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The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

Chicago recently rejoiced at the wedding
of happy couple, each Of whom had lost
an eye. So fond is their mutual attachment
that each is to the other his or her one-eyed
dear.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

saw merInaide sitten ON rocke,
And swete she sang in wordes of curious tongue
And looked in glasse the while she sung;
And like a fowre of gold her haire she shooke
Till every fshc did lepc to heare the strain
And waves like bells of glasse did ring again.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27
A FIRST CLASS NEWSPAPER.

The Publishers congratulate themselves that their
efforts to make the PRESS acceptable to its patrons
appreciated from the conclusive fact that with
out special efforts its list Of subscribers has been in
creased to q greater extent during the last six
months than for any similar period the past six years
As an advertising medium the DAILY PRESS stands
first among Maine journals.
TERMS: So year in advance; 81 for six months;
50 for three months.
Liberal commissions viii be paid those who will
secure subscribers with prepaid subscriptions.
rOrders from News Dealers promptly filed
Address
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

CHILDREN CRY-for Pitchers Castora- N
regulates the stomach, cures wind collie anu
causes natural sleep, 1t is substitute Iof
castor oil. feoz1-eool"~"
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING. FEB. %, 1874

|
Gossip and G,eanings.
Charles Reade is called the sliterarv Can
tain Kidd"
There are more daily papers in Boston
than in the whole State OF Kentucky.
Wachtel, the German tenor, writes that he
shall not come TO America again.
A Davenport paper speaks OF RubinStein as
''the famous foreign tenor"
Brigham Young one hundred and seyen-
teenth child has ssarisen to call him blessed
Suche constan.e folkc be better than those claung-
lings in and quito,
Who plunge in query foyc wliche tleiro heades can
bringc aboute.
Lake Michigan is completely frozen across
at Milwaukee, where it is eighty-tivc miles
wide.
San Jose, Cal, boasts that in its ballny
climate tomatoes and tom-cats flourish in the
'open air all winter
Philadelphia complains that the common
response when it asks for subscriptions for its
centenary is 'nary cent"
Polemcal paradox-The clergy are just be-
ginning to think that the best way to unite
the Church would be to dis-sect it.
A st. Paul paper heads leading article
"Why the expenses of the government iE-
creas ss?' Why does they?
A Baltimore couple did their courting in
adjacent cells, and were engaged before see
ing each other.
A dear old lady of our acquaintance says
it's the most natural thing in the world that
after all those nasty, damp days the weather
should get cold. mt 5
APhiladelphia boy, quite unassi,ted, has
captured three hundred door mats since No
vember. He thinks that he can support him.
self anywhere. rtsai
Caleb Cushing's ''brief7' in defence of Sem
ator Caldwell of Kansas is sixteen printed
octave pages in length, and still Caldwelps
not happy.
A merchant of Topeka recently lost $3.50
in cash. AS his wife and one of his clerks
have not been seen since, he is apprehensive
that they were murdered for his money.
N. lie Comte de Pierlefonds, otherwise the
late ex-Emperor's boy, got big licking at
Woolwich, the other day, for throwing ink
over plebeian school-fellow.
Miss Faithful says the superficial educa-
ton of girls, ''ike dipping them into weak
solution of accomplishments, forms coating
that will not stand time or wear
A Paris (Ky.) man, who has way of
drinking half gallon of pure Bourbon whis-
key, and then sleeping sweetly for four days,
| bets one hundred dollars that he can out
| sleep any man in the State
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

Mr.. John Carmelson, of Hamtramck,
Mich, got up a foot-race with his mothei-in-
law, the other day, from the house to the
street. He had an axe, and being thus laden,
was outstripped by the old lady. He had
sixty days in the House of Correction for be-
ing defeated; if he had won the race he might
have become insane, however, so it's all
riuht
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27
MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.

