The Portland daily press., 1874-08-21

A lady barber has been driven out of Du-
buque by the married ladies of that place. The
latter thought she scraped acquaintance too
easily.
Miss McHenry, of st. Stephens church,
Philadelphia, has raised 100000 for three
church homes which care for six hundred
children.
Mr.. Joseph Arch, the English Republican, is
minister by profession, but doesn't recognize
the authority of the Anglican archbishops, as
he belongs to the Methodist persuasion.
Mrs Lockwood, the Washington lady law
yer, has started for Texas to settle up the es-
tate of the late Judge John G. Watrous, who
was a large landed proprietor in the south
western part of that state.
A marriage occurred recently at Lexington,
England, the bride being lady without arms.
The ceremony was in the Episcopal form and
the ring had to be placed ON the third toe of
her left foot. In signing the register she wrote
with her foot.
The adulteration of food is a subject that at
tracts much attention in all civilized countries
at the present time, and the reports of investi-
cations that come to us from every quarter
seem to prove that there is abundant cause for
attention to this subject.
The number of vessels owned in Canada is
999. OF this number 17S are side-wheel steam
ers and ISL of the screw or propeller order. OF
sail vessels there are 3S5, of which number 351
are schooners, 25 barquentines, briggs and
sloops. The barges number 257.
The Empress Eugene has given $4,000 for
a new church in London, near Coyent Garden,
which is to be erected by way of expiration
for all the ''outrages" that have been COM
mitted on the "Blessed Sacrament" since the
Reformation.
Mr. James McHenry, whose name has been
associated with the affairs of the Atlantic and
Great Western Railway, has had magnificent
edition of the late Sheridan Knowes's works
printed in England at his own expense, for
private circulation.
Several weeks ago the wife of a New Haven
grocer named Hotchkins eloped with a car
penter and 81 900 of her husbands money, and
taking her little daughter, went to Chicago.
Saturday she returned and was forgiven by her
husband.
Austin. Texas. is immensely annoyed by a
gnat so small as to be invisible to the naked
eye; an insect with bill so delicate and gentle
that the bitten knows not his wound until he
finds himself pimply all over Then he sends,
greatly scared, for a doctor, and thinks he has
got the small pox.
A woman named Betsey Letherton is now
living at Tring, England, who has reached the
extraordinary age os oae hundred and eleven
years. During the harvest last ear she cut
several sheaves Of wheat, and intends, if all is
well, making her appearance in the harvest
! field this year upon the farm of Mr.. Mead,
| situated between Tring and Little Trrg.
| Surveys are in progress for new bridge to
| cross the Niagara river, lust below Black
| Creek The structure is to be erected in the
| interest of the Canada Southern Railroad, in
order to render that line independents of the
present single track bridge, and also to allow,
| its trains to go round Buffalo instead of pass
| ing through the city at slow speed. Tracks
| will be built to connect the Erie and Central
| lines.
The secretary of the board of agriculture of
this state in his late report mentions an apple
tree at York that was brought from England
over 200 years ago in tub, and was still bear
ing fruit in 1870; another, near Wiscasset Bay,
that was an old tree in 1906, but is still fruitful;
| another, in the town of Bristol, known to be
| over 200 years old, still bearing fruit, and
other trees that yield occasionally from % to
| 65 bushels of fruit each.