The Portland daily press., 1873-08-21

THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. s1. 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.

THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 21. 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.
A Newport eating-house takes in its checks
over secondhand pulpit.
man was fined S. at Bloomington far
'passing through all stages of drunkeness.n
Fort Wayne baker has cast his bread
upon the waters by driving off canal bridge.
Iowa City, it is said, intends to erect stat
ue to the memory of one of its citizens who
killed book-peddlar.
Somebody in Bowling Green, KY, struck
live snake with stick, when it Suddenly
flew into number of short pieces"-the
stick, we suspect
Brown tinted note paper is now the fash
ion in London. The note sheet is cut in le-
gal shape, and turns at the top, instead of at
the side. The novelty will soon be the rage
here.
Referring to the practice of discharging la
dy clerks from the public offices when they
get married, Detroit paper thinks it must be
wrong, and asks: ''How can woman be ex
pected to support husband if she is dis
charged as soon as she gets one?"
Snna v,nnrn af Moi, IL
bathing in the river lately were frightened
into their clothes by a hideous monster
swimming down the stream. 1t was snake
ten feet long with its head two feet out of
water and its back ornamented with humps
at intervals of a foot. Among rules for
bathers should be one against going into
river when the syesight is so much affected
from any cause.
Paul de Cassagnac, the famous fighting ed
itor of the Paris Pays, who has killed eight
cen men in duels and has another one to kill
next month, has been offered place on the
Weekly Montanian, sheet published in the
wilds Of Missouri. Six editors have died with
their boots on during the past year, and the
proprietors confidently expect that first
class salamander, like Paul, will be a little
more durable.
We love to commend successful industry in
young people, especially when they are faith
full to their poor old parents. There is girl
in Oakland, CAL, who by patient industry,
quick eye and a nimbe hand, has not only
supported her aged mother but accumulated
nice little property of 81, 900 or so, consisting
mostly of jewelry and other small valuables
that could be handily carried off from the diff
ferent places in which she has been employed
as domestic.
Lightning, as usual, is amusing the rural
districts with its fantastic freaks 1t does
some queer things and occasionally INDUCES
in what seems to be malicious mischief At
Oil City few days ago it ''went for" big
iron tank containing 5000 barrels of oil, and
just Travelled around the edge shipping the
bolt heads off until the top flew up and the
oil took fire. In another instant it slammed
the lid down again and put the fire out and
Travelled.
They had some fun in the trial of case
before negro magistrate at Lovoke, Ark, the
other day. Rev. Mr. Sullivan was the defendant
and,a he was likely to win the case, the pant
lnslawyer hr. byro, "a big, ,burly tellow, ,assailed
the parson, who is a frail old body, ,and knocked
him down. The parsons son John was at
hand, and disliking to have his father abused,
he drew revolver and shot the lawyer dead
The "court'' Lit out at the commencement of
hostilities, and they call it that the case has
gone by default