The Portland daily press., 1874-12-28
News and Other Items.

Schuyler Colfax has been lecturing on Abra-
ham Lincoln in st. Louis.
Clara Louise Kellogg confesses, without
blush, that the only beau she ever paid atten-
tion to is the one held by the leading violinst
of the orchestra. --'9 p
Miss Carlotta Patti, who had come to Not
tingham, England, recently, to sing there, was
so much offended at finding herself announced
as,''the sister of Adelina Patti" that she de-
clined to appear, left the audience waiting and
took the first train back to London. -'
Gen. Thomas H. Williams of Virginia City,
New, can make something worth having on his
mining stock, if be sells it pretty soon. He
holds $500 shares of California and 5000 of Con-
solidated Virginia. which cost him but 100000
and they would now bring $2,70O,OOO' The
California stock recently rose 800 share in "a
hours, which would make his profit 1000 an
hour.
The temperance crusade seems to have left
Hillsboro, o., in pretty bad condition. man
named Heistand has gone mad III consequence ce
of the excitement and reading Dio Lewis's
work on chastity, while his wife has eloped
with one Newly, her son n-in-law, and the de.
serted Mrs. Newly thinks the day of judgment
has come. y-d i71tsib s.I af l..f=.. ..-
Soon after Mr. Tilden was elected governor
of New York, the New York Central Railroad
Co. sent him complimentary free pass for
himself and family The governor elect re-
turned the pastboard document in polite way,
but intimated that he could pay his own fare
and still be able to make both ends meet at
Albany. -Hl e4i pl 81 n9F
The grangers congratulate themselves on the
organization of 400 new subordinate oranges
during the present month, making the total
number 621, ,9S1. The number of members is
1,64S,571. The eighth session of the national
grange will be held at Charleston, S. c., on the
third day of February next.
Gen. Grants son is second lieutenant in the
10th cav airy. Gen. Sheridan is entitled to a
certain number of staff officers with the rank
of lieutenant colonel, and has appointed young
Grant to one of these places, and while on that
service he bears nominally that rank, but his
real rank in the army is that Of his place in
his regiment. r, -+t lid. ...
1t is announced from Berlin that Prince
George of Prussia is engaged in writing a
drama, the subject of which is taken from the
Old Testament, and that with view of the
better preparing himself for the careful work.
ing out of the plan, he has called in the aid OF
distinguished Semitic scholar to direct him
in regard to the correct exposition of the acces-
sories of the piece. ao
The official account, just issued, thus admits
that Gen. Won Moltke nearly lost the battle at
Gravelotte: "Comte de MoltlSe was not always
so we'll informed as if he were the director of
both armies. He attacked, as he believed, the
right wing of the enemy, when it was their cen
tire; the error was soon corrected from the want
of ability on the part of Bazaine; but it is hon
orably avowed that the error might have proved
ealamitous."
Prince Nicholas Borolajovsk, a Servian no.
BILE, who died, the other day, in Paris, had
been obliged to leave his own country, from
the idea among the country people that he be-
longed to family of vampires, the eldest sons
of which for three generations came out of
their graves to suck the blood of living peo-
ple 1t is said that five days before his death
he told his landlord that it would be well,
after his disease, to remove his heart, so as to
prevent bis rising from the grave. G