The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-08-29
Varieties.

For years past it has been known that va
luable pearls might be found in the muscle
shells of the Miami River, which, at times has
been the ca1se of considerable excitement.
Recently, says the Cincinnati Gazette three
gentlemen amusing themselves in the search
discovered pearls which are said to be worth
fifty dollars. We have seen these specimens,
so beautiful in shape and color as to excite the
admiration of ALL We were informed by the
possessor of these that still another gentleman,
last week. discovered two, of the value of forty
dollars. .d1s1 ius tHtaIt..r--l ID l'' TO
One of the beauties of the court of Freder-
ick the Great said to the king, 'Sire how is it
that you who are SO glorious already, still seek
for new fame?" Madame" he replied, %for
the same reason that you, although so beauti-
full still wear rouge" eons1E ni .Hah .I ...o9
I'm the town of Brooklyn, Mo-, recently an
omnibus containing fourteen persons rolled,
with two horses, down an embankment thirty
five feet high, and without killing anybody.
The omnibus was crushed to pieces, and all the
persons in it were injured, but none severely.
We question if they would care to repeat the
experiment, however. "er
A letter from Florence says: "The party of
action here and in other parts of Italy is very
making an attack on the Papal territory
Large meetings have taken pIace I'm Ge1oa
and other places with the object Of organizing
Garibaldan expeditions for overthrowing the
temporal power. The government, on the other
hand, does its utmost to adhere to the Septem-
Der Convention. faN ni h-f t.l
w. B. Bourn, formerly prompt and faith
full carrier boy of the Providence Journal, has
t1a nf,
come of $125,376 in San Francisco the second
in amount in the city. tl3ni-f4 b sh 3D.
The Marseillaise, after having been banished
from Paris for sixteen years was lately played at
the Cirque de PImperatriee, by the Austrian
band in answer to the violent demand of the
audience. The effect ON the people is repre-
sented to have been indescribable. They beat
the time they shouted and shrieked in an ecstasy
| of delight. i n4li iainogQr fu ttll, 1 D
Mrs. Stowe has already sent to the printer
large instalments of her new work, which is to
be sort of chronicle of old-time folks in a
New England village, fifty or sixty years ago.
Some of the characters are said to be just as
graphically depicted as those in "Uncle Toms
Cabin .x. -fHa s,rshO asE boo ssa,s-,4 1rl
james Russell Lowell will bring out a ,
new volume ofpoems this autumn, the contents
are not yet announced. 4.s,,.r- 81. .-G ..,.,i..
Once, when Templeton, the great tenor.
offended at rehearsal, was sulky with Mali-
bran, that lady made her peace in the second
act of "Somnambula," !" when as Amina, she was
on her knees clinging to him, her Elyino, with
vows of innocence, by tickling him until his
singing turned into scream. ,.f.. .--
A woman named Frigard, who had occu-
pied respectable position. was tried for muir
der within the last few days at the assize court
in Melum. The case created great excitement
in France, and has found its way into the Eng
lish papers. Madame Frigard was acquainted
with a widow named Merten, who had a sum
of 8,000f invested in rentes, besides other pro-
perty. Having fallen into bad circumstances,
Madame Frigard tried several articles to get
money from her friend, but failed. Madame
Merten was a woman of rather loose morals,
and the accused pandered to her passions, Civ
ing her the use of her house as q rendevouz.
At length Madame Frigard forged her friends
name to q draft for 4y000f, and to conceal this
crime the murder was committed. The muir
deress invited her intended victim to an excur-
sion to Fontainebleau, where they had break
fast together, and afterwards went into the
woods to walk. The next day Madame Mer- e.
tens dead body was found in the woods. 1t
was proved that she had been strangled while
asleep, and the evidence made it almost certain
that some narcotic had been administered to
her while at breakfast at Fontainebleau. After
committing the murder Madame Frigard pos
sessed herself of the whole of her victims pro-
perty. Upon these facts, which disclosed a
most atrocious and deliberate crime, the jury
brought in a verdict of guilty with "extenuat-
ting circumstances" This is doubtless owing
to the strong feeling which exists in France
against the death penalty, it being nearly inn
possible to get a French jury upon any state Of
fact to return simple verdict of guilty, con-
signing the prisoner to death. Madame FRI
gard was condemned to the galleys for liie
n, Excavations at Lillebonne, France, con-
tinue, and nearly every day some new disco
very is made. The collection brought together
at Catillon now comprises great numoer Oh
objects of archaeological yolue. Among sheH 4
is fragment of circular Mirror an eAamiha-
ton Of which shows it to be composed Oh glass
sol;ated with n thin sheet OF pure lead. Thus
!. saams that the Gallo-Romans practised the
LETTING of glass, as the Gauls had previously
tnown how to plate metals. 4Isi...ia t. l.
Foreign gossip says that Bismark talks of
coming to this country, and that he wants to
see what manner of man General Grant IT,
The Rev. j. r. Wolfe suggests that mis-
sionaries should all dress, or undress rather
would be more correct, like the natives whom
they go to convert. He owes his own success'
to dressing as a Chinese. 'A "-'H
In Amoskeag, Sunday week, some men who
were listlessly looking at the Merrimac, saw
the head of a horse floating down. They got
q boat, rowed out, and rescued live horse,
which had fallen in mile up stream and swan
down.
The World thinks that there is something
in the present temper of the public mind, or at
least in the Presidents estimate of it, which
emboldens him to do things from which he has
hitherto seemed to recoil" That is true. His
conduct may be partly due to the fact that II
| will be three months before Congress can get
| hold Of him, and partly to the impending eiec-
| tions In which the copperheads want encouy-
aeement, but pure oussedness" will sufficiently