The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-12-12
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has produced deep feeling in England. The
natural bitterness of the Irish element is
strengthened by the warm spmpathies OF the
Liberal Party; and even the "loyal' classes
concede that the execution was an act of ju-
dcial vengeance. 1t has evidently widened
the breach between the peaceable and the So
called Dangerous" classes The continuance
OF the system of public funerals of the execut-
ed Fenians in the large cities is calculated to
increase the general alarm and distrust.-
These funerals are attended by scores of thou
sands Of persons, and they may be regarded
as the most formidable means Of political agi-
tation that have ever been devils ed, and only
too well calculated to keep alive and stimu-
late the passions of the hour.
The Chamber of Deputies OF the Grand
Duehy of Baden has just taken into consider
alion a motion for rendering civil marriage
compulsory and confding to special magis-
trates the registers hithert) intrusted to the
ministers of the different creeds. The measure
was adopted unanimously minus three votes.
An Unprecedented fact has Just occurred
at the Sorbonne. A deaf and dumb young
man, M. Dusuzeau, has lately passed his ex-
animation as Bachelor of Sciences. He an
questions put to him. This success, unhoped
for few years since, does infinite honor to the
Paris Institute of the Sourds-et-Muets.
A coal and petroleum company at Kanka
kee, Illinois, sunk a well seven hundred feet
deep, struck bed of flint rock, and retired in
disgust.
What may be expected of marriage
which took place in Connecticut last month.
"after tedious courtsihp of five years?"
A self f-recording barometer, which has
been termed Barometrograph,h has been invent &
ed in France by NJ. Brequet. 1t is designed
to furnish diagrams every six hours of the
pressure Of the atmosphere. Itconsists of four
metallic boxes, the upper and lower of which
are curved; these are vacuum-boxes, and are,
in some measure, a modification of the aneroid
barometer. The registrations made by a re- :
volving cylinder, which is wound by clock
work, and is covered with paper on which
lampblack has been deposited. On this paper
alever from the barometer makes its traces as
the wheel revolves.
Ancestral Sin" is the title given to DIR.
Holiness novel in a French translation.
Prince Alfred has been elephant hunting
at the Cape, and not only saw but shot the
quadruped in question.
An awkward mistake was made at a store
in Boston last week, in putting young lady's
card, designed to accompany bridal present,
into package for confirmed old bachelor.
"A certain divine lately preached in the
morning from the text, "Ye are children of
the DEVIL" and in the afternoon from "Chii-
dren, obey your parents" Certainly logical
sequence.
1t was well-meant but novel compliment
from parishioner, who declared to her minis
ter she did not know which most to admire
his last Thanksgiving sermon or his wife's
new dress.
According to the Postmaster Generals
Report, not less than a million letters we're
mailed last year without signatures, and mis-
directed, or so badly directed that the address
was totally unintelligible. These were des-
troyed. More than million and half 9TH
ers-1 GIL ,6S6-were restored TO their writer's
by the care of the deal letter office. Thus it
seems that at least two and half millions Of
mistake were made in an operation which one
would think likely to enlist the sufficient care
of the writer, the addressing of letter. These
letters contained nearly $150,O0O in money,
value of $5,OO0,000, and over 10000 contained
photographs, jewelry, sc.
DIR. Bushnell makes in a chapter on In
sect Infestati ons a powerful argument in fa
vor of the omnipotence and benevolence of the
Deity The New York correspondent of q
London paper, however, wonders that skeptics
have never based an argument against the
possibility of an omni potent, omnicient, and
purely benevolent Creator upon the coexist-
ence of the mosquito and man.
Professor Newman, of Konisberg, who
has been working upon the subject of the ac-
ton of electricity on white blood-corpuscles,
has pointed out some very remarkable facts.
He finds that under the influence of strong
induced currents the white corpuscles OF the
frog swell out, their walls become quite
smooth, and clear space is left between the
walls and the granular nucleus in the interior
The molecules in the cell commence, too, TO
exhibit rapid movements.
"A correspondent of the Syracuse 1ournai
gives a sketch of Cheyenne, the new racine
Railroad city which has Just sprung into ex-
;sta,oo =, .bf eastern base of the Rocky Noun
-, He saws: "The first settler in Chey-
80 arrived OH the 22d of July last At that
lime there was not stick of timber in the re-
zion. and the place as desolate enough to dis
courage any man. But witness the change.
On the Sth of September its city government
was organized, and it has to-day good hotel
while another and larger one is being built
town hall, large store, warehouse, five livery
and feed stables, splendid restaurant, where
the dclicacies of t he season are served, deer,
speckled trout, buffalo, antelope, etc. 1t has
many respectable and permanent buildings,
and what is worth great deal, an enterprising
population of nearly FIVE thousand"
We understand that the interesting series
of sketches entitled The Good Old Times"
which have appeared during the past year in
Our Young Folks, are to be published in vol
ume by Ticknor & Fields. The writer of these
sketches is the Rev. Elijah Kellogg, formerly
of this city; and the sceno of the narrative Is
laid in Gorham and vicinity The McLeiian
family, whose early history it records are 80
well known and have so many repieSen'a-
tives in this region as to give |" pecunAr PEI
sonal interest to this very vivid portraiturs OF
ute and manners in "the good old times"