The Portland daily press., 1873-09-09
News and Other Items.

Navigation on the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal will be resumed on the Goth inst.
Gen Banks is to enter the lecture field this
winter with several new lectures.
Master Jesse Grant is to enter Cornell Uni
versity.
Big Hill Joe, chief of the Osages, received a
ten years education at Catholic college.
Senator Summers health is so much improved
that be is thinking seriously Of entering the
lecture field this fall
John Cochrane may be thankful for an in
tellgent and candid adulator who says he looks
about as happy as chunk of frozen curd.
Mr.. Edwin l.. Barney of New Bedford "a law
partner of Gen. Butler, has been appointed
Assistant United States Distaict Attorney for
that city.
1t is reported that Professor Anderson, late
of Newton Theological Institute, will probably
accept an offer from the Strong Place Bap fist
church, Brooklyn.
VIM. Crafts, one of the old fugitive slaves
who early escaped NORTH and was secreted by
Theodore Parker, and whose name is well
known in Boston, is now in that city.
Marshal Mcmahon, says LIE Soir has lately
remarked to several deputies in the National
Assembly, with regard to the restoration of
monarchy, 81 am resolved never to serve
France under the white flag"
Hon john P. Hale was, on the morning of
the Sd, "better than for several weeks, and will
probably recover unless some sudden and I'M
favorable change takes place which cannot be
foreseen."
One of Horace Greeley's occasional duties at
school was to ''choose Sides for spelling
matches. and he was accustomed to choose two
pretty girls who couldn't spell hokee to save
their souls.
A genuine autograph of John Bunyan has
been discovered in England on the fy-eaf of
an old book called Dwelling with God the In
terest and Duty of Believers" a once well
known and popular work of Puritan theology,
published in 1870,
The United Presbyterian remarks, concern
ing watering-place campmeetiDgs, that-if re
lgous people will undertake to control local
ity SO as to rule out the evil and. encourage the
good. it will be a step in the direction of afford
ing pleasant Surroundings for those who enjoy
religious worship and life better than folly and
crime.
Secretary Richardson is reported to be highly
elated at the defeat of Jay Gould and his gold
Clique. Gould has evidently lost very heavily
in this venture. The Secretary is of the opin-
ion that the result of the last manipulation to
force up the gold premium will have salutary
effect in preventing the formation of new one
Morris Perpal. who was arrested on suspi-
cion of having set fire TO the celebrated Fash
ion stables at Trenton, n. j., Wednesday, has
been held 10 5000 bonds. Evidence was given
that he h i'd threatened to burn 'hem because of
Insufficient wages. He slept in the stables
Wednesday night and was seen leaving them
as the flames burst ont.
An ingenious tllinoisan has Just invented
most useful appliance to canal boats, which
will facilitate their movements greatly, and
prevent disturbing the banks The invention
may be called shovels, there being two on each
side of the boat. They work on hinges, so as
to shut by moving back, and open by moving
forward They have stroug propelling power
when set in motion, and can be turned by hand
or by steam.
Black walnut stumps, brought from the in
terror of Virginia. are now shipped from Rich
mond to Northern cities, to be made into but
tons. If Virginia should utilize all her re-
sources ia this style, she would soon be one of
the wealthiest States in the Union. She has
all the mineral wealth Of Pennsylvania, all the
agricultural fertility of New York, and more
abundant water-power than Massachusetts.
When they shall all be cultivated as they ought
to be, Virginia will be the Empire State.