The Portland daily press., 1869-09-14
The News.


each shot buffalo near Hays City, Kansas.
Commissioner Delano is said to yearn to
| send revenue inspector or two to prison.
The report is again rife that Herbert Spen-
Ger will come to the United States next spring
The Freshman class at Bowdoin now num-
bers ffty-one
The Rev. DR.. Kirk has resigned the pastorate
| of Mt. Vernon church in Boston.
The Rothschids propose to invest 800, O0s,-
| 900 in United States bonds
The Empress of France has issued bull
| against the chignon.
Two New York gold gamblers arranged the
preliminaries of a duel the other day, but the
| affair ended in vulgar round of fisticuffs.
Naior-G General John A. Dix was hunting in
the dismal swamps of Northampton, L. l., at
| last accounts.
Mr.. Howe, the renegade Nova Scotia repeal
er is on tour of inspection to the Red River
region, recently coded to the Dominion.
President Grant and family left New York
yesterday in company with his family for Al
toona Penn.
temperance daily, says that Dexter recently
trotted half a mile in ten seconds. That is a
little too fast.
One of the London papers accuses Prince
Alfred, when he was MILDLY, with hawking
photographs of his royal mother among his
fellow midshipmen.
The monument to President Lincoln at Oak
Ridge, near Springfield, Illinois, has been be-
gun and the foundation is to be completed this
fall and the monument within a year.
The Cuban Junta, in appreciation of Secre-
tary Rawlins' strong sympathy for the Cuban
cause, have presented Mrs. Rawlins with
$4,000 in bonds of the embryo republic and
hearty letter of coincidence. MI f8
The latest Napoleonc rumor is one fore
shadowing the abdicaton of the Emperor AS
he is liable to return of sickness, incapacitat-
ing him from business, many think his sons
majority will be proclaimed on his next birth
day. - mo- 100
A Cambridge student has astonished room
full Of professors at an examination by declar-
ing that Wycliffe was editor of the Morninq
Star. He vaguely remembered something
about Wycliffs as sthe morning star of the
Reformation" Il
The body of Capt. M. s. Cannon, of the
schooner Monitor of Cohasset, who was lost
overheard during the great storm and was
drowned, has been brought to Bath and for
warded to his family in Cchasset Friday noon.
He leaves wife and two children.
A couple recently walked from Bennington
Vt, to Hinsdale in thirty-six hours, were mar
ried, and thereafter agreed to work in mill at
Dalton, "She" went to work, but "he'' would
not; and at night she went back to search for
him at Hinsdale, and has been at it ever since.
A Western paper thus does up a recent "in-
oioo.s" - immortal verse, and the Hartford
Courdw reproduces it: 81 told you a story
ABOUT Mr. Borie, and then my story begun.
now his beautiful daughter saved Reeves from
the water, and now my story's undone-for
Borie hasn't any daughter
We must again defend Prince Arthur from
the charge OF not being a bright young man.
1t would be hard to find brighter. His shoes |
are always bright; his neckties reflect the |
most brilliant colors; his eyes are lustrous, |
and in fact he possesses all those luminous |
qualities that every SON should have.
The California Pioneer excursion party leave |
for the East, Thursday, the 10th inst. The
Pacific Railroad Company has succeeded in |
breaking up gang of incendiares banded to-
gether for the purpose Of destroying its fuel
water tanks and stations in the mountains
Among the parties arrested were those who
set fire to the snow sheds near the Summit n,
few days since. AstN -asEf
Official dispatches to the State Department
put the British Government in a rather singu-
lar position with regard to its recent refusal to
grant Major. Haggerty, our Consul to Glas-
gov, his exequater, on account of his reported
Fenianism. 1t appears that Haggerty took no
active part in the Fenian movement, and made
speeches denouncing the invasion of Canada
This fact was submitted in proof, but the Eng
lish officials still adhered to their position and
Haggerty had to come home.
A French savant has discovered that by a
proper use of electricity, children who are
physically and morally weak may be brought
to a condition in which they will have de-
cided taste and ability fo study and work.
The New York Tribune says that if the dscoy-
cry had only been made during the DAYS of
slavery, planter might hive given his darkeys
a good shock in the moring, and they would |
have gone to work without the least necessity
for an overseer. 1t is furher suggested that it
might be applied to the nmocratic party with |
glorious results. -s
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