The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-06-27
Varieties.

John Smith of Goadlettsville, Tenn, fell
in love with bright mulatto girl. named
Charlotte Utley, and the other day, after OBJ
tanning permission of her employer, he enter
ed the field where she was working, and press
ed his suit. She said she ne Ier would marry
him, nor any other white trash. He continu-
ed his urging, when she struck him over tbs
head with her hoe, breaking his jaw bone. A
good deal of annoyance would be saved if all
young ladies would assert their rights in q
similarly decided manner.
Dover, England, was enabled to see o ni-
rage, recently, to see BoulogDe, in France, dis
tinctly with the naked eye, and with tele
scope the windows of her houses and inhabi-
tants could be clearly discerned. A railroad
train was watched for several miles of its jour
ney towards Calais.
Peter SAKE, brother Of John G., has writ
ten book on mineral springs.
The "match him" is now supposed to refer
to Colfax, who is a bachelor.
Wilson's Life of Grant" says concerning
the Generals family: "His eldest son, Fred
erick, youth of eighteen, is now a cadet at
West Point, where Admiral Farraguts son is
also being educated, and is the bold little fel-
low who accompanied his father throughout
the Vicksburg campaign. Another son, some
fifteen years OF age, is named Ulysses, and his
only daughter, called Nellie is a sunny -dispo-
sitioned and merry young lady, whom every
body loves; while the youngest son, known as
Jesse, and we presume named after his
worthy grandfather, is bright lad who some
times appears dressed in Highland costume,
A. H. or lio ha mi
therefore, consists of the General and Mrs.
Grant, .hree sons, and their only daughter,
Miss. Nellie.
The act relative to capital punishment re-
Gently passed by the British Parliament pro-
vides that all executions for crime shall be Sc
cret, and shall be carried out within the walls
of the prison in which the criminal is confined
at the time of execution, in the presence of
the Sheriff, the Surgeon, and Jury.
Mr.. Burlingame said in his speech at the
dinner given to the Chinese embassy in New
York that China was "the land of scholar
aud of schools; the land of books from
pamphlets to encyclopedias of five thousand
volumes"
= Lois Ulbach writes in Figaro that one day
he asked the Countess Guiccioli how she
could have married the old Marquis de Boissy.
"Mon daeu," she replied, smuggling her should
ers, "did he not tell me that he hated all Eng
lishmen, save Lord Byron, whom he admired?
How could help liking him?"
-"Is the Chinese Embassy to visit Portland,
wonder? Asked the Secretary. There ha
been no rumor of the kind, was the reply
"why do you ask ?" Nothing" responded the
Secretary" only noticed they are visiting
all the large cities.
Mrs. Eunice Warner, formerly of Great
Harrington, Massachusetts,, became a mother
at 10 years, grandmother at q, a great
grandmother at 40, great-great-grandmoth
at 56, great great -great-grandmother at "a
wears, after which she lived several years.
An impertinent magazine tells the world
that Fanny Fern is over fifty.
"A rich Jap who is coming to Paris in
search of a pretty and virtuous wife is expect
ed shortly at Marseilles in steamship that he
has built expressly for the trip He intends to
settle in Paris, and wants to buy the whole
right bank of the Seine for palace. His in-
come is $4,000, 900 year. What blessing II
we could only get him here-and tax him'
A motion for new trial in Massactu-
sstts court alleges among other things that
several of the jurymen were asleep while I'M
portaut witnesses were testifying.