The Portland daily press., 1868-04-17
Varieties,

The "Sub-Hub' is the name suggested for
the Roxbury District, recently annexed to
Boston.
"A Hartford clergyman executed a flank
movement on the dzettanti who dropped in at
his church to hear the Easter music, by order
ing the doors locked and enforcing their at
tendance upon service that he prolonged un-
til dinner time.
Mr.. DE Meyer, the pianist, has returned
to Europe. His departure was as sudden and
unexpected as his arrival The cause of his
recall was the serious illness of a sister in vi
emma.
AT the Liverpool police court ship-bro-
ker has been fined a5 for cutting piece from
newspaper in the Merchants Exchange
News Room.
The San Antonio (Texas) Express has
this complimentary allusion to a brother edi-
tor: The nice old gentleman who receives a
salary to say in the Austin - everything bis
rebel masters tell him to- is not accountable
for the lack of principle so apparent in the ed
ltorial columns of that sheet. He has assured
us personally that he is paid to style those
Ideas, and he does nothing but the dirty work."
Two prisoners, under sentence of death at
Sing Sing, have brought suits for false i'm
prisonment against the warden, beeause.they
were not hanged on the day appointed.
-On the 31st uItimo the British House of
Lords, after long and able discussion, voted
to do away with voting by proxy. This an
cient privilege has been practiced from time
immemorial, and more than once, when
great measure has been supported by a large
majority of the peers present, it has been un-
4 avn tail Iafno
tees, drawn from the pockets of the minority
In this vote the peers have avowedly yielded
to the pressure of public opinion; and have
taken another step in the silent revolution
which is so rapidly Transforming the British
monarchy into strictly popular government
lit is reported of pompous person who
announced himself to hotel clerk as "the
Lieutenant-Governor of -" that he receiv-
ed the reply: ''that doesn't make any differ
ence; you'll be treated Just as well as the 9TH
ers."
The cold April has killed the fruit in
Southern Ohio.
-Luthers monument, at Worms, is to be
dedicated in June.
The Hon. B. Weir, Senator from Nova
Scotia died very suddenly at his hotel in OF
| tawa ON Tuesday.
On Thursday, 9th, little girl in Albany
swallowed pin in the street. and crying Bit
terly with pain, was met by an officer, who
took her home. The pin had worked through
the windpipe, and projected through the out
side, from which the blood was flowing A
surgeon removed the pin, but the result may
be serious.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Standard says; There is general belief in
Paris that the Emperor is going to do some-
thing, and without venturing an opinion ON so
difficult matter, 1 feel bound to say that the
supernatural activity of Marshal Mel affords
| very plausible ground for the apprehensions
of the people,"
"A dispatch from Gettysburg says a reun-
ion of the officers of the Army of the Poto-
mac is proposed to be held there about the first
OF July, to celebrate the anniversary OF the
battle of Gettysburg. Efforts are being made
to purchase the building and grounds of the
Theological Seminary as nucleus for the ma
tional watering-place in connection with the
medicinal springs on the battle field.
The new version of "Maud Miller" in
which the Judge comes back woos and wins
the damsel and then repents at his leisure, an
effusion which went the rounds of all the pa
pers some months ago, re-appears in the New
York Sun a original
The purest red and white compilations are
said to look ghastly before footlights-hence
the necessity for rouge and rice powder.
The lovers of fast horses will find some-
thing to please and interest them in the forth
coming number of the Atlantic Monthly.
The Republicans in Trenton. N. J.. are
| an tal fNrA
involved in the election are very grave.
Miss Harriet Martineau has been devoting
her leisure to working an exquisite piece of
Berlin wool embroidery-a marvel, it is said,
OF taste and skill-as present to Mr.. Thomas
walker, editor of the London Daily news, IN
tended to testify her appreciation OF the ndeh-
ty, energy and ability displayed by the editor
| of the iournal to which she has for many
| years contributed, in defending the cause OF
the North from the first to the last Of the
| American rebellion.
The Minnesota Historical Society has come
into the possession of a curious relic-the veri-
table scalp of Little Crow the great chief
tain and leader of the Sioux in their massacre
of 1862. 1t was carefully tanned, and conse-
quently will not decay.
The Sehleswig- II olstein affair gave occa-
sion to the orly good mot ever recorded oil
Earl Russell. He said: "only two men ever
did understand this question-another gentle
man aud 1. The other gentleman is dead. he
explained it to me, but l have forgotten all
| about it,"
w. Hepworth Dixon is lecturins in Eng
land on the history of voting in the United
states. and strongly advocates the ballot.