The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-26
VaIietieS.


A large stone church, in many respects
the most elegant in the city, is nearly COM
pleted in Chicago for the congregation of the
Rev. Robert Colyer, the eminent preacher, au-
thor and lecturer. Miss Julia Houston, the
charming soprano of Boston, has been offered,
it is said, the sum of 50 800 per annum to sing
in the choir.
Napoleon is making important building
improvements at Bayonne,
In Chicago, the other night, poor Irish
man, employed as night watchman of the
building of the Young Men Christian Asso-
citation, while going his rounds, fell from an
upper story OF the building, and in the morn
ing was found dead upon the pavement. In
about an hour afterwards his wife and fvo
children, for whose removal to this country he
had long been laboring, arrived in the city d.
rect from ireland, and searching out their hus-
band and father, found him a corpse. They
are thus left friendless and alone in a strange
land in a state of utter destitution, except for
the charity of strangers.
Rio Janeiro has got street railway, which
was opened on the 9th of October by the Em-
peror in person. There had been much oppo-
sition 10 the road, and its projectors have been
greatly harassed by the obstacles thrown In
their way by the municipal authorities, but
Dom Pedro, hearing of the troubles, declared
it was nineteenth century idea, and should
have his countenance, and so the thing was
put through. The road has been constructed
by American engineers, and the cars are bnilt
In this country.
"A Welsh paper says that at the last ruri-
decanal meeting in the district in which 1t cir
calates, the assembled clergymen discussed
"gweddi gynnulleidfaol," and that the subject
for debate at their next meeting is "Ysgryth-
roldeb sefrdliad crelydd mewn gwlad." 1t Is
gratifying to know it.
-velocipedes have been put to another
practical use in France. In the neighborhood
of Lyons the postmcn are mounted on them
at the expense of government, and, in conse-
quence, get through their delivery in a third Of
the usual time.
Mr. JOIN Lothrop Motley win deliver the
anniversary address before the New York His
torical Society on Wednesday, December 16
Larry Cook, printer, died at the county
poorhouse, at Decatur, ILL.,, last week, aged fis.
ty-seven years. He served in the Florida war,
under General Taylor; in the Mexican war,
under General Scott, and was a volunteer in
the Union army during the war of the rebell-
ion.
john b. Cough, the temperance iectursr'
celebrated his silver wedding Oh Iuesday'
| The smallpox is PreVaiilng IN Mh"aukes
70 sucb an extent that the public schools have
vvbv may young ladies, when they blush
ID weep. be said TO be disturbers of the pub
nc peace? Because, when they blush aud
weep, they raise a hue and cry.
1t is a noteworthy fact that within the las.
five months no less than four eminent Amert-
can artists, all members of the National Acad-
emy of Design, have been removed by death.
E. Leutze died in Washington city in July; o.
L. Elliott, in Albany in August; s. A. Mount
at Setauket, L. l., in September, and w. ..
| Mount in the present month of November.
Tn the good old times fifty years ago there
,,,oro brt 668 office holders in this country.
Twelve thousand rat skins have already
been purchased by the merchants OF Fair
mount, Iowa.
"A country paper tells story of rich
Young man in New York who fell in love with
a young lady on Broadway who had the "Gre-
clan bend" The story seems incredible, but
ifit gets around it will give a new term Of pop
ularity to the bend.
--Mush and milk sociables are the fasniona-
BILE thing in central New York
Hiram Powers Is expected to visit his
ra,atinas IN tb;s country this winter. He viii
~; - c;nr;rnati at Christmas time. IL is thir-
ty-one years since Mr.. POWERS ie's 'AAS 'e~
trv and he is sixty-tbree years old.