LIKE THE ELECTRIC TELEGRArn, CENTAUR
LISIMENT has been long time coming,-but
what work it is now doing. The halt and
lame, sore and wounded, are literally throwiag
away their crutches Rheumatism and stih
joints are banished, and dumb beasts cry out
for joy. One trial tells the story, and explains
the whole thing.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

Accelerated singer, Madame La Rochois, was
giving younger companion in art some in
structions in the tragic character of Medea,
which she was about to sustain. ''Inspire
yourself with the situation," said she; SIAN
cy yourself in the poor woman's place. If
you were deserted by lover whom you
adored, what would you do?r The reply
was as unexpected as it was ingenious. 81
should look out for another"
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27
Retailers, Manufacturers
and Consumers


and Consumers
To the Goals from the following collieres worked
by them:-
EgssEn It'll fSshsi' EiSE khGSix NJ PARK, No. ?,
PINE KNOT, MERRIAM,
SLEARGoWAN, Si.EASGTEA inhAH NINE HILL k1nSa GAP,
SHAFT, NJ. II H. i, RNIokERBocKER,
PRESTON, No. 2, f- FORESTVILLE,
LOCUST spBING, PRESTON, No. 4,
EAST FRANKLIN, BUCKYILLE,
POTTS, NO. FRANKLIN, No. l.,
TH0MAsToN, ~ "
In addition to the product of the above, they will
SELL factors, during the of 1878, all Of the
Goals from the following well-knewn collieries that
are either shipped from Port Richmond or consigned
through the Delaware s. Raritan Canal
TUNNEL RIDGE, PLANK RIDGE,
LAWRENCE, L , B BUCK s sRIDGE,
GiRARDViLLE, ST. Nicholas,
HNI0Nii y NSiirsrrp G9L1KAp9, GGlbRAY 9,7N
ALASKA, McMICHAEL,
GLENTWoRTH. BIG MI,E RUN,
ENTERPRISE, HAMMOND,
BIG MOUNTAIN, c GIRARD,
BROOKSIDE. KENTUCKEY,
BEAR RUN, GREENBACK,
SHENANDOAH, BEAR VALLEY,
NO MIXTURE OF THE DIFFERENT
GRADES OF GOALS WILL in ANY
CASE BE PERMITTED;
And each of the several classes of coal produced at
the aboye-naned coleries will be kept strict
ly separate from the others. All sales
will be made the follow
ing Designations
1.--Hard White Ash Coal.
2.--Free-Burning White Ash Coal.
3---Schuylkill Red Ash Coal.
4.--Alaska Red Ash Coal.
5---Shamokin White Ash Coal.
6---ShamOkin Red Ash Coal.
7---N0rth Franklin Coal.
8---LO1 berry Coal.
9---Lykens Valley Vein Coal.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27
TO LEI
Board.

FEW GENTLEMEN can be accommodated at
"A at 16 Myrtle street, corner of Cumberland.
Also table boarders, - teb25'1m
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

Tho bJve books sent, postpaid for retail nr;ce
OLIVER D1TSON q CO.. Boston Z
&. H. DITSON s. CO., New York.
janis S&W&w1yrw4
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27
THE NEXT YEAR

No efforts will be spared to make the MAINE
STATE PRESS more acceptable to its patrons Indeed
the Publishers will not relax their efforts to make
the paper necessity to those who have been accus
toned to read it. We pledge that during the year
1873, the Weekly PRESS shall be moro NEWSPA-
PER than ever, so that tho famil. that thoroughly
reads the paper will have all the current events Of the
day.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27
Portland DaiIv Press

BY making all It's departments fuller and more valu
able. l
The growingimpo ortanceof Portland as distributin
centre for Maine, and its increasing wholesale trade
make a full Daily paper imperatively necessary.
With larger Editorial corps than any paper in
Maine with unexcelled facilities for collecting new
and space to devote to details, the Publishers
will make every exertion to render the DAILY PRESS
fuller and more complete paper than it has hitherto
beer, ,Hand in every respect
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Agency for Sewing Machines.
w. s. DYER, No. 252 Middle St. All
kinds of Machines for snic and 10 let.
RePairing.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27


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The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

Husband and wife are at last upon an
equality, by legal enactment, in California.
In fact, the woman makes rather the most
out of the arrangement. In addition to her
ability to make contracts, to sue and be sued,
the law provides that marriage metamor-
phoses female minors to adults, so far as
making contracts is concerned, while the
minor youth of male persuasion who COM
mits matrimony isn't enfranchised at all.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27
Notice,

A LADY has taken the room No, II cahoor,.
"A Block, Congress ST.. for the purpose of harina .
class In DRAWING and PAINTING. If shs mae,s .
sumclent encouragement All interested are invited
days except Tuesdays and Fridays. ".' "'eA
Sai'ap'e reierences given feb2itf
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

