The Portland daily press., 1874-12-21
News and Other Items.

An Omaha city official addressed Kalakaua
as "Mr King"
Geo. Alfred Townsend, better known as
Gath, has left the Chicago Tribune.
Last year 10, 900 gallons OF swhiskey were
made in Sweden out of sea moss
A New London. Conn, man recently bought
dog with the money given him for his starv-
ing family. ... -I. a.r
The resignation of President Miler of Tufts
College has been accepted, to take effect id
February.
1t is reported that Minister Washburne is
coming home in February, but his return is
said to have no political Significance
Mr.. Sidney Mcfarland (colored) of Washing
ton, invited King Kalakaua to dinner, but
his majesty declined on the ground of prev
ious engagement a..t.
Brattleboro, VT. is having a row 10 her
schools because the committee refused to ex-
cuse Catholic children on ose of the great days
of the church
1t is said Treasury agents, now examining
Boston custom house matters, will recommend
further reduction in the number cf the en-
ployees. la...
Col. Samuel Pike, said to have been the old
est editor in the United States, died at Suuburg,
Ohio, on the 18th inst. He is said to have been
connected with more newspapers than any 9TH
er man in the world. One of his hobbies was
to fill his paper with entirely original matter.
A sensation was created in the Methodist
church fair at Lowell, few nights since, by
clergyman from out of town, who severely rep
rimanded several young ladies for circulating
books and disposing of tickets in various
schemes for the benefit of the church treasury.
Some of the ladies were so mortified that they
burst into tears, and the clergyman was finally
ordered 10 "shut up by the clerk of the socie-
ty, who also suggested that he had better take
his leave.
The wife of Dean Stanley, who is seriously
i'll, has been for many years one of the Queens
personal friends. She is a sister of the late Sir
Frederick B ruce, who died while holding tho
office of British Minister at Washington. An
other sister, Charlotte, is the wife of Mr.. Fred.
erick Locker, the we'll known society poet The
Dean did not marry until he was forty-eight
years old. There is story that at one time he
would have married Jenny Lind, but was de-
tered by the fear of linking the "Nightin-
gales" fate with that of a man almost insen-
sbe to the power of song.
A decision of much interest to the dentists
has just been rendered at Detroit, Mich. For
several years the dockets Of the United States
Circuit Court has been crowded with suits
nearly 5000 in all, brought by the Goodyear dem
tai yulcanite company against dentists for in
flippipg the Cummings patent, covering the
hard rubber plates used for inserting artificial
teeth. In the hope of ending the threatened
prolonged litigation full bench of the United
States Circuit Court met at Detroit, and, after
hearing exhaustive arguments on test case,
has rendered decision fully sustaining the
validity of the patent, ard notifying the de-
PENDANTS in other such cases that further argu-
ments on the question before the circuit courts
are useless.
Quite scandal has been created in the
American colony at Paris, by the arrest of an
American lady at the Hotel Splendids for run
ming up bill of portentous ength and then
presenting draft on London for payment,
which draft came back dishonored. She then
went to the Hotel Chatham. and was about to
recommence her lit tie game, when the iron
talons of the law closed upon her. No one can
be arrested in Taris for debt but the presenta-
ton of a bogus draft is looked upon as form
of swindling, and by SO doing she rendered
herself liable to imprisonment. The lady be-
longs to a prominent family in New England,
and the size of her bill was mainly owing to
the fine wines she consumed.