The Portland daily press., 1872-05-23


twenty members rushed between and upon
them, preventing collision.
There was pause of intense excitement
broken by the stern call of the Speaker for
the Sergeant-at-Arms to maintain order
Gen. Mercer of Virginia implored the House
not to adjourn or disperse under such cir
cumstances since bloodshed must Inevitably
ensue. Explanations were volunteered by
mutual friends and Messrs Bynum and Wise
made some explanations giving the House
to understand that they. consented to carry
the matter no further and at half past four
Sunday morning the House adjourned.
1t has been years since such a scene has
occurred in the National House and we may
never expect to see the like again. Yet old
fogies will talk of the dignity and decorum
of the past.
1t is pretty sight to see the Democratic
leaders taking hold for strong pull to purify
the government. 1t Is no matter now about
the millennium; we can do just as well with
out it. e.........a
A little girl in a New York orphan asylum
quarreled with another girl and scratched her
face. For this she was punished and re-
quired to learn and repeat verse from the
Bible, being allowed to make her own selec-
tion. She chose the first verse of Psalm IA,
which runs as follows: ''Bessed be the Lord
my strength which teacheth my hands to
war and my fingers to fight"
Geese, my son; merely geese" calmly
replied the sapient parent bird. Through
life, child, observe, that when you meet any
one who makes a great fuss about himself.
and tries to lift his head higher than the rest
of the world, you may set him down at once
to be goose"
A Boston woman recently tried to commit
suicide because her dearest friends engage
ment ring was cluster and her own soli-
taire.
If anything could account for Mr. Robert
Hart, of Utica, N. Y, emerging from the
second story of his clearinghouse without
going through the formalities of the stairs, it
was the presence of four of his wives
A young couple who had been holding
cosy tete-a-tete in retired alcove, at party
In Nashville, were somewhat abashed, on
emerging into the party, to find that around
the young mans neck there was the print of
two arms in chalk and diamond dust, on his
shoulder quantity of gold-powder, and 9TH
er equally unaccountable phenomena observ-
able elsewhere; from which the company, of
course, drew its own conclusions H"
Ihere Is vacancy in the New York Her
dtGs local department., caused by the ingenu-
Rev. Henry Powers, church and 90 wrote mn
quarter of a column of A., Imaginary co.,
mon from text Of his own se,ec,;o,
l.a ui al- III ~
Josephine Mansfield-Lawlor, Fisk's old
G sie in '.s comaamH caS .h " stated that 10
repaired to Long Branch. and while there
Mrs. Chamberlain appeared, and, according
70 rePort, entered the clubhouse where the
pp;Stol Sastro1eJ a. ,;n.y anu W -. nee use y,
way, while Josie fed from the hacl door
The damage to the clubhouse is estimated
a' SooVo
A Decatur. I'll. exnerimen,.rs. h.. u;
cided with uh;sLoy .nd ,.nJaa, n' su
popu'a' ino'ioo Is W oe n'Ie longer about
~ anu use "A''Aey oniy'
The government of Jamaica has ;nventad !.
novel plan to preyent frauds in the nosto,
service. which have been freouent of lata
The government now reouires each oft;cer 70
nav premium To a common 6,nd ont Of
which losses bv robbery or theft are 70 he in
IDENTIFIED.
epithets. They merely remark of +. contem-
porary. in a spirit of oniet sarcasm tbo, .sh;s
ears would do for AWNINGS 70 Ton .s,or,,
wholesale hog-packine establishment
The Chicago Post says: 'sWe would re-
spectfully advise the five legged calf two
headed baby, the sea-serpent, the wild man,
the female pincushion, and our other friends
to retire into the huge cave into which the
rest quietly among the bones and rusty armor
invariably found therein, till about the 10th
OF November next. We really can't find
space for them"
na.,o;. 80,
~ - &C. i' ioieo"oie 'ooacco'
GOV, n -" n''.e 'iiihss 70 get through the
u"s' nc .ohowihg Is a nst OF the few little
fourteen apples. ten cents worth of neannts
two sticks of spruce gum. three large STICKS
of candy, a pint of roasted chestnuts. one
cake of maple sugar, three cents worth of
liquorice root, and half an ounce of camom;la
blows.
mr' EDWARD AtKlnson, the well-known
h'SSaehuse.'s poii'icai economist fairiy and
squarely oo'ts tne Cmcinnatl nominations.
heS. snouid oe supposed 10 intend to sup
poi' 'ni' no"iiia',on uesire 10 say that If l
na'e p.en a nunD.e cahole OF the Lord in
p'ono's 'neinoniha''oh oi horace Greeley
OF sagacity and astuteness by opposing his
election in every possible way"