The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-04-15
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fused to accept the address of coincidence Of
fered her by the st. Patrick's Society in Mon
treal, believing that the organization is really
responsible for her husbands murder.
The correspondent of a London paper,
with the Abyssinian expedition. revives the
story, told by Bruce, the African traveller.
about the natives OF Abyssinia cutting steaks
from the body of living OK. Three officers
of the Fourth Regiment have seen the opera
ton, and assert that the animal, an hour after,
seemed none the worse for it.
I'm New York, ON Thursday night, an un-
fortunate woman, while attending one of the
Catholic churches with an infant in her arms,
was thrown into Mysteries by discovering that
her child was corpse, Going out into the
street, and being unable to control her grief,
she was arrested on the supposition that she
was tipsy, and locked up. Subsequently the
truth of the case was ascertained and report
ed to the Police Captain who had caused the
poor creature to be imprisoned; but that
functionary, with rare cruelty, in spite of ex-
PLANTATION, insisted upon keeping the woman
in cell all night, where she passed the weary
hours in state of frenzy, clinging to the dead
body of her child.
General Prim, the redoubtable Spanish
leader, is now in London. He is described as
a slight, swarthy, amiable-looking man, ap.
parently not more than forty-dve years of age.
"A recent New Orleans suicide lett the fol-
lowing written explanation: 81 have seen
enough of this world, a i'd am curious to know
what there is in the other one."
John Phoenix, speaking of the American
fondness for titles, said that once, when, from
The deck of an outgoing steamer, he shouted
to friend, "Good bye, Colonel" two-thirds of
the crowd ON the wharf raised their hats,
and said, "Good bye, ole fel. Tekkar yerself."
"A man in Union City, Tenn, has just poi
soned himself because his newly y-married wife
told him that before she became acquainted
with him she had let another man kiss her.
Miss Abby Mills, teacher in one of the
Primary Schools of Boston, attended to her
duties as usual on Wednesday morning last,
and then disappeared, since when no tidings
have been received of her whereabouts. 1t
was thought at first that she might possibly
have gone to visit some friend and been taken
sick, but all her relatives and intimate &C.
quaintances have been notified of her absence,
and no clew has been obtained of her. Miss
Mills is we'll known, and her absence is attrib.
uted to mental alteration.
A child in an English Sunday School, be-
ing called upon to say her text, promptly de-
| livered herself of the following: "He that
Matched me, Matched my Father ALSO" After
| some questioning it was discovered that the
passage which the little Innocent intended to
repeat was, "He that hateth me hateth my Fa-
ther also"
| 1f t1,a IN fI,a
Exhibition reports that it is as easy for the
| United States as for England to obtain direct
supplies of raw silk, and shows that the silk
trade might easily be made an important and
profitable branch of our manufacturing indus
try. One reason for this belief is Cur exemp-
ton from the causes which have lately pro-
duced fatal maades among the silk-worms In
Europe.
Some brilliant English sportsmen recent
. ly had their powder wet by the rain, and dried
it by putting it in the kitchen oven, sitting
meanwhile in the room drinking ale. 1t ex-
ploded. of course; two of them were killed,
and the other severely injured. A man OF
oenius on this side the Atlantic undertook to
Grind some coarse powder in coffee-mIi,
with similar result.
Many of the Italian children, boys and
girls both, who play the fiddle iG this country
in the streets and in drinking saloons, are said
to have been kidnapped, and are treated mere
like slaves. The Italian authorities are look
ing into the business.
| The English Independent says: "A recent
visitor at arevtory not twenty miles from Lon
don observed with some surprise that oaly o
lamps aud candles were used, though there
was gas to be had in the village. The expla-
nation that was given him was that the gas
was made by Dissenter"
"A journal devoted TO the interests of sol
diers and sailors has been started in Boston
T. is called Our Country, and is published
weekly. j. w. Denny is its editor, and the
first number presents handsome Appearance
Much sensation has been created in diplo-
matte circles by an incident which has created
} some difficulty between the English ambassa
dor at Petersburgh and the Russian polIce
An English mechanic had been det lined fol
four months in prison fer having been found
without a passport. This person had lost 1t IN
a fire, and having been supplied with anoiher'
it was kept from him at an hospital "ners ne
had been confined by sickness. Inc Dli isn
Government has been claiming damages iot
th,s ,;cfr of Russian regulations, but With
out snccess as yet.
7 Fine farm lands can DC Oousnt IN heu
River county, Texas, for hve cents an "cre'
, Many people might find them dear even at
: that price, if residence were condition OF
; purchase