The Portland daily press., 1867-09-21
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The Turin Gazette attributes to General
Prim the wish TO proclaim, as King of Spain,
the Duke of Aosta, second son of Victor En-
manuel. .H.nH..H .Ha.
1T is said that, when at the Augsburg sta
ton, the reigning King of Bavaria respectfully
kissed the hand of the Empress Eugenie, she
condesended to return the compliment by kis-
sing him on both cheeks, "a fiattering distinG-
ton which her Majesty never before granted to
any sovereign" .... .H
The swindling shopkeepers OF London are
still looked after At petty session in Upper
Hall, Islington, about one hundred tradesmen
bad to answer summonses for possessing fraud
ulent weights and measures. The usual lines
were inflicted. H.r-.. .l ....
1 The last company Of conspirators against
the Turkish government have been sentenced.
Nearly all of them were of prominent families
of Constantinople. Twenty were exiled, for
terms Of fifteen, ten, eight and four years; the
rest were overlooked.
a "A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette,
who asserts that he has no constitutional an
tlpathy to the feline race, proposes tax upon
cats. His argument is brief and easily under
stood. Dogs are taxed; cats, from their "extra.
ard;nary saltatory activity aro &c -. -,
ORDINARY sa''a.ors sosore they should
be taxed. IS. U BIZ fas.a
b, The Emperor of Austria has sent one hun
dred thousand forms to the burgomaster OF
Frank fort, for the restoration of the Cathedral.
Mrs. Caroline Gonld Hildreth, widow OF
Richard Hildreth, the historian, died of cholera
at Naples on the 18th of August. She bad
Just arrived in that city from Rome, accompa-
MED by her son, and died in hospital.
M. Beaudelaire, a French poet, known as
the translator of De Quincy and Poe, died in
Paris ON the 1st of September.
/, Some days ago mean scoundrel called
upon several girls in Philadelphia who work
on sewing machines of their own, and employ
ed them to come to his establishment on Ches-
nut street ON the following day. He gave them
his card, and promised to send for the machines
early in the morning, that no time might DO
lost Accordingly q man drove up to their
doors and took away their machines. The
girls went to the place designated, but found
no such individual in the neighbourhood, and
have not heard of their lost machines yet
L --lue IeXHS OluplCCuOo NVuSho"'cS SN -
| PLANTATION of its extraordinary name. "Jimpie-
| cute is a compound word, derived from iimple
| and cute. Jimple is corruption OF simple,
and was originally applied to sophomores or
the Use fools of college, but is obsolete every
where except in Texas"
Rock crystal, clear enough for lenses, has
| been discovered in Arkansas. 1t has hereto
| fore been imported from Brazil and Scotland,
it not having been discovered in this country
According to n Vienna report, the ques-
ton of conveying to Paris the remains of the
Duke of Reichstadt, son of the Emperor Ma
poleon /, ard Maria Louias, was raised at the
meeting of the French and Austrian Emperors
at Salzburg. The Emperor Napoleon has, it is
added, already received an official assurance
that no opposition will be made to his wishes
| in this matter. .,e !.sH. .aHH.
| "A Paris letter states that the French Min
| ister of War, on dismissing the troops en-
camped at Chalons, made use of the following
| significant words: "Messieurs, you have been
studying the theory of fwar; you will soon study
| its practice" et aai @..l
| An eminent clergyman now living, speak
| ing of unjust wills, said it was time there was
law to compel dying men to behave them
| selves. The Boston Transcript thinks some
| statute to protect tbe rights and character o.
| the dead would seem TO be necessary against
| literary libellers. s at.. ary
The hasty recognition OF rebel belligereney
| by the British is constantly discussed by Eng
lish journals The Spectator of Sept. z makes
| the following confession: "We have always
| thought it would have been more decent for
| England to have waited for the arrival OF Mr.
Iincoln's ambassador, Mr.. Adams, and to have
heard respectfully what he had to say before
deciding on a step of this magnitude e,-espe-
| caIly as the delay need not have been, even
then, above forty-eisht hours. There was
/, -uething of rudeness in the manner of an act
81. ,tly almost hurried to prevent hearing
apareh. = arguments against it. But it is
MT. Adams insist on the enormity Of a
not dignified to ""l7 '-H
mere unpoliteness." alvin Booth occurred
zoo The accident to Mr. h, Baltimore, OF
at the Holiday street Theatre, inlay of the
Thursday evening last. In the in tn,
"Apostate" hewas acdden ally stabbe,. .h,
fieshy part of the right hand by dagger in
hands of Mr.. Vandenhoff. Notwithstanding
this mishap. Mr.. Booth played on Friday and
Saturday nights, but il was learned ON Sunday
that he would be compelled to forego an ap-
pearance for few evenings, in consequence of
the infiamed state of his wound.
"A laudable spirit of economy and thrift
pervades the town OF Saybrook, Connecticut,
Judging from the consolatory reflections of
Uncle Baruck b, who had been very sick
i'm midsummer, but soon got about again. In
,enlv To Colonel Higginbottoms inquiry IA to
h;s health. he said. "Wa'al, now, Kurnel, sort
q, middlin'; but I-tell--you," Towering his
voice and shaking his head), "ifI'd died in
hayin' and harvestin', 'twould been more N
forty dullers damidge tu me-" .......
-"The Boston Transcript asks: "If Fitz-
John Porter's case is reopened, will rot the
heirs of Benedict Arnold ask to have his case
in order that the testimony Of
British officers may be taken? ,'e
-Dr. Bellows, in one of his recent letters
from Germany, remarks that "the absence of
any special fashion is great relief in eonti-
mental gatherings There is none of that mo-
notonous adherence to freakish pattern
men at party with their hair dressed all hor-
ribly alike, and their dresses cut by one pair
Of scissors after one tasteless model"
The North British review thinks English
men are satisfied with surface views about
America. 1t adds "rhe ambition of the ordi-
nary British tourist in the States is satisfied
when he has seen Niagara, called at the "hite
house, and been introduced to the Hterdle Oh
Boston, to whom - aftersards refers VII an