The Portland daily press., 1869-08-30
The News.

The subject OF holding an international Ex-
hihitinn in Washington in 1871 is still agitated
The alarming reports concerning the EN-
peror's health are officially denied. t3N3
Mcclure, who murdered his wife at Hart
ford, Ct, week ago, has been arrested.
A lady out West has given birth to her thir-
ty first child, the Oldest being but twenty-nine
Burglars carried off $50, 900 in cash and bonds
from the Office of the receiver of taxes, Phila-
delphia Friday night. ....-
The Maine and New Hampshire Association
of the New Jerusalem Church will meet in
Gardiner, Sept. Sd. .s.ette-gs5s l-.
Brigham Young says he will confine himself
to one woman if every member of Congress
will do the same. i traIE
President Grant is to visit Utica during his
stay at Saratoga, as the guest of Senator Conk-
ling. i
A newspaper is to be established in the Red
River country by one of the editors of the To-
ronto Globe.
VIM Lloyd Garrison is displeased with Mr..
Peabody because of his alleged Southern sym
pathies. b. erNa- a.
The Gentlema,s's Magazine has an article
which argues that the Chinese were the first
discoveries of America.
One OF the lady performers in Yankee Rob-
inson's circus was robbed of Sc, 400 in money,
jewelry and other property while she was per-
forming at Clyde, New York.
Mrs. Clark of Charlottesville, N H., has
recovered $500 against Mrs. George of that
1,Ja &c hall %Lo Io4+o
having bitten Mrs. Clarks little boy.
The President received the news of the defeat
of the Harvard boat crew ON the summit of the
White Mountains. He simply remarked, swell,
am very sorry to hear it, '.t
A New York dispatch says that the Harvards
to take place next Friday, and that the propo-
sitions to that effect have been partially agreed
to by the Oxfords. +ge
The tobacco crop in and about the neighbour.
hood of Lynchburg is almost total failure
in consequence Of the drouth. Lynchburg pa
pers report the market there as active, but
add that the prices paid have ranged higher
than at any time since the war;
The performance of ,'Prof. Jenkins who
rode across the gorge below Niagara Falls on
a velocipede which he propelled along rope
stretched across the chasm, did not pay. If
this indicates a healthier public taste than
there has been, it is good news. 'o.T tas
President Grant assembled Mount Washing
ton Friday and dined at the Tip-Top House.
The sky was clear, the weather comfortably
COOL and the President greatly enjoyed the
beautiful mountain scenery of the Granite
State.
1t is stated that Mr.. Peabody's recent $4,000
donation to Lees college is said to consist
principally in State stocks, which were lost in
the European steamer Arctic, and which have
never yet been rescued, conse quenty this gift
is not expected to be of much benefit to the
institution.
Rather an extraordinary copartnership in
business has been established in Canada.
Moses Maybaum, who ran away from Newark,
leaving his creditors minus $4,000, has asso-
ciated himself with one Max Bochin, who ran
away from Boston because implicated in rob-
berry of gloves in this city.
Tom Hughes, the English author, in accept
ing the office Of referee, at the request of the
Harvards, for the international boat race,
wrote in reply to our boys-"I shall be happy
to serve if acceptable to both parties. 1 should
lie if said hope you will win, but 1 do hope
that at the finish the bow of your boat will be
at the stroke oar of Oxford" 4
A Boston wife, seeing her husband enter
restaurant with two disreputable women, man
aged to pick his pocket without being OBJ
served. The husband discovered his loss, had
ore of the cyprans arrested, went home and
told the story of his loss to his wife. The good
woman Immediately restored the money to
the erring husband, simply telling him to Ego
and sin no more''
The project for great national university
in the city of New York-to rival the great
European universities-is again agitated. 1t
was mentioned by the philologists at Pcugh-
keepsie, and was discussed by the university
regents of Albany, and is now in the newsna-
pers 1t is proposed to make that shadow Of a
name, the University of the State of New
York, living soul, and place it in the metrop-
oils where libraries, scientific collection and
other indispensable adjuncts of university
are available.
The Duke of Montpensier is accused of hav-
ing been guilty of most contemplate act for