The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-11-01
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prietor, AN inhabitant of X lausenbero i'm Tran
syivania. The instrument was made about
seventy years ago, and is in a very fair state of
preservation. On one Of the panels il painted
the portrait OF the great musician vt the ACE
Of twenty. 1t il supposed that it was a gift
to him from the maker. s. A. VoggeI, OF Pesth.
The wife of the famous Ned Buntine died
few days ago in the poorhouse at Nashville,
Tenn. She was Cuban, named Maria Cor
dova, of exceeding beauty in her younger days
and had led life OF strange adventure; first,
as cigar girl, in New Orleans then the wife
of the rowing Ned, mistress OF Ben McCullOch.
the Texan Ranger, resident of Mexican con-
vent for ten years, and then downward
course which ended in poverty and pauper's
death. 80 a.a .l rr.. l.l l.
4 The state of Massachusetts, has now a very
efficient system OF aid to invalid soldiers and
their families. Each disabled soldier receives
six dollars a month, and the families of dead
or disabled soldiers get not exceeding eight
dollars a month. lH
The last match is one between two Yankee
telegraph repairers, who have wager as to
which of the two can first climb one hundred
telegraph poles in succession. The match will
nectieut. rHNan..~
"A Madrid paper says scientific researches
have established the fact that the Pyrenees
have, in The last twenty years, lost thirty me-
tres in altitude Supposing the depression 10
continue, our worthy contemporary calculates
that, after the lapse Of one thousand years, the
chain that separates Spain from France will
realize the celebrated words, I'll ny a plus do
Pyrenees' by disappearing altogether, in
which case the Ebro will fall into the Bay of
Biscay instead of emptying itself into tho
Mediterranean. slri sri
"A railroad train on the Little Miami line
in Ohio, was not only smashed by a careless
collision on Saturday but the cars also caughE
fire. One man was burned TO death and sew.
eral others were badly injured. In France,
the other day, q railroad train was thrown of
the track by a misplaced switch, and within
forty-eight hours afterwards the switch-tender
was arrested, fined one thousand francs and
sentenced to four months Imprisonment. This
is an effective way Of furnishing such careless
ness; but perhaps it wonId be still better tu
adopt Punchs suggestion and strap director
of the railroad company to the engine OF eve
ry train. asr Flg
"A brave sailor voluntarily allowed himself
to be lowered into the Hoosac tunnel shaft 10
few days ago, in order to discover if any vie
tims OF the recent disaster were still living
The exploit nearly proved fatal to the noble
hearted tar. No vestiges of life were discover
able.
Sister Patrocinio the famous ''bleeding
nun" of Spain, has lately died near Madrid.
Thirty-four years ago she was publicly tried
for asserting that the marks of the nails, COM
monty called the stigmdtd of our Lord, had ap-
peared miraculously in her hands and feet,
that the wounds refused to heal, and that
blood had continued for months to flow from
them. IL was suspected that either In a frenzy
OF religious enthusiasm or with a view to i'm
posture, Patrocinio had inflicted these wounds
upon herself, and had purposely kept them
open, persistently encouraging the blood to
flow. She was brought to trial and foutd
| guilty of fraudulent imposition, and condemn
ed to punishment. She confessed her guila
and received the absolution OF the church. \
| woman with much natural force of character
she subsequently acquired such ascendancv
over Queen Isabella, that she became the Chief
link of communication between the Pope'I
nuncio and the Spanish throne Speaking 81
her in 1865, Mr.. Grant Duff calls her zone OF
those personages half enthusiast half rogut
who are SO common in Catholic countries .
Latterly she withdrew from Madrid and from
open intercourse with the Queen, but her in
fuence was believed to be unabated and he.
death is said to have been attended by suspi-
eious circumstances.
The writer of story in the November AZ.
| a -
lumbermen in the old days. This swagan waI
made of beans, pork, bread and molasses all
stirred up in great kettle and boiled together,
There's nothing" adds the hero of the story
you can cut and haul on all day like swagan."
An exchange says; Suppose man and a
| girl Were married-the man thirty years
| old, and the girl five years; this makes tho
man seven times as old as the girl; they livI
| together until the girl is ten years old Thu
makes him forty years old, and four times al
old as tie girl; they live together until she is
fifteen, the man being forty five; this makes
the man three times as old; they still live un-
til she is thirty years old; this makes the man
sixty, and only twice as old, and so on. Nov,
how long would they have to live to make the
| girl as old as the man?''l .'i
An interesting episode occurred at a re-
| cent meeting of pioneers" in Newark, Ohio
| Among the persons present was woman ono
| hundred and two years old, who was born in
| Culpepper county. Virginia, in 1865, and re-
moved in 1893 with her husband and six chill
dren to what was then the Far West" walk
ing every mile of the way, and carrying her in
iant, a year old, in her arms The only viii
looas Of anu S;za tbaxy naosa6 IN tba;r
westward, were Wheeling and Winchester.
Virginia. The old lady is still vigorous and
sourd OF body and mind, and lives two miles
from Newark on farm.
The Springfield Republican now issues a
double sheet on Monday mornings, making
three double sheets a week
Professor Blot advises butchers to cut
their meat more carefully, and thinks tho
marketing should be done by the feminine
head of the family. ...u,..
DIR. Holland says, in his lecture on the
woman\ question, that Every woman who
chooses a husband, exercises the right of
suffrage to all intents and purposes. But
how about those who don't choose husband?
The London News says OF Admiral Farra-
| gut: Perhaps the event which has most pos
sessed the popular imagination was the bold
| dash past the impregnable batteries which
| commanded the entrance To the barbor of Mo
bile. The admiral, tied amongst the rigging of
his own vessel, 50 that not even a wound should
cause him to loose his hold, and that the whole
scene should DO beneath his eye, leading the
way through the storm oi cannot shot, and
running the gauntlet of probable destruction
with dashins courage and brilliant success, -
| a picture which is as indelibly impressed ON
| the minds of Englishmen as ON those OF Amer
| leans From that time no one has ever desliei
| to dispute the possession, by the American ma
| w, of the highest qualities of seamanShip.
Fifteen Sisters of Charity have gone from
New Orleans to Memphis, to act as yello" ie-
| yer nurses.
1t is stated that George w. Curtis VINO
has been unwell, has so much work on MS
hands that he is not lecturing this fall
Tho Brooklyn Union says that 'he strielns
printers have been conducting themselves III
very disorderly manner. Some OF 'nen n'u-
aged ON Sunday night to gain access to the
| composing room, when the type IN some ol mo
cases" was pied and the forms unlocked
| The proprietors of the Eagle, UNI H. anu
| Times, refuse to employ those printers ""o
| struck for higher pay.