The Portland daily press., 1868-05-28
Vax.ietieS.

In New Orleans two hundred and fifteen
negroes made returns of income this wear.
"A new Republican paper, the Daily Eve
ming Star, has appeared at Minneapolis, bIinn
"A newspaper" says De Tocqueville, "can
drop the same thought into a thousand minds
at the same moment. A newspaper is an ad-
wiser who does not require to be sought but
comes to you without dstracting your private
affairs. Newspapers, therefore, become more
necessary, in proportion as men become more
equal individuals, and more to be feared To
suppose that they only serve to protect free
dom is to diminish their import ance; they
m lintain civilization
The practice lately adopted by business men
of New York of carrying satchels or wallets
slung over their shoulders is growing to be
very general.
The lady worshippers at st. Adams, N. Y,
complain that the continual kneeling in the
service Injuries their silks
The ruling passion strong in death was
enthusiastically illustrated on the occasion of
a clergyman's prayer for dying toll-keeper.
The poor man had not many hours to live and
the clergyman was in the middle of his prayer
"Whist a Vice." interrupted the toll-man, 81
think hear a cart"
Two students of Yale College thought to
have nice joke in rolling two heavy grind
stones against the door of house on Sunday
evening, but just as they had them in position
the police pounced on them, and reversed the
joke by making the boys roll them up hill
again.
The ladies of the city of Merida, State of
Oaiaca, Mexico, have formed club and are
about starting weekly paper, to be called the
| Feminine Race, and which is to be a woman's
| rights organ.
Paradise Valley, Cal, lying between the
Tuolumne and Stauislaus rivers, contains an
| almost unbroken grain field of one hundred
and fifty thousand acres.
-Vesuvius according to Sir VIM. Hamil-
ton, during the great eruption of August 8,
1879, projected stream of lava of immense
magnitude to the height of at least 10 900 feet
| above the mountain. If to this we add the
depth from which it must have been derived,
the force by which it is impelled defies imagin-
alton. Immediately before this extraordinary
emission report was heard which shook the
houses of Portico, broke the windows and
cracked the walls.
The people of Montreal propose to convert
| the Victoria Skating Rink into a swimming
| bath during the summer months.
"A crippled Confederate soldier by the
name of Ould lately undertook to establish a
school for freedmen in De Soto county, Miss
issippi, and pursuaded the negroes to buil1
school and meeting house, in which he taught
both the adults and children for a short time
with success. But the rebel neighbors finally
objected to Southernor teaching niggers,"
md do fr1.a
then rebuilt it, and Mr.. Ould persisted in his
phlanthropie labOrs, but the neighbors again
destroyed the building, and finally drove ould
away.
Arthur Sketchley, the English humorist
and author. who has been in this country for
some months, has sailed for heme, the public
| entertainments that ne started 10 give mere
| having been total failure.
| Mr. Anthony Trollope, the English nov
| aist now at Washington, is described as bald,
| with heavy and reddish side whiskers He
wears spectaces with perfectly round glasses,
weighs at least two hundred pounds, and has
the appearance of a heavy business man of
| considerable intelligence.
"A dispatch from Lake City, Florida states
| that few days ago nearly two acres on farm
in Hamilton county, suddenly sunk to the
depth of fifty feet from the surface OF the sur
rounding land. 1t Immediately filled with
water, and submerged the tops OF the taIleSt
trees. The ground is still sinking ana water
| now covers four acres
The following epitaph may be seen in the
| cemetery of a parish in the envrons of Paris:
"Uere lies Madame N, wife of M. NJ,
master blacksmith. The railing around this
tomb was manufactured by her husband.