The Portland daily press., 1872-06-27
THE PRESS
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE s7, 1879.

THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE s7, 1879.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
An exchange says: sole Bull, when Young
attempted suicide, and now he is the best vi
olinist in the world. There is a young man
in our neighborhood who plays the accorde-
ON, and he is not success. Probably if he
were to attempt suicide he would learn much
faster. Should he succeed in his attempt at
suicide, we would be just as well satisfied.
Wonder if the Chicago horses have a share
in the corner in oats? Such fate would uot
go against their grain.
A servant girl at Pittsfield, Mass, it is re-
lated, was so much impressed the other night
by dreaming that some one was robbing the
clothes line, that she got up and locked out
OF the window, when she saw man carving
off some clothes. She was so overcome by
the singularity of the affair that she let him
go, and did not tell the story till the next
day.
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An Illinois minister drives stage on week
days, and yet inconsistent divines try to make
out that there is an antagonism between the
pulpit and the stage.
Noticing prediction of the New York
Tribune that Greeley would carry Ohio, the
Toledo Blade remarks: ''We consulted the
Greeley party in Toledo concerning this, and
his opinion is that it can be done if the cleo
tion can be postponed long enough. He has
another man half converted"
The following is a certificate given by a
Troy lawyer to an applicant for admission to
the bar: II hereby certify that the bearer,
--, was student in my office for ten
months; that during the whole of that time
his character for piety, chastity, and honesty
was above reproach; and his example was
such that from my daily contact with him
have now become a pious and consistent
member Of the church, and a useful member
ofsociety." ia- "aca
A member Of the Arkansas Legislature,
who goes for economy in public expenditure,
In speaking on an extravagant appropriation,
Indignantly exclaimed: Gentlemen talk
about adequate compensation of public SER
vantsp Why, sir, during the late war, 1 was
in thirty-seven battles, was wounded thir-
teen times in the cause of the South, and the
entire pay received was $50 in Confederate
money, every cent of which gave for one
glass of old whiskeyp, ..
Two Columbus, o., boys played William
| Tell the other day. The one who held the
apple on his head has contracted for glass
eye. he
| Mr.. Greeley's address for the Democratic
| party, after the next Presidential election.
will be Yuba Dam, Ca. [St Louis Demo-
| crat r1 a II
| Mrs. Barnard, one of the Washington wo-
man journalists, has become managing editor
OF the Chronicle, of that city. She served in
the reporters gallery of the House during the
recent long session of Congress, and is said to
be very clever, unassuming and efficient
newspaper worker, 1;,- wefs
"Do you know" said Miss higgins forty
three and spare-too spare, indeed, 81 am,
| OIL such sensitive nervous, timid thing;
I am. ..indeedp' "That surprises me- 1 said.
"Oh! but it's true, really! 1 am frightened
| of my own shadowp ''That does not sur
prise me-" I exclaimed.
Russia has now $1,000 thoroughly organ
lied public schools under government control.
\ A Georgia paper mentions a casualty in
which the victims arm was so amputated
except the second and index fingers. 1t
would be a contribution to science if we
could be informed just how these fit on.
A hot, sulry and unhealthy summer is pre-
| dicted by a New York weather prophet.
| DIR. Loring says if he should be candi-
date for Office he doesn't know why his wife
! should not vote for him. She does, probably
A Santa Fe, New Mexico, reporter, achieves
this model obituary-'Death, with feshless
knuckles, raped at the door of Mrs. ]. N.
BIS soul, and obedient to the memorable call,
the spirit of that loved woman foated up to
! its Creator, leaving her husband, children
and friends to mourn over the mortal casket."
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Detroit boys don't care about bathing
since shark isreported to have opened an
office in the river. r
Sheriffs' officers are good natured fellows,
after all; they're always happy to serve you.
Pollard is writing Greeley's campaign doc
| uments by the ream; but he does it mainly
to qualify himself to be the historian of an
other "Lost Cause.,' --+.
There is small cave near the Thompson
| Depot on the Boston, Hartford, and Erie
Railroad, which is reported to be the head
quarters of a band of robbers. Last Thurs
day night about forty men and boys from
Grosvenordale, under the command of one
of the citizens, started out with the determin-
alton to capture the robbers. Three boys,
hearing of the brave act, resolved on some
sport. They borrowed an old shot cannon
and two shot guns and started for the cave.
When the attacking party arrived within
about twenty feet of the cave, the boys dis
charged their pieces and gave general yell
when the party led by the gallant command
er retreated back to Grosvenordale, very
much demoralized, with the loss of hats and
guns.
From Harper's Weekly.l
Lie Liberal Republican.
In describing the late assembly of merce
nary minions at Philadelphia, in which the
representatives of once proud and free peo-
pie abject.y registered the edict of the gloomy
tyrant Cf the White house for his own renom-
ination, the base penny-a-liners of subsi-
dised press have filled their venal sheets with
reports of an enthusiasm and unanimity which
are sickening to sincere lovers of their kind
and apostles of political purity like certain
Cincinnati patriots who shall be modesty
anonymous. These wretched scribblers know
full well that, in the sweet words of the good
old sage of Chappaqua, they lie, the villains