The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-17
Varieties.

l. They have news girls in New York who 60
about the streets crying the papers like the
gamins. They are said to do very we'll at the
business.
The st. John Freeman has, under the
head, obituary: Died, at her late residence, Ia
the city OF Fredericton, on the 10th of May
last, from the effects OF an accident which she
received in April, 1866, and which she bore
with patient resignation to the will of Prov
idence, the Province of New Brunswick, in
the SD year of her age"
The plan of bridging the Connecticut at
Middletown, by low drawbridge, was heavily
defeated by the Connecticut Legislature the
other day.
Miss Emma Hardipge has, In an address
| in fremont Hall, Boston, claimed spiritual
and divine origin for the celebrated Rochester
knockings.
The Young Ladies' Seminary at Benicia,
Cal. the pioneer of all Protestant seminaries
in California, held its fifteenth anniversary
May 29th and Goth, graduating a class of high
promise. 1t has numbered 120 pupils the past
year. .-....-.
"A sensible Virginian suggests that marble
monuments to the Confederate dead, will not
feed the starving Confederate widows and Or
phans.
"A dispatch from Burlington, W., informs
US that nearly all the property stolen from the
churches there last April, including the valua-
Bile plate of the Rev. G. B. Stafford, also por-
ton OF the goods stolen from the store Of L. A.
Edgell, were found by Mr.. John Toof, conceal
ed in his barn at Cooks Corner, st. Armand,
G. E. Two men were seen there recently, and
A. hoxxn LA &hnr-
When the submarine cabls between Flori-
da and Havana is laid-an event which will
take place before the close of this month-the
Queen OF Spain win be in telegraphic COM
munication with her loving subjects on the
Fever faithful isle" of Cuba. The advantage
that England would obtain in getting tele-
graphic communication with her West Indian
possessions will, doubtless, secure connection
between Jamaica and Florida at an early day.
Another expedition has returned from an
unsuccessful search for the new island report
ed to have been discovered recently in the Pa
cific Ocean, on the track of the mail steamers
between San Francisco and China. The
search extended to one hundred and sixty de-
grees west longitude, and forty-one degrees
north latitude. A tract Of discolored water
was found extending two hundred and nifty
miles southeast and northwest and eighty
miles broad but no soundings could be obtain
ed with one hundred and fifty fathoms OF line,
but from the discolored water and the pres.
srce Of birds. it is believed that an island ex-
;sts in the vicinity of the locality explored.
A South Danvers schoolboy has written
the following composition on his native town
"sou.h Danvers is in the United States 1t ia
bounded by Salem and reaches to Middleton.
Its principal river is Goldthwaite's brook,
which empties into Salem harbor. Its princi'
pal lake Is the mill pond, which is dry In the
summer. Its principal productions are leath-
er, onions, the South church and George Pea
body. South Danvers has many religious
seets. among which are the Orthodox, who
worship their minister, the spiritualists, who
worship everything, and the Unitarians, who
worship nothing"
"A servant left boarding house in Peoria,
ILL.,. because, as she alleged, "the gentlemen
boarders did not pay any attention to her,
and she "was required to eat at the second ia
ble"
The train which left Chicago for Cincinna-
ii on Wednesday morning., on the Chicago and
Great Eastern road, was forcibly seized the
same day at Logansport Indiana, BY one hun
dred workmen, who took this means to pro
cure arrearages of wages. The raiders switch
ed off the two cars full of passengers ana per
mitted the engine to proceed with the mail
The passengers had to ride fifteen miles IN onn-
nibuses in order to resume their journey. No
personal violence was offered.