The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-04
THE PRE SIS.
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1872.
Gleanings and Gossip.

Glean1ngS and GOSSip.
The editor of the Octonto wis., Lumber
man is under arrest for non-payment Of $500
judgment in libel suit, and seems to like it,
as the sheriff allows him bounds of one mile
from the jail, so that he only goes there to
get his meals, and that at the expense of the
plaintiff. lH ..it et. 4 r
1t is on the "cards' that Chicago is now to
be completely destroyed very soon by one Of
those Western tornadoes. A Cassandra in
that city is urging them to stop rebuilding,
but they don't seem to pay much attention to
her. r-
One of our religious journals, speaking OF
another, says that cit is an excellent paper,
though we sometimes wish it would mix a
little more Christianity with its intelligence,
and add little intelligence to its Christian
ity."
Mr.. Albert Bessemer, the inventor of the
process ofmaking steelwhic bears his name,
has received the Albert gold medal of the
British Society of Arts.
The New England experiment of teetotal-
ism in hotels leads many indignant travellers
to ask if there be no middle course between a
temperance inn and intemperance.
On the first of July the women of Illinois
will be eligible to hold appointive Offices, un-
der law passed by the last Legislature. The
military is the only occupation not open to
them, and they are exempted from jury duty.
And now Springfield, Mass, as become
jealous of Boston, and shows that sp ite and
envy which hitherto have been ascribed to
New York alone. The Republican of that
city says that the Jubilee, ''as whole, and
so far as its monster character is concerned" j"
is not success. I. particularly condemns
both chorus and orchestra as overgrown and
ineffective. The Republican should be taken
in hand by the Hub. aF
A Kalamazoo judge fined a reporter for ap-
pearing within the bar in his shirt sleeves.
The reporter, however, proved to the salts
faction of the court that he had no coat, and
the fine was remitted
The Spaniards are gaining republican irrev.
erence for kings very fast. Many of the lit
tie match-boxes which all cigarette smokers
carry, have on them sketch of dog with a
tin pan tied to his tail, running at full speed.
In this, the head of Amadeus has been sub.
stituted for that of the dog, and the legend
underneath runs: "Road to ITALY,"
A lady was lately Rugged to death in Min
nesota-another illustration of the power Of
the press.
A Mormon emissary has been fogged for
trying on his little polygame in Denmark.
When it is mentioned that one of the ho-
tells at Long Branch comes over its boartlers
| and over the borders of reason-with a
charge of So day. it is almost unnecessary
to add that this hotel has its table, as mat.
ter Of four or five courses, thronged with the
elite of the petroleo-aristocracy who think il
the fashionable thing to be "dOne" by such a
daily due.-N. Y. World.
Mr.. Forsyth, the tender-hearted commits
missioner who sentenced Kooka rebels in In
dia to be blown from the cannon's mouth
without qualm, and who was removed by
the government therefor, completely broke
down in tears in replying to a toast at ban
quet given in his honor at Umballa.
Florence is preparing to celebrate, by a
grand festival in 1874, the four hundredth an.
niversary of the birth of Michael Angelo.
Antioch, since the late earthquake, follow.
ing the example of the patriarchs, has dwell
in tents. t...-... f....r ...e..-f
Mounted blanc-mange," is the disrespect-
full description of stout English women who
ride in Rotten Row these summer afternoons
An American observer is, of course, the per.
son who makes the description: ga mounted
blanc-manse, in tight habit, and especially
proud of trotting," he says, ''however pleased
she appear with herself, must be principally
productive of amusement to most people,"
| Miss Virginia Vaughan in her lecture Oh
tthe poetry, of the future" announces that
''The grand epic of the coming poet will
throb with the pulses of the cosmos" ne
A lady correspondent of the Missouri Dem
ocrat who saw Andy johnson in Washing.
ton, last month, draws this sympathetic pic
ture of his appearance: He moves about
with noiseless tread, and his voice is soft ant
low. His face is not at all aged by the years
seclusion since he was in office, but it il
marked by settled expression of melancholy
painful to dwell upon. 1t is plain that sor
row has been his most familiar guest, ant
from what is said, have no doubt he has
been cruelty sinned against.
/ A London correspondent says it is higf
time that the Princess of Wales was back il
society, to teach it how to dress decently. Ii
consequence of her example, bare bosom
and shoulders, during the past few seasons
grew less and less bare. This season she ha.
been absent, and whether. from that or som'
other "cause," shoulders and bosoms hav,
again come into somewhat unseemly promi
nence. . ta.t-5 ..
Edmnd c. Stedman, the banker-poet, ha!
given up his speculations in Wall street, bro
ken in health and haggard with financial sx
| SioSihOhes AAC VIII uOW IcsuLHc WTluHS, "
the delight of Boston publishers and the ad
mirers of his poetic genius. HH
| One of the Washington papers having de.
MED the existence of small pox in that city
another retorts that, if this be so, it is rath
er hard on those who have been buried re
Gently under the idea that they died of that
disease.
There are now about forty societies for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Great
Britain, several in Germany and France, ant
many others in Russia, Prussia, Italy, Swift
zerland, Algiers and Calcutta. Internationa
Congresses of these societies have been helt
as follows: At Dresden in 1861, Hamburg
1868, Venice, 1865, Paris, 1857, Zurich, 1869
and another is to be held at London in 1873
at which it is understood that The United
States will be represented. Throughout Eu
ropel the royal families are patrons of thes,
societies, and they are sustained and man
aged by the best class of people. The idea
ineulcated by these organizations are being
Incorporated into school-books and gift-books
and by hand-bills, posters, and pamphlets
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