The Portland daily press., 1867-06-24
Varieties,

| AT a recent wedding in Detroit, the BRIDE
groom was called on for a song He cheerfulIy
promised to comply, and said he would give
his friends new version of "Hunkadori." On
taxing the paper from hisvest pocket, il prove d
to be-not slip from Newspaper, as he had
calculated, but greepback which he had in
tended for the clergyman's fee. Imagine the
bridegrooms CONSERVATION at the trick he had
unwittingly played on the clergyman; and i'm
agine also the indignant surprise Of the latter
when he found only new version OF "Hunka-
| dorf, when he wanted some money for mar
| keting next dayi Itisa well-known rule of
etiquette for the marriage fee to be given and
received quietly without examination.
carleton, the publisher is to edit collec-
tion of Artemus Wards writings,
,-Wanted, minister to Mexico who has "no
oDlectlon to going into the couutry."-Boston
| Adccrtiser.
Last accounts from Galveston, Texas, rep
resent considerable excitement In municipal
affairs at that place. When the new police, in
augurated by the military authorities were ex-
anined, 1t was found that none of the negroes
could read or write. They were asked how
they expected to discharge their duties, and a
sable spokesman announced I'VE 'spect to hey
qualified.
Parton in his article I'm the July Atlantic
| says:-"Every disinterestsd and competent
Judge with whom We have conversed on this
subject gives it as his deliberate opinion that
the best American piano is the best of all pi-
amos"
1t is stated that Lord Lytton has written
a new play, dedicated to the American peo-
ple, which has been purchased and will be
produced in this country by Mr. L. p Barrett.
"A st. Petersburg journal announces that
the russian government is considering the adj
visibility of coming platinum.
The Church of the Moo Dispensashun."
which was thought such an excellent lest.
proves to have been a sober prophecy
Louisville paper reports that thirty or forty
Presbyterian ministers and elders from differ
ent parts of Kentucky recently held an inform
| al meeting in that city, and unanimously
agreed to settle at once "the status of the min
listers and churches of Kentucky" and almost
unanimously, to seek an alliance with their
| brethren both South and North, who agree
with them in principle and in opposition to
the Northern Assembly" A synod will meet
| at Lexington next week to take formal action
| in the matter
"A letter from Cairo, in the Egypte, SAYS !:
I'VE learn that in the last days of April, NJ.
Miami, the traveller, set out for hi. tourney OF
discovery in Equatorial Africa. This gentle.
man, whose age of aity years has not rendered
him less courageous less capable 10 suppor
fatigue, proposes to prove that Messrs Spek,
and Grant have advanced erroneous state
ments in the account of their explorations
about the Lake OF Nyanza. In his letter writ
ten from Suez, M. Miami says that he IL ex-
pected in those regions by natives who were in
his service during his first expedition"
An English inventor has contrived an i'm
proved velocipede, which hs calls the .Ran-
toone," and recommends for use ON common
ads.
| In the Supreme Court of tho District of
| Columbia a few days since. Judge Wyley gave
his opinion that the combination of physicians
to regulate and prescribe the amount of their
fees was an illegal combination. and he accord
ingly reduced physicians bill against the de-
| feadant in the case before him to an amount
equal to his previous charges, about one-half
| of the attempted increase.
-Ihe Massachusetts papers are rejoicing
| over q new argument in favor of the Hoosac
| Tunnel. Rev. Mr.. Bronson in an address at
| the recent Sabbath School Convention related
| the following in illustration of a point he was
| enforcing. He visited the tunnel short time
| ago and went in as far as the "bore" would al
low; addressing an Irishman he said, Patrick,
do you think the tunnel will ever be fnishsd?"
Sure, your honor, surel If there's powder
enough to blow it through" But It's long
way to CO." "Yes, your honor, but we've got
mile already, SIR" at you do get through,
| Io h;plr - xu;n
be sure, twill not pay, but toll be great or
namsnt to society, sirr' N
Some time since gentleman died in the
town of x, who during life refused to believe
in another world. Two or three weeks after
his demise, his wife received through medi-
um communication, which read as follows:
Dear wife, now believe. Please send me nv
thin Clothes"
The house to which Mr.. Hawthorne took
his bride, which he describes in his note book.
and which he idealzed in ''The Old Manse,"
is Just advertised for a tenant or purchaser.
Tho agricultural papers of England are
calling for Parliamentary act to prevent the
cruel crowding of cattle in railway cars aud for
transportation. Similar legislation for the
prevention OF cruelty to animals is proposed in
some of the Western States. This is as it
should be- And we think some further pro-
vision should he made for the comfort of emil
grants who are unmersifully crowded into the
cars, to say nothing of other passengers who
are sometimes packed rather close.
The New York World says, "Prices of
flour and wheat have touched bottom, the de-
cline in flour from the highest prices in May
being an average of fully four dollars barrel
and in wheat one dollar per bushsl. Thus has
-four followed pork and cattle in great do
cline from prices which had been reached in
authorization of deficiency in the supplies"
It ia to be hoped the bakers will take cogniz-
| anee of this fact that -four Is four dollars per
barrel cheaper than it was six weeks ago, and
show it in their loaves.
-HoE. G. G. Gorham, who has baan nom.
mated by the Republicans for Governor of CAL
ifornia, was twenty years ago news carrier
in New London, Conn.,, getting his schooling
and paying his way by his own exertieus.
he has been an editor and a lawyer, and is at
present clerk of the Supreme Court of Calitor-
MIA.
Horace Greeley has been nominated for
the Presidency by Minnesota paper called
| the "Blue Earth Southwest" The Nation
says this nomination will probably help Mr..
Greeley to understand the mysterious designs
of Providence in permitting the existence of
"nlinor editors"
A tobacco dealer In New York puts hun
dred dollar bill in one of the many hundred
tinfoil packages of chewing tobacco he sends
out daily, and by this device has driven his ri
walls entirely out of tho field.
| Judge Brewer, of Kansas, has decided
chat man who is more than half white, Is
nat "colored" and may vote.
The Nation conjectures, very plausibly,
that the reported anti-Catholic riots at Bir-
m 'ngham were really anti-Fenian riots, ocsas-
ioned by the intense hostility between the
English workingmen and the Irish laborers
which has lately been aggravated by the threat
of Fenian outbreaks by way of diversion
in the manufacturing towns of England.
"A waterspout at Cera, Brazil, caused the
bursting, opening, and fall of the top of high
mountain, burying two houses and every per-
son therein.