The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-06-28
VARIETIES.

Everybody is talking about the whipping
case in Cambridge, Mass In that classic town,
ayoung woman sixteen years old, whispered in
school and contumaciously refused to be
whipped for it, resisting with all her might. 1t
took two assistants to hold her while the teacher
administered chastisement with q strap, and
third assistant played the piano, all the
school marching round, round, round-y, to
drown the screams of the victim. Cambridge
has long enjoyed distinguished reputation
Tor refinement, and perhaps fogging to slow
music may be allowed to be refinement of
torture.
1t is believed that by the 10th of next
month the Great Eastern will be in readiness
to sail from Valentia, and once more attempt
the laying of the Atlantic cable. There are
200 miles of new cable on board the Great
Eastern, and the machinery, both for paying
outand picking up, is said to be the product Of
.ihe best skill that England could bring into
requisition.
The editor of the Gardiner Home Journal
has the collecting" mania in new form. Hell
striving to procure one number of every news
paper in the world, and invites contributions
rom any of his readers who may light upon
anything very rare" in the newspaper line.
An English paper relates that the Rev.
Paul Hamilton, on receiving the presentation
20 the church and parish of Broughton, ne
Edinburgh, preached farewell sermon to the
aides of Ayr: and, not little to the surprise
If his fair auditory, gave out his text AND
hey fell upon PauPs neck, and kissed him
Pages picture of "Farraguti in the Shrouds
If the Hartford" is not battle scene, but gives
)nly portrait of the Admiral with the mast
head and the rigging, painted by drawings
made by the artist on board the vessel. An
lbrasion appears on the lower side of the
ound top,just over the head Of the Admiral,
,aused by a fragms mt of a shell striking
here.
"A Memphis policeman who killed q negro
while ago, was tried by military commission
lud sentenced to nine years in the State Prison.
He has now been released. is reinstated in the
police force, and the city government is consid-
ring the question of paying him for the time
If his Incarceration, and the amount which he
xpended for legal advice.
An exchange says that Hon. Anson Bur-
llngame has purchased tract of land near
San Mateo Of HOO acres, and proposes to be-
come resident of California as soon as his mis-
ion to China is ended
-Guisot is preparing for the press the Sec
ond volume of his Religious Meditations,"
and is correcting the last proof sheet of the
Eighth and final volume of his Memoirs"
The Princess Mary was married in London,
,n the 11th inst, to Francis Lewis Paul Alex
inder Prince Won Teok of Hungary, lately an
ficer In the Austrian service. The ceremony
vas unattended by state pageantry or pomp.
The New York Tribune says the injury
which befel Mr.. w. L. Garrison, last winter,
lis more serious than was at first apprehended,
md is likely not only to disable him for a long
lime, but to retard considerably the execution
Of the great work he has undertaken on Slav-
cry and its Abolition in the United States.
In the portrait of Gen. Grant upon Leutzes
easel, the general holds upon his knee a scrap
Of paper, upon which he has just pencilled the
famous telegraphic despatch: 81 mean to fight
it out on this line if it takes all summer"
The new Tariff bill is a very yoluminous
one, and will occupy the House for at least q
week.
"A Canadian journal seems to incline 20 the
SHf@@-OA eA1ss @AASAA@ho Will OccidIc WdE against
the United States, because some fool In Con-
gross has proposed repeal of the neutrality
laws. We are not quite prepared to believe she
will do so, becouse that would be to open the
way to Canada for the Fenians.
AN fears about the cholera appear to be at
an end. 1t is supposed not to be in season.
Medical men argue that it has lost much If its
old power, and has become a very tame disease.
Like political battles, it Is much affected by
"local causes"
Several meteoric stones fell at Nashville
on the 18th, near the railroad depot. They
were of blush color, and were quite hot when
first discovered. Biologists say that nothing
similar has been found in any part of the
world. Two specimens have been forwarded
East for further examination.
Mime. Julie de Marguerite, well known In
New York and Philadelphia as dramatic wri-
TOR and criticdied in the latter city, on the 2lst
in it., of heart disease.
Gen. Longstreet was recently serenaded at
New Orleans. He said he had no platform on
which to address his hearers. Ifhe approached
Mr.. Johnson he was called a traitor; if he went
towards the radicals he was called rebel;
feace.
In an article on the relations between Can
a la and the United States the Montreal Wit
n IS says: "Copperheadism and Fenianism are
o lie in sympathy, and he can hardly be, true
British Canadian who sympathizes with eli
ther.
The "KIadleradatsh," the German Punch,
brings this week a splendid and significant
wood cut. 1t represents mighty big spider,
adorned with Emperor Napoleon's head, wait
ing quietly in its large web, while all kinds of
insects, representing the other European
States, are flying and caught in it to be de-
voured in time by the Imperial spider. Be-
meath are Rouher's words in the Corps Legisla-
tiff, 'Honest Neutrality and Liberty of Ac-
ton r.