The Portland daily press., 1868-10-08
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Wild rice is now gathered by the Indians
in Upper Minnesota. There will be thousands
OF bushels in the Chippewa country. ....r T..
Another sensation seeking couple have
been married in the Mammoth Cave. ., ID.
South Carolina mourns over the appear
ance of . new cotton-worm, four inches long
and three-quarters of an inch in diameter 10
"A defeated candidate for a county clerk
ship in the West has sued his successful rival
for defamation of character and 5000 dam
ages. r p .fafri a-rl4 ID, .s-,,r. e..
In Russia an imperial ukase has recently
been issued forbidding the practice of houo-
opathy in that country under penalty OF fine
of 500 roubles and two years in Siberia. .rs
o The New York Sun thinks that If General
Grant were still in the tanning business, the
number OF Office seekers already wearing out
shoe-leather travelling about to get recom-
mendations for places under his sdmnistra-
tion would be good thing for him. seg.H
~ The Spanish rebellion shows two distinct
sod not wholly harmonious elements. There
are the Liberal Union, headed by Serrano, and
the Republican movement, headed by Prim,
The former desires a monarchy. and the latter
republic This combination overthrow the
throne. The problem now is, how to harmo.
nize the views of the two parties without civil
war between them. .fst.. sise4.as a. g..
"A "drunk and disorderly" in q San Fran.
cisco court escaped fine and secured an i'm
mediate release by stating that he took the
liquor to alleviate the pains of smallpox, with
which he was then suffering ahriE 5Iaf Id.
There is a new Emperor in Abyssinis, Co
bazzi by name. He crowned himself at Con-
dar early in September. efi ia vrrs.ael- .tt -..
E Several letters by Martin Luther have
lately been discovered at Marburg. .r-z- = q
Bears are the sensation in New Hampshire
and Vermont. White Mountain tourists come
upon them in the stage roads now and then,
and at Troy, Vermont, one weighing 275 lbs.
was recently killed. Bruin had been eating
corn, and incautiously presented himself to
the farmer and his son the other night. They
chased him through the woods with lantern.
pitchfork and gun until the light went out,
when the bear chased them both up a tree. He
at last left them, when they went home, return
ing in the morning to bag the game. ..,
"A Prussian village was recently burned
down because the officials on the Russian bor-
der wouldn't let fire engines cross to the res
cue without passports for the-Arenen. 1t was
was all satisfactorily arranged by the time the
town was in ashes. < ~ Ct aa.a.f c..l--. .-.-r
"A few days since some persons engaged In
cutting ditch near Fairmouut, ILL.,, discover
ed the bones Of an animal apparently much
larger than those of an elephant. One leg
bone was some seven or eight inches in diame-
| ter at the joint, and many others OF ceres
ponding size; teeth five or six inches long, etc.
| The whole Skeleton has not been exhumed yet,
but party il forming to make further explo-
rations. These bones are found at depth Of
about two and half feet, in common prairie
slough. They are believed to be those of .
mastodon. .r ts..... Old.
AT an agricultural dinner in England
gentleman rose to reply TO the toast OF The
Ladies )" when from the ladies' gallery came a
| voice, "Sit down, sirl" He did So with q
thump, and one OF Miss Becker's followers
arose and responded to the toast, tanning her
self meantime, and giving the gorged agricul-
turists lecture on the impropriety of eating
| by themselves while the ladies whom they
toasted looked on hungry. H ....
I "A singular instance of the contrasts afford
| ed by human experience may be found in the
fact that the same General Espartero who in
| 1910 overthrow the Carlists and secured Iss-
| bella IL on the throne of Spain is now sitting
| a. president of the revolutionary governments
| constructed on the ruins of that throne. The
most powerful supporter of the Queens cause
then il now the "head and front" of the move-
ment against her. Espartsro, like Warwick,
the English "king-maker," has torn off the
crown himself put on. o# ar
1t has been well SAID by clergyman
who says many things well-"never shy an
old sermon at the devoted heads Of the few
who have ventured out ON rainy Sunday"
Rev. Kendall Brooks, formerly Of Colby
University, and recently editor OF the Nation
al Baptist, at Philadelphia, has been chosen
President of Kalamazoo College, Michigan.
| -Artemus Ward has been heard from
through Planchette. He says: "I'm tryin' to
| seoer up how 1 could give away twenty-five
thousand dollars at my deth, when, according
to reports sence, 1 didn't hev but five."
"A lady advertises for sale one baboon,
three tabby eats and parrot. She states that,
being now married, she has no further use for
them because their amiable qualities are all
combined in her husband.
| The Louisville Journal contains denial
| of the report that Mr.. Prentice has been as
charged from Its editorial staff; and says, also,
that Mr.. Prentice is. not poor, but IN smuent
circumstances, his homestead alone being Fal-
ued at $4,000. .. ..--