The Portland daily press., 1869-09-24

The News.
One hundred and thirty-five students have |
entered Harvard this year.
Judge-Advocate Holt is said to be prosper
GUS candidate for Secretary of War.
The clerks in the Departments are organic
ing to make movement on Congress for 20 |
DER cent increase in salaries.
Charlotte Cushman has not been so sick as
reported, but it is doubtful if she ever returns
to the stage.
Manton Marble himself writes the Parsee
letters in reply to Horace Greeley's ponderous
essays on protection.
The Assistance Fire Company of Philadel-
phia leave home for a visit to Salem and Glou-
cester.
A writer in the Lancet says that the only diff
ference in the training diet of Oxford and
Harvard was in the matter of beer, from which
the latter abstained.
Ned Buntline accuses en-eighths of the
the population of California of being drunk
ards, and the San Francisco papers publish a
minority report against him. ...,
Horace Greeley informs people in search of
employment that New York is not the place to
obtain it, and not the Tribune building is not
an intelligence Office.
1t is said that the Lake Shore, Michigan
Southern Pacific Mail and Wabash cliques
have lost from four to five millions by the panic
and decline in stocks this week.
Milburn, the great blind preacher, has not
recovered his sight under the treatment of
Graeffe at Berlin, but will consult him again
in the spring in the hope that a successful OPP
Grafton may be performed.
The case in equity of Hon. w. B. Lawrence
against Hon. Richard II. Dana, Jr., for breach
of copyright in the annotations of Wheaton's
Elements of International Law" was decided
in the United States Circuit Court, Boston, on
Monday, substantially in favor of the complain
ant
The Piscataqua Fair continued in good style
yesterday and will finish on Friday. The pro-
cession of OK teams for Portsmouth, Newing-
ton, Greenland and Eliot, consisting of ten
Jokes of handsome cattle, each with covered
wagons filled with children and ladies, with q
cavalcade of fifty horsemen and the Ports
mouth Cornet Band, was very fine.
Mrs. Halpine, the wife of merchant living
at III East Warren street, Brooklyn, while in
state of insanity Wednesday afternoon, killed
her son, boy of eight years, by cutting him
ever the head with Ratchet. Her daughter
Alice, attracted by the boys cries, broke in the
door and was also attacked, but managed to
secure the hatchet and bring in the police,
who took Mrs. Halpine into custody.
Supt. Prescott, Of the Eastern Railroad, has
done most sensible thing in placing an Office
in the depot at Boston, for the express purpose
of giving passengers Information about the
running trains. A sign is posted up near
where the Office stands, announcing that ''This
Office is placed here for the purpose of answer
ing all questions about going out and coming
in trains.'' By this means travellers are saved
much vexation as to who to make inquiries Of,
and the employees very much unnecessary
trouble. 81 f l t.a >,a . 80
A Washington dispatch says that letters re-
ceived there from Spanish Republicans at Mad
rid state that Gen. Prim is doing all he can to
encourage feelings of hostility towards the
United States because he thinks in this way
he will be able to get a foreign prince placed
upon the throne. The Republicans are said to
be willing to accept Cuban independence, and
Prim hopes by talking of war with the United
States to consolidate the people in favor Of
prosecuting the war against Cuba, and also
against all thoughts of Republicanism or Re.
publican government.
A story comes from Glasgow which is un-
commonly queer. A muiatto man made his
appearance in that city, and proclaimed him
self the son and heir of the King of Malabar,
with $4,000 in his possession. The dusky
Prince Royal pa d his addresses to young
and respectable lady-a Scotch DeSdemona-
who listened to Prince Malabar's tale of love
and agreed to become his princess. Alasl this
opulent prince with $4,000 was forced to Dor
row e5 of grocer, for the non-payment OF
which his highness was taken to the police
court. The promised nuptials collapsed, and
Malabar will look in vain for a Scotch Princess
Royal
An enormous crowd visited London, Canada,
Wednesday. Fully 10000 strangers arrived by
special trains. Addresses were presented to
Governor General Young by the City Council
and Board of Trade at his hotel. At o'clock
| Prince Arthur with Governor General Young
| AouO " euO 4huuoblldA 4IAulUltlOn gTOuuuS
where addresses were presented by the agri-
cultural and art societies. The Prince and Sir
John Young then went through the exhibit
bition, where an enormous crowd were pres
| ent. An American flag, which had been hung
in the decorations, was pulled down and torn
to pieces At 9 o'clock much excitement pre-
vailed. ..
The modern Babylon is much excited Just
| now over the arrival of an American who is
said to be worth $sO,Oo0OOO and who announ-
ces him intention of passing the rest of his
days at "Parree." The Figaro inquiries if he il
likely to renew the splendors of the Hote
Thorn, which was supported by an American
many years ago, and the ultra fashionable char,
acter of which exceeded anything else in the
| fashionable world. 1t was Thorn who used
always to close his doors at evening parties al
ten clock, and if Rothschild, or the Prince de
| - came late, they were turned away posi-
haste. The name of the newly arrived million
aire is M. Custwich, which has rather Rus
sian than an English sound.
They take the census in Iowa oftener thar
anywhere else In the country. That of 1869
the aggregates of which are just published
shows q population of little more than a mil
lion, against 100000 in 1867, and 675,OoO in
1860. We wonder if the Nation will allow thai
the aggregate wealth of Iowa has increased any
since 1860. Its largest city is now Davenport
with population Of 2O,O65, gain of IL IL pei
| cent. in two years. Dubuque comes next, will
1904, then Des Moines, with IL $40, and Bur-
lington with 1904. Council Bluffs has 5793
and Ottumwa 1857. It is curious fact thai
the two cities, Davenport and Dubuque, taken
together, have fewer inhabitants than in 1867
On the whole the country places grow in pop.
ulation faster in Iowa than the cities do The
reverse is true of Massachusetts, and all the
Erstern States.
State News.