The Portland daily press., 1869-06-23

b Mrs. Lander has sailed for Europe.
performing fishes. ga1 a $500
Jerusalem is crowded this season with
American visitors is,ti -.af ~
p Senator Morgan gave his boy $500, and
the youth soon made it 100000 by iudieious
investments at Titusville i3
ai The government Of Ecuador being unable
to pay the interest of the national debt has
formally repudiated its obligations. SRI
Z. I'm Scotland, widows are married off twice
as fast in the towns as in this country
{ An extensive type foundry and printing
ing establishment has been started by the Chi
nese in Shanghai tt aa laa e.h
"a Al London hospital the other day admitted
one patient suffering from frost bite, another
from sunstroke. -,a i4 i5se lel.-
i-- There is no truth in the story that Judge
Edmonds is to be appointed Storekeeper in
consequence Of there being spirits in bonded
warehouses. il at0 ei h16
q "A student at the University Of Michigan
has been bound over for trial on the charge of
stealing valuable letters from the loek-boxes
In the post Office at Ann Arbor. ispr
i "A New York Church, which lately tried
the experiment of having the contribution
boxes passed by handsome young women, is
now call ed "The Church Of the Holy Waiter
Girls" aaii nsutiisl atd .seo.flrlo 3ii
SECOND Lieutenant William McGee,
known us "tho drummer boy Of Shiloh" has
been sentenced by court martial to dismissal
from the service and five years imprisonment
for the murder Of the Acting Assistant Sur
geon Chandler B. Bramin, U. s. A., at Baton
Rouge, La, on the 18th of August last
There is another furor for airline railroads
from New York to Washington and Boston.
These AIRLINE projects are admirably named,
for they are always air and nothing else.
i-Disraeli was lately asked whether he saw
much of a certain duchess at party, is report
ed to have replied Eyes, good deal; she was
in evening Dress" II Dizzy said that, he can
have his Premiership back, and no questions
asked. -esi 'L F8 rIl VA hnsH
The Point of Homo is the Dame of new
journal in Florence. 1t is the official organ of a
society recently started in Italy for the purpose
of abolishing duelling, by establishing court
of honor for the settlement of the disputes
among gentlemen which are generally decided
by an appeal to arms i gta4ilsitF trri'
" Ole Bull writes thus to friend about his
sviolin: sat no time since II has been in my
possession has the tone been so sweet, so pow
erftll, so versatile, so genial, 50 mysteriously
grand, clear and sprightIy as now IL is, al
though not yet settled. Heaven only knows
to what degree of perfection it may aspire to
in the future. I feel as il new era, new
musical vein had come to light in me, and
long to bring it out to conform still more to
the ideal have searched for all my life, but
never realized. s4la
"A letter from Delaware says: ''The fruit
prospect is magnificent The whole State is
full of strawberries now at six cents per quart.
Blaekberries will be more plenty than muske-
toes everywhere. Peaches win be a full crop
and unusually large and luscious, u the wealth
er be dry. '''aa ss.s.ai ...I hfn sg
la "A Washinoton correspondent of the Chi
caoo Tr;bnna ssys, on the authority Of Senator
Ross Of K ansas, says that there is not little
nrobah;uty of a coalition between Andy john
so, and Parson Brownlow in Tennessee poll
,;es and that the Ex-President stands a very
air chance Of going to the United States Sen
ate under the Parsons auspices.
The "Magna Maria bell of Cornell uni
versty Mrs President White gift VIII bear
this inscription by james Russell Lowell:-
: a. call as fiy the irrevocable hours, r
Futile as air or strong as fate to make
sii Yonr lives of sand or granite: awful powers,
Even as men choose, they either give or take.
The Wayne County (ohio) Democrat
don't like the organ OF the Belmont and Sey-
mour wing of the Democracy, as we infer from
its use of the following paraphrase:
.,r "TRis World is all q aeeting show
To our Illusion gveni
llias la sTis not source fjoy- but
- Where much deceit and venom now;
'AN-A II did not hail from Heaven"
.lE1 Z ~. -. n IL
spent several years in China and Japan in
official relations with their governments, has
written for the July Galaxy, which willappear
this week, an exceedingly important article on
'Our Independiug Chinese Problem which
is nothing less than the ChinG-zotiOn of the
United States. m . j..f.t ay cs.r