The Portland daily press., 1867-02-04
ETIEs.

One Of the oldest English residents in Ma
Piles, Lady Strachan, Marchesa Salza, whose
history is connected with that of the last CEN
tury, died recently. Besides other property of
great value, she has left precious objects of artf
some of which were presented by Louis XIV.
to Madame Maintenon, which will be brought
to the hammer.
MIR. John Bigelow, late American Minis
ter to Paris. is on his way home. He lett Ha-
vre with his family on the 18th instant, by the
French steamer Europe.
Dan Rice remitted, in settlement of an ac-
count with newspaper out west, three dol
lar bill, which was returned endorsed, "This
note is counterfeit; please send another" 1t
was two months before Dan replied when he
apologized for the delay, saying he had been
unable until now to get another counterfeit
three dollar bill" but he hoped the one he now
enclosed would suit, protesting at the same
time his inability to discover what the object
ton was to the other, which he thought as
good a counterfeit as he ever saw
The Count de Chambord head of tho
French Bourbons, has issued in the shape ofa
letter addressed to friend, q political mani
festo, in which he reviews the position of
France under Napoleon's rule. Speaking for
himself and as he assumes, in the name of the
people, he asserts that the country condemns
the imperial policy in Itay, Germany, Rome
and Mexico, and says that if he is one day re-
called to France he will save her or perish in
the midst other people.
joel Lindsey, the clergyman who wbip-
ped his little boy to death in Shelby. Orleans
county. N. Y, was sentenced on Saturday tn
imprisonment in the State Prison at Auburn
for four years and three months The iury
found verdict of manslaughter in the second
degree, the penalty for the crime being impris-
onment for not more than seven nor less than
four years.
"A bashful printer refused situation in a
printing office where female compositors were
employed, saying that he never set up with
girl in his life.
The ice bridge at Quebec is composed of
series OF huge masses OF ice and snow, firmly
welded together by the frost king, and kept in
position by the immensely strong "key" which
extends across the lower part of the harbor
"A treasure trove, in the shape of four of
Bacon's letters, has just come to the know
ledge, or remembrance, of the Danish govern
through Sir Charles Murray, she British Min.
lister at Copenhagen. They were written by
Bacon to King Christian the Fourth In 1920
81
Mrs. Edwards, author of "Archie Lowell"
is to commence new novel in the April
number of the Temple Bar. Its title will be
s'Steven Lawrence Yeoman," reverse of the
medal of "John Halifax, Gentleman" We
presume it will be repubished in instalments
| in some of our magazines or periodicals
| Prince Alfred and Prince James are IN
contend for the championship of the seas. The
! weapon will of course be the yataghan {, aeht
| again.
| Brown, who slipped down yesterday, is a
supporter of the sliding scale" tariff Ha
thinks the highest duty should be-nu. on
ashes.
East Tennessee has tombstone whereon is
inscribed the following epitaph: "She lived a
life of virtue, and died of the cholera morbns
caused by eating green fruit, in the full hone of
blessed Immortality, at the early age of twen-
ty-four. Reader, go thou and do likewise"
1t may, perhaps be a consolation to that
numerous class who lost their sleep November
last, watching for an exhibition which was
| taking place three thousand miles off, and wbo
| growled so fercely at astronomers for their
disappointment, that much more magnificent
display of meteors than occurred last year will
probably take place on the 18th or 18th of
November, 1857.
1t is said that the Broadway and Four
teenth street besgars refuse, on account Of the
imitation OF the currency, to receive anything
less than fifty-cent postal stamps.
"A rars bookseller, being asked for copy
u 'ner reheh constitution, replied: 81 keep no
periodicals."
In review of Mr.. Nasbys book, Swing
In Round the Cirkle," the New York Tril une
says: with the exception of Hosea Bige.ow
our humorists are Western. Artemas Ward
comes from Ohio" Artemas Ward cones
from Maine. He is regular Downeaster- q
New England Yankee,