The Portland daily press., 1872-04-22
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL sa, 1879.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

A'S"ot UVoolP anu Idl NOtCSs
Jay Gould says that the mysterious 'Lord
Gordon" obtained from him $500, 900 by false
representation, S273, 900 of which he still re-
tains. The mysterious part of the affair is
the repayment of the $227 900, and the mys-
terry will become still deeper if the astute ex-
President of Erie gets any more. ...
Hon. George P. Marsh, American Minister
toItaly, is seriously ill in Rome. .
The promise is held out of a good wheat
crop in Delaware, Eastern Pennsylvania and
Eastern Maryland.
At Gloucester, Mass. the home of Ben.
Butler, anti-Butler delegates were elected to
the Worcester Convention, by vote of 210
to so. The B ,ston Transcript thinks it time
for Butler to fold his thingummy like the
what's-their-names and silently what-you-
call-it.
Every importing house in San Francisco,
and the Republican State and County Com
mittees, have united in a petition to the Pres
ident not to remove the present Collector,
Mr.. Phelps.
The new charter for New York City which
passed the Legislature on Thursday last pro-
vides for an election by the people of a Mayor
and forty-five Aldermen, nine from each Sem
atorial district, who are to choose all other
officers. The Aldermen are to be chosen ON
the principle of minority representation or
cumulative voting, each elector throwing
ballot with nine names upon it, all for the
L. IL
GERS are legislated out, and the first election
on May 21st next will inaugurate an entire
change in the city officials. The charter is
substantially the same as recommended by
the Committee of Seventy. y.
The Tribune says that Senator Schurz is
not in default to the Treasury $4,000 as has
been reported, although his account is still
open and unsettled.
The Paris Constitutional positively contra
diets the statements made by The London
Daily Telegraph, that serious difficulties had
arisen between France and Germany.
Authentic information has been received
in Washington from st. Petersburg to the eff
feet that Mr. Catacazy's justification of him
self has been considered attentively in the
Council of the Empire. He is utterly disgrac-
ed, and has left st. Petersburg for Paris, with
a pension of 5000 rubles per annum. This
pension is so settled that it will be withdrawn
if Mr.. CatacaZy makes any publication or
gives new cause of offense.
The Springfield Republicans book man
has gone stark, staring mad over Mr.-'by
courtesy called Rev."-T. Dewitt Talmadge's
book-sThe denominations of Modern Socie-
ty." He calls him a "roaring, ranting, sem
Brandreth did his pills and as Helmbold does
his nostrums." He says great many other
very lively things about it and evidently has
pronounced views on the subject. ...a
The DOMINION AND THE TREArY.-The
fishery correspondence to be laid before Par
| lament on Thursday will disclose that the
| Dominion Government notified to the Impe-
rial Government that Canada would not as
! sent to any sale of the fisheries without hel
consent, and that Great Britain replied that
Her Majesty's Government never had any
such intention; that as the negotiations tol
| the Treaty of Washington proceeded, the Ca
madam Government urged the including O
the Fenian claims, and also the obtaining O
commercial trade advantages in return fol
the temporary use of the fisheries by the
| Americans. On these views not being in
cluded in the Treaty, the Canadian Govern
ment strongly demonstrated, and after the
| Treaty was concluded the British Govern
ment appealed to the Canadian Government
to carry out the Treaty in the interest Of the
Empire, and allow Americans to fish in Ca
madam waters. The Canadian Government
declined to grant this latter proposition
and placed on record their, disapprova
OF the terIAs- of the Treaty as regarded
British Government rejoined, and even
ed that in lieu of the Fenian claims against
Great Britain, and to meet the anxious de-
| sire of the British Government, they would
| be ready to submit the Treaty for the favora-
BILE consideration of the Canadian Parliament
provided the British Government would
| guarantee Canadian loan of e4, ,0OO, 900 ster
ling, to be applied to the construction OF a
Great Canadian Pacific Railway, and the ex'
| tension of the canal system. The British
Government replied, offering to guarantee
e2,5OO, 200, and the Canadian Government
| accepted the counter proposal, in view OF the
| vast Imperial and Canadian interests involv
| ed, and in view of the importance of the as
socation of the British Government with the
Canadian Government in the construction o.
the Pacific Railway and Canal. i.l.g
The first japanese fair under the direction
of the Government, took place at the sacred
city of Kioto on April 10, and will last 81
days. Foreigners are allowed to visit it and
the suburbs for period Of GA days, enabling
them to show their manufactures. This i
considered the virtual abandonment OF theil
exclusive policy, and one of the results from
the visit of Iwakura to America. The re
ception of the news OF the hearty welcome
given the Japanese embassy in California BY
all parties there, is highly appreciated by
natives and foreigners alike. Several Sc
we're earthquakes have occurred in Japan
recently Gen. Williams and 40 Japanese
students have left for America. Among
the latter are some near relatives OF the
Mikado. .r- ..... u.
81 never saw a fairer, q.
-.N i never lo'ed dearer, q. '' -'
-..r And neist my heart I'll wear her. .ta ..r
For fear my jewel tine.
The warlds wrack we share OF,
The warstle and the care OF; .
WIZ her I'll blithely bear it.
And think my lot diviner' '-.