The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-08-20
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The Stockton, Cal, Independent states
that the Chinese blackberry pickers of that
place have averaged altogether $500 per day
since June 1st. The berries are found on the
banks of the San joaquin, seven or eight miles
from Stockton. .raa r.l.f s..rff If..
The Memorial Diplomatique has letter
from Trieste, which AYERS that Carlotta was
poisoned before she left Mexico Her physi-
clan is very sure that this causes her peculiar
insanity. 1t is thought she may be cured.
The Spanish Government is about to re-
trench considerably, not only upon next years
budget but also upon that of the present. In
the army and navy departments the reductions
win amount to fifty millions of reals. The de-
crease is to be effected more particularly in the
estimates for the artillery, cavalry, arsenals,
and other branches OF the military marine
In the departments of the other Ministers an
additional twenty millions is to be retrenched,
so as to bring the amount of savings up to sew
enty millions, which will cover the deficit, or
difference between the income and the expen-
diture. .al..4.U
There is Swedish settlement at Berlin,
Illinois. The people are said to be industrious
and thrifty. Four hundred Swedes have just
Joined the settlement.
The London Star revives this old story:
After the Crimean war, young officer in the
House of Commons wore tremendous NOUS
taches ,on which one of the members said,
sMy dear fellow, now that the war is over,
why don't you put your moustaches on the
peace establishment" Had you not better
put your tongue on the civil lst?" was
the prompt retort
On Thursday, as o bank messenger was
passing through Pine street, New York, with a
bag of coin upon his shoulder, some scamp cut
the bag open behind, letting the gold fall in
profusion to the pavement. The immediate
cause of the disaster then endeavored to escape,
WHILE doubtless, his confederates were ready
to Join in the general scramble for the money,
but he was captured by an apple peddler at
the corner of Pine street and Broadway and
locked up by the police.
Cardinal Antonelli has addressed the
three following questions to the representa-
tives Of the four Catholic Powers-France,
Austria, Spain and Portugal: l. What course
to pursue if it should appear plainly that the
Italian Government was touniving at the in
vasion now being planned by the Garibaldians,
do in case the revolutionary party made their
way up to the gates of Rome? 8. And what,
supposing there was any outbreak in Rome it.
self?
I. On the Atlantic seaboard the month of
August seldom passes without a Northeaster
of about twcnty-four hours duration.
The Round Table is of the opinion that
"a high and chivalrous respect for women has
ever been an acknowledged ch haracteri site Of
Southern men,. Perhaps some yankee
schoolmarn," who has sojourned In the South
will enlighten the Round Table in this regard.
Or the newspaper files of the years preceding
the war might be laid under contribution. We
doubt if they would confr m the above conclu-
sion.
After all that has been said of its failure
the crop of Sea Island cotton will be good
one, much better than that of last year. (which
however, was nothing to boast Of
The royal visitors to Paris this year num-
bered in all ifty-eight of whom forty y-five were
sovereigns and princes, three queens, and ten
princesses; this number comprised ten kings,
six reigning princes, nine heirs presumptive,
and one viceroy.
In a recent novel by Edmund About, he
describes his heroine as emerging from the sea
in bathing dress, and adds the following con-
siderations regarding the influence Of dress on
the female character: "a woman's 'modesty
gets humanized by degrees. She who has
danced through couple of seasons, and worn
costumes at few fancy balls, has no longer a
very distinct idea how much it is permitted or
forbidden her to display"
"A story is told of Western politician'
who accused his opponent of making garbled
quotation from well-known speech. To this
the opponent replied: The gentleman ac-
cuses me OF carbing. Now, don't believe ne
can tell the meaning of the word. challenge
him IN do So" This was poser But it did
NOT nose the Western politician. He rose to
.,,o occas;on: "The gentleman desires that
shon,d tell him the meaning Of the word gar
h,e, But, fellow-citizens, decline to do so.
lam not here to supply deficiencies in the gem
tleman's early education. But 1 reiterate the
charge that he has garbled quotation. Per-
haps it is merciful dispensation that he does
MT know what mean by the charge"
The Cincinnati Commercial calls attention
to the fact that Hindman is one of the fore
most men of the South in reconstruction, and
Early is one of the latest
"A patient man, who generally believes that
vbatever is is for the best quietly remarked
the other day that if the rain continued much
lonoer he should be tempted to say the thing
was overdone this time.
A part of the rice crop has already been
lost in some sections of the South, in conse
ouence Of wet weather and low temperature;
but such as remains is reported to be in IA
vorable condition, and the harvest will proba-
ly begin about the end of the present month.
The chief enemies now to be feared are the
rice birds looked for in the cotton districts with
apprehension. But it is hoped that the plant
ers win forestall the predatory iucursions of
these little gluttons, by getting in much Of the
crop before they make their appearance, while