The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-05-15
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performed by Mr.. P. Fl. Burns, of Boston,
holder of the golden champion key" and Mr.
Walter Phillips, of Providence. Twenty
seven hundred and twenty-one words were
transmitted and copied without break in
| just one hour. The object was simply trial
OF skill, and the selection was a passage from
| Dean Swift
The will of Isaac Barton, an old Quaker
resident of Philadelphia, gives to various pub
lie charities, and the Philadelphia Female
Medical College, the sum of one hundred
thousand dollars, the whole of his fortune, as
| he died without issue.
The N Y. Evening Post is publishing Sc
ries of very interesting descriptions of trav-
ell in South America, by Professor James Or
ton, of Rochester, the chief OF a scientific ex
pedition, which left New York last July, to
collect specimens in every department of nat
ural history in part of South America. The
| expedition proceeded under the auspices of
the Smithsonian Institute. Its route was by
way of Panama, and Payta in Peru, to Quay
aquil, thence over the western Cordillera and
through the primeval forests of the Napo on
foot, to the Napo river, down which the men
of science padded in canoes, to the Maranon,
where they took steamer for Para. They
travelled about two thousand seven hundred
miles on Amazonian waters. The collections
made are very valuable. The scientific results
Of the expedition are now preparing for publ
cation.
"A family residing in Traverse, Iowa, were
poisoned last week, by eating the seeds of the
wild parsnip.
"A woman living in Decatur, Ill.,, last week
sold her blonde hair to New York dealer for
thirty-fve dollars.
w Whne DIR. Lyman Beecher was pastor at
East Hampton, Long Islanu, vnUo called
upon Father Mills, of Torringford, Connecti-
cut, who inquired about the state of religion
in the region from which he came DIR.
Beecher said: 80, the Lord reigns, and the
devil tries tor Mr.. Mills quickly replied, 81
wonder he amt sick ont
The women's club in New York have had
some difficulty in fixing upon name for their
organization. The Chicago Post suggests as a
fit name, and at the same time a compliment
to the gifted president of the ssterhood, !,
"Mother Carey's Chickens"
The Natural Bridge, in Rockbridge coun-
ty Va, with hotel and 165 acres of land, was
sold on April %. for $685. to Col Mike Har :
man, of Staunton.
-YOuatt, the well.known veterinary sur
geOn, who has been bitten eight or ten times
by rabid animals says that crystal of the nj
trate of silver rubbed into the wound, will
positively prevent hydrophobia in the bitten
| person or animal.
"A letter from Waukegan, Wis, says: ''The
crops in the country generally are looking
well. The grain is generally in, and good
many potatoes and root crops are planted.
There seems to be a general disposition among
the lake county farmers to improve the quail
| ty of their stock"
, In New Jersey town, few days ago, a
s vote of property holders was taken upon some
: question of paving or road making, and several
l women cast their votes, to the great consterna-
ton of some old fogies of the place.
! The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser says
"The sailing ship Mercury, of the Boyd &
Hicken's Line, left New York on the 9th OF
3 April and arrived at Havre on the ed. MAX
ing the voyage in taoelUe daysi This beats the
best time of our packet ships in their palmy
Il days. Captains Bailey and Nye, with the
: Sheffield, Independence, &C., used to boast Of
s fourteen and fifteen day passages, but tOelvt
t was considered an impossibility."
"A Philadelphia journal is of the opinion
that men, as q class, will never, if they can
help it, acknowledge the equal right of woman
to stand side by side with them in the expert
ences and pleasures of life. However that
may be, the following incident may have its
moral: "The other day a gentleman spoke
gravely, in the presence of a friend. of the ed
: ucati"n he intended to give his son; but my
| sold ha he ha s9oIf
: 'Repressedl why? asked the friend, in aston
n ishment. oh! because said he, she is smart
Q er than the boy aud 1 don't believe in any wo-
:, mans rights nonsense. don't want her tC
do anything but take Ter proper place, as a
wife, subject to her husband The listener
l. contented himself with saying, We'll, you
% ought to have lived five hundred years ago.
+ The murderer of the Brown family al
Of Hampton, N. H., has confessed his crime.
of The New York Times hopes there is NJ
IN volcano in the Feejee Islands, ON which, TO
I'd some damage done to a few of our people, ou
m goyernmen MT has held a sort of mortgage TO
le some wears back. 1t is stated that the com
ID mander of the Tuscarorais is now about to com
to foreclosure if King Thakombau canno
: pay the claim of $50 OOO-a sum which, thougl
|
,e eyes of the Feejeeans, would be no very inor
m dinate allowance for such a fertile and promis
os ing little archipelago, which produces cotton
= sugar, coffee. fruits, and cereals in abundance
"a DIR. j. s. Miller, of San Francisco, has Sc
cured various bones, mammoth in size, whic
have been uncovered by the action of tn
freshets during the late winter, at a depth
M M about twenty feet beneath the earth's surfac
90 They were found near Dunigan's ranch, Yo
M So county, fifteen miles from Knights Landn
100 Among them are bones of the leg, from ii
y knee joint, of the forearms, ribs, &c. Thes
the doctor thinks, approximate more nearly
the bones of human beings than quadruped
- If they are human, the owner Of them mu
al have been of that race of giants, general
ne considered mythical, who lowered 70 q
er height of twenty or thirty feet; II 0. qua'
lr- ruped, the beast was cer''Any
ed now in existence in this country