The Portland daily press., 1874-12-07
News and Other Items.

Prof Guyot of Princeton, is preparing bi.
ography of Agassiz.
schuyler Colfax says he is glad 10 be out of
politics and don't intend to get back.
1t cost the Government $4,000 to try the
safe burglary case.
Weston, the walking humbug, has a success
sor in "Prof" Judd, who is described as well
known in sporting circles.
Ex-senator Pomeroy is said to be growing fat
on his prosecutors. A Kansas newspaper says
he is as "baldheaded and shining as e7er."
Some OF the papers are going crazy over Prof
Seely and talk of him as a candidate for Senator
from Massachusetts
Adelaide Phillips, as has been already az
nounced, will retire from the concert field at
the end OF the season, and it is proposed to give
her testimonial farewell in New York i9
Washington special says the New York
congressman who claim 10 have been defeated
by Custom House influence are to make it very
lively on the floor of the House the coming ses-
sion.
Kellogg is said to be negotiating for the sale
OF his property in Louisiana. and intends to
leave for good. He says he is sick of fight In
which his friends desert him-and SO are the
people. ---rr
Vice President Wilson is 10 Washington, in
fair health and is determined to preside over
the Senate to-day, and give the Republicans a
chance to elect President pro TEN. in place of
Carpenter If they so desire.
call has been issued addressed to "All citi
zens of Boston opposed to the present acminis-
tration of municipal affairs, and in favor of the
election of municipal officers who will repre-
sent the whole people," for mass convention
in Faneuil Hall, this evening, for nomination
of Mayor.
More than $4,000 have been pledged toward
the erection of church for the Rev. WI HH.
Murray in Boston. A large portion of this sum
has come from beyond the limits of New Eng
land. Many of the subscriptions have been of
small amounts, some of them coming from
working girls who have offered one days wages
out of six for the object.
A colored man from Cleveland, Ohio, was
fined $50, and, in default sent to the work.
house at Louisville, for asking for "beefsteak
and coffee for one" at restaurant in that city.
One of the walters informed him that colored
people were not allowed to eat at those tables,
that Sumner was dead, Butler was played out
and the Democratic party was in power
The Atlanta Constitution suggests that il
the negro exodus from Georgia to Texas impels
the great number OF idle white men who are
doing nothing and refuse TO work for living
to 60 to work or starve, the calamity will not
he an unmitigated one, after all, but rather
blessing in disguise.
1t is said that Wilbur +. Story of the Chicago
Times who married Mrs. Eureka C. Pearson,
last Wednesday night, in addition to other pres
ents, to have decided to his bride half interest
in the Times, which is equal to dowry of a
half million dollars. This is the third time
Mr. Story has risked the dangers of the matri-
monial state, his second wife having been na-
tive of this city.
A Berlin correspondent of the London Times
intimates that the second arrest of Count Ar.
MIN was.the result of the scornful glances which
his wife cast at Bismarck. At least the Count
and Countess met Bismarck in the afternoon,
when ii is related that the former pretended
not to see the Premier, while the latter looked
steadily. and, We suppose, reproachfully in his
face. The arrest was made that evening.
1t is said that at the Centennial the Germans
mean to set up in Fairmount Park, statue of
Humboldt, to cost S25. 900. The temperance
Roman Catholics are talking of grand foun-
tain with a statue of Moses drawing water from
the rock. The Italians are discussing statue
of Columbus in marble. The Jews are said to
be intending to commemorate their religious
liberty in the United States by an expressive
monument.
Two young women recently went to Clara
Louise Kellogg to ascertain her judgment of
their voices. During the interview. Miss Kel-
logg informed her visitors that among other es-
sential requirments, ''the prima donna must
be robust in health and understand the laws of
hygiene and be willing to forego pleasure. She
must have governing power, grace of move
ment, sympathetic and magnetic speech and
action. A young girl in training must make q
covenant with her eyes and not look upon
man. am now thirty-two years of age, and
have never yet found time for beaux. 1 shall
sing for at least four years.
At the hearing on the Proctor-Moalton libel
suit in Brooklyn, Thursday, Francis d. .Moulton
sat between ex-Judge Fullerton, his counsel,
and Theodore Tilton. Miss Edna Dean Proctor
sat with her mother and a knot of ladies. She
is brunette, with expressive eyes and features
and about thirty-fve years old. She was dressed
in black silk, with velvet trimmings, and a
1auuty velvet hat, surmounted BY large os-
trich plume and braided with beads Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob j. Murray, well-known members of
Plymouth Church, sat by Miss Proctor and
number of elderly ladies, who were in the court
room at her request, were near her. She
watched every move of the lawyers with inter-
est, and when most of the spectators had di-
rected their gaze toward her, Miss Proctor
moved her seat and sat within the inner rail Of
the court ber face toward the wall, so she could
not be seen.