The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-11-19
News and Other items.

Montana is short of women.
Richard II Dana of Boston attained bio oIth
birthday on Sunday last.
The indians have concluded to let Professor
Marsh's party go to the Black Hills for bones.
Governor elect Tilden is unmarried, and the
New York Herald is anxiousy looking around
for wife for him.
G. G. Bean is declared elected delegate to
Congress from Arizona territory instead of
Stevens. Great excitement reported.
The Eastern Railroad Company is now de-
Tending two suits for damages for injuries-oue
in Boston where the claimant wants $4,000.
and one in Salem where the injury is thought
to be worth $4,000.
The Rev. Francisco Ignacia de Christie, di-
rector OF colleges at Rio Janeiro, who is visit
ing the primary schools of this country to learn
their improvements, acknowledges their su-
perority to the old European system.
Fish commissioners of Massachusetts, Ve.-
mont and Connecticut, visited Turner'S Falls,
Mass. last Thursday, and approved plans for a
fishway 450 feet long, with tall of thirty feet.
The work will cost $4,000, and be ready for am-
bilious shad next spring.
The drought in the middle states, is the
severest ever known. The Delaware has never
been so low in November before. If the ground
freezes hard before rain comes, there is likely
to be much trouble by fires in the cities during
the winter.
James T. Fields has been lecturing to small
but apprecative audiences in Philadelphia The
Press of that city takes upon itself to cry Pee
caci for the people, but adds, IF Mr.. Fields
thinks himself neglected by having only half a
house, let him remember Thaekeray at the
reading desk in Philadelphia
The proceeds of internal revenue stamps for
notes, receipts, etc., are in Venezuela devoted
to the support of common schools. The ladies'
of Caracas at the recent celebration ofBoliyar's
Day placed on fire balloon stamps to the
value $1,000, which were bur ed in the air to
the great delight of the spectators and to the
great profit of the schools.
The University of California has received a
munificent gift from James ID Keene of San
Francisco consisting OF an extraordinary col.
lection of minerals, and forming one of the
most complete cabinets of the kind, placing the
University museum in the front rank of the
museums OF the country, and materially en-
hancing the value of the College of Mining
Two parties of Dartmouth College Jun 'ors
will take pedestrian tour through Englaud
and Scotland next summer They will land
at Liverpool, journey through London and
the South of England, thence, going North,
pass into Scotland, and, if time permit, take
passage from Edinburgh to Havre, whence
they will sail home, after flying trip to Paris
They estimate their actual expenses at
something less than 500 per head for the
trip.
Jay Gould is reported to have declared that
within few weeks colossal combination of
certain railway interests will be revealed that
must take the public by surprise. The CON-
bination, which represents several hundred
million dollars, will restore, it is supposed,
to New York the full control of the railway
situation and cut off other seaboard towns
that have beOn trying to get the trade of the
West.
Rev. Mrs. Olympia Brown Willis is in
quarrel with ber charge, the Universalist
church at Bridgeport She seems to the OH
Gers of the church to be trying to have every
thing her own way, and some Of them have
Withdrawn from the society. She recently ae-
cused James Staples, one of the trustees and
prominent business man, of appropratlng the
funds of the society to bis own use, but an in.
vestigaton proves him innocent, and she has
retracted and apologized.