The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-08-05

E. L. Davenport is acting in Halifax.
-Spurgeon objects to an organ in his
church.
London has an experienced highway-wo-
man.
Dickens was christened "Char;es John
Houghman."
Negro troops guard the Texau frontier
against Indians.
"A youth of f'eighty-fve won the champion
belt at a recent dance in Georgia
An Indiana wretch cut off the ears Of
twenty-one horses, one night recently.
"A panther in Morgan county, Illinois, re-
Gently killed fifteen hogs in one night.
Illinois is the largest wheat-growirg State
in the country, Iowa ranking next.
The republic of Colombia has appropriat-
ed 100000 to found normal schools,
"A. T, Stewart has ordered six hundred
tons of blankets from the wooden mills of Cal
ifornia.
"A woman in East Saginaw, Michigan, has
just taken out United States license as an
insurance agent. ,p
Gems Sherman aud Hancock fare soon
going to Governor Marshalrs farm in Michi-
gan, on prairie chicken hunt.
"A letter from Oregon says, "We have an
immense crop of small grains this year. and
wheat is likely to be low enough"
The first colored grand division of Sons
OF Temperance in the United States will be
organized at Baltimore this week.
Denver, Colorado, is growing rapidly, and
the new buildings already erected or con.
tracted for, this season, amount to $5OOOOO.
"A Nevada highway robber was recently
discovered and arrested by means of a photo
graph of himself, which he had dropped from
his pocket.
Atmospheric brakes, by which train can
be stopped almost instantly, are now in oper-
alton on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chi
cago railroad.
Or San Francisco's 10000 inhabitants,
10000, or nearly quarter are Germans. and
the city has 26 German breweries, which pro-
duce annually 100000 barrels of beer.
The peanut crop of Virginia, this year, is
estimated at 100000 bushels, while Tennessee
raises 100000 bushels, and Georgia and the
Carolinas from 10000 to 175,OO0 bushels.
Or 622 murders committed in New York
during the thirteen years ending with 1868.
the perpetrators of 155, or one quarter Of the
whole number, have never been discovered.
"A man in st. Louis recently found a
daughter, who he had always supposed was
drowned when baby, some thirteen wears
ago, but who proved to have been abducted
by jealous woman.
st. Louis projects an immense structure
to embrace under one roof a grand union rail-
road depot, custom house, merchants ex-
change and hotel, covering three entire
blocks, and to cost $3OOO,OOO.
-Workmen found S1270 in gold and silver.
While tearing down an old house in Jay coun-
ty, Indiana, the other day, and it is feared
That not another old house will be left stand
ing in the county in a week.
Gen. j. B. Magruder has been appointed
Texan agent of the "Ladies' Memorial Asso-
citation" OF Fredericksburg, Va, to solicit sub
scriptions to remove and renter the remains
of the confederate dead in Virginia.
Peoria, (lll) Germans have no money for
the widows and orphans of Prussian soldiers,
uut aiO IdioiIiS iuuuS Will Wuicu W purchase
ammunition for salute of hundred guns, on
| the first victory over the French.
"A newspaper philosopher says very truly.
there are only two classes who really eniov
the watering places-the very rich who have
cottages OF their own, and the very healthy
who can sleep anywhere and digest ANYTHING.
"A public-spirited citizen of Elmira. N.
T., is constructing at his own expen.e beau-
tlful park, with fountains, trout ponds. a
pleasure lake, and other beautiful features.
which he will throw open for the use of the
public.
~Lottie McAlice, the winner in the lata
female boat race at Pittsburg, has CHALLENGED
each of her two competitors to another con-
test of three miles, for $500 a side, and closes
by requesting them, If they do not accent.
to thereafter keep their peace"
Rev. DIR. Martin A. Tupper of Washing
ton, Ca, a cousin of the "proverbial philoso-
pher," preached sermon, Sunday morning.
at Madison College, Hamilton, N. Y. he
was strong rebel during the war, and this ia
his first visit to the college for twenty-one
years.
"A horse-car thief who recently stole 20,
from lady's pocket in New York. was beld
for trial in $1,000 bonds, while brute who in
fit OF drunken rage threw bucket Of sca,d-
ing water over his wife and child. probably
killing the latter and seriously injurlng the
former, was released on $500 bail.
-Eeneral William Terry, who commanded
the stonewall brigade after Jacksons death,
has been nominated 6r Congress by the Dem
ocrats in the eighth Virginia district, which
is in the southwestern corner Of the state,
and contains but few negroes or white Re-
publicans, so tina. he will probably be elected.
San Francisco talks of magnificent mu-
sical jubilee, TO be held in the pavilion. which
it is proposed to decorate with 1000 Chinese
lanterns, while fountain in the center Of the
building will throw stream of pure cologne
to perfume the atmosphere, and an electric
lamp will shed its rays upon the fountain
through colored glass.