The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-11-25
News aud Other Items.


Good apples sell for one dollar a barrel in
Poughkeepsie. .,-...rr ..
Horace White, late of the Chicago Tribune,
is to be married next month, t.a9tr
Boston paper estimates Gen. Buffers
wealth at million and quarter.
Senator Morton is not expected in Washing
ton this winter a Htru I.tI.
Maggie Mitchell received one vote for Cover
nor, in Syracuse.
Ex-Queen Isabella is going to sell her iewel-
ry at auction 1t is estimated TO be worth 10.
900, 600 of francs. T-c. l-i Llr5 gdW
Eight hundred aud thirty young girls applied
at the Grand Opera House, New York. in ans
wer to the advertisement for 100 young ladies
TO dance in the ballet. 4t't
Five years ago Chicago lady was married In
dress that cost over $780, To-day she dis.
penses the necessaries of life behind the coun-
ter OF retail grocery store. -IIaH
The Catholic priests of Chicago are engaged
in circulating among the workmen of their
congregations pledges, not merely to refrain
from the use of liquor, but from the tempts-
ton also.
Mr. George William Curtis has accepted an
in'i'"tion to deliver the grafton at the Concord
''nd Lexinton Centennial celebration in April
next Ralph Waldo Emerson is also expected
to deliver an address.
An eiaoorate memoir Of Capt John Mason.
VINO touned the state of New Hamnsbira "a
IN preparation and it is also proposed 10 place n
lifting memorial to him in the English ehnrcb
at Portsmouth, England.
nephew of the great commoner, a contingent
ba0unSt af Con mn Of tba 1ot r..
a home for orphan children of whatever color
or race. at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is rendered
available. t'-"' T-At-I
The Gospels according TO Matthew, Mark
and John have been printed IN Japanese.
The gospel of Luke is now in the hands of
the translation committee, composed of mis-
sionaries of the various societies at work in
Japau. .l ,t.,-.
President Clarke OF the Amherst agricultural
college, since his squash experiment, has been
offered $1,000 and expenses to so to California
and lecture on squashes. His squash after
lifting 5000 pounds, finished its labors and was
photographed. % -..,...... $50.
Dio Lewis has challenged Rev. Mr.. Morris of
Watertown, Mass, Representative elect from
the 11th Middlesex district, to discussion up
on the Prohibitory law. Mr.. Morris is one of
the old school Wesleyan Nfethodists, and is
said TO be an honest and true hearted reform
er. aG 4inl-l
stoss sunday EqlgSn algsn in an attack upon the
to 60 to the theatre?" whefaadH ha zen invite Christ
Herald says "no." but suggests that DR.. ftn.as..
would hardly ask him to go to ia cigar shop, or a
strawberry church festival, or to rattle at a
| church fair. a To- sll-iIi1
| In New York Sunday evening the theatres
| and opera houses were in full blast. At the
grand opera house "Il Troyatore" was pro-
| dueed; at Terrace Garden ia Grande Ouch
esse'; at the Stadt Theatre "Die Fledermans;"
| at the Germania Theatre, "Ultimo'; at the
Bowery what was styled grand sacred con-
cert"' consisting of Joan of Arc" and "Har-
old Hawk or the Convict's Revenge
There came up in England the other day a
caseIin which the enforcement of the law for
compulsory. education would have condemned a
family to starvation. Louise Maylon, widow,
the only support of four small children, nearly
in state of starvation, goes out to days work
! when she can get it and leaves her Oldest child,
boy aged nine, to take care of the others, and
the school authorities brought her up to com
pei her to send this boy to school, though il shs
did this she could not go out to the little worb
she is able to get. The judge refused to enforce
the law. tIlr-W IJsof.arq
| A Providence correspondent of the BostoT
Herald says that under the arrangements mad,
several weeks ago, probably one half of th'
mills in Rhode Island are running on two-third
time, but there has been but very little if an,
1 roduot;on of yvooes Son1n Of the larpest mill