The Portland daily press., 1865-12-11
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED


ET The Montana Post of October 28th,
says :-"Last week the Queen trophy of the
Mountains was found by DeFoe & Co., in
Deadwood Gulch. This monster nugget
weighed fourteen and a half pounds, avordu-
pois. and measures in length nine inches in
breadth, two and half inches, and in thick
ness one and a half inch. The specimen is al
most entirely free from quartz. The lump is
worth $500 in greenbacks E8
Er A clerk in a music store was lately
overpowered by fastidious young lady who
wanted to purchase "Mr. Hood's-a-song of the
a-gentleman's under garment The clerk is
still alive. $3.50 if''7'H w
EB New and important gold discoveries
have been made in British Columbia. Big
Bend and Bridge River are the names of the
new districts which have been explored by
Government surveyors. Tracks have been
opened and large numbers of miners have
pushed into the new fields. The Victoria Col
orist thinks it is able to I" see time in the not
far distant future when British Columbia will
be able to assert a pre-eminence over even Aus
tralia and California" r-.la GEIM VIZ
EB- A young Italian lady, daughter of a
farmer near Monteforte, in the province of
Avellina, recently stabbed to death e notori-
| GUS bandit Muisa, who had broken into her IA
theirs house, and who was treated there to some
refreshments, as matter of protection against
his murderous intentions While the young
girl approached him under the pretext of tax
ing from him an empty plate, she stabbed him
with her stiletto so effectively that death en-
sued Immediately. The reward of five thou
sand francs offered by the authorities for his
capture has been paid to this plucky girl.
EB- The Indians of the plains are again on
the war path. A party of two hundred In
dams attacked coach on Butterfeld's Ex-
press route, last Sunday week, near Downess
Spring. Six of the passengers and the express
messenger were killed. The savages after
wards burned the buildings at Downess Spring
and Bluff Station, together with a very large
amount of other valuable property.
Es- 1t is said that the Iturbide family have
renounced all claims which they may have to
the Mexican throne, for the sum of 100000
each. The founder of the family was Angus
tin de Iturbide, who was also the author of
Mexican independence. 1t will be recollected
how, in 1928, he resigned the imperial crown,
on condition of leaving the country, and re-
ceiving yearly allowance during life of $685.
900. This did not prevent his returning and
attempting to reclaim the throne, the next
year. But, whatever may be the merits of
such a remuneration now, the fact, as announce
ed, is an item of some interest historically
E- Some time since the authorities of Bale,
Switzerland, pardoned amurderer on condit on
chat he would emigrate to the United States
This action coming to the knowledge of the
United States Consul, he sent up protest. in
which he said that "these States are not penal
settlements" and that the offender would not
be permitted to land on our shores, but would
be sent back at the charges of those who may
send him out"
We AT Tltusville, Pennsylvania, a young
man who was having barrels of petroleum
empted from his wagon into receiving tank,
slipped into the oil, and before help could
reach him became sardine.
BY- 1t seems that religious intolerance still
exists in Spain to degree worthy of the days
of the Inquisition. An Englishman who sick
ened and died of the cholera, in Murcia, was
abandoned by everybody during his illness,
and after his death was refused burial by the
clergy, in the cemetery, while no landholder
dared give the corpse ground enough to hide
At last the' remains were packed in straw, and
sent to the British consul at Carthagena.
EY- The Pittsburg Commercial says that it
is proposed to lay down twelve miles of tubing
from Pit Hole to Titusville, for the conveyance
of oil without the delay and expense of team
ing. The following is the estimate ALLOWING
two thousand barrels of oil per day to pass
through the tube, sixty thousand barrels of oil,
at the present rate of teaming, would pay for
the whole capital stock, $4,000, in thirty days.
EY- A fellow was arrested in Boston the
other day, for robbing cripple of pair of
crutches. Such bastard as that would steal
the coins off his dead mothers eyes.
EY- 1t is rumored that an English whist
player has challenged the French whist-play-
ers to play one hundred rubbers at s1OO rub
Der, and $4,000 extra on the greatest number.
The Washington Star describes novel arti-
Gle which has been sent by one of our consuls
in England to the State Department, and is to
be presented to the President. 1t seems to BE-
a device adopted to indicate the English opin-
ion on American affairs, and consists of two
stone rings linked together, cut from solid
piece of sandstone. The rings are about ten
inches in diameter, and contain the following
sentence carved and painted on their sides -
"The link of the people, North and South,
should be Unity. 1863
Brother G., in times of revivals and
protracted meetings, always stepped in and
took charge of the singing. He was very fond
of that interminable song that begins with,
Where, o where, is good old Adam 2" and
might end with the last man. He had passed
through the patriarchs and prophets of the
olden time, and the disciples and blessed wo-
men of the New Testament when John the
Baptist occurred to him. where, o where, is
John the Baptist? Safe in the promised land.
He went up"-but still there was a difficulty in
fixing the Baptist's ascension. At length,
with desperate energy, he put it through. "He
went up without any head on, safe in the prom
Isl d land
I'd 1t is said that several seizures of arms
and metallic cartridges have lately been made
at the Suspension Bridge on their way across
the border. -.a
ER- Missouri papers contain frequent no.
tees of clergymen throwing up their pastoral
charge, in order to escape the test oath.
EB- About 10000 guns are stored at the
Springfield armory, a rafting renovation and re-
construction. Two thousand were lately re-
ceived in one lot from Springfield, ILL.,