The Portland daily press., 1874-12-23
News and Other Items.

Portsmouth, n. ii. E
A Scotch terrier arrived at Chicago by mail
from Edinburgh the other day.
The Alabama planters are beginning to hold
back their cotton, thinking there will be an ad-
vance in prices.
N. II. Bishop, who is on voyage from Cue
bee to Key West, it paper canoe, has reached
Cape Hatteras. He started July 4th, and ex-
poets to complete his voyage by March 4th.
Mrs. Caroline Socha publicly embraced Juda
ism in New Orleans on Saturday, 18th inst.
She had been Christian woman, and married
an Israelite six years ago.
New York has another scandal, growing out
of the marriage Of clergyman with an actress
of low degree The worst of it is that the cler
gyman has another wife.
1t was rumored in Washington the other day
that Fernando Wood had made an offer for one
of the daily papers, to be run as Democratic
Journal '-- --
There is movement ON foot in New Haven
to start prohibition daily paper. The capital
stock is to be $4,000, but the paper will be
started when $4,000 is paid in.
They have new test for intoxication over in
Canada. When man can pronounce "reci-
PSa'SO
go.
At church fair held in Bucknell, Eng land,
lately, ale and tobacco we re among the articles
sold, and now the vicar of the parish has been
prosecuted, under the licensing act, for selling
these articles without license.
Mr.. Gladstone is engaged GA two new HON.
eric studies, namely: a volume of essays on the
writings of the Greek poets and dictionary to
Homer. The latter will be very important
book. ..-- ..-..
The Emperor and Empress Of Russia wear
pretty good clothes. The latter has red vel
vet mantle lined with 22S sable skins, and val
ued at about $4,000. The Emperor has cloak
of blue fox skin worth 1924, 900. ...-
An invoice of flour, in paper barrels, from
Winona, Minnesota, was received in Philadel-
phia last week, and attracted much attention,
being the first ever received there in that style
of package. 1t was manufactured by the pat
ent process
The United States signal observers on the
summit of Mount Washington have experience
ed some severe weather of late. On the morn
ing of the 18th the thermometer was 800 below
zero. Last Friday it was 10 below, aud the
wind velocity at noon on that day was 100 miles
an hour. ..-..-.. ..- ...
Several American couples in Paris, who were
anxiously waiting tc be married, were greatly
disappointed by Secretary Fish's decision that
marriages at United States legations are not
valid, the legations not being considered Amer
lean soil for such purposes .s
The class of 1857 of Harvard College are to
erect window in Memorial Hall in memory of
H. foIt -, ts,a
will contain the figures of Sir Philip Sydney
and Epaminondas, as illustrating chivalry and
patriotism. '...t..
Apropos of report that he proposes to quit
the ministry to go into politics, the Rev. Flor
ence Mccarthy of Chicago, says: Gas there is
more corruption among the Chicago Baptists
than there is in Congress, think that my duty
will be in the pulpit for at least twenty years to
come" .-... ...... -.--.
During the last whaling voyage OF the bark
Nile of New London, whale was captured in
the head of which was found the head Of a
Scotch gun harpoon marked: True Love,
1865" The ship True Love has not cruised for
eight years, and the whale must have carried
the iron for that period, if not longer.
Prof. Perce of Harvard College, late Chief
ed his membership of the commission to con-
slider the matter Of ship cana.s across the Amer
lean Isthmus, and the President has appointed
in his stead Capt. c. p Patterson, the present
Superintendent of the Coast Survey. r. e
The Virginia Senate has passed a bill to sup,
press games of chance, which is, perhaps, the
most sweeping one of its kind on the statutes
of this country. Under it every species OF lot
terry, gift enterprise or rattle is forbidden, and
even the ladies are debarred from railing arti-
Giles of their handiwork at the fairs.
The marble portrait bust of Thomas Paine,
which is to be placed outside of the Fame me-
mortal building in Boston, has just been COM
pleted by Ander O'Connor of Worcester, and
has been accepted by the building committee.
The likeness is taken from an original portrait
of Paine by Benjamin West, and the bust is
made of American marble, of 'heroic" size.
The discovery is reported to have been made
at the war office at Stockholm, of a manuscript
work composed by special order Of Charles XII,
to give an exact description of the military sue
cesses of Sweden upon the Continent. The
work is in twenty Volumes and contains more
than two hundred pages, filled with drawing
representing the flags taken in the battles and
sieges up to 1867.
A Mr. Wendell of Louisville, Kentucky, who
once owned the Lafayette watch" purchased
by Congress last winter, and recently presented
to the Lafayette family, persists in his disbelief
of its genuinness. In 1859 the watch was sold
to Mr. Mendel by man named Jim Fowler,
who came from California, and said he got it
from gambler in San Francisco, in pawn for
small amount of money.
A New York special to the Boston Herald
SAYS persons claiming to be thoroughly advised
saw the Beecher-Tilton suits have positively
been compromised; that the counsel on both
sides have had many private interviews within
few days, and have come to terms of mutual
agreement. What the terms are is not stated.
There certainly is something in the wind, says
the correspondent, and the general belief is
that no more legal action will be taken in the
matter.
Saturday the n. Y. Post issued supplement
containing an engraving of William Cullen
BRYANT and sketch of his life and writings.
MONDAYS Post contains the following:
az wish the readers of this journal to under
stand that the Supplement of Saturday to the
Evening Post was issued by the publishing de-
partment without previous consultation with
ME, or K0OWl6uSe Ou Pais VI no
saw this because do not wish to be responsible
for the extreme egotsm with which L might
otherwise be charged. W. U. BRYANT.
December q, 1874"
The Finance Bill.
The Senate passed the finance bill reported
by Mr.. Sherman, and agreed upon by the Re-
publican caucus, by almost strict party vote.
late yesterday afternoon. Senator Schurz voted
with the Republicans and Sprague with the
Democrats. The vote will be found in the Sem
ate report.