The Portland daily press., 1867-07-03
Varieties.

writing from Ann ArbOr, Michigan, says Lnat
the place owes its name to the circumstance OF
two gentlemen coming there twenty or thirty
years ago, each having wife whose Christian
name was Ann - b't7 s5tA Stb1
The American Antiquarian Society have
accepted an invitation to attend a Congress
of Antiquarians at Antwerp on the 25th Of
August next and have appointed as their del
egates Hon. j. Lothrop Motley, Ii. D.; Hon.
John Il. Bartlett of Rhode Island; 7. Bigelow
Lawrence, Esq, Consul-General of the United
States at Florence, and DIR. Joseph Sargent Of
Worcester. ~ '''aa 10. a3-i- = lEi-a.. i.iH
Some OF Santa Annals friends are endeav-
oring to make it appear that he went to Mexi-
co at the instigation of Mr.. Seward. EiTit
While Longfellow was translating Dante,
he submitted the labors of week to his friends
Norton and Lowell every Wednesday evening
They as well as the poet are among the best
Dantean scholars of the country. ga
The London Star gives currency to ru-
NOR that mfr. James Gordon Bennett, aJr., Of
the New York Herald intends to bring out
daily paper in London ere long,
"A newspaper correspondent says that the
whole Presidential party "swam" in punches,
whiskey and champagne during the whole stay
in Massachusetts,. .-. D.
: Gen. Siekles has seized a savings bank in
Charleston, for refusing to pay principal and
interest to some United States soldiers who
were depositors before the war. We guess he
served the bank right.
+ There Is an army horse in Virginia which
exhibits the most emphatic aversion to "blue"
/ Ho nil o1}N Ia oacb
him in blue coat or jacket; gets frantic and
wants to tear it of. H.
/! Recent returns show that in the division
of Bhaugule, India, which includes the San
thai country, one thousand five hundred per-
sons have been killed by tigers in the last six
years. In Assam seven hundred and thirty
three have been killed. and four thousand four
hundred and seventyfour tigers have been
killed by hunters in the Same period. "a
Queen Victoria is among the Admirers Of
Tuppsr's poetry. Tennyson is not. If the
poet laureate should die, would her majesty
appoint tho Proyerbial Philosopher his sue
esssor?
1t is said that jeff Davis has accepted an
invitation from the proprietor of the White
Sulphur Springs, In Catawba, North Carolina,
to visit that place on his return from Canals,
and he will be there with his family in July
or August. t4t4 rl-..,L
A curious case arose in the Irish law courts
last month. A purchaser bought property
out Of the Landed Estates Court, and got his
deed of conveyance duly signed by the judge.
Some nonths afterwards it was found that the
Court had given away a lsasehold interest
which it had no power to deal with. A party
concerned applied for correction Of the error,
and the judge issued an order under pain OF
attachment, calling on the purchaser to come
in and have the conveyance cancelled, but the
purchaser appealed, and the court above, con-
sisting Of the Lord Chancellor and the Lord
Justice ofAppeal, held that when once judge
ofthe Landed Essstes conrt signed the convey
ancs, he ceased to have control over it, and his
act became irrovoeable "The judge, being the
creature Of the statute, was utterly powerless
to undo what he had DONE"
The Home Journal, organ Of fashionable
society, says the handsomest lady in America
is Miss Emily schomberg, Of Philadelphia.
But. as our great jurists say, Quaere We
hold that some Of our Maine bellies surpass in
beauty any "Dutch Venus" in Christendom.