The Portland daily press., 1867-09-10
Varieties.

Count Henry Esterhazy has just married
the Countess Rossi, daugher of the late Ma
dame Sontag.
The wife and two children of colored man
in Lynchburg, Va, were accdently poisoned
on Saturday morning, through ignorance in
mstaking tartar emetic for cream of tartar,
which they had put in biscuit Their condition
is critical.
M. Nsrcisse Michelet, uncle of the cele-
brated author of "L'Oiseau" and 'LTnsecte,"
died lately at Voscoeil, France, at The age of
ninety. He was working printer, and the
senior of the fraternity in France. In obe-
dience to his express desire his funeral took
place without Catholic rites. The mayor OF
his rommnre snnertntended the "civip inter-
ment.
An announcement is made in the Irish pa
pers which will effectually prevent the posi-
bility of a gathering which has always been
a disgrace to the district, and the cause ofmuch
misery. The owners of the ground on which
Donnybrook Fair has been held in years past
inform the public that no fair viii be held this
year.
The organized trades of Sheffield have
passed resolution declaring their determina-
ton to hold no communication with the Saw
grinders Union until that Union has purged
itself Of all completely in the diabolical acts of
Broadhead and his wicked accomplces."
The vulgar snobbishness of calling mans
wife his lady, was well rebuked lately by
Connecticut hotel-keeper. Under the respon-
sible pressure of high regard at the same
same time for the moralities and for the Kings
English, he positively refused the hospitalities
Of his tavern to a passing traveller who en-
tered on the register his party as "John Smith
and Lady," The upright landlord, in the most
downright manner, spake certain words to this
effect: "If this woman is your wife, don't be
afraid to say so on the book, and the best in the
house is at your service; if she is only your
lady, our rooms are all full"
I'm the course of excavations at Hull, Eng
land, the navvies have come upon stratum of
dark SOIL in which number of trees in hori-
zontal position were met with. They are oak,
in excellent condition, and remarkably hard.
Besides these interesting remains of long past
age, large number of acorns and hazel nuts
were found, and some oyster and mussel shells.
The discovery is more interesting to geologists,
as the trees were found at a depth of about
nineteen feet below the waterlne of the river.
"A converted Digger Indian, John Wild,
brought up on the Hawaiian Islands, and con-
verted there, has returned TO his people in
California as a missionary. He was carried off
to the islands when boy, eight years old, and
has been for years devout Christian.
A few days since, a little boy in Saltfield
G. w. while strollng through field disturbed
| a nest of humble bees in the ground, and was
attacked by the spiteful occupants with great
fury. The lad received one sting on the back
of the neck, just below the occipital bone, the
effect of which was rapid swelling and severe
inflammation, which gradually extended over
greater part of the body, causing intense suf-
fering. The attentions of skillful physicians
were bestowed in vain, and the victim expired
next day. Evidently the sting of the bee had
been inserted in some extremely sensitive part
OF the body, and the effects pervaded the whole
| system, finally reaching vital point
The destruction of the famous picture,
"Peter Martyr" by Titan, in the fire which
burnt down the Church of San Zanipolo at
Venice, is universally deplored by the artistic
world. 1t must have happened, correspond
ent thinks, by aggravated carelessness. There
is story of Lord Thurlow saying to country
idiot: "Why, you must be an active man; you
must have improved yourself; nobody could be
naturally so stupid as you are" He thinks the
same might be said of the Venetians, who con-
trived to set fire to the Church of San Zanipo-
To- at Venice, as it really requires tact aud ta-
lent to burn an old Italian church.
The Fontainebleau murderess, Madame
Frigard, has confessed her crime. She says
she poisoned Madame Mertens with prussic
acid.
-Rumors have lately been prevalent that
the leaders of the party of action in Italy were
| assembled on the territory OF the hepuonc Vi
| San Marine with the object of preparing
rising in the Pontiical States But TINS re-
| ro-t "a Aatlv contradicted by the Government
VI "s ;p,erest,ng piece of news, both from an
| ,,iouarian and historical point ofview, comes
a.a,, Rome. There has been brought to light
NV means of excavations in the grounds of the
| Palatinate, near the palace of the Caesars, the
ANTIQUE grotto Lupercale. Here once stood an
altar of the god Pan, and tradition says that
when the cradle which bore Romulus and Re-
mus was cast upon the bank of the Tiber, these
young adventurers crawled into this grotto,
where they were sucked by a wolf. Hence
the name Lupercale. This grotto wss respect
ed until the time of Augustus, but it subse-
quently disappeared with other heathen affairs,
destroyed by the hands of the Christians. NJ
Gori, who has the credit of this discovery, came
upon il while following up the course of pure
stream of water which fell into the great Iar-
quin sewer, but which came from an unkno"h
source. He found that this stream was ied oy
waters which came from the heart OF tne ana
Tia forest into the Grotto Lupercae ana u p.in si
foot of the altar to Pam OF the sanctneu s1',,ets
which secured this water but few s,rasm Tas has
remain. The source d of 'uo the temple its deity.
] survived the temple ana INC ''f