The Portland daily press., 1868-06-26
Varieties.

.. -H..E ar1e ties.
French Marquis de Cambronne has writ
ten up Washington for the Paris papers.
A terrible supp position newspaper report
ers on strike. Under such a calamity would
not the public and those who want the public
to know what they say, sing and do on occa-
sions. suffer? Even Congress would be hid
den like dim lamp under close bushel.
The University of Michigan at Ann Ar
Dor. Mich, is one of the most fouri ,hing aca-
demic institutions in the country The Law
School numbers 395 students, and has four pro-
fessors, two of whom are judges of the Su-
preme Court of Michigan, and one an eminent
practitioner. Its students, like those of the
other departments, come from all parts of the
country, from Maine to California The mum
ber Of graduates during 1867 was 292, inelud-
ing eight mining engineers, and enty-one
Bachelors and Masters of Science. r .Fr
The friends of the freedmen at the North
are taking measures to preach the temperance
gospel throughout the South, and have organ
lied an association in Boston for that purt o 80,
of which William Wells Brown is President.
1t is proposed to raise $4,000 to send lecturers
and documents among the freedmen, and the
measure is endorsed in general terms by Drs.
Kirk and Miner, and Revs. J. NJ Manning
and G. ID. Hepworth; and with a more spe-
cial appreciation by James Freeman Clarke
Rev. j. d Fulton and Others. rl H s
"A Wisconsin paper describes a freakull
nature in the shape of perfect Tame limb,
blossom on an apple treeseverai young apples
al Al
ana close TO 5peose is the only blossom on the
grow''snvorNl rods from the tree, in front Of
tne mouse, Is . white oootcl. rose bush in full
bloom, and upon colAparng the roses upon
this bush with the one upon, the apple tree,
they were found to be alike. ...l--
The deaths OF five persons rom delirium
trenaens, of two children from burns or scalds
OF nine persons from drowning, of seven in
fants and one adult from suffocation, Of seven
persons who committed suicide, and of five
persons who were killed by horses or carriages
in the streets, were registered in London in
one wpek in May.
subscriptions have been raised in France
for the institution in Algeria of mixed agri-
cultural schools, in which the children Of the
destitute Arabs will be taught the methods of
European children; the schools to be under
the entire management of the laity A
Two children have been stung to death by
locusts, in Dayton, Ohio.
The Chinese claim that China was a re-
public 1000 years ago.
Chief Justice Chase is a member of the
Episcopal church and not of the Methodist
Episcopal church as heretofore reported.
&C. f. Dole of Norridgewock oficiated az
chaplain of the Harvard class of '6S on class
day last Friday.
The Chicago Post says it is not true that
Collector of Revenue, Mr.. Mann, with a snuff
box inscribed 81 Swan to Mann"
William Cullen Bryant now writes but
very little for the New York Post Prot. Lew
is, of Troy University, has become leading
writer for that paper.
-"Hazng the Plebes" is no longer to be an
amusement or duty at West Point. Every
cadet, before he gets a days leave of absence,
must sign the following PLEDGE:
Upon the honor of cadet and gentleman
certify that have in no manner or way inn
properly interfered with or molested harrassed
or injured new cadets, from my admission to
the present time; and do further pledge my
honor that during my absence from the post OF
West Point, will abstain from all intoxicat-
ing liquors and every issipation or excess ioI
three days, Immediately following my depart
! ure from and preceding my return 70 the Ac-
ademy. - .
The woman question is making progress.
From city so little likely to be stirred by
sentiment as Lisbon comes a new paper, called
A Voz Feminini written by ladies and devot-
| oil to tho carSa of xvouo ap,aro;nat;on grho
| chief editor is Madame Francisco D'Assis
MARTINI Wood, the Portuguese wife of an
English gentleman. In New Hampshire the
Universalist minister's who admit women to
their pulpits, lately passed resolutions strong.
ly favoring the advancement of the sex.
| "A census just taken of the city of Chicago
indicates the population as consisting of 98,-
964 Americans, 92,4 Germans, 45,543 Irish
1O52O English and Scotch, 1892 Scandina
yians, 9,144 persons OF other Dativities. II
other words, it appears that the native Ameri
can inhabitants of Chicago constitute little
more than third of the entire population
which foots up Tin round numbers) 275,OOt
souls.
| Count Montalembert, in the Catholic Cor.
respondent, taking advantage of the late re-
taxation of the press laws, flies in the face o
the French government, if not of the Emperor
Napoleon himself. He says he will not argue
with those people who cannot see that the
interregnum of the last fifteen years inflicted
on the liberties of France is preparing revo'
luton to which those of 1880 and 1S4S were on,
ly ch;ld's play. Neither will he argue with
those who believe in the infinite duration OF
the present regime.
The entire evacuation OF Abyssinia by
the British troops of Gen. Napier puts an end
10 the idea that it was the intention of tn,
English government to retain possession o
Theodore's Kingdom.
Among the fireworks announced for tn
4th OF July, in Skaneateles, N. Y. are "splen
did four-pounder parachute rockets with star
which change color ard are supported in th'
air by balloons, and a combat between tw'
fiery dragons in mid-air."
Agate" of the Cincinnati Gazette, re
ports an instance where too much modesty re
suited in some inconvenience. 1t seems thai
General Este, who was recently married a
Washington. sought to have the announce
ment in the papers tree from titles, and wrote
his name George Peabody Este. The printers
net believeing that any man in Washington
was without a title, thought Este" was meant
for Esq" and set it up accordingly, much t'
the modification of the gallant General,