The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-05-11

Louisville has the small pox, and people
are advised to keep away from the infected
localities, since, ''however healthy the disease
is said to be, it is net without its inconvenieA-
ces''
r=fns Prince wa1es nfgru-c an
the model of the scamp of the period" While
he is disporting himself with so much magnid-
cence in the Orient, there are certain grave
whisperings among the gossips of War
wickshire at home which threaten to be-
come unpleasantly outspoken They involve
the domestic peace of a country gentleman,
Sir Charles Mordaunt, the honor Of his wife
and the legitimacy Of newly born infant
Sir Charles considers that the child has no
claim to his name, and swears that if there is
law in England he has the evidence which will
convict the heir to the throne of an offence
known to criminal law. What happy realm
it is which is provided with such an hereditary
ruler and is privileged to pay his bills. fifn
1t seems that earthquakes are blessings
in disguise" The British consul q. Porto Rico
reports that the earthquake of eighteen months
ago has proved of vast bereft to the laboring
classes, giving them work in putting up build
ings. o
Five young wolves were killed in Oregon,
Dane county, Wisconsin, on the 18th ultimo
The lucky hunter received bounty of SIS
each.
Literature and science will be well repre-
sented in the next French Corps Legislatif
Among the candidates likely to be elected
without much opposition, are nine university
professors, four historians, three naturalists,
twenty-one novelists, one hundred and four
teen barristers, seven poets, thirty-two jour
nalsts, and fifteen physicians M
The Springfield Republican says: "Among
the adv antages which Mr.. Motley will enjoy as
ambassador at London, must be reckoned his
early acquaintance and long standing corres-
pondence with Bismarck. As young men
they were at the university together, and, we
believe, were even rusticated for the same Of
tense. This was after the graduation at Cam
bridge, at the age of sew enteen, and while he
was completing his studies in Germany, during
the next three or four years. Politically, MT.
Motley has differed widely from Bismarck, but
now that the latter has come out, practically
champion of freedom, it may be supposed that
their friendship may be political as well as
personal"
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the early history of Canada has Just been made
by the Able Laverdiere, of the Quebec Sem
mary. 1t is the site and part of the founda-
tons of the Chapel of Notre Dame de Recouy-
rance, built by Samuel Champlain after his re-
turn from France in 1888.
Sir Eardley Eardley has been pardoned ont
of the penitentiary. Sir Eardley Eardley is
graceless fellow, who, some years ago, married
young lady of Mobile, the ceremony having
been performed by the late Rev. DIR. Hawks,
and afterwards married an actress in London,
the first lady Eardley still living. On prose-
cution for bigamy he had the audacity to set
up the defshce that an American marriage did
not bind British baronetl but was convicted
and sent to hard labor for eighteen months
Before the expiration Of his term he Is hberat-
ed, because his health suffers from confne-
ment, which is very creditable to the tender
humanity of the English authorities in the case
of a baronet bigamist.
"A hotel landlord in California saves the
expense of gong by keeping dog. The
weight of the landlord on the dogs tail causes
the animal to howl sufficiently loud to awaken
all the guests
"A train on an Illinois railroad was over
turned the other day by sand drifted across
the track.
New York is to have Hanson cab com
pany. w
"A three-story house. 40 by 1S feet, was
built complete in nineteen hours, at Lancas-
ter, Pa, the other day.
A wonderful horse, which rides through
flames fiom the stage to the flies with young
woman on its back, is to be forthcoming at
traction at one of the London theatres.
Ireland is to be canalized,-cut through,
from Dublin to Galway. The efectwould be
greatly to lessen the length and hazards of
NAVIGATION between England and America.
Another European canal project is to connect
the Mediterranean with the Bay of Biscay by
way of the valley of the Garonne,-but that
can mean only an enlargement of the great
Canal of Languedoc, constructed by Louis
XIV, which united the Garonne with the
Mediterranean. That canal is available only
for small craft Then there is talk of canal
izing the Isthmus Of Corinth, just as there was
some thousands of years ago. Add the pro-
jects to cut canals through Nicaragua, and
through the Isthmus Of Darien, and it must
be admitted canals are in.hieh favor.
"A son of the late Douglas Jerrold proposes
to start daily paper at Paris for Englishmen
and Americans.