The Portland daily press., 1868-02-24
Val.ietieS.


Denver city has been treated to series of
religious dances, as practiced among the In
dians in the days of Montezuma, and handed
down TO the present day in tradition. The
dances were performed by fifteen Mexicans,
dressed in suits of many colors, their faces
masked, according to custom, while they made
music from gourd shells.
The rector of the st. Stephens (EpiscopaD
Church, Pittsburg, notifies the congregation
that hereafter he will decline receiving any
fixed salary, but will depend upon voluntary
offerings, to be made on the second Sunday of
each month, morning and evening,
Having discussed for two days 0 PROPOSE
tion to allow churches to put organs in their
houses of worship, the general presbytery at
Montreal has declined TO grant the request
Gladstone, the great English statesman,
has written defence OF "Ecce Homo" of
which he was at first thought to be the author.
The real author was long since discovered,
but Gladstone defends the book as heartily as
il it wero his own.
For several years past the last Thursday Of
February has been observed as day of prayer
for schools and colleges. Due Observance of
next Thursday is recommended by the reli-
gious papers.
The view from Bunker Hill is now almost
wholly shut in by the erection of high build
ings 1t is necessary to ascend the monument
for lookout.
cleveland has a successful female barber.
Chicago intends to build smaller lake
tunnel to act as tender to the first.
Omaha, Nebraska, has a Young Mems
Christian Association.
-Signor Mario has been very badly receiv-
ed at st. Petersburg. He has passed his day,
and was reminded of the fact by his audience
The word "Copperhead," as popularity
used, is now genuine dictionary word"
Webster's Unabridged gives it and its mean
ing. t
"A fellow stole a dog, and, upon being de-
tected by the owner, promised to return the
animal next day. The individual received
package at the appointed hour, on which was
written: "rhis is your dog;" but on opening
it, the astonished man discovered ten pounds
of freshly-made sausages
About 100000 of the Fejee Islanders have
been supplied with the Scriptures. There ara
i''Vsa a. church members, SO native missionaries
''N ~, 49, :" N~ing instructed in the schools.
oun'us 0ohsro'----. is far from having
NJ
Messrs. Parkes and Merivale's Memoirs of Sir
Philip Francis. 1t has been re0pened rather
than settled, and the renewed inquiry is by no
means sure to strengthen the claims Of Fran
els. Little or nothing has been added to tha
case in Francis's favor as summed by Lord
Stanhope and Macauley-by the latter espe-
cially, who may be said to have popularized
the Francis claim.
The little son of Pittsf1eld (Mass) cler-
gyman, seeing his mother making biscuit on
Sunday, for supper, asked her If il wasn't
wicked to work on Sunday? Being answered
in the affirmative, the three-year-old rejoin-
ed, "'Oo,ll catch it when 'oo get to heavenP'
-Danbury, Conn.,, receives bequest Of $10,-
| 900 from the will OF the late VIM. A. White, to
found public library at that place.
AN Irish coachman, in Hartford, Ct., who
was provided with a strap and weight, where
by to fasten the horse he drove, has lately been
in the habit of leaving the weight in :ha
sleigh and securing the strap to the bit ring
very carefully. When the horse ran away,
day or two since, he was astounded, and could
only say: "How did he get away, an it weigh
| in so much?'
There is q "Tyng case" In Rhode Island
that attracts much attention. religious circles.
| On Sunday last Rev. j. P. Hubbard, rector of
the Episcopal church, at Westerly, exchanged
with a Baptist clergyman of the same town.
| Mr.. Hubbard had been warned By Bishop
| Clark, his Diocesan, not to adopt this course,
| but his own Interpretation Of the csnons Of the
| Episcopal church differed from that Of his
| ecclesiastical superior, and he acted accord
ingly. He is sustained by his own church, but
| will, it is understood, be brought to trial be-
fore the proper court of his communion.
We learn from the Gospel Banner that
new Universalist church at Augusta will be
dedicated either on the 9th inst. or q week
later. If the organ is set up in season the SER
vices will take place at the time first named.
"A young lady named Brookhardt, living
| in Baltimore, fell into trance on Wednesday
last, her limbs became rigid, her eyes lost their
| light her cheeks their color, and she has lain
| thus without food or water, motion or percep-
| tible life. Several of the medical fraternity
| have pronounced her dead, yet as her limbs
still retain their warmth, and hee appearance
remains more as enc that reposes than one
that has gone to the eternal sleep, her friends
refuse to bury her.
Mrs. Lander, while playing Elizabeth at
| Chicago, last week, was so exceedingly annoy
| ed by party of chattering women in one OF
| the proscenium boxes, that in one OF the most
impressive scenes she stopped, end thus pub
| licly rebuked them with just severity:
| Ladiesl 1t win be impossible to proceed
/ with this play until you cease your conversa-
| ton and behave yourselves.
| The play proceeded.
! Mr.. ]. p. Benjamin, formerly Secretary of
| state in Mr.. Davis's cabinet, appeared for the
nrosecution in the case Of the Queen versus
| Sir E. G.. Culling Eardly, recently tried in
| London for bigamy, and sentenced to eighteen
months hard labor.
| Hiram Smith, an eccentric old bachelor at
Chester, Mass, is having his sepulchre hewn
| in a large rock in that town. He pays a man
500 to do the work, and by the stipulation the
cave is to bs seven feet long, four feet wide,
and four feet deep, and after the coffin is put
in the aperture will be sealed up with mar
Bile slab and cement. Smith says he doesn't
want mud to get around his bones; he means
| to have dry place for them. The scheme is
| an old fancy Of his. -
| 1T turns out that the "spiteful letter" on
| which Tennyson wrote his recent verses was
| an anonymous letter, and not one, ous series
| Of letters. Every two or three months, for the
last year or two, the Laureate z soceived a
long epistle of complaint and t5ss,, written
by he knows not whom, but S-ga:: ~ the
same person, 1t is to this mSs;s.'.s .ai con-
temptible correspondent that ss lf-, 4. "A the
trouble to reply in public verse. tss .'ply is
only an evidence of the extreme cspsitiVenesS
which all his friends know to be : trait OF MS
| character A cruel correspondent expresses
the hope that the writing Of the verses anu sNo
hundred guineas he got for them PiO''N "
balm to the poets wound r..,;,, o,or,,
The following titles Of new I'Ai,,r Dpsr". Hr
are given in foreign journals Ia cs,a. nSila S'Tr r.,
obarita," by signor Battlstai Siuui'sa' lu
Naples; and "olarice Viso0n1' Oy S'Sn0'
Mari, in Ancona'