The Portland daily press., 1872-05-15
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uEhI NEWS lOeulS ny MALI ta-
The worst kind of free trade-trading in
votes at nominating conventions
Dolly Greeley hats, white with black over
skirts are the correct thing in Liberal circles.
A paroxysm of fear caused by the sight of a
spider led a Danbury woman to kick her hus-
band down stairs on Monday. rfa4f
Kentucky has gone into the business of in
venting national bridges 1t is about time for
northern watering places to begin to develop
the sea serpent aaFs
Norwich, Conn.,, drinking saloon is situat-
ed next door to a coffin shop and furnishes an
excellent text for all the total abstinence lectur
ers who go to that little town. ass
An English farmer in Iowa, sent to London
for seed-sower at an expense of $3.50, when a
better one could be got at home for $40
Touching love of country!
As result of taking Harper's Bazar, the
Queen of Madagascar is employing all her force
of milliners in getting up Dolly Warden of the
most expensive blue and red paint.
An intelligent compositor OF reckless tele-
graphist gave the name of the chow-chow nom
inee for Vice President to the New Hampshire
Liberals as sc. Rats Brown -......
! During the last Eyear there were eighty mine
accidents on the Connecticut railroads, of
which forty-two were fatal. Of the whole mum
Der forty-six occurred on roads running into
New Haven - fVA 1FA1 ~ ~ 4
3 The Louisville Courier Journal has found
something to praise in the nomination of Mr..
Greeley. The announcement of it in the House
broke the thread of Congressional speech
b<,Ix -, !: n Il
the northwestern boundary of the Common
wealth resembles profile of the respected Fa-
ther of his Country, and now it wants to be
called the Washington State. A1i 4 -
A little boy accosted his political papa, one of
the grave Senate, last week, thus: "Papa, are
you growing still?" 'sNo, dear, what makes
you think SOP" because the top of your head
is coming through your hair" The politician
is getting bald. WHf8 3ETT0H
Here's another of them. The Madison,
(Wis.) Democrat man says he ''can take down
billed owl, seasoned with snuff, but don't banker
after it," With such capacity he thinks it
possible he may be able TO digest Greeley and
Gratz.
A negro enchanter is enlightening Paris,
Kentucky. He claims to be endowed with su-
pernatural powers in the healing art, by the
laying on of hands, using charms, etc. He saws
he is ninety-six years old, that at the age of
fifty years his hair was white as wool, but came
out and was replaced by second growth of the
capillary substance, which yet remains as
black as ravens wing; he also says he has
had his third set of teeth. His father, who
died at the age of one hundred and six years,
als hal his &c ho;
"May it be written on my grave that I never
was a follower and lived and died in nothing
its debtor" Thus wrote Horace Greeley of the
Democratic party twenty years ago. Now there
is no desire so strong in the philosophers heart
as to become ''ts debtor to the largest degree.
Who has changed?
Seward Mitchell of Cornville, is the member
of the Woodruff National Committee for this
State. Mr.. Mitchell is well-to-do farmer,
jealous debater, -diffuse writer who don't
stand about such trifes as photography, hater
of churches, rum and dogs He is commu-
mist who raises excellent apples.
Gen. Longstreet is mentioned as the successor
of Mr.. Casey as Collector of New Orleans,
The President will find it difficult to find bet
ter man.
'Take all the haunts of debauchery in the
land and you will find nine-tenths of their
master spirits the active partisans of that same
Democracy" wrote Horace Greeley years ago.
To-day he is wooins never so lovingly these
same master spirits The presidential
maggot" has turned his brain, as it had that of
stronger men before him, Seward and Chase
for instance.
A man in Oregon sues his father-in-law for
$4,000, because his wife has been sick ever since
their marriage She had been warranted"
well and strong.
IL may not be generally known that there are
already SIX Presidential candidates formally in
the held These in the order of their nresenta
w .,on are as 1olows: Daniel Pratt, peripatetic;
ueorge FRANCIS Train, Independent; James
BLACK, temperance; Judge David Davis. labor
retormer; Horace Greeley, protection and free
trade; Victoria c. Woodruff, woman suffraoa.
The old-fashioned cottage bonne ts ara oo,,,;n.
in again, and have already been worn bv r,.n.
fashionable ladies of Gotham
The Louisville Courier exultingly boasts tho.
"the boys who wore the grey jackets" .sare al,
for Horace Greeley" The '.boys who wore the
blue" will meet them under the lead of Grant
and vanquish them as they did ON the fields of
the rebellion ..-s e r
The report that Assistant Secretary of State
Hale has been requested to resign for divulging
state secrets, is false He is pursuing his duties
as usual.