The Portland daily press., 1871-01-12
per 0aasssasa, in Advance.
Gossip aud Glennjnx..

tuesday night to Mrs. Fannie Settle Coyinq.
ton, of Rockingham County, N. c.
William R. Floyd, late of the Varieties at
New Orleans, is to be manager of the Globe
al Boston after Fechter leaves.
-one oudkirk, of Dubuque, desired to be
aec'ared a bankrupt, placing the aggregate Of
MS indebitness at s2,7O5, but the marshal
nndlng 1854 neatly sewed up in the appli.
cants coat sleeve, reasonable ground for a
enarge OF perjury was found to exist.
"A 81. Joseph paper notes the discovery OF
the wreck OF an old steamboat, sunk in the
Missouri river, opposite Parkville, in the hull
OF which was found great amount of freight
including five hundred barrels of whiskey and
and an equal amount of wine and brandy.
AT least 200 fallen women attended tbe
New Years dinner furnished by the North
street mission at Boston. At the dinner a
year ago, many were noisy in their manners
and uncleanly in their persons and dress; but
on Wednesday, not single woman or girl
could be found with dirty face, hands or
clothing, and the behavior of all was charac-
terized by the strictest decorum. The In
fuence of the mission has made itself evident
in the past twelvemonth, in the improved self
respect of hundreds OF characters in North
street and It's nelghoorhood before regarded
as abandoned, and in the reform of many.
The police of New Haven have arrested
q gang OF six men who, for nearly year past,
have kept the people of Smsbury, Conn.,, in a
state Of terror by their crimes and acts OF
vandalism. Among their harmful diversions
was burning several barns, blowing up DOW
der-magazine, stripping and robbing belated
traveller, &C., &c.
Hon James Pike, the Republican candi-
date for Governor of New Hampshire, 10 a
Methodist preacher and presiding elder, a ma.
tive OF Massachusetts, fffty-two years old, and
graduate of the Wesleyan. University ar
Middletown. Conn. He was a member of
ongress from 1856 to 1859, and Colonel OF
the Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment
during its nine months term of service.
The latest Boston notion Is to dedicate
stable with ball.
Grant has never been famed for Jokes.
but he is credited with pretty good one at
Summers expense. Some one said ''thero is q
popular idea that Sumner does not believe In
the Bible" "Thats easily accounted for"
answered the President, che did not write It,"
An Atlanta paper of last week says: "a
lady in this city tied her hubby's hands ard
feet the other day, just for fun, and then went
through his pockets for certain billet.doux,
and found it. His physician tells him that
his face won't be badly SCARED, though he
may remain permanently bald"
"A Hartford man who was carrying home
ice cream in paper, the other day, held 1t up
in crowded car so that it melted in a gently
meandering stream, which coursed down a
11 0l0ak-X0rn by lady passenger.
It ruined the cloak and the man said he was
sorry.
The widow of Kit Burns desires the New
York Common Council to remunerate her
for the rats thrown into the East River When
the descent was made upon her husbands pit,
and also for promising hundred dollar bull
pup lost at the same time.
1T is reported of young married couple
in Massachusetts, that, having quarreled, they
and subsequently went to work In
the same mill and boarded at the same house.
Having adjoining rooms In the latter, they
pleasantly spent their leisure time talking
about each other to companions in voice
loud enough to be heard through the thin
varying the programme occasionally
BY kicks agains. the intervening wall, and
cries of 81 wish it was youp
AN incident of this sort must be truly in
teresting to the passengers who want to get
through. In one of the coaches of the Mil.
waukee aud st. Paul road was sweet, little
prattling child in its mothers arms. To
portemonnaie. After the child had exhaust
ed its curiosity on the purse it threw 1t out OF
the coach. The matter was communicated
to the conductor and he backed the train
third of mile and the purse was found.
-Oliver Goldsmith, an old New York writ.
ing master has six years old son who Is
phenomenon. His recitative talent is some
thing wonderful. Rev. DR.. Bellows writes In
regard to him: "The extraordinary quickness
of perception, the prodigious memory and
conception Of character, with the power OF
portraying the passions and emotions, whieh
the child possesses, is something to puzzle all
my philosophy and experience"
The Cuban insurrection still shows spas
modic signs of vitality. The Spanish Gen.
Chinchilla had fight with a body of insur-
gents few days ago, A number Of reoels
were killed, it is said, and the wife Of Gen.
Cespedes was captured. OF course she will
be taken to Havana and shot Immediately.
Some people have so little ear for musicl
An exchange gives striking instance
Young gentlemen goes here and there in the
bright moonlight singing "Put me in my lit.
tie bed," to guitar ccompaniment-window
is at length raised, and brutal voice remarks
to young man with guitar, that if the singing
is not abandoned forthwith he will "Stand
him on his little head"
The demonstration in honor of the com.
pletion of Italian unity, announced to take
place in New York on Thursday next, prom
ises to be an extensive affair. General Dix
will preside, and addresses are expected from
Henry Ward Beecher, Judge Emmott and 9TH
ers. Letters of heavy sympathy have been
received from Vice-President Colfax and otli-
er prominent statesmen.
-"Non-explosive oil" has been heard from
as far west as Davenport. Iowa. A German
named Arp took can of it home, and, as ha
incautiously removed the cork from the spout
the fume of the volatile fluid made for a light
ed candle three feet distant. An explosion
took place. Mr.. Arp aud one of his children
were frightfully burned, and the house was
narrowly saved from destruction.
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