The Portland daily press., 1872-11-28
PR ESS
THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. ss, 1870.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
We believe there is nothing new to-day re-
garding Mrs. Fair.
In writing for the press, be niggardly cl
words but spendthIift of paper
The Cincinnati Enquirer finds it necessary
to explain that, so far as the editor knows it is
Democratic paper.
A man in the smallpox district is happy.
He has convinced his mother-in-law that vac
cination is a humbug.
An enterprising lady of a practical turn is
already puzzng the tin shops for ''credit-
mob biler." (Credit mobilier?)
A Wisconsin Congressman is receiving the
reproving attention of the press in that sec
ton for franking 500 wedding cards for a
friend
SORROW" says Locks, sis uneasiness in
the mind upon the thought of good lost
which might have been enjoyed longer, or the
sense of a present evil.''
Stephen Lowery, of the North Carolina
gang of outlaws, attended court in that
State recsntly, accompanied by Spencer
rife and several large pistols. His personal
ity was respected.
A young man who went West from Dam
bury a few months ago has sent only one
letter home. 1t said, ''Send me wigr
And his fond parents don't know whethershe
is scaped or married.-Danbnr yNews
"Matrimony," said modern Benedict,
the other day, produces remarkable revolu-
tions; here am I, for instance, in ten short
months, changed from a signing lover into
loving sirc.' e
In Philadelphia last week three women
were tried on the charge of being common
scolds, one of them was given three months
imprisonment, the others being discharged on
Edyutils VI COsts.
The Litchfeld Sentinel (Dem.) says
''Henry B. Graves, ESQ.,, has an elegant and
expensive portrait (life size) of the late Hor-
ace Greeley. The audience is requested to
pass up the right aisle and down the left.''
Says the Norwich Bulletin, SIN the pale,
translucent moonlight which now nightly
battles the earth, the distant roar of the
falls, the weird note of the peacock and the
hoarse snort of the bull calf make life uT
town perpetual romance"
The King OF Bavaria's refusal to take part
in the. late imperial festivities at Berlin was
due, it is said, to his great aversion to meet
ing the Princess Frederick Wilhelmina, whom
he Tilted about eight months ago. ''The way
of the transgressor is hard"
"Are you going to make a bower-bed here,
Judkins ?" asked a young lady of the garden
er. eyes, mum, them's the horders," an
swered the gardener. "Why, it'll quite spoi
our croquet groundv' Cau't help it, mum
them's your pas horders; he says as 'ow t.
hev it laid out for 'orticultur, not for husband
ryv'
Says Canada paper, '1t would make SOM
of our fine ladies stare to see Lady Dufieril
promenading the streets, doing her own shop
ping. She dresses plainly and sensibly, wear
thick-soled boots, and does not fear wall
from one end of the city to the other, or fac
the muddiest crossing"
On Sunday Of the Boston fire a gentleman
spending the day at Bingham, fifteen mile
from the scene, picked up some burned pa
pers which dropped at his feet, and, to hi
great surprise, found them to be portions @
some bills he himself had filed away in hi
counting-room the Saturday previous. Next
The Eastern Budget states that thirty-iv
Jewish families, including children have beer
| forced to leave their residences in Wallachia
in consequence of the persecution to whicl
they are subjected by the people ofthat coun
| try, and they are now at Vienna under tn
charge of the American Consul, iwho is co
lscting subscriptions to enable him to sen
them to America.
| just as a passenger train on the Detroi
and Milwaukee Road was clear of Detroit
and running at the rate of twelve miles al
hour, an old man suddenly leaped from hi
seat and rushed to the platform, and bound
| ed off, turning about forty somersaults befor
he brought mp ugainst the fence. In shor
time he appeared at the depot, looking a
| round, and then exclaimed: "What an oil
fool! thought / had left my umbrella here
and jumped off the cars to get it, and now
hang me, if don't remember chucking it uI
| der the seat. t.''-Detroit Free Press.