The Portland daily press., 1868-01-28
Varieties.


Varieties.
-snarling Prentice says; "our 6ovun-
| ment is SO bad that the West Indies oualred
awiully at the idea OF being annexed to u.s.
"A paper 10 western New York has the fol-
lowing: "A singular phenomenon has rsoant-
ly been witnessed on the east side Of Seneca
Lake. In large field great numbers of sman
punches Of snow ara scattered about. each
with hole through it, like muf. They va
ry in size, being from three TO ten inches In
diameter. They present tho appearance of a
vast number of white fur maffs scattered
asoat. This singular freak Of the snow and
wind has been witnessed by numerous peo-
pie"
Three new Republican weekliss have lust
started in Arkansas.
The pope has forbidden the RomIsh VIC
men to wear short dresses to church.
School children Ia Indiana arc precocious.
A party Of them recently asked their school
mistress 70 stand treat, and began threatening
when she refused, Her husband, who was
District Attorney, attempted to interfere.
when the youngsters dacked him under the
school pump.
Some wooden flower pots at Now Spring
vale, Staten Island, were set on Are a few days
ago, by the concentration of tho suns rays
through some fish globes, which were stand
ing within focal range
The Toronto militia were terribly frigaton-
cd the other day by finding piece of IRON
stuck through the door of the Old Fort, and
Immediately the guard was doubled under tho
apprehension that the Fenians we're coming
b. telegraph.
"A boy in Berlin, CT, rose before light on
Sunday morning, fast asleep, and weut
and slowed himself away in the barn, to
remain shere without waking until the Village
had been thoroughly reused and put In search
of him.
Fourteen girls employed by a dry goods
firm in West Bridgewater, Mass. were recent
lytaken sick with the small-pox-th the contagion
having been communicated, It is supposed, by
some recently imported goods. s
"A brakeman on the New York and Neyy
Haven load was knocked off the platform Of
his car by an evil-disposed person, while tho
train was in motion, few days since. The Of.
fender jumped of, too, and when the train
backed up the brakeman was pounding bi,
antagonist 50 that extra force was needed 10
separate them.
Helena, Montana, is TO vote on the third
Monday of February whether or not to adopt
a city organization.
-Venison is selling at St. Paul ut from six
to ten cents pound
The Pittsburgh Gazette says that destitu.
tion, arising from scarcity Of labor, prevails to
an alarming extent in that city and lite neigh.
borhood. The Secretary Of the Board of Poor
Directors says that there have been more ap.
piications Tor temporary relief during tho mast
few weeks than were made during any cor
responding period within the last thirteen
years
Train demands half million Of dollars
for his sufferings in the dungeons of Britaiu:
bat the astute Disraeli has put up the british
government to claiming al offset in tho value
of the advertisement given to Train. Tho per.
fdious sons OF Albion have the brass to say
tha. Train owes them surplus on the ac-
count.
The Memphis Post remarks pithily thai
about the doors Of every corner grocery in tbs
country towns In that region may be found
half a score Of white men, smoking cob pipos.
and demanding vehemently: "where the
dwell shall we get labor to raise our cotton?',
-ley. Newman Hall, who appears to bays
been quite active, since his return to England,
in the newspapers aud in public speeches, In
setting his conntrymen right In regard to GER
tain misunderstood points about America,
said.at the New Years temperance meeting at
Exeter Hall, that as regards actual drunken
neas. there was very far less Of it in America
than in Great Britain. Mr.. Halls testimony
would have been valuable at some of our legis-
lative hearings last winter.
Dickens has been invited to oairo-ths
Eden of Martin ChuzzlewIt
,-Col. Jepnison, the jayhawker offered u
resolution in the Kansas Legislature appoint
ing Miss Olympia Brown Chaplain of the
House, in case it cculd be done without cost
to the State"
Virginia papers contain notices Of the
death of Mr.. John Henry, OF Charlotte, the
last survivor, save one, of the children of Pat
rick Henry, and owner Of the old family scat
and burial place of the great orator.
-Dn Chaiilu had an offer OF marriage from
$50 dusky beauties, all at once, in the Ishoss
county, Africa.
John Charles kean, the renowned trnge-
dian, whose death in London is announced by
cable, was the son Of the great but erratic gem
ius, Edmund Kean. lie made his debut on
the stage at the age Of II, and two years later
won great applaussa5 Sir Edward Mortimer.
He has paid several visits to THE country, al-
ways receiving "a ovation. He was generally
recozuized as the Forest Of the European
stage. possessing talents of the highest order,
and force aud power IN his delineatioDs
equaled by few in the history OF the stage.
Mr.. Dickens will be the guest of Charles
Sumner in Washington.
Railway iron is shipped from Peunsy;va-
mia to the Rocky Mountains without being
unloaded.
The remairder Of the Cherokee Tribe OF
Indian in South Carolina, about sixteen hun
dred In nrmber, are considering the propriety
of removal 10 the Indian territory Of tho
West.
The Empress Eugene, at last accounts,
had three thousand dresses. According to a
fashionable woman, il must be delightful
thing to be an Empress
The Gloucester Advertiser says the ccd-
fshing business from that town Will be exten-
sively prosecuted the present season. TLefo
are already n fcs, vessels engaged In the West
orn Rank fishery, and by the Grst Of Febru-
ary there will ne hundred sail in readiness
for Georges The herring feet are coming
along gradually, and there viii be no lack cf
bait when the vessels are ready TO start
The Montreal Gazette calls Nova Scotia.
by on Intentional inadverlence, South Caro-
lima.
The new Vienna opera house is to 20
lighted on the "Rampenbeleuchi system
| Glad of I'll
"A young nan Ia Clayton, Iowa, recently
! stole woke Of cattle TO get money to remove
to Missouri with his family. lie was rrresteL
and when the facts were made known TO his
youns wife. it broke her heart, and she disd In
y few minutes.