The Portland daily press., 1871-04-05
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A clever repartee is attributed TO the
uember from Mormondom in the new Con.
oress. A brother member asked him how
many wives he had. Enough to keep me
from running after other peoples" he prompt
ly replied. SIX A.,.f.
The bay window season is upon us again.
says the Titusve Herald. One architect re-
Gently completed design for barn aud hem
house with six bay windows on each. Car
peuters now contract only for the bay win
dows, and throw in the rest of the house.
Some man living on the line OF lhe oou.n-
western railroad, near Drakesvllle, Iowa. WIZ
had taken a spite against the company,
musel himself the other day by covering the
rails for distance of a quarter of mile with
soap. A single train was three hours in cross
ing the creased STR"
Reports fr and are to the
effect th"' 8 season prom
-cssrur. Steamers are
d very large cargoes, and
~eks nearly 10000 seals have
-. received.
A man living in Carroll County, Mo-, sew
enty-three years old, and six weeks widow
er, recently married a girl only twelve years
old. The childs parents compelled her to
marry him.
"A heartless landlord in Chelsea, Mass,
turned a poor sick man with his wife and
seven children children into the street, In
pitiless March storm, a few days ago.
-Tbeee are seventeen ex-lebel officers in
the House of Representatives. This is ter
ribly "tyrannical Government"
AN Ohio lady has been made violently in
sane by laughing gas, and has been taken to
III asylum.
AT school exhibition in Saudusky town.
ship, Ohio, q few days ago, the teacher gave
permission to the spectators to ask questions.
to test the proficiency of the scholars. Sew
eral awaited themselves of the opportunity,
and it CHANGED that a dispute arose between
two of the men present, which they speedily
attempted to settle by free use Of their pis-
tolls, greatly to the terror of the children and
the spectators. Five or six shots were fired,
and one of the men received severe wound.
Fortunately no one else was injured.
Sunday, the 10th ult was terrible day
at Superior City, Wis, and in the Superior
country generally. The wind blew at the
rate of sixty miles an hour, and fifteen inches
of snow fell. The waves on the lake ran very
high, and came so thick and fast as to stop all
communication Whereabouts. The cold was
intense. They have two and half feet OF
snow on the ground up there.
When the Board of Selectmen were in
session last week in East Bridgeport, Ct,
making new voters, one man was brought be-
fore them who plainly avowed that he couldn't
read This honest confession somewhat
dumbfounded the Board, when the urbane
clerk beseechingly asked the aforesaid individ.
nal if he "didn't think he could learn by Sat-
urday afternoon"
Rev DR.. West, of New Bedford, Mass,
once heard that his choir would refuse to sing
on the next Sunday. When the day came he
gave out the hymn: "Come we VINO love the
Lord" After reading it through he looked
up very emphatically at the choir, and said ::
"You will begin at the second verse. "Let
those refuse to sing who never knew eur
God" The choir sang.
-Natchez had shower of sulphur lately.
Ir rained furiously, hailed some little, and the
lightning and thunder was almost incessant.
The most curious phenomenon, however, was
a shower OF sulphur, sufficient of which fell
to make thick coating upon the surface of
the water which flowed from the shower into
the cisterns A citizen skinned some of il
from water and set fire to it, and it burned
readily with blue fame, and gave out suffo-
eating fumes.
The removal of the capital of Illinois is
seriously talked of. The Peorians are strain
ing every nerve for the removal of the capt.
tai. Ten Pullman palace cars, chartered by
the citizens, carried legislators from Spring
field to Peoria. Carriages were in waiting to
convey the guests to the hotels, and then to
the bluffs, overlooking the city and county
for miles round. A steamboat excursion on
the LAKE came next, then grand banquet
and dance. To counterfeit all this, the
Springfield bankers, on the return of the wise
men, at once treated them to better oysters
and finer champagne. ,.-ss
"A teacher in Fall River, Mass, after hear
ing complaint from one of her little scholars
that one of the boys had pointed pistol at
her, asked all the boys who had pistols to come
forward. Five boys promptly came to the
desk with pistols in their pockets, capped and
loaded