The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-01-29
Varieties.


railroad companies one hundred and twenty,
four million acres of land. 1t has given to rail.
roads and wagon roads altogether nearly one
hundred and ninety-four million scres Of lsad.
Of which less than twenty-one millions hsTv
been certified" to the companies.
-Bohn, the publisher has quit the trade
His classical translations have won him hlssA,
ings from every undergraduate.
--Salm Salm's letter in reply to Lopsz wss
written in three languages, and franksd al
over France by the government.
,rai-After Fernando Wood had spoken Of thS
Infamous acts of an infamous Congress, Oakos
Ames went privately to him and ssid-"sir,
Congress would be less infamous If you were
out of itl'' .. ,.-.. .t. ...
I'm some parts of Canada the deer have be-
come very tame and are often near the abodsa
OF civilization. A Kingston paper attributes
their tractabiiity to the recent earthquakes
Mail robberies are becoming so frequent in
Texas that the people are refusing to avail
themselves of the assistance of the post-ofacs
in communicating with their friends.
Professor Agassiz is to lecture next weak
for the first time in ten years or more. Hs
makes an exception in favor of Philadelphia,
and will appear nowhere else.
The Hartford Press thinks Leutxs's pis-
ture of MIR. Seward and Mr.. Stoeckls signing
the Alaska treaty would have been mora im-
pressiye if tho artist had painted the two di.
plomatists, each holding seal, seated upon an
iceberg, while congregation of polar bears
and walrusses looked on in simple WONDER.
That would have been something like pia,
ture, and, besides, it would, as the lawyers say,
have "sayored of the realty"
Anna Dickinson is to lecture at Galsna,
ILL.,, on Thursday night, under promise that
she will not abuse Gen. Grant.
MIR. Worth, the man-milliner Of Paris, was
at one time one of the most celebrated sIk
MERGERS at the West-end of London.
The author of the ill-tempered asd ala
tempered Dickens article in the Northern
Monthly, is said to be Mr. f. w. Peter, Of
the Newark Courier, New Jersey. We
thought it must be q foreigner.
Hon. Alexander Delmar has q nav lee
ture with the curious title Of 'DThs Ante
Smithites, Smith, the Smithites and the Anti
Smithites." The Smith family is expected 10
attend. 'Ha
The Kanucks are getting excited ever
races on xdqaets, or snow shoes.
y. "A woman in Clermont, France, wishing "
kill herself, saturated her clothes with ksro-
sene, and then set herself on fire. She sue
ceeded. t ......l..F ..,.
s9 = John Brown on his way to the gallows hss
been painted by t. s. Noble, painter Of the
Slave Market and other pictures founded lP-
on Southern life and history.
The recent law, offering bounties for ssaps
OF wild animals, has already coat wiscsnAia
$4,000, and more Of it went for wild eats thsa
for any other animal.
in Bond county, Illinois, thers 10 . Sis
steer weighing thirty-three hundred psand4,
standing five feet six inches high, and his body
is about twelve feet long.
The birthday of Burns was celebrated By
company of sixty Scotchmen at the Pazksr
House, Boston. fat d. q .....i... ......a
i The New England Agricultural Scsisty
will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday morn
ing, Feb. 4th, at tho rooms of the Board d
Trade, Boston. p.s .a5
There are but two days in the year ea
which street begging is allowed in Paris. Oae
is the 18th August, the Emperor's fsts dag,
and the other the 1st of January. On these
days of license, however, mendicity is esrrisa
on TO an extent that is not surpassed svss By
! the begging on holidays in Romc and Nsplos.
A correspondent describing the scene en- Neg
Years day says: "I never saw such an exhibi-
{ ton of real and feigned human misery. It
seemed though all the one-arnsd, sho-
legged, blind, lame and deformed people, OF
both sexes and sl ages, from the Uhols af
France had been emptied upon the pavsnsAt
of her capital Some begged singly, others in
groups. Some sung, some prayed, while eth
ers recited the stereotyped begging phrases ~
the top of their voices. Some stood, soms
kneeled, and again many others were strsssh-
ed out at full length, wrapped in rags, On the
sidewalks. On the Boulevard des Itslisas q
dozen groups were lying along the walls Of the
houses, consisting of old men or women, sur
rounded by three, four, or even six ehildrsa,
including babies, all pale, dirty and ragged.
and presenting together most pitifui aspect
While Gen. Grant was in Richmond last
week the Virginia Convention appointed
committee to wait upon and invite him to Wis
it that body. Il oolored mana bright and
well-dressed mulatto, named Kelso-was alSo
placed on the committee. They repaired 10
the residence of DIR. Sharpe, whose guest the
General was, and were admitted by the COLOR
Oh servant who informed them that the Gsns
eral had gone out to visit Gen. Schonsld, bus
would retnrn soon. The committee concluded
to await his coming, and were shown 10 tia
rorIor: but it is said that as the negro was
about to enter, the servant interpossd his bur
ly person and stopped him, saying that the
parlor was for white folks, and that negroes
were not allowed to press the rich BrussSls
carpet with their broad feet. The white nsn'
bers of the committee demonstrated, bus ths
servant would not yield, and it was then s$
termined to appeal to the ladies Of the hoas&
The answer returned was that the white gan
tlemep could enter the parlOr, but the negro
must tarry in the hall till the General came
And there, it is said, he tarrisd. while the sSr
perior race occupied the parlsr,