The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-25
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes

Horace Greeley viii go to Cincinnati by
way OF Pennsylvania, and number of spon-
taneous ovations are being prepared for him.
He is not satisfied yet with the speech which
he has prepared, expressing his qualification
and surprise at the unexpected honor paid to
him, and thinks that it reads unfinished like.
A German lately married saws: sid vas
! youst so easy as a needle Good walk out init
camePs eye as to get der behindt word NIT a
| voOmans."
One hundred and ninety-two thousand COP
les of the first edition of ''Dame Europa
were sold-sometimes more than ten thous-
and in day. Rev. II. w. Pullen, canon
OF Salisbury Cathedral, was its author.
Mr.. Emerson will soon bring out new
collection of essays under the title of ''Poetry
and Criticism
The Boston Journal anticipates pleasing
sight when the Tribune and the World come
to contend for the leadership of the Demo-
cratic party.
A man at Louisville ran away with his wife
recently, mistaking her for another woman.
She was disguised, the local chronicler says.
Since the tragic event, all the neglected wives
in that city wash their faces and comb their
hair in the hope that their husbands may
take them for somebody else.
A Montreal man of lightweight last week
married a mature woman of fifty-three. 1t is
fhaf ~ e - 81
The Selma (Ala.) Times speaks of Gen.
Longstreet as 'disgustingly degraded" be-
cause he believes that the war is over and
that the rebel cause is really lost.
| The best Partisan French, model CONVEX
| sation, as taught to us barbarians: Scene
The boulevards of Paris. Peko, as he re-
moves his hat-''How do you carry yourself
monsieur? Are you cold or warm ?' Brisko-
THANK you. i am neither cold nor warm
but have you the horse of the carpenter %
Peko-'.I have not the horse of the carpen
ter, but have the bread, the knife, the shoes
the wine, and the blue coat of my father %
They always say these things in France
Agassiz & ives as his opinion that the chintz-
bug is the only inferior animal that could
wear Dolly Warden.
A Boston girl being asked If she had not
once been engaged to ga party by the name
| or Jackson, who was at the time Harvard
student, languidly replied, 81 remember the
circumstance perfectly, but i am not certain
about the name.''
I'VE, the People" is the title of Anna
Dickinson's new lecture on Cincinnati poll
tics. A similar remark once served as exor-
dunn to the manifesto of the illustrious three
tailors of Tooley street.
This is the way they figure up the thirty
anti-grant Senators:
Trumbull, Sumner and Schurz ..........3
I1pton ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. %
Aotdi. ID
The New York Herald thinks that the list
of the dissatisfied Republicans in New York
reads surprisingly like transcript of the
Grand Jury's list of indictments for whiskey
frauds.
Buzzing Bull-toad, chief of the Sacs, is no
more. He bought gallon of alcohol of
trader and contracted to carry it home with
| out jug.
Sarah Winnemucca, Queen of the Pi-Utes,
has married young Lieutenant at Salt Lake
City. Old Winnemucca says the young couple
shall never lack so long as he has dried
angle-worm or picked grasshopper in the
house.
The wittiest thing of the week must be
| credited to George Harding, of the Indianap-
oils journal. Apropos of Mr.. Greeley's state
ment that the action of the Cincinnati Con-
| ventlon, whether it nominated A, B, c., or
| ID, would not interest him, the Journal says
that this declaration does away with Adams,
| Brown, Chase and Davis, but how would it
have been if, instead of stopping with A, B,
| G, and ID, the convention had gone on to G ?
The sound of lamentation is heard within
our borders -house-cleaning, cold dinners
and domestic misery are in order.
DIR. j. G. Holland, Timothy Titcomb,) ed
itor of scribner's Monthly, may now be count
ed settled New Yorker, having purchased a
mansion in Park avenue, Murray Hill, where
he will permanently reside.
Private letters from England state that
Iennyson frequently avows his intention of
visiting America soon.
The artistic French have taste in all they do
| Which we, gross Anglo Saxons, are without,
For partial Nature, which to them gave goat
| To us, alas! has given only gout.
But still repine not in unthoughtful haste,
For, from philology like this appealing,
We find French g0ut is but a thing of taste,
| While English gout's deep inseated feeling.
|
The deaths from smallpox in Baltimore
for the week ending Tuesday, were twenty
| three.
The May interest on the public debt will be
paid on and after the Oath inst, without re-
| bate.
Baron Leibig asserts that the Bavarian
beer is become unbeerable.
An interesting controversy is now going on
IN the Ohio press as to the identity OF the on
| ly and original killer of Tecumseh. 1t Is
with regret that we learn that this great and
good Indian is really dead, but, from the con-
| fiictino N atura of the evidence, we must re-