The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-06-22
VaI.ieties.

George Frances Train, in letter to the
Phillips and wants to shake hands.
jam forte IN omnibus" is proposed by the
New York Sun for a stage-driver's motto.
If towns spring up like mushrooms on
the line of the Pacific Railroad they decay
as quickly. Julesburg which with 5000 in
habitants last fall looked forward to a pros
porous future, is now reduced to population
of twenty, living in three shanties and an
equal number of tents,
"A speculator in Nevada mines, who got
badly bitten, proposed to the State authori-
ties to adopt the Irish flag as the coat-ofarms
of the State, as the shamrock and the Tyre
seemed to him particularly appropriate.
Horse radish is recommended as an ex-
cellent remedy for hoarseness, cough, sore
throat and slight diseases OF the lungs.
An institution of learning, called Whit
tier College, in honor of the Quaker poet,
has been opened at Salem, Henry County,
Iowa. 1t is to be conducted according to the
principles of the Society of Friends, and open
to all alike who will conform to its rules and
regu ations.
The fashion of umbrellas used by gentle
men against the sun, is coming into great
vogue in Paris.
"A young girl perfectly wild, was lately
purchased in Terra del Fuego for q bag of
biscuits.
-'pm not myself at all today" said bore
to the artist Inman. mo matter for that
was the reply, whoever else you may be, you
are gamer by the change"
The Utica Herald says that Mr.. Chase's
letter declaring himself not candidate for
office, but averring that it will crafty him if
the Democrats would go for universal suf-
frage, reads much like the old gentleman's
advice to his sons: Boys, it is very wrong
to go fishing on Sunday, and is contrary to
my orders; but you know your father likes
fish,"
The Liberal Christian prints the following
funny paragraph: Let the doctrine of end
less punishment, as laid down in the creeds
be preached from the Evangelical" pulpits by
men who really believe it and feel the real dan
ger of it, and there would be such a secession
ifoiri tio Evangelical ahnrchas- -4I~y-f favo
never witnessed; or, what is more likely, the
preachers would be dismissed in the most
summary manner"
-Spiritualism is making rapid progress in
dred societies and eleven cou nty circles have
been organized in the State and the work is
still going on.
The fifth National Convention of Spirit
ualists will meet on the 25th of August, at
Rochester, New York.
The institution that does the mailing of
most of the newspapers published in the city
of Chicago, last week sent the Reigio-Philo-
sophical Journal Spirituality to the subscrib-
ers of the American Churchman (Episcopali-
AM, and Uice uersd. This is exchanging pull
pits on larger scale than was ever before
known.
Senator Martin H. Bovee, of Wisconsin
by whose exertions the gibbet has beeI. abol-
ished in several of the Northwestern States,
intends next winter to enter upon an anti
hanging campaign in New York and New Jer-
sey, in furtherance of the cause to which he
has devoted his life.
DIR. Chaplin landed at Liverpool on the 5th
instant, having been just nine days on the
great deep.
The doctrines OF universal salvation and
endless punishment are to be discussed at Des
Moines, Iowa, between Rev. w. w. King,
Universalist and Rev. A. l. Hobbs, Campbell
lite. In view of this announcement the Boston
Universalist protests "inthe name of a long suf-
fering and much disgraced people, against any
man of w. w. Kings reputation, representing
Universalsm in a discussion or any where
else"
"A passenger by night train on the Hud-
son River Railroad tells the following: The
train was detained at Greenbush for little
while, and, while waiting, a cattle train came
on the other track and stopped. Such noise
has seldom been heard; the cattle beloved,
the sheep set up bleating, and the hogs
grunted, until the passengers were nearly
crazed. One old fellow had slept for hours
but this noise woke him. Rubbing his eyes,
he listened in amazement "Good God" says
he, "what's this6" Peering iuto the darkness
without discerning anything, and lis
tening more critically, he at last satisfied
himself, and set the passengers roaring by the
exclamation, "Why, this must be a Democrat
ic convention"
They have artificial ice works in full oper-
alton near New Orleans, and thousands flock
to them daily to see the process, which bids
fair to obviate entirely the necessity for inn
porting Northern ice. The artificial ice is sold
at "a of a cent per pound. The manufacture
is said to be peculiarly attractive, from the
pumping of the water from the turbid river,
near at hand to the slipping out of the polish
ed, glistening slabs of alabasterlookin ice
from the tin moulds in which they are con.
| gealed Artificial ice, as there produced, is a
French discovery. The first works, upon a
small scale, were established in Augusta, Ga,
/ during the war.
Bishop Nc Farland, of Hartford, on June
| 9th, ordained twenty-three young men as Ro
man Catholic priests, and admitted to deacon
| ship and minor orders nearly one hundred 9TH
| ers. This is the largest number of priests ever
| ordained in the United States in one day.
| "A recent visitor in Minnesota saw Ossian
e. Dodge, for many years a favorite singer in
the Eastern States, now resident of that
State, and grown wealthy and corpulept,
| An irreverent and anti.ritualistic London
er was recently fined $50 for interrupting
clergyman with "a sort Of noise like turkey
cock" which the reverend gentleman illus
trated in court for the benefit of the judge and
the amusement of spectators.
| The income of the missionary societies of
| Enoland. America, Germany, France, etc., for
1866. was $4,425 600; which, though large in
the aggregate, is less than five mills for each
of the 965,OOO,0OO souls of the earth's popula-
ton who are Pagans, Mohammedans, or Jews.
The managers OF the Suffolk Temperance
Union have issued circular inviting minis.
ters of the Gospel in Massachusetts to preach
on the Sunday Immediately before or after
the 4th of July against the sin of drunkenness.
The Jews in New York are making anoth-
er effort to secure the observance OF the jew
ish Sabbath by professors of the Hebrew faith.
A similar movement last year came to moth
ing.
The esprit of Missions" says Mr. Burlin-
| - 1..;rn his residence in China has been