The Portland daily press., 1874-11-02
News and Other Items.

Ine ltailan newspaper directors propose TO
raise $4,000 as national gift to Garibaldi.
Mr.. Kilkuff, chief engineer of the Pacific
Mail Company, has sailed 1,7S6, 900 miles in
twenty-three years service.
Frank Shaw, the American champion, has
beaten Henry Naylor, the English champion,
at the propulsion of the velocipede.
S. II. Carpenter, professor of logic and rhet-
oric in the university of Wisconsin, has been
elected President of the state university of Ar
kansas.
Susan Anthony lectured on female suffrage at
the people of Buchanan, Mich, last Sunday, and
they called her Sabbath-breaker, and declared
they wouldn't vote for her or for what she
wanted
1ti stated on good authority that Mr.. Sims
Reeves, the English tenor, who has just signed
contracts to come to America next season for
series of concerts, is to receive S1150 for 100
nights, or 81, ,15O per night.
Rev. Phillips Brooks has been offered the
highest salaries of any clergyman in the Epis-
pal Church. Last winter Philadelphia would
gladly have had him at $40, 900 year, and New
York offered $4,000 without avail. Fortunate
ly Boston ties are too strong and he is not the
man to be bought.
Mrs. Joel Rathbone, who recently died in AL
bany, left in her will the following bequests:
Albany Baptist Missionary Union, $4,000; Amer
ican Baptist Missionary Union, $4,000; wo
mans Union Missionary Society of America
$10,000 and to various other institutions to-
tai of $25,0OO.
Deer are multiplying in great numbers in the
vicinity of Petersburg, Va. The woods in eve
ry direction are filled with them and so bold
have they become that their tracks are to be
seen within the limits of the corporation, the
plantations of the savory peas, which abound
on the outskirts of the city, being the de,cacy
which attracts them.
The Queen of Holland has an exquisite taste
for literature, and writes VIII ability and iudc-
ment; the Empress of Germany is noted for
her eloquence; the Empress Of Austria is con-
sidered to be the most beautiful woman in Eu-
rope, and the Queen of Denmark is remarka-
BILE for her polished manners and the way in
which she receives her guests
The White House, which is whittier than ever
by two fresh coats of paint, is all ready for the
reception of the bride and groom. Mrs. Presi-
dent Grant has given up her own room for the
use OF the young couple, and has taken one
across the hall which faces the river and which
was Nellie's room during her girlhood. Mrs.
Sartoris' contemplated visit has caused Colonel
Grant to change his plans about trip to Eu-
rope. Ee will divide his time between the
White House and Chicago.
Mrs. Sakellarios, q native of Cambridge,
Mass, who opened school at Athens, Greece,
in 1867, for the Cretan refugees has recently
had the school closed, by order of the Minister
of Education, on the charge of teaching senti-
ments in opposition to the Greek Church. The
lady is the wife of Baptist missionary, who,
though native of Greece, received his eduea-
tion in this country. The Episcopal Church
School, which was established in 1924, is held
in high repute by the Grecians, ard should not
be confounded with that of the lady above
mentioned
Prof. Swing concludes an article on Southern
theology in The Independent in this way: Gas
for the great South, under the influence Of lib
erty and education and industry, she will soon
begin to Call in all her bad outstanding theolo-
gy, and will emanicipate not only her slaves,
but her women, so that they will read and pub
lsh and teach; will emancipate her theologians
from the power OF old custom, and make them
scorn the duello in church courts as deeply as
the civilized states scorn the duello of literal
firearms and purple blood, and love nothing 50
much as a union of Christian peace and indus
ry.''
Mile. Hortense Schneider the Parisian Queen
of the Opera Bouffe, was in he- youth work
ing girl, and the daughter of humble tailor of
Bordeaux. She is now, at about forty years of
age, living in the style of Sultana. Her dia-
monds are valued at over 5000, 900, and among
her other jewels of fabulous cost is cited an
emerald set of surprising splendor. Her apart
ments are crowded with the most elegant and
expensive furniture and oljets de uertu. Bronzes
aud marbles and pictures and crystal and Sy-
res porcelain and Gobeln tapestry are scattered
through her rooms in sumptuous profuson.
Although the charm Of youth is forever lost TO
Mile Schneider, she still has the handsomest
arms and hands, the prettiest foot and the mer-
riest blue eyes that flash and sparble and en-
tice hehind the Partisan fOOtlightS,