The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-01-14
Var1e ties.

| u"io 1sdcnei nas Deen liberated on bail
Her lawyers discovered that there had not been
an alderman on the bench at the Old Barley
throughout her trial; and upon this extraordi-
nary, but it seems perfectly legal plea, they
urged that the trial was null and void. The
late Attorney General said that the objection
was valid, and the matter has been referred to
the Court of the Queens Bench Pending its
decision, Rachel has not only been let off
oakum- picking in Milbank Penitentiary. but
also allowed to go at large.
| An attempt was made to blow up Lon
don police station the other day, and, strange
ly enough, it is not laid to Fenianism.
| Count de Lagrange won the most money
on the turf last season of any man in France.
He made $130.OOO.
| The prettiest actress in Paris caused
great fiuttering in the breast OF rich foreign
er. The other night he presented himself at
her house, having taken the precaution to pre-
cede his arrival with packet containing ten
thousand franc notes. Her reception of him
was charming and everything he could wish
On taking leave OF the tender object of his
passion, he said, "Permit me to call again.
some time, my dear child" "Are YOU then 40
very rieh?" asked the innocent, casting down
her eyes.
don Piatt went to call on Senator Sher-
man New Years dav, and had the pleasure of
hearing the servant announce him as "Damned
| Pirate"
Thieves lately stole the carpet from a rural
church near Cincinnati, and when il was new
y carpeted brought back the old and stole the
new one.
-Winslow Homer's last drawing for Har-
pers Weekly is certainly original in concep-
ton. He makes the New Year come in on a
velocipede
| The Boston Transcript thinks it is "quite
work OF supererogation to throw orange peel
on the sidewalks at this season. After escap-
ing the ice, Job himself would grumbe at be-
ing upset by such bit of rubbish" His OBJ.
Jurgations remind US of ole of Frederick
| LOCKERS little poems, in which, referring to a
piece OF orange-rind on the London pavement
| "a piece belonging TO. an orange which some
spanish girl had picked, and some Cockney
sucked-he sings: HE could not know in
PImhco-as little she in Seville-that shopli.
reel upon this peel, ard wish them at
| devil"
"A little boy had his first pocket knife, and
L III, eXtGnuH0
the privilege of the occasional use OF his treas
ure 70 MS little playmates. One evening he
was kneeling at his mothers knee, saying his
customary prayer, which he closed in these
words: Aud please God, give little Jimmy
Bailey knife of his own, SO he won't want to
borrow mine all the time"
| MIR. John Stuart Mill has written letter.
in reply to one from Priscilla McLaren, Presi-
dent OF the Edinburgh Society Tor Women's
Suffrage, in which he pledges himself to con-
| unue his efforts in behalf of women's claims
| 10 the ballot, aud also reiterates in stroug
terms his condemnation of the conduct of ex-
Governor Eyre during his administration in
| Jamaica.
| The London Spectator of the 26h ult,
says: "The week has been marked by that last
worst sign OF coming war, the proposal of q
conference to prevent it."
"A ship canal through the Is thmus of Cor
inth it is reported, has been brought to the at.
tention of the Government of Greece by DR..
Lesseps, the engineer of the Suez canal
"A writer in the Medical Times and Ga.
zette strongly recommends blood soups as far
more nutritious and supporting than those
made from the ordinary extracts, in cases Of
exhaustion from typhoid fever and other pros
trating diseases.
The gratif ing announcement il made that
Mr. William Cullen Bryant proposes to issue
his translation of Homer's Iliad during the
present year. Judging by the specimens of
the Greek poet which Mr.. Bryant has printed
from time to time, there is every reason to an
ticipate that his presentation OF the great epic
will be the most satisfactory of all which have
been made. Fields. Osgood & Co. are to pub
lish it.
-Helmbold sports the finest equipags in
New York. 1t is buchuful
Last anecdote of Ulysses: "Gen. Grant
was met coming out of his headquarters. stoop-
shouldsred, hands in his pockets, looking as
Indifferent as if he were not oppressed with
the cares Of the nation. A friend saluted him
Good morning, General" "Good morning. /"
General, you cont look as if you were Presi-
dent OF the United States" 81 amt"
An old green grocer who died in London
last month, left e150Oo to Dickens, on coudi-
tion that Charles reads the trial scene from
Pickwick" in presence of the grocer's family
once year.
1t is expected that all European govern
ments which adopt the international coinage
system will also adopt uniform postage stamps t.
Evansville, Indiana, is borrowing money
at twenty-five and half per cent. interest. 1t
can hardly stand that long.
"A settler on the Mackenzie river, being an
noyed at the operations of the Indians there
abouts, writes the agent Of that reservation that
the redskins have scared some women most
to death" and that unless they are immediate
ly removed he and his friends will "scalp ev-
cry d-d Ingun on the river" This may be
called vigorous policy.
st. Petersburg is to have a novelty-a To-
connective on ice, The only difference between
the new engines and cars and those now in
use, will be that the wheels will be made very
broad and so constructed as to bite the ice. If
the new plan could be made to work, the re-
suit will be very valuable to the trade of
Russia.
At the International Marine Exposition
which took place in Havre, France, during
the summer of 1868, and at which all the couu-
tries of Europe were represented, the ship
Helen Clinton, belonging to Suchet Mauran,
I'd, of Providence R. /. was awarded q medal
for being the best vessel on exhibition, in re-
gard to model, build, material, finish, aud gem
eral adaptation for business OF any kind.
An advertisement appears in the New
York Herald to the effect that "a Christian
man wants Christian wife" He wants q
little cash with her
| AT the close of a Sunday school exhibi-
ton in Kentutky two of the scholars had a
1uei in the street, each killing the other.
An attewp, is to be made to legalize dis.
section in Illinois, by giving to the medical
colleges the bodies of unknown and unclaimed
dead. 1t appears that the present law of that
State, though very severe, is nevertheless
evaded so successfully that about three huu-
| dred bodies are used as subjects every year.
To exhume body is a penal offence, punish
| able by two years imprisonment ami fine
ranging from $500 to $1,000 The "resurrec-
tionists" brave these penalties for the sake of
the high pay received, and the object of the
proposed law is to break up this Infamous
trade.
The latest sensation in Chicago is n race
between velocipede and horse car The
race began auspicious'y, the horses b,iug
driven at furious pace. The velocpede soon
gained upon its competitor and bade fair to
distance it, when an unlucky crack in the