The Portland daily press., 1870-07-09

A Denver paper talks of "Jimphisque"
An Illinois girl has charge of the mail route
on the Hannibal and Naples road.
The style of ladies' hats in Paris is what it
was los years ago.
The steam shovel at Fort Hill, Boston, is
now run night and day.
One hundred and one reaping and moving
machines are on trial, this week, at Mansfield,
Ohio.
Hartford and New Haven are each excited
over a quarrel in the management OF Their
water works.
Only sixteen barrels Of ale were carried TO
the grove where the Catholics of North Ad-
ans, Mass, held their picnic on the Fourth.
A Providence undertaken has pleasant
habit of sending his card to all the sick per-
sons he can hear of. ...t
A Savannah man, to save his life had re-
Gently to knock his assailant off steamer
into the river. He then jumped in and res
cued him. .HHt
Last year one hundred and forty-two pie
beians in France importuned the Emperor to
confer titles of nobility upon them.
Walter Scott made 100000 by his writings,
Washington Irving $25O,O0O, and Charles
Dickens S450,O00. ..s
1t is said that the Knights Templar OF Mas
sachusetts are to have a three days encamp-
| ment in the vicinity of Worcester dr"ing the
| coming September.
One of the cheap papers of Paris circu-
lates 100000 copies daily among hackmen,
nursemaids, soldiers and farmers. 1t is not
allowed to discuss politics.
| Certain papers are Dragging about the
wealth of the worshippers in churches in
Boston and in Hartford, Connecticut. It is
| just possible that the Dives, of whom we have
all read, may have let many descendants.
A japanese Prince and suite have been
passing some days at the st. James Hotel,
Boston. Two of the youngest OF the party
visit this country for educational purposes.
In Queen victoria's own there are 1865
brilliant diamonds, 1878 rose diamonds and
| 147 table diamonds, large ruby, IL sapphires
| II emeralds, A small rubies, and 277 pears
| total of 21S6 precious stones.
1t is said that the first horse ever seen in
Canada was brought to that country from
France, in ship which arrived at Tadoussat
on the 18th of June, 1647. d.
Elihu Burt, who is soon to retu.l from
England TO his home in New Britain, Ct, pro
poses to make collection of all newspaper
and ministerial tributes to Dickens, under the
title Of "Household monument to Charles
Dickens"
Amos Adams, the oldest member of th.
Methodist church in Winchester, N. IL. and
the oldest citizen of the town, died Sunday
and was buried on Tuesday. He was sup
posed to be the last survivor of the wyoming
massacre. He was nearly 81 years Old.
An unfinished we'll caved in on a jug o
twenty cent whiskey, some eighteen years ago
in Maysvlle, Ky. 1t was resurrected TN
other day, and three pints still remainin!
were found to be worth fifty dollars per gal
lon is the estimation of those who tasted it.
The Providence school committee, to ac
commodate parents who cannot send thel
children into the country during the summer
but wish to keep them out of the streets, ha
decided to open five vacation schools. Th'
teaching is to be chiefly or'l and by obec
lessons, and the time will be so divided up a
tto avoid long sessions of continuous study.
Ex-Attorney General Hoar, General Butte
and Senator Wilson are the three prominen
f candidates to fill the office of United State
Senator from Massachusetts whose term ex
pires in 1872.
A writer in the Adrdnce says Dickens new
! er read his Bible. How then did it happe
that SO much of its text and so much of ii
spirit, got into his works? Dickens, it ma
safely be said, forgot more of the Bible thai
! the writer in the Adodnce ever knew.
) Letters from the Martha's VINEYARD CAM
ground speak of the astonishing rapdity wit