A man who snores was described by his
friend, the other day, as follows: "Snores:
Oh no, guess not-no name for it! when
you wake up in the morning, and find that
the house you lodge in has been removed
half a mile during the night by tue respira-
tory vehemence ola fellow -lodger, you may
get some idea of this fellows performance.
His landlady gets her house moved back by
turning his bed around"
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

A Paris (Ky.) man, who has way of
drinking half gallon of pure Bourbon whis-
key, and then sleeping sweetly for four days,
bets one hundred dollars that he can out
sleep any man in the State
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

ANTHEM BOOKS.
onDoAIh CUES Emerson & Moreu. 1.60
SUCKS NEW MoTETTE G ELECTION. .25o
BaUMBACH'S SACRED oUARrETTFs rNexv1o 5o
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

Miss Faithful says the superficial educa-
ton of girls, ''like dipping them into weak
solution of accomplishments, forms coating
that will not stand time or wear"
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

FORTY-SIXTH PSALM. Dudley Buck. LEO
FESTIVAL CANTATA. ...... Eugene Thdyer. LIS
GOUNOD'S CHORAL MUSIC. IC.................. %
Well worthy OF careful study.
MUSICAL ENTHUSIAST. .............H .Hetott. ou
An amusing and very melodious musical extravaganza
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

NJ. le Comte de Pierefonds, otherwise the
late ex-Emperor's boy, got big licking at
Woolwich, the other day, for throwing ink
over plebeian school-felow.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27
NO MIXTURE OF THE DIFFERENT
GRADES OF GOALS WILL in ANY
CASE BE PERMITTED;

And each of the several classes of coal produced at
the aboyenamed coieries will be kept strict
ly separate from the others. All sales
will be made uncr the follow
ing designations
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

New and attractive Cantatas.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27

sN PhEsS-NEARLY READY.
STRAUSS DANCE MUSIC. Violin and p,.no
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-21

receive, besides their muniAcent stipends,
tho gift Of enjoying from the date OF their
suppression " the full exercise Of all rights
civil and political according to Article e
Of the Law Of 9TH July, 1866. Such 10 tho
Cavour policy endorsed by her Majesty's
representative In Italy. The following
converts were taken possession Of by the
Commission on the 18th of November,
namely Tho Convent Of the Services at
3. Marcellus that Of the Cisteroian Nuns
at 9. Susanna; that of the Minor Conyen-
tuals Of the So. Apostles; that Of tho
the Canons Lateran at 8. Pietro In Vincu-
lis that of the Franciscans at 8. Paolo
ALA Regola; that Of the Regulars at Sta
Maria In Campitelli; and that Of Nuns of
st. Clare ct San Silvestro In Cspite.-LoS-
don Tablet.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-21

PARIS BALLOON IN AFRICA.-A curious
story comes to us across the ocean of q shape
less bundle of rags found recently in tree-top
in the South African colony of Natal. 1t proved
to be one of the missing balloons which float.
ed ont of Paris during the seige with q freight
Government of National defence to its Gener-
ais in the field, and messages of love and cheer
of sorrow and complaint, from the suffering
citizens to their friends outside. II the Gov
eminent had no better way than this of reach
ing it's commanders, it is perhaps not surpric-
ing that tho military operations of France 90.
casiouaiIy lacked consistency. It has been
suggested that the contents of this DriaI mail
may have an important bearing upon the trial
of Bazaine; but a question which will interest
the public far more than the purport of the
letters is how the balloon should have found
its way from France to the southern extremity
of Africa. Natal is over 5000 miles from Paris
in q direction almost due south. We should
like to know what Professor Wise's easterlv
current was doing while the air ship made this
extraordinary voyage.-N. 7. Tribune.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-21

