The Portland daily press., 1868-10-22
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s"o'e "uoPtea Dy the revolutionary unta, ana
not word regarding the health of her Eau
gust Majesty" Nothing could more striking
ly illustrate the suddenuess and completeness
Of the collapse Of the last Bourbon throne Of
Europe.
One of the survivors of DR.. Kanes Arctic
expedition runs a Cincinnati street car.
Texas has had a plague of grasshoppers.
They came in clouds that stretched as far as
the horizon and obscured the light of the sun,
eating every green thing in their course
john Allen ha- gone to the bad again. On
Friday he and all his house were before a New
York Justice, charged with robbing an unsus-
pecting mariner. John was quite talkative to
those around him, and said be was not guilty,
and that it was "put.up 3D." He said he
did not care to meddIe in politics, and had
never voted, but he believed many OF his enc
mics thought he did, and for this reason the
charge was made against him. John says
Dyer went back on him, but he never paid
him cent. The Judge told him ne did not
care whether he voted or not; he was there to
be tried for keeping a dsorderly house, in
which man was robbed, aud not to be Iried
for political offences. After some further po-
lice evidence the girl who was accused OF com.
mitting the theft was locked up for trial, and
her accuser sent to the House of Detention.
Allen, his wife and the rest of the party were
held in bail to answer. The farce may now be
considered played out.
"A telegraphc message passing through
the hands of an operator lately, addressed to
"A. Gillespie, Clerk, Steamer Magnolia"
was ungraciously written off as follows:
"a. Gilles,
Pie Clerk,
Steamer Magnolia"
"A criminal was nonpIussed how to evade
the Washington officials, when young lady
friend OF high standing solved the difficulty BY
producing her Saratoga trunk, in the top and
bottom of which two holes were bored. Inside
she placed a box of sandwiches, pint bottle
of liquor, army b anket, and the young
man. The trunk was safely sent distance of
sixty-four miles.
in Republican procession in Cincinnati,
the other day, was an old man of eighty, one
of the fathers of the city, who carried an old
carpet-bag with tue inscription: "A Vermont
carpet-bagger -1SOs." That bag was the iden-
tical carpet bag in which Captain Strong
brought all his worldly goods wden he went to
the then wilderness, in 1908, and the old man
who carried it was Captain Strong himself.
"A correspondent of the Springfe Re-
publican thus refers to the curious paper in
the Nov mber Atlantic entit.ed "Maidenval-
ley, Spinsterland": "In point of interest,
should hardly consider il success, but found
considerable amusement in the effort 10 iden-
tify 'Mayden yalleS' with North Conway, as
every one will doubtless do who has visited
that famous summer resort. In Beam moun-
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bennington is, of course, Mount Washington;
| the river Proway' can mean nothing else but
the river Conway; the Sharp peak Of Shock
| orua' is Chocorua under a thin disguise;
'OMiller's house is the McMil an mansion /;
The artist 'Shampreigh' is nobody but Champ
ney, who has cottage at North Conway;
Shearkarge' is heartlrss mutilation Of Kear
sarge, and in 'Parquetteman's hotei'' PitDan .
tavern is readily recognizsi. II may add a
little pquancy to the sketch to know that the
author is Mr.. Adams S. Hil journalist aud
essayist, and that he is just marrled-out OF
the valley he describes?-and gone to Europe
with his wife,"
"A man and his wife who live in teDe.
ment house in Springfield, Mass, have not
spoken to each other for several years. 1t Is
merely to see who will hold out longest When
the man wants to say anything to his wife he
addresses his remarks to their little SOD, who
also acts as the medium through which the
| wife comm unicates with her husband.
| The question "Was Dean Swift married to
Stellar" is now discussed with much earnest
ness iu English literary circles.
"A railway station master at Rome has
lately been sentenced to the galleys for five
/
trains started by his orders and which resulted
in the death of five persons. Give us little
OF the same sort OF justice, and our travelling
public will be saier
Juan Prim, the Spanish revolutionist, is
one of the richest men in Spain. He owns ten
houses in Madrid. Gonzales Bravo did not
dare confscate them, Prim having written to
him that, If he In any way molested his wife
| or laid hands oD his property, his life would
| be taken. Prim's threats always were carried
oIt to the letter. His famous menace ad-
dressed 10 Queen Isabella two years ago,
Change your system now, madame, or swear
| that you shall fee from Span," terrified the
| Queen at that time so much that ODonDell
| was scarcely able to dissuade her from acced-
in. to Prim's request.
| Verdi, the celebrated italian composer
Il
has purchased the village of Bussetto, where
he was born, and large estate in the vicinity,
over three leagues in extent. He caused
hea.re to be built at his ex ense in the vii
lage, and at this theatre tree performances are
| given to the peasants. Verdi says that the
money qe received for "Nabucco," bis first
opera that was not hissed, was invested in the
purchase OF the house which had belonged to
his parents.
Queen Isabella's protest against the acts of
the revolutionists, whom she describes as her
"oppIessors," contains the following: Let not
the greatest enemies OF authority themselves,
in their insane dreams, imagine that power
which emanates from so high an authority can
he conferred, modified or suppressed by the
Intervention OF brute force, under the impulse
of deuded soldiers. If the towns and the
provinces, yielding TO the first pressure of vio-
| lence, submit for time to the yoke of the in
surgents, soon public feeling, hurt in its in
most and noblest parts, will shake off its tor
por, and show the world that the eclipse of
reason and honor in Spain cannot last long.
| Until that time arrives, have thought proper, I,
as Queen OF Spain. and alter due deliberation
and sound advice, to seek in the States of an
august ally the security requisite to enable me
to act, under these difficult circumstances, in
conformity with my position as Queen, and
with the duty that devoves on me to tran'm init
unimpared to my son my rights, sanctioned
by law, acknowledged and sworn to by the ma
tion. and fortified by thir y-fve years Of saori-
foo vicissitude, and tender affection"
A touching instance OF childish devotion
:. told in New Brunswick paper. Three
children there got astray. One was about six
wears of age, the others four and three 1t
was a wild region and in wild weather, and at
the edge of night From signs, it seems that
the six year-oll child soon felt sure there was
no hope OF their being found, or finding them
selves that night, and so it took measures at
once tor the safe keeping OF its little ones.
Putting them in the most sheltered nook It
could find, it then stripped away the most OF
its own garments to put on them, and set out
IN gather dry seaweed and brush to cover them
nm in and defend them. Quite quantity Of
this had been gathered aud piled about the
babes into a sort of nest and there thes lay
when the people found them, still alive; but
the six-year-old mother and martyr lay out on
the shore dead CT the cold-lay beside the lAs'
nile Of brush it had been able to gather Ou'
was not .ble to bring in
1,Loxo hos hasn a complete revoluIion III