The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-09
News and Other Items.

Mr.. Stewards Alaska investment promises to
prove a most profitable affair Gold and
silver have been discovered there under circum-
stances which promise most prolific yield.
At Long Branch the other day, Miss Bolt of
Boston, was seated at the table; she had q love-
ly toilet during dinner; but she sneezed, when
10! the half of the waist of her dress ripped out
and mamma had to put her lace shawl around
her. The dress was made with one of those
single-thread machines, and the lady being
quite 'snug" in her figure, the sneeze broke
the thread.
A man dressed in full bathing costume, with
a placard on his breast, pervades Broadway, to
advertise Long Branch hotel.
The Rev. Thomas Chalk has been sent from
England as missionary. He expects to make
his mark among the heather.
Havana can furnish 17S,OOO, 600 cigars and
Il, ZOO, 900 pounds of leaf tobacco.
Potter Palmer's new hotel in Chicago is to be
eight stories high and will contain eight hun
bred and fifty rooms. aa
A military academy is to be established in
Charlotte, N. c., under the supervision of GEN
erals Breckenridge and Hill
vi rIluisy VI laSC week, hoDerC IL. h0lfe OF
Concord, eight years old, went from the signal
station on the Zip Top of Kearsarge Noun
tain, down to the Winslow House, in eleven
minutes-a feat probably never before accom-
plshed by boy or man. @
A Buffalo clergyman sent around the contri-
button boxes for the dear heather and collected
sixty cents, ten cents of which was in soda
yUa 70 nbanbc Givfv doIla 80,
in purses for the races which take place there
this week.
Moltke's history of the late war in Europe,
shows that even in 1869 every preparation had
been made for war. The routes for the differ
ent troops and their places of assemblage had
all been calculated, and the very orders calling
out the men had been drawn up and signed,
only the date being left out.
The people of Plymouth church, in Brooklyn,
proposes soon to hold a reunion of considerable
interest,", constituting in reality the silver we'd
ding of the church. 1t will embrace a series of
exercises commemorative of the 9th anniver-
sary of the church and Sunday School, and of
the settlement Of Henry Ward Bescher. AT
these exercises it is designed to gather all who
have ever been members or officers of the
church or Sunday Schools connected Herewith.
Debated Sisters is the Virginia synonym for
old maids. --
The Japanse government is forced to demand
high rates on its new railroad, ON occount of the
expense of the gold lace, braidings, frogs, etc.,
which the railway officials wear. E
Mr.. Curtis Guild, editor of the Commercial
Bulletin Boston, is dangerously ill at the Rock
land House, Nantasket Beach. His recovery
is considered doubtful
The license law works vigorously in Con-
necticut Some of the more respectable restau-
rants selling lager and ale, but nothing stronger,
will discard those fluids after Sept 18th.
The spectators engaged in the present corner
in pork in Chicago, have bought loo, 900 barrels,
involving an outlay of million and a quarter of
dollars. The next thirty days will either bring
them large fortunes or ruin them.
The Berlin N. Ell. Mills Co, ,have got the last
of their drive of thirty-ve million feet of logs,
into the boom. The logs fill the stream back
four miles from their mill. They expect to
manufacture 25,0OO,O00 at their mills this sea-
Son.
Timothy e. Stewart, mason and Asa Lewis,
carpenter, OF Boston, have contracted to make
the repairs and remodel the Franklin County
Court House, at Greenfield, Mass, for S39, 900.
The Philadelphia papers advise their readers
to take the present time to lay in their coal.
They say it has reached the lowest point it is
likely to touch. and the best economy will be to
buy now the wiuter supply
Our new army uniform comprises some of the
best features of the Prussian service, and is
decided improvement on the old ungracious
rig. . ..s-..
Erred Graishen and Brothers." of Clinton,
Mass, publish the following card: 'Thc un-
dersigned return their thanks to those who at
tended the funeral of their late father"
Mr.. and Mrs. L. NJ Blood of Haverhill,
Mass, were at Concord, N: H., on Wednesday,
en- route for the North for the benefit of their
infant child, two and half months old, and
while waiting in the depot for train the babe
died in its mothers arms.