The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-10-17
" arietieS.

| lyH, died on Saturday from an overdose tf
| morphine. Hor little daughter was sent to a
| drug store with prescription for some NOR
phine to be divided into two powders The
clerk carelessly put the poison in one paper
which being taken by Mrs. Webster caused
her DEATH The clerk has been arrested. Mrs.
Webster leaves nine children. ng
-Two Mnnesotians lay Oh their backs in a
iieId and pretended to be dead all one night
last week, for the purpose of ensuring safety
from large black bear which was prowling
about them. The morning came, AMI disclosed
the fact that their bear was a friendly New
foundland dog. .... ....-f.
During performance OF Romeo and Juli-
ct at the Haymarket theatre portion of the
tomb of the Capulets fell in and candle ig-
nited the scenery The County Paris, although
just killed, jumped up and put out the fire,
but Romeo and Juliet did not stir from their
positions.
,.s Serious complaints have been received
from various parts of Illinois, to the effect that
pasturage is running short. The protraeted
warm and dry weather has literally "dried up"
the grass in the fields and the water in the
small streams. Stoek-raissTs and the dairy
interests are greatly suffering in consequence
"A diamond worth 5000, lost by gentle
man named Evans, in Louisville, six months
since, and for which he offered a reward OF
$1,000 was found in Nashville, in possession Of
a gentleman from Cincinnati, named Williams
who claims to have purchased it,
The following letter, dated September a.
was written by Garibald in the railway car
riage that was conveying him to Alessandria: {:
The Romans have the right of slaves-that
of rising against their tyrants, the priests.
The Italians have the right to help the Ro-
MANS and hope they will do it in spite of the
impeachment OF G.. Garibaldi.
Forward, theni and keep to your fine resolu-
ton, Romans and Italiansi The whole world
observes you, and, the work once done, you
will walk with head erect and you will say to
the nations, "We have cleared the path OF hu-
man fraternity of its most abomnable enemy
the papacy. H u. GARiBALDl
The New York Citizen says the negroes at
the South should not be allowed to vote unless
they can read, but that the whites should vote
whether they can read or not. From which
the Boston Transcript draws the natural in
ference that the whites are the inferior race,
and need special assistance fiom the laws to
enable them to compete with the blacks.
The grand French project, the opening of
the Suez canal, will be completed in Oc-
tober, 1869, at a cost of four hundred millions
of francs. 1t is thought the annual revenue
will be sixty millions. France has strong in
terest in this work, having recently taken pos
session of Cochin China by military force and
stratagem. ar
The New York Citizen says that Miss
Braddon's Rupert Goodwin" lacks 'the cheer
full criminalty" OF her other writings.
The sulphur mines of Italy are producing
three hundred thousand tons per annum, rep
resenting in crude state a value of S6,000,O0O.
The greater part of this supply comes from
Sicily. ,.,.fs...r .
During the whole of last summer a very
destructive chicken cholera prevailed all along
the valley of the Potomac; and at the present
time, in the same region, there is COW dis
ease prevailing which has carried off the finest
cattle by the scores
Prussia has Just intimated to the Govern
ments of the different Powers what the flag
is which it has adopted Tor the military and
commercial marine of the North German Con-
federation The colorS are black, white and
red. -.t rf
ss Thomas w. Knox, a journalist has invent
ed machine for telegraphing maps, diagrams,
Sc, which has been patented. He has already
received several very fiattering offers for the
right from newspaper proprietors.
The Chicago correspondent of the Congre
gationalist says: "A council in this State re-
fused to ordain a talented, popular young man,
because he denied the expiatory view of the
Atonement, holding that of moral influen-e
He was graduate last April of the Old School
Presbytery, which only asked him if he reeeiv-
ed the Confession OF Faith. To which, as he
says, he replied, As well as l can:
I'll saw lady wrapped up in a shawl that
she would not take six hundred dollars for, }"
said Smith to Jones. II can beat that all hol-
lew," retorted Jones; 'for 1 saw a lady so
wrapped up in her baby that she wouldn't
have taken six hundred thousand dollars for
it," $50 b9rIH.a atIlt Isj
--Hennessy, the artist, is elaborately Illus
tratng "Locksley Hall" for Ticknor & Field,
who will bring out an elegant edition of it
year from next Christmas. ur .t.R
A landscape book, by American authors
and artists, from paintings by Cole, Church,
Cropsey, Durand, Gignoux, Kensett and 9TH
ers, will soon appear through Putnam & Son,
publishers, with sixteen very charming and
beautiful illustrations.
"A young Englishman of wealth and cul-
ture recently fell in love with squaw in Oma-
ha, Kansas, and married her. The next day
she got drunk and turned somersaults in the
street Johannes Taurus is at a loss what to
do under the circumstances.
q obaa he T,ll
Of the economy question:: when you see
man spending two or three dollars week fool
ishly, the chances are five to one that he'll live
long enough to know how many cents there
are in dollar; if he don't he is pretty sure to
bequeath that privilege to his widow"
Miss Laura Matilda recently called for "Dr.
Hollands Trichina" at bookstore in Spring
field.
DIR. Mary e. Walker is said to have kept
her nose tied up all the way across the Attain
tic because some gentlemen on board the ship
would smokei
/ An alphabetical list of ninety-two seets IN
England has been published Among 'neu'
are some curious names, but tney arc sno'e
chosen by the sects themselves Inc ioiio"-
inc ara among the most peculiar; Apostoiico
Rant;sad Believers Christian lsraeiltes, Chris-
- Z srna,otaIlers, Eclectics, Halelujah Band,
pan,,I;sr People, Providence Ranters, Wes-
Iavan Reform Glory Band
! Mr.. Harry L. Flash, a merchant in Calves
tan Texas is called the Poet Laureateof the
South None of his poetical productions have
reached this remote region.
Mr. Frank Buckland, the author, has been
trying hedge-hogs to kill cockroaches. He in
trodueed one into the bosom of his family. He
says they don't act. "A hedgehog cannot pos
sibly hold above a pint of beetles at time, and
in INV kitchen there are gallons OF them. L
once tried the hedgehog plan at Deanery,
Westminster. The first night after his arrival
the Abbey watchman was frightened out OF
his wits; it was the hedgehog. The mex,
night, fast asleep, felt a cold nose ON MY face
and then prickly thing trying to get into the
bed; it was the hedgehog The next night
the servants came trembling to say there was
burglar in the dining room rattling the plate'
it was the hedgehog. The nexs night .he
cook put some soup away, and in the nio''iius
the soup was gone; the hedse-hog ,",. w.s
found ooiled up asleep in tne .u,e'I -
-. -. ,,o,bipo was heard of the hedge
- "a Co.. weeks we could not tell where ne
was zone; the cook was thahklu'' "pu ""
orioLets sang % be joyful while the o'aok
taotles had free run OF the Kitchen
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