RIsroRI PLAYING IN ENGLIsH.-A Scene
in liverpool TheGtre.-Madatne Ristori
has made sensation in Liverpool by play
ing the sleep-wa'kinz scene in Lady Noe
beth in English. Says one critic:
"The power Of dramatic art could scarce
~ go fnrther-it certainly has not gone
further within our recent memories-than
in the sleep. walking scene from Macbeth, ,
as rendered in the broken English of the
great Italian actress. Rstori, aided only
by feeble gentlewoman and a tiresome
physician, with no assistance from drama
tic situation or from scene, left on the
is indelible, and which none could wish to
lose. The high expectation of the house
was readily discernible from the irritation
with which all preliminary Interruptions
were hushed down, and in the excited
longing with which all eyes were turned
towards-the dimly lighted stage. That
none We're disappointed might easily be
determined by the wild rapture of the
triple or quadrup!e call which summoned
Madame Ristori again and again before the
curtain. The younger members of the au-
dience frankly confessed that they had
seen nothing like this before; and the
elder had to rack their brains in order to
discover performances worthy, in all points,
to be ranked with this. To take one in
stance out of many that might DO adduced
the nervous rubbing of hand over hand
in order to remove the hideous stain. q
movement which was indicated throughout
the scene, was q master stroke of art.
Without being obtrusive, the nervous &C
ton of those rigid hands nevertheless held
the horror stricken gaze of the spectators,
and thoroughly conveyed the haunted
feelings of the wretched murderess. Then,
again, who but Rstori would dare initiate
for us, in realistic fashion, the heavy
breathing Of the somnambulist and who
but she could, through it all, make even
her whispered words of terror audible over
the whole house Once more the intense
artificial calm of the utterance whats
done cannot be undone,' and the attempted
of assurance, "He cannot como
out of his grave )" these triumphs of his
trionic art can never pass out of cur mem
cries, any more than can the weird picture
Of the white figure as, with grandly con
ceived gesture aud mien, it departs from
US, oeckoning and hoaIsely calling, ITO
bed to bed ~
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-21

Gordon, the Scottish painter, used to tell
this story of Lord Palmerston :-sI had
exhibited for several years, but without any
particular success. One year, however,
the year before 1 painted 'The Corsicans'
Lord Palmerston took a sudden fancy to
my picture, called Summer in the Low
lands,' and bought it at q high figure. His
lordship at the same time made Inquiries
after the artist, and invited me to cali upon
him. I waited npon his lordship accord
ingly. He complimented me upon the pic
ture; but there was one thing about it he
could not understand. what is that, my
lord p asked. THAT there should be
such long grass in a field where there are
SO many sheep said his lordship, promptly,
and with merry twinkle of the eye. It
was a decided hit this, and, having bought
the picture and paid for it, he was entitled
to the joke. How do you account for it =
he went on, smiling and looking first at the
picture and then at me. Those sheep, my
lord,' replied, 'were only turned into that
6eld the night before finished the picture.'
His lordship laughed heartily and said
Bravo at my reply, and gave me a COM
for two more pictures, and have
Dashed since then some very notable
cheques of his-dear old boy |"
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-21

THE SrAFFoRDsHIRE CURE.-Doctors, as
q rule, are too proud to learn lessons
afforded by the unscientiic treatment OF
cases, yet it often happens that marvellous
be strongly denounced by the medical
profession, as not only unorthodox, but
even perilous. A man named Drewe was
the other day, according to the Bristol
Times, the Victim of q singular accident,
and was healed of the injuries he received
by such accident in an equally singular
manner. 1t seems that Drewe had crawled
into large iron tube at the ironworks at
Seend, near Melksham, for the purpose o.
removing some obstruction cansed by an
accumulation of ashes. Drewe having
crawled into the tube, it was folly expect
ed that when he had performed his mission
he would crawl out again but as minute
after minute elapsed without his feturn to
the outer world, it was thought advisable
tnat another man should enter the tube
and ascertain the reason Of his prolonged
absence. Drewe's delay in coming out of
the tube was most satisfactorily Accounted
for. He had not, as was feared, perma-
nently taken mp his residence in the tube
from inclination, bat was found jammed in
narrow part of it perfectly insensible,
with severe scars and bruises on the BODY.
He was Of course Immediately pulled out,
and no steps were left untaken that tender
affection could devise for restoring him to
COhoCIVuSuOSes IL WAS Bb OuC0 Q6c1Q0O to
adopt the Staffor6shire mode of bringing
him to life." Accordingly a hole was dug
in the ground large enough to receive his
head, and into this hole gentle hands, in
spired by loving hearts, deposited the
head of Drove, face downwards. The hole
was then carefully covered up with earth,
small aperture only being left Co enable
Drewe to breathe in the event of the trea.-
ment proving successful. A short but anxi-
Gus period elapsed, when, to the delight Of
all present, slight movement of the earth
was apparent and a minute later Drewe
extracted his head from it's grave, and gave
evidence of renewed vitality by imbibing
some brandy, which was Immediately ad-
ministered to him. Altogether he must
have had trying time Of it, and it must
be admitted that his recovery, under the
10 little short of q miracle
Pail Mall Gazette
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-21
Historic Stephens.
PICTURE OF A DRANATIo SCENE IN THE
HOUSE. ID" ~

