The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-09-05
Varieties.


Captain Beatty, of the United States army,
is at Mansfield, La, for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the number of Federal soldiers who
were killed and died of their wounds at the
battle of Mansfield, preparatory to the removal
of their remains to the National Cemetery at
Alexandra.
The Hartford Courant concludes a clever
parody on Carlyle's rhapsodical rawlings with
the following apostrophic appeal; "Don't shoot
Niagaral Shoot yourself!p
The Boston Post says that Petroleum
v. Nasby is engaged on a story for the Ledger.
1t is to be called mo Good" We trust the title
will be undeserved.
"A planter of Iberville parish, La, has rails
ed some Egyptian cotton this year, the seed Of
which he procured direct from the Agrlcultu-
raj Department iu Washington. He considers
this cotton great improvement upon that
usually grown in Louisiana.
The Victoria Medal awarded by the Royal
Geographical Society, England, to DIR. I. I.
Hayes, Zone of the three Americans, the others
being the late Dr. Kane and the late Professor
Bachc, who have received that testimonial)
for having reached more northern point Of
Arctic land than ever was attained by any pre-
vious explorer, is of solid gold, more than two
inches in diameter, the emblems and inscrip-
tions stamped in relief with exquisite clearness
and the whole very beautiful for the simplicity
and significance of the admirably executed de-
sign. Sir Robert MurchisoD, in transmitting
the medal through United States Minister
Adams took occasion to express, in strong COM
plimentary terms, his sense of the value of DIR.
HavQs's autarDrisa and ayna1itiau
"A religious journal says: "Supposing all
the trails worn this summer at the fashionable
watering places cut off even with the ankles,
how much would woman riss in tue estimation
OF mani Do women rise in the estimation OF
men in proportion to the shortening Of their
garments in the region Of their "ankles?"
Lord Brougham, who is within month of
his ninetieth year, has returned from his estate
at Cannes to his seat at Broughain Hall.
In order to connect the Canterbury Settle
ment with the port of Lyttleton, in New Zea-
land, English engineers have nearly completed
o railway tunnel through volcanic range of
mountains which separated the two places.
The tunnel is to be 1883 yards upwards Of a
mile and half long, was begun in 1851 and to
be completed in five years at a cost of e195, 900
This tunnel affords, it is believed, the first ms
tance where a complete section of an extinct
volcano has been opened out. If the volcano
should happen not to be extinet-such mistakes
have been made the consequences might be
awkward.
-Messrs. Charles Reade and Dion Boucf-
cault are writing, in conjunction, a new seris
story for the Atlantic Monthly, for which they
are to receive larger sum than has yet been
paid by an American periodical to an English
author, with the exception, perhaps, of Mr..
| Dickens. l1
| The people Of Java have rather lively
time of it. According to the latest official sta
tistics in the Tijdschrift vor Nederlandsch, Ja-
va, the tiger has in one single year consumed
exactly one hundred and forty-eight human
beings, and in another year one hundred and
thirty one. The crocodiles cleared an average
of fifty people year, while serpents accounted
for between twenty-five and forty-three. fa
| The French Academy has awarded the
prize of poetry to M. Grenier. The subject Of
\ the poem is 'sThe Death OF Abraham Lincoln
"A preacher, in funeral sermon on a lady
after summing up her good qualities, added
that she always reached her husband his hat
when he called for it, without muttering.
California papers warn the public against
the Newport Town Swindle on the Pacific
coast. They state that agents are palming of
the stock in Eastern markets. a.dr1sbs
The Army and Navy Journal, commenting
on Mr.. Johnson's %drmness," thinks that Lord
Timothy Dexter had he been raised to the Pre-
sidential chair, would have shown some of Mr.
Johnson's special quality. 10
"A story is told of Nantucket man who
| lost hens from his roost. To detect the thief he
placed sharp scythe in position to be clutch
cd by the criminal as soon as he opened the
hen-roost door, The next morning. there was
blood upon the blade, but no hens were missing
The gentleman did not hunt for the wounded
hands, and in a short time went to California
returning after an absence of several years
There used to live in Nantucket one Of the
largest story-tellers for q young man in the
| Commonwealth. He was quite popular, how
ever, had good deal of brass" and on election
days could get out more voters than any other
native of the island. He was "stirrins up
voters one day, and came upon the returned
Californian. Hello, B." said the latter
"gve me a ride to the polls" NO." said B =
with an oath. "A man as put scythes in his
hen-roost shall never ride with me-" B.
\ was never prosecuted for the confession.
A few days since q women of Redfeld,
Iowa. decided to abate the whiskey saloons oI
that place, and they did. They were arrested
and tried before the judge of that place, and
acquitted. Subsequently they were arrested
| again, and taken twenty-five miles before ano-
| ther Justice, and they were again acquitted
after three days trial. -
| The celebrated picture, by Spagnelleto
called "La Virgen de Dolores" for the disco
very of which the Italian Government had
offered a reward ard S5,o00.as purchase money
fanas, or Orphans Church in Lima The war
dens, however, refuse to sell it; they profess to
have known that it was work of art, and had
refused many offers for it; but they were not
aware that its value was so great. Crowds daily
visit the church to see this great picture, which
was summed up by no critic as one yard ot
canvas and pound of paint, not much picture
for 80 big a heap of money. af
| "A letter from Rome, August 10, states that
d,rinr the preceding twenty-four hours the
| deaths from cholera in Rome were only 15;
whereas in Albano, during the three days that
the epidemic has ragged, there have been about
| 200 cases, of which 100 were fatal
| The Tribune's Lima correspondent says;
1.-Two lines of telegraph have just been cOneed'
ed by the Government the first from Callao to
the City of lea, to include all the towns on its
route, has been granted to an American, Mr..
MORSE. The other, from Callao to Lambique
and intermediate places, has been given to Mr..
Carlos Paz Soldan, a Peruvian. Mr.. Morse has
lust concluded two lines of telegraph for go
vernment account between africa and Tecna
and Isley and Arequepa. Telegraphs, railroads
aud moles are the great features that dstin
guish Col. Prado's administration.
The Prince of Wales, whose fondness fo
Paris makes Englishmen grumble, received I
severe "snub" ut La Mabille the other evenin,
from Teresa, one of the queens of the cdrs-cdH
On being informed who was the object of he
rebuke, she remarked: "if be is indeed Prime
|, so much the more reason why he should b
| tauoht how 10 behave himself"