1871-05-04
Gossip and Gsu.-..-

OF the late James M. Mason :, :. al,
that his specialtes were department and our
foreign relations. His pleasures we're a state
dinner and rubber of whist.
The receipts of the New York custom
house during the past six months, it is stated
by the New York Times, have exceeded by
about S9OOO,OOO the receipt of similar periods
heretofore.
-only one Versaillist was wounded In q
recent attack near Paris, whereupon joker
iemarks that he must have been Uni-Ver-
salist.
Two brothers named Smalltubs, residing
near Cold Water, Michigan, married last week
Mary Pride and Helen Jewett. and liking
those patronymics so much better than their
own, adopted them at the time Of the cers-
mony. Smaltubs ii must be confessed. ia nat
very desirable name TO begin the honey
moon with.
The docile and cheerfuly initiative Chi
nese have followed another Caucasian exam
pie, and are on strike in California.
Montreal, badly wants public park, and
in her extremity proposes to make one out of
French burying ground.
"A Western music dealing firm reports
that it has sold about thousand miles of i'd
die strings since it has been in business.
The Potomac fisheries are extensive and
profitable. Last week eight hundred thou
sand herring and thirty-five thousand shad
were sold at one wharf in Washington; the
former brought four to seven dollars per
thousand, and the latter twelve to eighteen
dollars per hundred.
Mrs. Wellman, employed In the millinerv
establishment OF Mrs. Ames at Stoughton.
Mass, was assaulted by two disguised ruffians
as she was passing, and her eyes, mouth, nose
and ears filled with vitriol. The perpetrators
OF the outrage evidently mistook her for Mrs.
Ames, and let her go. She groped her way
TO her home, and has been in a terrible suf-
iering condition since. The villains have not
been discovered.
The conscience fund last week increased
W by a contribution from party who had
"ronged his government"
AS Mr.. Samuel Shreeyes, druggist in
Uniontown, ID. c., was recently charging a
soda fountain the machine burst, and por-
ton was driven into his breast, causing
frightful wound, which 1t Is feared will
result fatally. A boy employed in the store
also had his thigh badly lacerated by the ex-
plosion, and will probably have to lose his leg
by amputation.
"A little four years old remarked to her
mamma on going to bed, 81 am not afraid of
the dark" "No, Of course you are not,o re-
piled her mamma, ''for it can't hurt you.n
"But mamma, was a little afraid once,
when went into the pantry to get a cookie"
what were you afraid of?" asked her NAM
ma. Il was afraid couldn't find the cook
ies.''
Oliver Dyer, the sensation writer, figures
as the hero in the New York Sun of an en-
counter fully eqsal to anything in fiction.
Awaking early Friday morning to hear unfa-
m ilar footsteps in his house at Mott Haven,
he sprang out of bed, and seizing rapier
sought the intruders. They proved to be two
burglars, one Of whom rushed down stairs and
escaped through an open window. The other,
q stout young fellow of 1S or 20, was cornered
- - hss'AS ~"O o "PPiSu 3AAs OyCfs xOBotutE
they rolled down stairs, but again cornering
his man, the journalist gave him the rapier
till he surrendered. Then marching him NJ
stairs, Mr.. Dyer dressed, and again taking his
weapon, bade his prisoner come along. He
marched him clear to the town hall in Mel
rose, and finding nc policeman on the way or
at the station, was compelled to secure tha
services of teutonic lady, who was washing
the windows, to admit him to the cells. Tho
woman being unable to lock the doors, Mr..
Dyer guarded his prisoner till the jailor was
sent for and arrived, when the fellow was Sc
cured and held for trial.
An old Scotch lady was told that her
minister used notes. She disbelieyed it. Said
one, $50 into the gallery and see.n She did
SO, and saw the written sermon. After the
luckless preacher had concluded his reading
on the last page he said: "But will not en-
large" The old woman cried out from her
lofty position: "Ye Gamma, ye Gamma! for yer
papers give oout"