The Portland daily press., 1867-11-13
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| during the recent conference at Medicine
/ Creek an effort was made by certain white
men to draw out the ideas of Little Raven,
one of tie Chiefs, respecting a future life.
| He was told ofa Heaven where the good all
| go, and CT Hell where the bad were punished.
Little Raven said that if He'll was the place
of punishment described it might do for white
man, but not for Indian. The Indian, he said,
would go to the good place.
The Chicago Post, while commenting the
thrifty industry of the Vernonters ays thai
they know "how to mingle the useful with the
agreeable" and that "intelligently directed
labor can afford to amuse itself when its mon
ey making task for the day is throughly done"
1t says pleasantly: ave are told bs a gentle
man who travelled through the entire State
last summer, that from what he saw, he
should judge that the young men everywhere
| finished up their farm work by about three
| o'cl elk p NJ. and than came to town to play
base ball" Happy Vermont.
South Carolina will probably be safe from
| fears OF famine this winter. Letters from that
| State say that the most abundant corn crop is
now harvesting known for many years. 1t is
selling for fifty cents per bushel, but there Is
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with.
The New York Leader, of last week, in
reprinting from the Atlantic Monthly poem
entitled Castles" by t. b. Aldrich, makes
one of the funniest typographical errors on
record. In the second line of this couplet-
"well, Wen, 1 think not on these two,
But The old wound breaks out anew
the Leader prints woman" instead Of.
wound" The context renders this emenda-
ton rather rich.
"A clerk in the Vincennes Qnd. } ost Office
has collected from the letters which pass
through his hands fifty-six different modes of
mis-spelling the name OF that city.
Among the many economies Of the mu-
nicipal administration in Paris is the sale of
the yearly "mud crop" In 1923 this yielded
only $4,000. it now brings $4,000, and when
left for some time in rotting tanks is sold for
manure, at the increased valuation OF 100000
Three oil pipes have been laid across the
Alleghany River from Oil City to the track Of
the Allegheny Valley Railroad. In order to
prevent these pipes from being carried away
by ice or driftwood they ha 7e been embedded
in the bottom OF the river.
The Echoes of the Clubs speaks of clever
rltse OF the French Emperor. at which Parish
ans are delighted. 1t seems that soon after tho
Exhibition was opened it struck the Emperor
| that it would be advisable, as well as kind
ness, to allow the army every facility for seeing
| it. Accordingly he corresponded with the
the tariff of admission for ali soldiers N Uhii.-
form. The Commissioners were obstinate, and
would not accede to the Emperor's request.
| The Emperor persisted in his application, but
| the Commissioners determined not to reduce
| the price of admission. Accordingly the EN-
peror took to strategy. A battalion Of soldiers
| is required to guard the Exhibition, and the
| Emperor gave orders that the battalion told of
| for this duty should be changed every day. So
the soldiers saw the Exhibition for nothing.
The people of Chicago, net satisfied with
the possession of the "largest telescope in tho
world" desire a place of public resort and
recreation. A writer in the Chicago Tribune
reminds his felow-citizens that London has
Hyde Park, Paris the Bois de Boulogne, Rome
the Corso New York the Central Park, and
Chicago nothing of the kind. 1t is proposed
to build carriageway along the shore of Lake
Michigan; one on the north and the other on
the south side of the Chicago river. This, it is
thought, can be done at a comparatively small
cost. An enthusiastic advo"ate of this plan
thinks Chicago has it in her power to repro
| duce the famous Promenade des ARcldis OF
| Nice
Charles Lamb spoke with an intuitive, not
educated or intelligent, sense of truth, when
bespoke of sunrise an Indifferent affair, in
which there be gay colors and such-like
gauds," only halfcompensating for the loss of
morning maps, and the sweet languor of tho
last moments of our sleep. Poets speak igno-
rantly when they talk Of the "roseate morn
1t is not rosy Everywhere it comes ON with
ghostly gray of color, slow chill in the air,
a sad reluctance in the'east, that is only sor-
rowful, suggestive of nothing that isgay and
hopeful 1t has its beauties; but not its glo-
ries.
What two Frenth towns are like an i'll
fitting garment? Toulon and Toulouse.
Horace Greeley says he fell in love while
he and the object of his alteration were eating
Graham bread. A bran new cause for mutual
admiration.
-"One-Mule-Town is the unique legal
.designation of place in Shasta county, Cali
fornia.
Captain Rodmans son has been married to
Admiral Dahlgren's daughter.
The marriage of the mighty evoker of spir-
its, Mr.. Home, and Madame Moet the cham
payne widow, is announced.
Information has been received at Washing
ton that Sir Edward Thornton has really been
| appointed by the British Government as Min
| lister to the United States. Sir Edward holds
| the matter under advisement and the British
/ Government is awaiting his acceptance or de-
elination.
| Insurance is becoming universal. and late
| iy there has been an addition to the already
numerous family of insurance companies. A
| "Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Com
| pany" has lately been formed in Hartford
| Connecticut 1t is the first of its kind in this
country, but boiler insurance is well establish
| ed in England.
Probably the oldest book extant ever pub
| lished in America, is now in the possession of
| Gen J. w. Phelps, of Vermont. 1t is a die
| tionary of the Aztec language, and was print
| ed in the City of Mexico in 151-neariy nifty
| years before the landing OF the FiSrlms at
| plymouth, and more than tnr.S years pre'i-
| Gus to the establishment " 'oS az
| jamestown, Virginia.
80 news from Capt, Hall, the Arctic ex-
| - states that he will prosecute his search
r. ,be remains of Sir John Franklin vigorous
l., durinc the coming winter, and will endeavor
TO reach INC lOcd'lty WHtIc, lTOm Ine reports
and traditions of the Esquimaux, he believes
Sir John was buried. From some hostile Es-
auimanx he learned that at about the time Of
the loss of Sir John Frankln's vessel, soma
white men. carried a dead body on shore and
bnilt A brick vault which they carefully ce-
uenteJ and in which they deposited the
cornse aiterward covering the vault with
heavy stone flags This body Mr.. Hall believes
20 he the remains of Sir John, and his inten-
tion is to visit the locality and satisfy himself
upon the point, if possible. BE has secured
many valuable articles formerly owned By Sir
Johns party.
Rev. DR.. Chaplin says that man living
amid the activity of the nineteenth century Is
a condensed Methusaleh.
"A great deal fwork, we are told, mas osen
performed in Chicago this year. in the way Oh
raising the streets to grade. At the presen'
rate of progress it will not be many years o
fore the entire city will have oeeh elevs'eu
so,,a ,sn faet on an average above its original
level,