The Portland daily press., 1867-07-31
Varieties.

AN irate editor condemns all dishonest So
ciety because. as he says, some one has stolen
from him bar Of "cast steel soap" A broth
er editor blames the reckless extravaganza OF
his cotemporary in indulging in such luxu-
ries as "cast steel SOAP" when cast iron soap
would be just as useful for cleansing purposes,
and could be worked up into jack-knife blades
by the boys, who doubtless do the stealing
complained Of IA .s.....f ..f pa.uffr
4, Mr. S. j. Ahern, formerly publisher OF
the New York Albion, and lately connected
with the New York Times, has purchased
half interest in the New York Evening Ga
zette. t, ss.s i IN, 3 -
The Yelverton case, which has just been
tried before the House of Lords, has been made
the basis of novel by Mr.. Cyrus Redding.
When NJ Theirs wished to say ths't the
French government had lied, he put it eu-
phemistically in the phrase, as it is translated,
that the government had been guilty OF un-
veracity."-s gIfuiuf.a slte Ff1.H
The New York Commercial Advertiser, in
speaking of the riots in Tennessee, says: 1T is
very suggestive that in every case the sufferers
have been tho. white unionists or negroes.
Furthermore, all the official examinations thus
far mader have fixed the responsibility upon
the so-called conservatives" sasIe
A lad named Dickinson, IL years of age,
disappeared from his fathers residence in
Middletown, Ct., q few weeks ago. Nothing
could be learned of his whereabouts until his
father received a letter from an elder son, who
resides in Kansas, and who wrote that
the little truant had reached him safely. 1t is
slok H.. M h01 n dollar
when he started on his journey. When thrust
from one train of cars, he would get on tho
next that came along, &C., and get his iood
and lodgings as he could. Such a feat, by such
q lad, is without parallel. .at .a-N
"A gang of drunken ex-rebel soldiers at
tackled a German picnic party while returning
from Latonia Springs, four miles back Of Gov
.ington, Ky on Sunday, and after tearing the
flags borne by the children and women Of the
party, intrenched themselves behind fence
and commenced deadly attack with stones.
The Germans put their women and children
beyond reach of harm, then formed In line
and charged on the rufians with stones and
fence rails. Two of the rebels were stretched
out for dead, one got broken arm and ano'n-
er frightful cash on the head; the rest neu.
The late President Lincolns sons hooer'
and "Tad," exhibit a melancholy nisore'' ~
the trial of the wretch Surratt, ana may DO
freouentlv seen in tho Court, watching 'he
proceedings intently.
&C ,,arsons are employed ut Paris in
u'..;,,,, tbe proclamations of Marshal Ba-
A., which he exercised the most cruel
"..ari.es towards the republican party, while
:, Il intended to give list of the persons shot
nv the imperialists. a.
-etMalakoff" writes from Paris to the New
York Times: "Quite stir has been made here
lately about the Great Union Pacific Railroad,
by the lectures on the subject delivered at the
Geographical Society, at the lecture-room OF
the Great Exhibition, and at the society OF
Engineers, by Col. Heine, late OF the United
sat-. Army. now at the Consular Office at
Paris The grandeur of the enterprise, the
r,n;d;tv with which the road is being built,
and tho extraordinary riches in mines, espe-
cially, it is going at once to open to the world,
are all subjects of excited comment in the
French press"
The Rev. Mr. Merrill's penitential confess
sion is not altogether acceptable in Hartford
in one of whose insurance offices he held q SIX
thousand dollar accident policy for one montn''
which expired five days after he attempted 70
po into liouidation in the Saranac. He did not
write to his family "not to take any money Oh
hi. Insurance /" until the detective OF the COM
,onv had unearthed him alive and well az De-
| troit.