The Portland daily press., 1867-09-25
Varieties.


Varieties.
in China a retellous faction have pro
claimed Sin-Sin as their emperor Sin has a
good many adherents on this continent also.
Tho farmers of Ohio, Indiana and Ken
tucky are complaining of n drought. The
earth is so dry and the weather so hot that
even old forest trees are dying out 3
The revolution in Colombia is at an end,
and this information win probably for the first
time apprise most readers that there has been
any revolution going OH there.
"A tender-hearted father, swearing the
peace against his three sons, thus concluded:
",The only one of my children who shows me
any real filial affection is my youngest son,
Ichabod, for he never strikes me when Pm
down. aif
1t is estimated that east of the Rocky
Mountains there are 22,OOO Indians in hostility
to the whites The "big Iniun" of the party is
Red Cloud. of the Upper Brules Red Cloud
is reported rs having said, "We do not wish
peace; because when we are at peace, we are
poor; now we are very rich" II will take
something more than blankets and beads to
convert this old runian.
Wife and were looking at some pictures
in which little naked angels were quite con-
spcuous She called the attention of our wee
daughter to them. and remarked: "Lizzy, DEAR
if you are good girl, and 90 to Heaven, you
viii be like these angels" Lzzy looked up
with a lip that told at once she didn't appre-
ciate the promise, and said 81 want to be bet
ter dressed than that when go TO Heaven"
nrt.a tlna Of
"Ouida," is said to be Mss Redden, who lives
in pretty cottage in the vicinity of Lopdcn,
sis not at all beautiful, but has many admirers
in consequence of her remarkable powers of
conversation, and her prodigious learning"
Her learning can hardly be as prodigious as
her style.
There is to be novel celebration at Jay
Peal, VT, on the Goth. The principal attrae-
ton will be the rolling of rock, estimated to
weigh one hundred tons, down perpendicu-
lar descent of one thousand feet. a
They insure everything in Hartford, from
your own life to that of your dog. or the steam
boiler that heats your house. Apropos of the
recent rainy season, one of the insurance pres
idents was asked. "Mhy don't You start COM
pany to insure against deluge?" THAT was
the first charter ever granted was the quick
reply. .at3r Hsn
"A New York paper asserts that Mr.. Gree
ley is about to have his hair cut, in order to
protect American industry.
They have discovered in Havana that the
potato leaf is perfect substitute for tobacco.
When King William of Prussia visited
Frankfort he went to see the ruins Of the
cathedral. The fremen were still playing on
the unextinguished embers. BY accident or
design one of the hosemen turned the pipe he
was holding in the direction of the king, who
was thoroughly drenched in an instant.
Thirty women in Montgomery, Alabama,
with children, numbering ninety-six in the ag-
gregate, have published a card in the papers of
that city, in which they declare that they are
suffering for the absolute necessaries of life,
and get no work with which to support
themselves and their helpless children. They
state that they have been receiving help from
the United States Government and from DIR.
Rose, but these sources have been closed
The Foreign Offices in London published
on the 9th the following telegram: "Her Maj
esty's Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople re-
ports on the 9th by telegraph, that no news
has reached him of the release of the Abyssini-
an captives, and that he cannot account for
the rumor.' 'Hae
referring to the report that the infamous
DR.. Blackburn was about to return under the
amnesty proclamation, the New York Com
mercial Advertiser says: "This miscreant
should not be suffered to pollute, with his step
or presence, the soil which he attempted to
scourge. In violating all the laws of God, man
ha ohr 20 oil
human and Divine No steamer or railway
should allow him to travel, nor should any ho-
tel receive him. That DIR. Blackburn should
attempt to return while New Orleans is suffer
ing from the pestience he attempted to intro
duee, aggravates the outrage. But II any sense
OF wTong-any sentiment Of adherence for
crime without name, exists, the wretch who
attempted TO perpetrate it, if he dares to come
back, should be made to feel that this is not
his home or country. Neither the amnesty
proelamations of President johnson, nor the
universal Amnesty" of the Tribune, should
protect froni popular Indignation the fiend who
attempted to add new horror to the ravages
of war by introducing yellow fever into the
Union army f
An interesting case involving romantic
story, was decided in the Superior Court,
Montreal a short time since. The question in
volved the validity OF an Indian marriage eel
ebrated in 1903, according to the original abor-
iginal custom, the wife being purchased by her
husband, William Connolly, whose son was
plaintiff in the case just decided. Connolly
lived with his dusky bride for twenty-eight
years, durns which time she bore him ten
children. In 1881, he returned to Lower Cana
da. bringing his family and his wife, with
whom he lived till May OF the following year,
when he forsook her and was united to his
cousin. The neglected Indian wife forthwith
returned to her native country 1900 miles
west of Red River settlement, where she re-
sided till her death in 1862, Connolly granting
an annuity sufficient to maintain her in a
convent He treated her children with great
kindness, educating aud providing for them
literally, and finally died in 1919. The action
was brought by the eldest son to recover
portion of his fathers property, on the ground
that the second marriage was illegal. The
case excited great interest, and the Court rem
dered Judgment in favor of the plaintiff, thus
pronouncing the first marriage legal and bind
ing.
"A young candidate for M. n. at the Uni
versity of Bonn advanced the startlias doc
trine that physician ought not to employ his
art TO save life which is Of no use to the pa
tient or the State
This fall S book trade sale is declared to be
the largest that has ever taken place in New
York, or indeed upon this continent. The
number Of volumes sold is estimated at nine
hundred thousand, about 100000. The attend
ance was larger than at any previous sale.
The Empress ERgenie when at Lille, visit
cd the penitentiary and gave good advice to a
number of boys imprisoned there; and she
promised TO obtain an earlier release for one
lad, if he would agree not to return to Paris and
its evil associations, but the boy preferred his
full term of imprisonment rather than per-
manent exile from the French capital
Sir Charles Windham, who is seon To take
command Of the British forces in Can'da, mas
q most brilliant military record eHeenu'ns
from 1926 up to 1853. He has served VI 0''n"-
da the Crimea and India.
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