The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-08-16
Personal.

Personal.
Charlotte Cushman is lying ill with cancer,
in London.
President Grant, Colfax and Seward we're
in Chicago, Sunday.
J. H. Walker, leading citizen of Corning,
Adams county, Iowa, was assassinated Thurs
day. The name of tie guilty party is un-
know.
Friday night, at Quincy, Ill.,, Davidson, the
pedestrian, completed his walk of 100 h.u
without sleep or stopping to eat Soon after
be was seized with paralysis and his life is
despared of.
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins. are at
Jersey City. They are accompanied by three
OF their sons. Chang is confined to his bed by
an attack of partial paralysis, and Eng is forced
to remain with him.
Edwards, light weight champion, was to go
in training at Cypress Hil L. l., on Monday,
for fight with Collyer, at st. Louis, Septem-
Der q.
Elk Governor Walker, of Florida, in recent
letter, says: "Having stolen nothing 1 am very
poor"
James Parton and bis wife, "Fanpy Fern"
are rusticatiDg at quiet watering-pl on the
a-coast Of Maine.
Brignoli, Anna Mehlig, and other musical
celebrities, are among the shoppers at Newport,
and the first named is arranging for a grand
opera night next week.
Transcript SAYS that Brignoli and Miss McCul-
loch were at that place, but that the report of
their marriage is premature. The ceremony is
to be celebrated shortly at Charleston, S. C.,
with great festivity and eclat.
Mr. Wilbur Merrill of Charlestown, N. H.
has been totally deaf since seven years of age.
A few days ago thunderbolt struck within a
few yards of him, and Mr.. Merrill has since
been able to hear ordinary conversation dis
tinctly.
E. B. Whitney, ESQ of ST. Adams, Vt, hav-
ing recently disposed of the st. Adams MeSsen-
ger, after having owned and published it more
than thirty years, has been surprised with the
gift of gold watch and chain valued at $175,
the donation, as appears from the inscription,
of "the business men of st. Albans, in appre-
citation of his labors for them during the last
thirty three years."
Wing, labors to show the impossibity of para
sites remaining in the jute chignon after the
severe mechanical processes which the fibre
undergoes to fit it as an ornamental appendage
to the occipital region of lady's head; and
the Wing, il leading article, excams: What
if these creatures do exist? They are harmless
and can be completely and surely controlled by
the prompt application of a common instru-
meDt of the toilet designed for the separation
of minute fibres." The remedy may be agree
able to the editor of the Wing, but just imag-
inc the sensation to persons of ordinarily neat
habits!
WE get by telegraph another instance o.
New York mock justice. One Marcus Berry,
quack doctor, was called to attend Mrs. Lena
Fuller, a married lady of seventeen, who had
been suffering from severe structures in the alb
dominal region. Regular physicians bad given
their opinion as to the difficulty, but Berry
was called in at the suggestion of ignorant
friends, and proceeded to perform delicate
operation, removing the entire womb, from the
effects of which operation the woman died in a
few hours Berry, for this act of cold FLOODED
murder was enlarged by justice on nominal
bail of $500. 1t was most aggravating case.