The Portland daily press., 1868-08-13
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-Pattrs MARRIAGE 9AS61iI psfits. 3. n, ,,,
the 2Sth ult. The Duke of Manchester and
Mr.. Costa gave away the bride, who looked
mSoe beautiful than ever in her simple but an.
prepriate toilette. Signor Mario. Madame
Grisi Madame Titiens, Mr.. Gye and pum-
be- of operatic and fashionable celebrities were
present. The Prince de la Tour i d'Auyergne,
the French Ambassador and the Secretaries of
the French Legation were PATHS witnesses OF
the marriage contract Miss Harris, Mile
Rita, daughter of Mario, aud Mile Zanzi were
the bridesmaids. s..
The "Red Horse Inn" in Sudbury, Mass,
celebrated in song and story as the "Wayside
Lnn,' was struck by lightning at two o'clock
on Sunday morning. The shed and contents
were destroyed, but the house itself was saved.
This ancient ediice ia the Oldest inn in that
State, and has been kept in one family (Howe)
for tw centuries. 1t is still well preserved
On the same day Peoria, H., had a riot, a
robbery an elopement, a suicide aud several
funerals. II is a growing city.
Don. go to the seashore without Amelia 4"
is the pla. card about the streets of Paris.
Amelia is bathing shoe. ,...5
Canadian papers report that the discount
on silver has be en- advantageous to the ehari-
ties of the domi uion. In order to save the
large discount on mall coin persons have put
the pieces of larger denomination into the con-
trbution boxes. ...
Two men in Philadelphia have been ar
rested with four several subscription papers
on their persons. These papers they have been
circulating ostensibly to procure money to
purchase political flags. They had papers for
both sets of candidates, and witnesses were
brought forward to testify that they had col
lected money for both sides, and had appropri-
ated it to their own use.
"A Belgian challenges the world to a gas
tronomic duel. He proposes to eat a hundred
dozen oysters and finish with beef-steak.
Lady Beaulieu was complaining of being
walked by noise in the night. Her lord ian
lrIshman) replied, "Oh, for my part, there's no
disturbing me; if they don't wake me before
go to sleep, there's no waking me afterward."
The woman-suffrage cause is making
steady progress in England. The overseers of
Booking, Essex, and of Frinsted, near Sitting
bourne, Kent, have decided to place women on
the register of electors.
"A conference is to be held at st. Peters
burg on the 18th October, for the purpose of
drawing up protocol excluding the use of
explosive missiles in future warfars.
The exploits of Mr.. McGregor in his fa-
nous canoe, the "Rob Roy" have excited the
emulation OF young gentleman in Pennsyl-
vania; and he has had a canoe built upon the
model of the 'Rob Roy" in which he has made
trial voyage down the Ohio, and proposes to
extend his watery wanderings in various parts
of the country. His canoe is thus described:
"The Buckeye Boy is a elnker-built boat,
fourteen feet in length from stem to stern,
twenty-eght inches in width, and one foot in
depth from the bottom of the keel to the top
OF the deck; weighing, when completed, eighty
pounds. 1t is covered fore and aft with pine
deck, in the centre of which Is an opening
| three feet long and twenty inches in width, to
| receive the voyager. The boat is propelled by
| a double. bladed paddle eight feet long, the
same style as that used by the owner of the
Rob Roy, and there is also spritsail and
| mast stepped forward of the opening and
slowed away inside when not in use"
The Springfield Republican, in comment
| ing on some recent rebel utterances in Charles
ton, adds, what an extraordinary world this
would be if all the predictions made in South
Carolina for the last ten years should come
true"
| During the past two months astronomers
have observed many large spots on the sun.
They appear on the eastern side and IN about
fourteen days disappear over the western edge, 4,
often exhibiting in their transit many curious
changes of form. A spot of consderabe size
is now visible on the eastern limb OF the sun,
and in few days may possibly be detected y
the unaided eye, If the observer should possess
keen vision. A smoked glass will answer for
a shield against the light.
"A watch was dropped into the river at
Providence by a steamboat passenger last
week, and one of the hands dived and recov-
cred it, .,. A..
The Montreal Gazette says that the imam
ces of the Dominion are nov in so hNoraoie
position as to enable the Government to pay
off the whole of its unfunded deo''