The Portland daily press., 1872-07-02
THE PRESS
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 2, ,7s.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
disappeared the other day, leaving in his
trunk, an affecting letter, the ;purport of
which was that declining health and finan-
cial troubles had driven him to seek the re-
lief of the grave, but that no one would
know where his body lay. 1t is said that he
recently died in Tennessee the same way-in
fact that this dying ''per lteras'' is his forte.
An Indiana paper alludes to ''the cycles of
time that have rolled like mill-stones of dam
nation over the American people all these
long twelve years."
The most dangerous of all fattery is the in
feriority of those about us.-[Goethe.
One Of the small towns in Maine recently
built new lookup. and its envious neighbors
sneer at it as attempting to be metropolitan"
Not a chignon, but pure adipose, saved
Donna de Castellanos, noble lady of Bue-
nos Ayres, from the assassin's knife recently.
Men are often capable of greater things
than they perform. They are sent into this
world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to
their full extent.-[Walpole.
Duelling is described by gushing Mem
phis poet as ''this wart on Christian age"
An Indiana boy seeking for swallows in
the chimney had to be extracted with der
rick.
rather ambiguous advertisement ofa dentist
While a railroad brakeman stepped off his
train on the Hudson River railroad to do a
little counting, the house where his love lived
was quarantined for small pox, and he was
still prisoner at last accounts. As he and
she had both been vaccinated this was a toll
erably agreeable situation.
Blasting Powder" is the name of a cam
paign paper published in North Carolina. An
incendiary sheet, doubtless.
A married mechanic in New York city
writes letter in favor of the formation of a
married working-men's association, for the
purpose of protecting that class from the
young men in the unions, who, he asserts, ,are
some of the poorest workmen in the unions,
and, having no families to support and caring
little about work, engineer the strikes.
Apropos of mad dogs the Denver News
says Gan ounce of dead dog is worth pound
of mailman any time"
Does the Church Journal state the case
correctly when it says that ''the popular pull
pit is the pulpit that is certain of nothing,
that believes only that it does not believe ?''
Ice is being manufactured and sold this
summer in Augusta, Ca, New Orleans, and
many other southern cities for cent pound,
whereas that imported from the north costs
from two to three cents.
Charles d. Warner, in his s'Summer in q
Garden" says Horace Greeley is his sole au.
thority on agriculture, but in politics he does
not dare to follow him.
Flowers are the sweetest things God evel
made and forgot to put soul with.-Beecher
One of the rarities of life-a woman
thoroughly satisfied with her daughter-in.
law. '
Spite of his own reticence, the collector o.
Salem seems in fair way to be vindicatet
by his brother editors of the press. The Ga
zette shows that the Government has sus
tanned no loss at the hands of this much-ma
lgned oficil.
Mrs. Abby SAFE Richardson has been mad,
professor of elocution in the Norman colleg,
of Cook county, Ill.
One Daniel Frawley lately recovered $200(
from the Flushing and North-side railway fol
the loss Of single toe, by an accident. Rail
road companies will be careful not to kill that
man.
The strike among the washerwomen il
England is spreading. They demand seventy
five cents day and an allowance of beer.
Mr.. Hop is St. Louis brewer
The Paris Pdtrie learns that Monsieur
Greeley, the great American farmer, wa
elected President of the United States a
Cincinnati and will be installed at Washing
| ton in Novamhar