The Portland daily press., 1874-07-02

At Henry Ward Beecher's church the organ
performance was interrupted on Sunday by an
eel, which introduced itself into the supply
pipe of the hydraulic apparatus.
A Virginia sheriff asked murderer if he
wanted to make speech on the gallows, and
the man replied, Guess not; it looks like rain,
and don't want to get wet; go on with the
hanging"
George William Curtis conducted the services
in the Clintou-avcnue Church at New Brighton
| L. l., on Sunday morning, and read a printed
sermon by Professor David Swing of Chicago
And now we are to have yacht regatta on
the Fourth. We thought that it would be hard
to let the day pass without some kind of a cee-
bratioa.
Boys who desire to indulge in the luxury of
crackers or torpedoes ON the glorious Fourth,
will have to go out of town to do so. Police
men carry special club for juveniles who vio-
| late this injunction.
| By decree of the Council of Unterwald, in
| Switzerland, adolescent smokers and snuff
takers under eighteen years will be subjected to
fine when caught in fragrant delight, as
Mrs. Malaprop would say.
Secretary Bristow has declined present of a
carriage and pair of horses for his wife, offered
by personal friend. He probably does not
| wish to fave any appearance of a landaulet
| about his establishment.
| Paper flour barrels are being made in Iowa.
| They are said to be air-tight and water proof,
to weigh much less than the ordinary wooden
| barrels, and to be able to stand more rough
usage.
|
A Maine painter walked three miles to paint
hearse the other day, under stipulation that
| his pay should be free ride when in the
| course of nature it became necessary for him
to employ such conveyance.
Bishop Dwenger, of the American pilgrim
| party, has left Rome for Vienna 1t is an
nounced that the pilgrimage will be repeated
next year, when it is expected that over 500
| Americans will participate.
The Rev. VIM. H. Claggett, pastor in a
Presbyterian church at Louisville, KY, has re-
signed because, as is understood, one of the
elders of the church persisted in keeping his
| position as bookkeepel in a liquor store after
circumstances by the pastor.
| A new variety of coffee has been exhibited
| on the Rio Exchange. 1t differs from the ord-
nary kinds in cultivation in that the berry is
more SPHERICAL and yellow instead of red. 1t
| was discovered at Botacuto in San Paulo The
| berry is said to be one-third richer in caffeine
| than the common descriptions.
General Fitzhugh Lee. of the Confederate
army, and his brother, r. E. Lee, are engaged
in farming near West Point, w., the latter
having farm of 900 acres. General John A.
Cook, son of General Phillip st. George Cook,
OF the United States Army, is also farmer in
large way in that section.
1t is stated that the latest result of the exca-
vations at Rome is the discovery of magnif-
cent bust of Matilda, niece of Trajan, an
mother of Sabina, wife of Hadrian, which is in
a perfect state of preservation, and is to be
placed in the museum of the Campidoglio
Palace.
A Mrs Wadford of Memphis, Tenn, at
tempted suicide the other day. owing to dis
couragement at the ill-treatment received from
her husband, to whom she had been married "a
years. The daughter Of wealthy English
man, with $4,000 in her own right, she ran
away with her fathers coachman, and the re-
suit is as stated.