The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-06
VaI-ietieS.


rity than any other known body of iron in the
world, not excepting the famous iron noun
tain of Missouri and that under this vast body
OF iron there is a vein of bituminous coal,
measuring on the face, where the Buchanan
river cuts through, twenty-five feet in thick
ness. Re declares this ore to be so pure that
blacksmith took piece and forged a horse
shoe from it,"
General Prim and other Spanish exies in
London publish in the papers of that city
manifesto, addressed to the people of Spain, in
which they bitterly denounce the present arbi-
trary government of that country draw for
cibie picture o. the wretched condition Of their
native land, placed between shame and dan
ger, with wretchedness on one side and revolu-
ton on the other" and declare that the prnci-
pies of the Progressionst party are the only
principles on which any hope of future nation
al happiness can be based.
-"They say" that Brigham Young is look
ing about for some smart young man to whom
to marry his first instalment of thirty-six
daughters.
The London Censor has the following:
"If Offsnbach still pleases
More than iugues of Bach,
We shall not hear Bach often,
But often Ofenbach.
in New Orleans they are trying to drive
the street railway cars by compressed air.
Here we use compressed passengers
Mrs. Florence, the actress, aud a Russian
princess were snowballing each other on the
Alps on the Fourth of July.
The library of the late Sir Archibald ALI
son, the historian, was lately announced for
| sale by auction in Lond IN.
-Florida must be great fish country, if we
can believe an Alabama paper, which says:
There are also numerous small lakes of pure
water, filed with fish, some of which are only
a few rods in extent, while others are from two
to ten miles in length" 1
"A minister, being called on to administer
consolation to q very feeble parishioner up.
wards of ninety-five years old, prayed for his
dear sister who had one foot in the grave, that
if consistent with the divine will, it would no
doubt be "better for her if the other was there
also" .s' '-1 ..a aG.- .a'r .' ---. it...ll
-'Isay, Pompey," said one freedman to an
other, "dis chile has tried lots Of gift fairs and
tings for prize, but nebber could draw any
ting at ALL" "Weli, Caesar, III wise you to try
handcart; de chances are tousand to one
dat you could draw dat"
In the vestibule of a house in the Via Sta
biana, in Pompeii, two frescoes have been dis
covered, probably representing the portraits of
master and mistress These two figures are
on the same wall, close to each other; the man
wears the toga peculiar to the magistracy; the
woman is seated as if she were meditating be-
fore writing; in her right hand she holds the
stylus, which she is in the act of wettng on
the tip of her tongue; in the left she has the
wax tablets on which she intends writing !,
Both these figures are well-designed and in ex-
celleut preservation. They have been remov.
| ed to the Museum of Naples. 9'
The Paris Presse reports that the health
of the Princess Charlotte is in no way i'm
| proved, but that, on the contrary, her reason
wanders more and more. She has formed the
| design of going to Miramar, and the greatest
pains are necessary to divert her from this pro-
iect. 1t is feared she may make her escape
from the chateau of Laeken, and hence all the
exits of the building are strictly guarded, and
the number of sentinels doubled. ...
An act of the Legislature of Tennessee
now makes habitual drunkenness cause for
divorce on the part of either the husband or
the wife. ....t ..... ~
But few of the Madoe gold mines are ut
present worked, on account of the difficulty in
separating the gold from the other ores pres.
ent in the quartz. "
An Irishman addicted to telling queer sto-
ries, said he saw a man behea led with his
hands tied behind him, who directly picked
up his head aud put it on his shoulders IN the
right place, "Ha! hal" said a bystander,
sshnIu pnuIH ha iaLr I,.x.4l l. n.,k
tied b. hind hm?" "An' sure, what tool
you are" said Pat; couldn't he pick il up
with his tathe?" gt-r.
q "A Milwaukee mscreant named Downer
who was accustomed to devote his Sunday
evenings to the aesthetic recreation of pound
ing his feeble wife, was recently SET Hpon
while thus engaged, by about score of infu-
rated women, who proceeded to punish him
beautifully. Armed with shovels and tongs
b5ooms, mops Sc, they soon reduced him to
the most degraded submission, aud he swore
by the cross never to strike his wife again.
Never was sorosls or feminine kuklux klan
more triumphant.
" An old Aberdeen laird's wife, when other
ladies were enriching the tea table with broad
descriptions of the vices OF their several
| spouses, SAID her own was just a guild, weel-
tempered, couthy, quiet, innocent. daidlin,
| drunken body, wi nae i'll practises about him,
| avap' .... ....r. ..'
-Bayard Taylor who is now at Gotha, the
| place of residence OF his wife's parents, will
return to America to be present at the golden
wedding OF his parents, Oct Sth. ...-f a..
| Mrs. Lincolns reconsideration of her de-
termination to visit Queen Victoria gives
much satisfaction to friends of the deceased
| President, many of whom urged her not to go.
Tho solitary occupant of the Rob Roy
| c>noe is making the trip down the Lake of
| Galilee, the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and
will thence go through the Suez Canal to the
Red Sea and re urn by the way of the Nile.
| While the North has been parched by
drought the rain has done much damage to
the crops OF Georgia and Alabama.
The cinchoua tree, from which the cele-
brated Peruvian bark is obtained, is cultivated
successfully in Jamaica, climate and soil hav-
ing been found remarkably propitious to it.
"A German woman is the heroine of Da-
venport, La. She encountered burglar, met
his pistol with one better and shot him dead.
| The New Orleans Times says the CONNER
cial flags in that city are at half mast in men,
ory of departed business.
-Theodore's Prime Minister asserts that
his master was killed by British soldiers, aud
moreover that he left a legitimate sou older
than the sprig carried off by Napier.
| The Inhabitants of Seymour, Indiana,
though they have lynched six of the despera-
does who have for so long time outraged so
ciety in that ne;ghborhood, hay not yet en-
tirely broken up the gang. The mother oil
two of the villains threatens that II her sons
are touched, the village shall be laid in ashes
The vigale.ce committee on the other nand
threaten that if any one of their NUMBER Is
molested, fifteen or twenty more who have
been guilty of crimes meriting death shall be
hung. They claim that the courts are power
less to execute Justice in the regular way.