The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-10-05
Varieties.


The San Antonio (Texas) Herald says that
no courts will be held in Boerne, Kendall
| county, because of an Indian raid into the
town and settlement. Many of the settlers
have gone in pursuit, and those who have re-
mained at home are afraid to leave their fami-
lies to go to town-henee no jurymen.
| They have queer idea OF prohibition" in
| Vienna. The police recently threatened a
| lager-beer seller to fine him heavily If he did
not increase the size of his glasses.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln publishes the un-
welcome fact that her income-$17O0 year
is insufficient for her proper support, and that
she has been compelled to offer for sale many
| costly articles which she would otherwise
| gladly keep. She desires to return to SPRING
field; but to dwell there, and entertain the
hosts of visitors that would descend upon her,
would require larger outlay than she can af-
| ford Hence she is compelled to sell articles
not absolutely needed.
The Gardiner journal thinks Griffith
Gaunt was the only story really worth reading
that the Atlantic ever published" De gusti-
bus non est dispotdndum.
Edwin Forrest is said to be recent con-
vert to Spiritualism. Which SOFT? The liquid
or the imponderable?
The late hail storm in Philadelphia was
painful occurrence. Half million panes of
glass were broken.
The London Musical Standard announces
that Mario and Grisi are about to make tour
in this country.
A countryman, at Bury assizes, was in
dicted and arraigned for stealing goose; but
the accusation was false, for he brought
neighbor of his who swore positively that he
remembered that very goose in his possession
ever since it was goslng. An Irishman,
who was prisoner for stealing gum hearing
| this successful defence, prevailed on one of
his countrymen to swear that he remembered
the gun in his possession ever since it was a
pistol.
| -Readerl did you ever enjoy the ecstatic
bliss of courting? You didn't Then you had
better get little gal-an-try.
A foreign journal announces that the rail-
| way from Paris to Strasburg has now three
story cars, for first, second and thirdclass pas
| sengers.
The latest bit of gossip about the Prince of
Wales is given in Homburg letter to the
London Morning Post: ssThe Prince Of Wales
|
Baden, and makes pleasure excursions. How
different is the life of the unhappy Princess of
| Wales! The Prince comes over here OCCASION
ally with one or two friends, and they try their
luck at the tapis uert, but hear are not gain
ing fortunes"
1t is reported from Berlin that Count Bis
marck will soon resign his portfolio as Minis
ter for Foreign Affairs, in order to devote him
self more exclusively to his duties as Chancel-
lor of the Bund. He will retain his seat as
president of the Cabinet. Herr Won Savigny
and Herr Won Werther are spoken of as his
successors in the foreign Office
The New York Evening Mail says: "Ten-
nyson, the English laureate has a street nam
ed after him in Boston. Holmes, the Massa-
ehusetts laureate, has hole named after him j;
it is called Holiness Hole"
Some cottages are advertised for sale at
Taunton, England, and in the advertisement
it is stated that "each of these houses will give
the franchise to the occupier under the new
Reform Bill"
The convicts of the penitentiary at Michi-
gan City, Ind, appeared to be leaking out of its
hospitable walls in some mysterious manner
last week, when thorough overhauling Of the
concern disclosed sixty feet tunnel under the
walls, 1t was stopped up. But seven of the
convicts had gone, lever to return-if they
can help it.
Pierce Butler Fanny Kemble's husband,
is now thought to have been poisoned to death
by his negroes If she was correct as to the
way he used to beat them, then he deserved to
be.
Ia off on al 0k
twenty years, took part in concert at Stein
way Hall, New York, a few evenings since
The. hall was crowded, and the great pianist
played with exceeding power. He stands in
the front rank of all the pianists in the world
and perhaps at the head of that rank He has
been well described as "a real lion of music
with some of the best qualities of the lamb. "
His style is eminently popular, in the best
sense of the word. De Meyer performs almost
exclusively his own difficult and brilliant mu-
sic. and in such manner as to kindle the en-
tbusiasm of all audiences. He not only takes
the masses by storm, but pleases the most cul-
tiyated ears. We hope TO hear him in our spa
eious new hall in the course Of the fall or win
| ter.
Great discomfort prevails among the work
men of Paris on account of the dearness o.
bread. A week OF two ago placards wer'
found on several houses in the Faubourg st
Antoine with the following threatening in
scription: lie pain douze sous on ie piomo'
Similar placards were torn down Dy 'ne Po"'e
in the Faubourg du Temple
The death of Sir Frederick bruce mas
oo,,s.a rro,ound grief in England. he Is eu'
-, -, Iosa as a man than as one OF the
,..looatists in the Queens service
r..,as saws it is no secret that it was in &C
nv 90 with his repeated advice and exhorta.
: - that n wise overture toward settlement
: IS the Alabama claims was made by LORD
: Derby's government, and he "always cherish
ed the hope that he would be able to rendel
his country the service of removing fertile
ground of contention from the path Of the two
governme nts, and thus bring them into close
and more friendly relations" There is no hit
tie discussion as to who shall be appointed his
successor at Washington, and there is much
feeling as to the importance OF obtaining a man
who shall display his spirit and carry out Ms
purposes.
The reading of the Emperor Maximilian'
will lately took place in Vienna in presence
Prince Hohenlohe, First Grand Master OF the
Court; of Baron de Salzburg, President OF 'ht
Marshalate Of the Court; and of NJ hadone'A
Prefeet of Miramar, who had been orue'ou y,
this purpose to Vienna. The royal fanny 80 -
Belgium, it appears, desire to ASSUME
: of the Empress Charlotte .,..,odv avar
!. "A Boston paper asks; pla a;.cuIot;on any & Of
!, travel beyond the limits OF 1no n'..orao"
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