The Portland daily press., 1876-10-24
News and Other Items.

A London paper contains the advertisement:
Wanted, situation, either as a private de-
tectve or as publisher of a weekly newspaper
Can be recommended in both capacities
1t is ascertained that an association of wild
overs is to be formed in New York having for
its object the securing of clergyman to marry
them at club rates.
This going out between the acts "to make
affidavit at the bar" has resulted in one good
thing, says the New York Mail, and that is that
gentleman is known in the audience by keep
ing his seat.
A rich man in Anaheim, CAL, had Door
man elected from house because the rent was
not paid; and the poor mans mode of VEN
geance was to get into the rich mans hallway
and die there of smallpox.
M. de Molineri beheld a. the tenth mile
underground in the Mammoth Cave the dread
full advertisement "Gargling OIL" Gimme
diately," he says, II looked on all sides for
'Sozodont.' 'Sozodont' was not there! Thank
Godp'
The old Court House in Rappahannock, Va,
in which John Waller, Robert Ware, John
Shackleford and James Greenwood were in
49, ~A"'SoS0 Aoi PiCdOuius tu6 0OSDeI COQ-
trary to the law of the colony,is to be converted
into Baptist church.
A correspondent wri ties: "While walking I'D
Chestnut street in Philadelphia few DAYS ago.
was accosted by a decent-looking man, who
presented me with a small blue card. without
saying word. On one side of the card read =,
Acquaintance card. Miss: May have the
pleasure OF your company this evening. If go,
keep this card; if not, return it, Yours truly.
Mum, Num- On the reverse was a patent
medicine advertisement, which suggests the
purpose of the card. Is this one of the Center-
NAL institutions, do you think?"
The Loan Exhibition of Paintings at the
New York Academy of Design and Metropoli-
tan Museum is to be kept open until the 10th
of November, when the Centennial Exhibition
closes. 1t is in many respects more notewor-
thy collection than the one at PHILADELPHIA
Some idea of the value of the paintings incIud-
ed in it may be gathered from the fact that
they are insured for 81, 10000 As to the Phil
adelphia art-gallery, which by comparison is so
unsatisfactory. Bayard Taylor says that Mr..
Sartain, the mezzotint engraver, is responsible
for the frightful mlsmanagement there. One
of his blunders was the admission of some
miles of rubbish, which surround and hide the
good paintings on exhibition.
The sad mess which was made of the Centen
NAL awards in the department of painting has
caused the conscientious managers of the Ex
position much chagrin. The Commission at
first voted in committee of the whole to reject
all the awards as utterly vaueless, but after
wards reconsidered this action. We have yet
to hear any intelligent statement of the reasons
which governed the Commission in refus;no 70
strike out the supplemental awards ,whichwould
have disposed at once of the whole difficulty
AS the awards stand at present. they are not
only without value to those who have received
them, but also lasting scandal and disgrace
to the nation. 1t is greatly to be regretted that
the management of the Centennial, which has
been, on the whole, SO intelligent and honest,
should be obliged in its last hours to suffer
the imputations which will arise from this
scandal