The Portland daily press., 1867-07-24
Varieties.


The Boston Traveller states that q lady in
Reading, Mass, while conversing with some
callers, suddenly turned pale, and sinking in
to chair, exclaimed, "Did you hear that gun?
1t affected me strangely" and wept inconsol-
ably. Her visitors had heard no report, and it
afterward appeared that no gun had been FIR
ed at that time on the place. News came,
however, that her brother, residing hundred
miles away, was at that very hour fatally shot
by the accidental discharge of his fowlng-
piece while hunting in grove near his house.
The desire of Victor Hugo to witness the
performance of his new play of Hermann" in
Paris seems to have overcome his feeling of
resentment towards the imperial government.
Despite his repeated declarations that he
would not set foot in France so long as Napo-
leon III. reigned over it, he is actually in
Paris or has been there. There is no reason,
except his own Discrimination, why Victor HUI
go should not have gone to Paris long ago, for
he was not excepted from the general amnes-
ty. IaI .s.ar0ls
Dispatches from Dr. Seward, the British
Consul at Zanzibar, reached London on the
9Th The Consul inclines to the belief that
DIR. Livingstone is yet alive, and details many
circumstances which give grounds, at all
events, for hope. The Governor Of Keelwa
has addressed letter to the Sultan, in which
he expresses himself confident that DR.. Liv-
ingstone is not dead, and asks his Highnes5
whether further inquiry in the interior is
necessary
The order of the ceremonies to be observed
on the occasion Of the betrothal of the Grand
Duchess Olga Constantinovna with His Majes-
ty the King of the Greeks was promulgated
on the 7th of July. The ceremony win take
place on the 9Th inst ..ruIo
A San Francisco paper asserts that the
first white explorers of Oregon found a tradi-
ton among all the Indians of that region that
a vessel, which from the description is suppos-
ed to have been Chinese junk, was once
found embedded in the mud of the Columbia
river. Here is chance for Chinese antigua
res. Let them put in claim for the earliest
discovery of the continent, and fight it out on
that line with the Royal Society of Copenha-
gen.
TO forget trouble, hoe potatoes on good
ground by the side Of the woods in the after
noon shade. The smell of the vines and OF the
rich soil, and the singing of the birds and the
crickets, will be like reading sweet and sor-
rowful psalm.
The great aquarium at the Paris Exposi-
ton is composed of great cool cave. All
around it YOU see large glass windows which
divide Won from cisterns of water, where the
fish swim. ..-.. <..
The Sultan, before deciding on his visit to
Paris, was very anxious 10 know how the
French Emperor dressed and rode, and ordered
clothes cut ON the models Of those of Napole-
ON III. ~. rrf. ......4I- ..
The Congregational Review has an essay
ON "Modern Pagan Writers"-taking for its
text Leckys History, The Radical, North
American Review. Christian Examiner, and
Atlantic Monthly. There's "Paganism for
you.
"A recent letter to Mr.. Seward from Mr..
Berry, of Oregon, relates that party of pros
pectors entering Russian America from Brit
;sh Columbia in 1862, found in the Stickeen
river. three hundred miles from its mouth,
gold and silver deposits of great wealth. He
says "they worked with hand-rockers for eight
days, and gained thirteen dollars and a hall
per day in native silver, and eleven hundred
dollars in the aggregate in gold. The silver
was washed out in pieces sometimes as large
as quarter of dollar. They also found ru-
bies and asates. and on Bristol river, copper
and coal indications" Mr.. Berry's letter to
Secretary Seward is dated April o, 1867, and II
his report is verified, there win ere long oe an
hegira of Yankee miners and explorers Ho"
the Northwestern territories to Alaska, some
what similar to that from California 70 NeVada
and Montana a few years since.