The Portland daily press., 1869-06-05
Gossip and Gleanings.


"A North Carolina man wants $4,000 con-
federate currency at ten cents on the dollar.
-vieuxtemps, the violinist has composed
thfee-act opera.
Mrs Motley is sister of the late Parke
Benjamin
The Queen of Prussia has imported
a eask of Jordan water to be used for royal
baptism.
Lose man in Now York declines dinrcr=l
an editor.
IAN exchange has an advertisement for a
servant who is a"plain cook and able TO dress
Title boy five years old"
La Liberts says that during the progress of
the recent elections, Napoleon made frequent
promenades in various quarters Of Paris.
The Cincinnati papers contain an obituary
notice of Mr.. Hogg.
-Rochefort, it is said, has secretly visited
Paris nearly every week.
"A psregoric wedding is the latest matri-
monial novelty 1t takes place about the end
of the first year.
Miss Nellie e. Dorsett, who is supposed to
have committed suicide at Chicago. was the
daughter OF wealthy merchant OF New York,
| and remarkable for her beauty and accom-
plishments.
Madame Racheps case, the London "beau-
tiful for ever is at last disposed Of the valid
ity of her trial affirmed, and now she goes to
prison for five years.
The situation as regards rents is bravely
altered in New York. Landlords are search
ing for tenants aE reduced rates.
Temple Bar, the English monthly, is pub
III. -.x.Al. Al.
"Red as Rose Is she."
Paris has produced new musical instru-
ment, the ''typohone.' 1t is like piano, tun-
ing forks being substituted for wires
"A newspaper company has been organized
in England to publish several new weeklies in
lancashire.
"A new kind of cotton, called bubuy, is now
being extensively cultivated in the Philippine
Islands, through the exertions of missionary
| Father Rivas
"A serious conflict has broken out between
the Catho ic laty in Hungary and their bish-
| ops ON the subject Of the administration Of the
church property.
Miss Anna Dickinson goes to California
next week. Her purpose, we believe, is 'sNOth-
| ing unreasonable"
II
Chaplain, is cuItivating hops in Southern Ger
many.
The Post Office as Centreville, Indiana, is
in charge of a lady, who is commended by To-
cal paper as oblgisg and gentlemanly."
-Abram Van Dine, a Holiauder,wh fought
against Napoleon in Prince Williams army,
and has distinct recollection OF the Emperor,
has been living in Patterson, New jersey for
II years, and has never been able to learn En-
glish. He is "a years old.
M. D. Conway, an American writer So
journing in England, has, for some time past,
been conducting quasi religious service every
Sunday at an obscure chapel in Finsbury,
near London. The character of these services
is thus described: "The creed which the lee
turers and his followers profess is pure The
istic Unitariauism. They believe, that Is, In
one God but on points Of theological doctrine
have no more afinity with Christianity than
with Buddhism So much of Deity is kept as
saves them from the reproach of Atheism, and
hardly a whit more To this 1 may add that
the hymns used are chiefly selections from
Shelley, Carlyle, and other Infidel writers.'
The visitors to Central Park, New York,
can now ride aroun there without paying five
or ten dollars for hack Tho Park Oommis-
-sioners have Just put on some popular car
riages, drivers in uniform, etc., and will carry
passengers the rounds for quarter.
The Syracuse Journal says that Cornell
University is making good progress. George
William Curtis has begun his course OF iec-
lures on Recent English History, ana james
Russell Lowell, is delivering MS course on
early English Literature.
The Washington correspondents say that
the stwealtby Engshman" whose generosity
shows irself in a refusal to accept the legal
ra,o Of interest on the United states bonds,
and who has returned several fve-twenties to
the Treasury Department as "conscience mon
ey,' is said to be lunatic.
"A lady reached the passenger depot in
Eayton, o., the other day, just as the train she
intended to take was leaving, and as she stood
almost crying with vexation on the platform,
"a gentleman arrived at the depot on a full run
with his carpet bag in his hand, his c. pat on bis
arm, and his face streaming with per SEPARATION
AS he looked on the train, now fas 4 MOVING
away, he sat down on his carpet-b Jag, wiped
his face, and very deliberately and temphati-
cally said: "D-n that trainr' TIE lady
heard him, aud smiling upon him with a lady's
sweetness, said: "Thauk you, SIR
The annual examination at WestlPoins rs
in progress. The attendance is large and
brilliant, and the exercises, which to the
cadets are the merest routine, are eagerly
watched by large numbers of persons who are
personally Interested in The cadets, or who go
TO West Point merely out of curiosity. The
present standing OF the graduating class Is not
likely to be materially altered by the final ex
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