The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-06-06
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Varieties.
Miss Lydia Becker and some other friends
of women's votes waited on the Board of Over
seers for Manchester recently, to ask them to
place on the register all women who had paid
their rates as directed by the Reform Act of
last year. 1t was stated that 1000 women in
Manchester alone would, if that were done, be
enabled to vote. Miss Becker made speech
herself, but the legal arguments by which the
application was justified were left to DIR. Park
hurst. This gentleman having observed that
women formerly voted for members of Parlia-
ment, and that the disuse of their right had
not invalidated it, went on to contend that un-
der the new Reform Act, women were EMIT
led to be put on the register, and to vote. He
contended that the word "man" as used in
law included "woman" also, unless the con
trary as to gender is expressly provided.
The Canadian oil-operators complain bit
tetly OF the new tax refined petroleum.
The oil business was already at its lowest ebb,
and this new tax, imposed without warning, is
like the last feather that broke the camePs
back.
NAA' tHC Wcl-hnONH
tor arrived at his home in Boston on Thurs
day. He has been absent for three years, re-
siding most of that period at Florence. Among
the reasons for his return at this time was tho
desire to superintenl the erection OF his equis-
trian statue Of Washington, in the Public
Garder.
: The recent victory of the Russians over
the ruler OF Bokhara, who has lost by the con-
fiict both his capital and his life, is but anoth-
er successful step in the steady march of Rus
sia toward tie control of Central Asia The
whole of Independent Tartary is now virtually
subdued, and by this last victory Russia has
come to be next door neighbor to the British
in India. She protests her peaceful intentions,
but still she steadily pushes forward railways
connecting the most recently acquired prov
inces with the capital and is in short doing
everything she would most naturally do sup
posing that there were the ultimate intention
of disputing at last for sovereignty ON the
plains of Hiidostan.
DIR. Howe, of the Massachusetts, Asylum
for the blind, has received from Mr.. Charles
Dickens draft ON the latter's London bank
ers for $17OO, to pay the expense of printing
go copies of the "Old Curiosity Shop, in rais-
ed letters for the use of the blind
The Emperor of China has been selecting
wife, or rather his mother has been doing it
for him. One hundred and twenty candidates
were presented, and of these seven were told
to call again.
Agnes Kemp, the woman who dared to
beard w. Phillips in the convention of the fe-
male voters, writes to a Pennsylvania paper to
explain that when she said she didn't want
him for a leader, she didn't mean that she did
want George Francis Train
An impertinent fellow asked gentleman
at a public gathering why he had shaved off
his side whiskers, and was answered that to
meet some men he required more @cheek"
The "Turf, Field and Farm" is now issued
semi-weekly.
An ungallant New York paper, noticing
the departure of Madame Parepa- Rosa for CAL
ifornia adds the steamer took out six tons of
other freight"
Nilsson has quite displaced Adalina Patti
in the affections of tickle Paris. The capital
has new lady violinist, Mme Norman Neru-
da, who is said to be equal to Paganini. She
was born in Prague, educated at Vienna, and
married Swede. She is twenty-eight years
of age, and appeared in a concert when only
seven.
1t is said that Alice Cary perpetrates two
poems day on an average. Consequently
the material is spread very thin.
Mrs. Partington, whose maiden name was
b. p. Shllaber, is writing the ode to be sung
at the forthcoming Masonic celebration in
Boston, June "a. She has sent Isaac to his
uncles in the country that she may not be dis
turbed by his very vicious" tricks while
thus occupied.
"A bachelor, according to the latest defni-
ton, is a man who has lost the opportunity of
making woman miserable.
The mother of Charles f. Browne, (Arte-
INNS Ward,) has final ly heard from his Eng
lsh executors, but in such vague and unsatis-
factory terms that she might as well not have
heard from them at all. There is something
strange about the disposition of her sons
property. He certainly left considerable
sum, but what has become of it nobody can
tell on this side of the Atlantic at least.
An Exposition of wool and wooden goods
is to be held at Chicago, Aug 4 and 8, to rep
resent the wool-growing and manufacturing
interest of the West.
Nui yOuhS AiOh VI A(dhouiJy w., Wohb
trout fishing the other day, with this result
9S trout in the aggregate, so of which weighed
46 lbs, the biggest weighing lbs. 10 OF.
The cables for the new bridges at Niagara
Falls have been received, and will be put up
Immediately. They are in fourteen coils, each
coil weighing fourteen tons.
The editor of the Transcript received
letter from Florida the other day with the fol-
lowing written on the outside of the envelope
IF this letter falls into the hands of an infer
nal thief let him be assured there is no money
in it, The writer has learned not to trust
money in the mails Let it pass"
a small boy to church, because he was too
small, the latter replied, "Well, you'd better
take care of me now for when L get bigger /
may not want to CO." The philosopher attend
ed church that day.
Henry Ward Beecher, in his sermon last
Sunday, said: "Repudiation is wrong, and
every whisper countenancing it is from the
devil. If all the nations of the earth were
to speak across the sea in its favor, and
the great ocean itself should thunder out
amen, reputation would still be wrong
This may be called political preaching" but
it is in accordance with Gospel teaching and
Christian principles, nevertheless.
The County Gentleman says it is demon
stratad that fields pastured late in the fall
freeze deeper have less turf and feed, and are
noorer than fields going into winter with a
GOOD mulch of grass.
Immigration has set in from Australia to
California, where it seems.alllthe nations of the
earth are going to sit down to have a grand
set to.
The captain of a Boston military company
has thrown down his glove He challenges.
any other company in the United States to a
contest for the championship in military drill;
the event to take place in Boston or New
York. If this challenge is not accepted with
in sixty days, Captain Finan proposes to claim
for his brave sixty the title of National
Military Champions" Who will lift the gage?