The Portland daily press., 1868-08-15
Varieties.

The Marquis de Caux is said to be head
over ears in debt, and it is to meet this state of
things that his wife is to remain five wears
longer on the stage. -. l.....-....
Nine little cbameleons have been born at
the castle of Lady Gust in England. Natu-
ralists are interesting themselves. about these
creatures. r. I
They say that NJ Strakosch, having work
ed out the Patti vein pretty well, is about to
produce another American star in Europe.
The lady in question, already favorably known
in New York, is Mdlle. Hauck.
There is a rumor in Paris that Louis Blanc
intends to stand for constituency at the next
general elections. He would be sure of a seat
in Paris or Lyons. His return could not fail
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ernmeHt.
Mr.. Gladstone has been nominated for
Parliament from Southwest Lancashire, and
his supporters are determined to do all in their
power to elect him. They express confidence
in him as the leader OF the Liberal party.
The London Times, in an article on Spain,
says: There is more distress throughout the
country than at any previous time during the
last half century. Entire provinces are even
ly and threatened with famine and the pros
poets OF the revenue collections are propor-
tionally jeopardzed. From Old Castillo, al
ways regarded as the granary of Spain, thou
sands, it is said, are fiocking to the adjoining
provinces in search of labor and food, and the
streets of the chief central cities, and even of
the capital ITSELF are crowded with an influx
of people imploring aid for themselves and
their families. A general opinion seems prev
| alent that affairs cannot remain in their pres
| ent condition. rahs .lEt=w
| Mr.. Disraeh is bidding for the support Of
the newly enfranchised English electors. He
recently declared, at the Lord Mayors ban =
quet in London, that "over-refinement and
over education lead very often to a aperuersity
of opinion and an qfectation of philosophy that
cannot deal with the robust and vigorous
principles which belong to the people," Mean
| ing that he, the fastidious and aristocratic Mr..
| Disraeli, relies more on the instincts and ideas
of the common people than on the enlightened
views and purposes of the upper classes. Dis
| raeh is certainly q clever man. If he goes on
| in that style he will beat Ernest Jones and
Bright at their own weapons, and they will
not know where to have him. ah
OF all devices for righting the wrongs of
the laboring man there is none more clumsy,
more Intellectual and more costly in the end
than strikes. Capital cannot be starved out.
Almost every man who owns property that
strikes can PROSTATE, owns another property
that strikes can but remotely touch, Strikers,
however, not only soon get to the bottom of
their reserved fund, but that fund was what
should have bought them homesteads and in
| dependence if they had only allowed steady
| work to go on. And in the long run, strikers
| get no better rates than are offered. When
strikers must work or starve, capital remem-
bers-and takes the advantage it gave up when
labor staggered and threatened.
A man in Toledo, Ohio, didn't like the
young man his daughter had engaged to mar
ry; and as the girl declined to give up her low
era respectable and industrious youug man
he followed the pair to the church where
they had gone to be married, and tried to pre-
vent the ceremony by throwing vitriol upon
the dress and person of his daughter, destroy
| ing the former and burning the face and hands
| in places At this the pair withdrew and vis-
| tied another clergyman at his residence, who,
under the protest of the father, declined to
marry them. Not to be beaten in that way
they then abandoned "the CLOTH" and repair
ing to magistrate, they finally became zone"
and are now in the hey-day of the honey
moon.
An English letter-writer gives this sum-
| mary of the electoral outlook in that country:
aIp the first place. the liberals will have very
| decided majority in the new Parliament; sec
| opdly, these liberals will be pledged to sup
port Mr.. Gladstone in very different manner
from that in which they supported him last
session; thirdly, the majority of the House
will be united ON behalf of clear and definite
programme, and will be compelled to adhere
together so long as the question OF the Irish
church remains undecided; and lastly, the
House wilIbe composed of men whose politics,
whether ministerial or opposition, will eventu-
al,v be tinged with the practical conservatism
inherent in the possession of wealth aud sta
tiop. These conditions are not uniformly fa-
vorable to the liberal cause Still they are
vastly more so than have been known Of late
years"
According to the New Orleans Picayuue
JEFF. Davis has gone to England for the pur-
pose Of entering into business partnership
with an eminent commercial firm, and he will
soon return to New Orleans as the representa-
tve in that city of the business interests of
the house.
Some detectives in Ireland thought they
had caught an American Fenian' IN the per-
son of quiet, gray-whiskered gentleman who
with notebook and pencil was observed loaf
ing about some old ruins. The, suspected in
dividual was obliged to give his name and oc-
cupation, which he readily did lie was a
"writer," and his name was Charles Dickens