The Portland daily press., 1874-11-04
News and Other Items.

The women employed in the book-bindipg
trade in London have formed trade union.
Fort Wayne, Ind, has already sunk over
$4,000 on an artesian well, and is still at work.
Mrs. King William sets the Berlin ladies a
good example by dusting and 'fixing up her
own room every morning
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, is increasing its
population in the proportion of six girls to one
boy.
The King of the Sandwich Islands will arrive
at San Francisco by the Benecia about the last
of November.
Our hard times have reached China, where
great distress mas been occasioned by falling
off in the demand for silk worms.
Twenty dollars in greenbacks is the standing
price in Savannah for $1,000 in Confederate
notes.
The President has sent congratulatory
letter to the Emperor of Russia on the mar
riage of his son Vladimir. s -sHl1
John Saunders, believed to be the last sur.
vivor of the crew of the Shannon when she
captured the Chesapeake, died at North sgd
ney, N. s., on the 26th ult.
A peculiar disease having broken out among
the small children in section of Wheeling,
Va, the people thought they were bewitched'
and resorted to witchcraft for q cure.
General A. P. Stewart, late of the Confeder.
ate army, and q West Point graduate and
teacher, has been elected chancellor of the Uni
versity of Mississippi. .l.9 .l
The French government has issued decree
that hcnceforth on all ships OF the navy or
merchant marine ,he signals ''baha-a'- IIar-
board) and "tribord'' (starboard) shall indicate
not the movement made by the man at the
helm, but the course to be taken by the ship.
While workmen were sinking well in Kay
county, Mo-, recently, they came to what ap-
peared to be the bed Of q lake, about twenty
fed stalks of water lilies, imbedded in sand
stone, and fish about four feet long, with a
very large head and prominent eyes.
The plaster model of MacDonald's colossal
statue of the late Fitz Greene Halleck of
Guilford is now in the hands of the moulders
for reproduction in bronze. The poet is repre-
sented seated upon the lawn in an antique
chair, in the act of writing. The statue and
pedestal will cost $4,000.
A Spanish correspondent of the Pall Mall
Gazette writes:-The amount of indemnities
lately recovered from the Spanish government
by Lord Derby, on account of the British sub
jects, amounts to e15,0OO, $1,000 of which was
for the families of the English members Of the
Virgnius crew, massacred at Puerto Rico.
The Eastern Budget reports the Austrian
harvests as, in general, very good. The potato
and maize crops were very satisfactory, but the
fax crop was failure. The vintage has be-
gun in lower Austria and in Hungary, and the
wine is of good quality and a little under
the average in quantity.
Mrs. Grant has been interviewed by woman
suffragists. She answered that when it was
explained to her by its advocates, she was al
ways in its favor. But she said, sI am
very domestic myself, and have no inclination
to change my mode of living. was favor
lite daughter, and am an indulged wife, Mr..
GIANT says have my rights and his too
DIR. Isaac l. Hayes, the arctic explorer, has
written a letter commenting on the Austrian
Polar Expedition, in which he declares his con.
vction that the "open polar sea- may be
reached by q steam vessel through Smiths
sound, and he announces his readiness to start
on another voyage of arctic exploration when
the funds are forthcoming.
There is a woman in San Francisco who has
had six husbands. The first left her and is a
detective among the Mormons; the second was
hanged for murder; the third was sent to the
penitentiary for forgery; the fourth and fifth
went to the same place for burglary and high =
way robbery; and the sixth is serving out life
sentence for highway robbery The wretched
woman consoles herself by the reflection that
she never had husband in Congress.
There are % tribes in the Indian Territory,
with a population of 10000. Many of these
people are said to be educated and wealthy
and all are trying to become civilized. Among
the Creeks, who number about $4,000, there
are three missions, 2O5O members, 404 Sunday
school scholars, and Sl4,25S is spent yearly for
educational purposes. The Cherokees, of
whom there are 17,OO0 have 1000 pupils in
their schools; 1000 of the tribe are church men,
bers The Choctaws have 80 day schools.
[ Their Chief Ross, is graduate of Princeton
| College.