The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-07-12

Chase is at Put-in-Bay.
Victor Hugo is unable to use his eyes.
Olive Logan had small audiences in Frisco
Lake Michigan is two feet higher than usu-
Mayne Reid is dangerously i'll in New York
hospital.
Hans Breitman aud Mrs. Scott SiddoIs are
in London
Garden of Eden is the name of a new park
which Cincinnati opened Oh Monday at cost
Of $4,000.
A daughter of Gen. Phillip Kearney, and
Robert r. Potter of St. Louis were recently
married at Cape May.
St. Petersburg has its first bootblack, an en-
terprising German. Goloshes take the place
OF boots in that capital
The drouth in Minnesota and Wisconsin
threatens to ruin almost the entire wheat crop,
as well as to injure the other crops seriously.
A Syracusan the other day consoled one of
Dickens mourners with the remark that he
had "a mighty smart sster-that Anna Dick
inson."
The tobacco business is France is entirely
in the hands of the government, which has Is
large manufactures, and received, last year,
nearly $50,OOO,OOO from the sale of the weed.
The new Democratic organ at Washington,
with 100000 capital, is to be called the Pat
riot, and edited by Prof Willing of the old old
Intelligencer and Mr.. Harvey, ex-minister to
Portugal.
Austria, which has always been tinkerine
with the language of Poland, ordaining Latin
as the official tongue, etc., has now decreed
that the Polish language alone shall be used at
the university of Cracow.
A phrenolOgist who wanted to examine
Dickens's head, received this reply: "Dear
slr.-At this time l require the use of nv
skull but as soon as ii shall be at leisure viii
willingly place it at your disposal"
Nephew Butler has secured first class huff
in the Alexandria Avenir d'Egypt, which calls
him the nephew of his uncle, "who NAV be
considered chief of the Republican party in
the United States, and distinguished states
man, worthy of being placed alongside of
Daniel Webster and Henry Clay"
Charles A. Pope of st. Louis, who died sud-
denly in Paris on Tuesday, was one Of the
most prominent physicians and surgeons in
the West. Born in Huntsville, Ala, in 1916.
he received the best medical training in this
country and Europe, and for nearly twenty
years was head of the st Louis medical uni
-versity.
John Wise, who made a balloon ascension
from chicago on the Fourth, was struck with
the sharp outlines of the city, and the absence
of the ordinary suburbs by which CITY usu-
ally merges into the country. The ballast
sand which he threw from the balloon, reflect
ed the suns rays like drops of rain and made
aperfect sand-bow.
The yacht Cambria, ON its present voyage
across the Atlantic, is to test the value of the
sea messenger, new invention for conveying
to land messages from vessels 1t is made Of
sheet copper, has brightly painted metallic
nag to attract attention, and is large enough
to contain sixty pounds, so that important
books and papers could be preserved in case
of shipwreck.
Z. D. Holbrook, ex-deegate to Congress
from Idaho, whose death was recently an
nounced, was killed by C. H. Douglas, an old
and prominent resident of the territory. The
parties had been on bad terms for nearly two
years, and on meeting each other, one even
ing last month"; had warm dispute. which
ended in their both drawing revolvers. A
number OF shots were exchanged before they
were arrested, one of which resulted in Hol-
brooks death few hours AFTER
Anna Dickinson and l are great friends !:
we love each other very much. We have re-
ceived most brilliant offers to 20 10 London,
together or separately. We think of going to-
gether, and OF lecturing on alternate nights,
II we We're to go, we should have letters to
John Bright, Jonn Stuart Mill, and all the
j. ding reformers in the country as "represen-
t,'tive women."-O. Logan.