The Washington correspondent Of the
Brooklyn Argus, writes
"Chief Of them was Alexander n. Steph-
ems. Col. Waddell, Of North Carolina, sup
ported the brilliant, Intense, magnificent
tactician of other days TO his feet. He took
the Coils arm and dispensed with the sig-
nidcant crutches that had been stacked In
front Of his deak. He stood right at the
beginning of tho middle aisle of the House.
By foiioitously dramatic accident or
happy design, all the rest Of the many ex-
Confederates ranged in Q aeMi.oircIe on
either side Of their former Vice. President.
Then the modified oath was taken by them
with uplifted hands and assented to with an
unanimous and quietly elegant bow. There
company doubt that any one observed
them the pale, suffering, distinguished
little man in the middle was tho cynosure
Of all eyes. He was dressed in exquisite
black, a. If in mourning for his country. In
sitting, he had worn his hat to protect him
pensed with 1t, and disclosed an abnor-
mally large head, pierced with intensely
black and deep eyes and covered with q
ehort, disordered growth of iron gray hair.
When he responded to his name the strong
soul in him was manifest, for his clear,
sharp, penetrating voice, the echo of that
soul, was heard distinctly all over the
house. The ethereal part Of the man is as
strong as ever. The physical is a wreck.
1t was historical scene. He who for fif-
teen years before the war had been the
leader par excellence of the House, re-
turned to subscribe to the oath administer
ed by Speaker who was never heard of
when Stephens left Congress, or three
years thereafter. In all the House were
but two men who had been his Congress
sional contemporaries Sunset Cox, then
of Ohio, and John B. Clarke, then and now
of Missouri. Well could Stephens say he
stood dying the solitary survivor Of many
great dead. Gone was Thad. Stephens, the
incarnation of hate; gone was Giddings, the
abolitionist, whom Stephens himself loved;
gone was the courtly Ex-Governor Briggs,
of New York, and the uncouth Mike
Walsh gone was the fiery Keith, and
gone the fearful and wonderful John
Covode; gone the eloquent Lovejoy and
the mellow Mallory; gone Herschel v.
johnson gone Bocock and Yulee, and Ed
mondston, and Clingman, and the impetu-
GUS Brooks, and Potter, and Rector, and
Phelps, and Rollins, and Winter Davis,
and thousand once statesmen of either
party, and there was the man on whom
twenty, years ago death had apparently set
his seal, survivor of them all, and repre-
sentative Of the greatest district of the En-
pire State of the South. Background this
contrast with fearful four years of interseo-
tional throat-cutting, and the dramatic
facts of the occasion stand out grim with
graves and lighted by intense cerebral
fire."
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-21

II We allow that all Ia fair in love and
war, why should not the same latitude be
given to business 2 Surely the strife for
daily bread 10 quite 90 necessary, II not as
noble, ~ that for power or woman's favor,
and 1t Ii certsinly contrary 70 tho spirit OF
privileges that arc withheld from the
horny handed sons of toll. II we admit
the right OF unbounded strategy to the
useless warriors and tho idle singers of
these later days, We ought to grant some-
thing like the Same freedom to those who,
kept In duress by
Those tzis jA,lers Of tina human hsars.
Low birth snd iron fortune.
With shis thought In mind, cannot some
excuse be framed for the means semploye ed
oy Matchmaker In country town, to
establish himself in 'businessf He went to
tnot town. q stranger, just after q new
clock had been placed in the tower Of the
courthouse. Everybody naturally swore
oy the town clock, regulated their clocks
by 1t, and utterly neglected the needy
Matchmaker. So one night he made his
way into the tower and set the clock for
ward several minutes, and the following
asked him to look after the public time
piece; but the matchmaker told him that
NO regulation was necessary, as the clock
was runoing exactly with his own time,
and, pulling out his watch, he verified his
statement: The next day the discrepancy
between the town clock and the watches OF
the place was still more marked, and quits
q deputation of citizens waited upon the
Matchmaker only to find that his watch
and regulator were exactly in accord with
the pointers on the courthouse tower. That
settled the question. They all left their
watches to be clenead; other irregular
timepieces came in by the score during the
0Av. and when the az
put up his shutters that night his windows
were .glittering with the trophies of his
Ingenious but unprincipled stratagem.-
Boston Pilot.