The Portland daily press., 1873-06-09

Samuel A. King, the aeronaut. declares Il
impossible in Lis opinion, to cross the Atlantic
in balloon.
The Postmaster General decides that the new
postal act does not inhibit married women from
becoming Postmasters.
Naval Assistant Surgeon, Geo. P, Bradley, of
MAINE, has been ordered home from the Canaan
dagua
Jay Gould has gone West but he will not
buy farm as long as he can invest his super
fiuous cheek in railroads
The Washington Chronicle insists that Sem
ator Buckingham of Connecticut has not drawn
his back pay. so much for Buckingham"
A large number of government printers will
apply to the Court of Claims for the extra
twenty per cent authorized by the act of 1868,
for ten hours work.
The quarrel in the National Labor Council
still continues. The dissidents have in prepa-
ration an address denunciatory of ex-senator
Pool
The Pttsfeld (NIass.) Eagle, denies by au-
thority the rumor that Mr.. Dawes intends re-
signing his seat in Congress, to accept a cabinet
appointment
up to the first of June, 22,366 hogsheads of
leaf tobacco had been inspected at Richmond,
Va, an excess of 4 ga hogsheads over the same
time last year.
Worcester, Mass, thinks it ought to have
board of trade. Portsmouth, N H., responds
through the Chronicle, that it has one that it
will sell cheap.
A most remarkable cure of the desire for to-
haccO ic that Of nm Ind
He was thrown from his buggy some time ago,
and since then has loathed the foul weed.
Three incorrigible bachelors in Indiana have
made up purse of 800 to procure q silver tea
set, to be awarded the ugliest woman on exhi-
btion, willing or unwilling at the Knox Coun-
ty Fair
Chicago sees the st. Louis Democrats item
on the Chicago cheese factory, and goes one bet
ter, thus: ''St. Louis will uot be able to start
a cheese factory until it withdraws the editor
of the Democrat from the maternal udder.''
The railway companies of Illinois are prepar-
ing to conform their tariffs and regulations to
the requirements of the new law of the
State against exorbitant rates and unjust dis
examinations.
A lady dealer in hair goods down East, heads
her advertisement in the local newspaper with
this travesty of DR.. Watts:
GLOW van are all thugs here below
How false and yet aow fair!
But if for false things you will 60
Invest at once in Hair!'
Alexander III. Stephens says with a display
OF learning which astonishes and confounds us,
that the questions, "What is Democracy; and
who are Democrats?" are as "momentous in
their range as was that of the great Cato,
when he exclaimed, TO be or not to be; that is
the question:"
A party of ten or dozen Washington and
New York gentlemen, including a well-known
journalist, a popular publisher noted artist.
and several prominent merchants were in Boston
Friday night at the fremont House, on their
way to their way to the Maine woods, fishing
They go down East in a special Pullman car
and are amply prepared to be jolly whether
they catch anything or not.
An exasperated Bostonian is rushing around
with an unshaven face. and demanding to
know if these women will never learn anything.
The slight cause for all his mental disturbance
is found in the fact that one of his daughters
had used one of his razors to cut maple sugar
with, and another had taken its mate 10 sharp
en- her lead pencil with, while his wife had rem
dered his shaving brush somewhat too stiff for
its original purpose, by using it in glueing some
broken furniture.
The Missouri editors at their late con-
vention formally resolved that man mas the
same right to walk into a grocery store and Or
der barrel Of sugar or sack of coffee, or in
to law office arr demand legal opinion from
tie to-
quest coffin, without expecting to pay for
their respective wares or services, as into a
newspaper Office and demand the use of its
brains and muscle and type, without thought
of recompense.