The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-17
THE PRESS.
wEDNEsDAYMORNING, APRIL II, ,7s.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

Charles Francis Adams at furious rate.
Have the Democrats concluded to nominate
him at Cincinnati?
The trial OF Judge Barnard for his numer-
GUS and gross malfeasances in Office drags wea-
rlly along. The Judge makes an elaborate
defence with George T. Curtis and Rufus F.
Anderson for council. 1t would not be at all
surprising if he were whitewashed after all
the defamation against him and despite his
notoriously corrupt administration of '.jus-
tice."
MIR. Gideon Welles continues in The Gal
ary-and somewhat after the conventional
fashion of Sindbad's friend, the Old Man of
the Sea-his account of fLincoln-Johnson Re-
construction plans. He explains Mr.. John
sons actions and motives with a gentle rev.
erence which leaves nothing to be desired by
that retired dignitary, and on the whole
makes that worthy rather better man than
his predecessor, Mr.. Lincoln.
Delegates to the Republican National Con-
vention, to be held in Philadelphia on We'd
nesday, June 5, have now been regularly cho-
sen in the States of Connecticut, Florida,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine,
Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, Penn
sylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and
wisconsin. The conventions in all these
States unreservedly indorsed the administra-
tion of President Grant, and the delegates
from twelve of the fifteen were expressly in
! structed to vote for his nomination for a Sec
ond term. -a
A girl of sharp wits in Western city, dis
covered recently that her lover was about to
take another girl to a ball. She thereupon
bribed his hackman to permit her to take the
reins at the proper moment, and instead of
driving the pair to the. ballroom she took
| them several miles out of town to dense
wood, where she left them exposed to pelt-
ing rain storm-the young lady in low
necked muslin dress and kid slippers, and her
escort in full party toggery and thin boots.
Their situation was not comfortable. but
they found shelter in neighboring farm
house where there happened to be an accom-
modating minister, and the two, being low
ingly disposed by their misadventures were
married. The other young woman now sits
in sackcloth and ashes, brooding sadly over
her misadventure. s-tr r....., r
The New York Tribune reports that:
A Black Salamander is the latest novelty on
exhibition. His name is Spencer Coleman
He is mulatto, and he walks so steps, more or
less, on red-hot iron plates, handles them, and
puts them on his head without scorching his
hair The story which he tells is, that while
walking in the woods, meditating upon the
greatness of the Supreme Being, a small still
voice spake to him from above, saying: 'sNow
hall r
caused Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to
walk through the fiery furnace and will give
you the power to walk on hot iron.' We are
Obliged to say that Coleman is humbug. The
miracle" which he performs is no novelty,
and has been worked great many times BY
those who were in the secret. The hands, face,
feet and hair being well washed with proper
chemical solution, will for some time resist the
action OF very high temperatures. And al
though the skin thus prepared may be burned,
there Will be no consequent pain.
'The Washingtonian Home" in Boston.
one of the most successful, and, we believe,
the Oldest hospital for inebriates in the coun-
try, is about to erect a substantial and con-
venient building, at cost of $4,000. The
Home, with very little aid from the State,
has provided one of the most useful of the be-
nevolent institutions of Massachusetts,
The New York Tribune approvingly quotes
apropos of the rally of the malcontents at
Cooper Institute the expressions of the N. Y.
Democrat, the Euening Post, the N. Y. Wit
ness and the World. We should think the
very types of the Tribune would blush at such
wholesale approval of journals which they
have always been used to abuse without stint.
Mr. Greeley is a very eccentric citizen.
Mrs. Bradley has daintily sweet and sim
pie little poem in the last Aldine opening
with all the freshness of spring:
The frost has melted from the pane
For rime is not in reason,
When flowers begin to bloom again y. |
And the clear shining after rain
Foretells an April season.
The N. Y. Tribune keeps up its warfare
upon Mast. We do not wonder at Horace's |
sensitiveness for Mast is furnishing him and
his new made friends fearfully.
sAnd now comes Mr.. Verplanck Colvin, to
supplement the Rev. Nimrod Murray, with, a |
proposition:-
That that wild rocky elevated portion of
out State known as John Browns Tract"
which embosoms the Adirondacks and is in
part the source of a majority of our rivers, be
made Wilderness Park" its timber pre-
served, its game protected from extermination,
and its southward-tending streams collected in |
vast reservoir, whence giant aqueduct two |
hundred miles long, shall convey the purest |
and sweetest water to Albany and New York |
with all the minor cities and larger villages |
skirtiEg the Hudson.
Two hundred miles is long distance to |
bring water in an aqueduct. Wonder what |
the New Yorkers would give to have Lake
Sebago within sixteen miles of them.
Col. George in his elaborate argum ent
about the Eastern Depot in Boston said that
it was absolutely dangerous to human life as
at present situated. What does Col. George
think of the Depot at this end of the road?
The HeralFs Washington correspondent
says:-
The demonstration of the liberal Republicans
In New York on Friday last is regarded in ad
mlnlstration circles as q political failure and
nothing more. 1t appears that several weeks
Brooklyn united in a call for the meeting
winch IS to be held on Wednesday evening
next to endorse President Grant and urge his
denomination. The meeting on Friday night
a,t; ,ase was Designed to anticipate the proposed
meeting of the Republicans, and for that pur-
pose Schurz and Trumbul were invited to ad-
dress the mongrel assemblage Finding that
tne meeting did not have the effect it was in
:uou, IL mas Deen represented that the meet
ing on Wednesday next was to counteract the
Importance OF this meeting of Friday night
90 far as is known, the only speaker who will
go from here is Senator Wilson and those who
are favorable to its object have openly express
edithe wish that the speakers should be select
ed. from New York and Brooklyn alone
Theodore Tilton, of the Golden Aqe. ex-
claims: Save me from God who damnsp'
We should like to do it, my boy, but the thing
is impossible -COu1er-JouT7lut
Discovery by Congressman-The Metropol-
itan papers want the franking privilege abol-
lshed, so that they may have monopoly of
political news. Nothing like inventing an ex-
cuse when the true reason of holding on to
power and patronage is in danger from popu-
lar standardization Transcript
A LAcTEAL meeting was held on Saturday
in Boston to protest against the wicked ways
of the Athenian milk-men. Fifteen adults
and one boy were presented and they called
themselves "The Milk Consumers Protec-
tive Association" What makes the assem-
bly, noteworthy was the recitation of a
''pome' entitled "What the old woman said to
herDaughter," by the chairman which was We
ry beautiful and affecting as its chorus-which
we quote-abundantly testifies.
| "For tell my daughter
Folks don't do as they'd oughter;
They don't do as they'd oughter do;
Why don't they do as they'd oughter?"