The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-11-06
News and Other Items.


The San Francisco Bulletin says that the
wool clip for the year is estimated at 20,OO0,00
pounds.
One of the bridesmaids at late wedding in
Covingtop, KY, was the grandmother of the
bride.
A gentleman lately in Winona, while eating
raw oysters, found In one of them sixty-one
pearls, besides one which which he accidently
swallowed.
An ex confederate, Gen. O'Neal, who serve
under Stonewall jackson, is shovelling dirt on
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway for
dollar a day.
The city of Providence has debt of ST.
100000, which is increasing at the rate of
$1,0O0,O00 a year additions to the floating
debt.
Gen. "Baldy'' Smith has undertaken, with
the approval of the Comte de Paris, the trans
latiOn and annexation of his ''Historie de la
Guerre Civie en- Amerique."
The number of landholders in England is
constantly decreasing. Two centuries ago it
was about 100000. In 1851 the census reported
the number at only 3O.315, and in 1871 it was
reduced to 22,934. The incomes of the landed
proprietOrs have increased immensely,
According to the New York Herald, New
Jersey swimmer recently astonished the natives
of Skibbereen, on the coast of the Emerald
Isle, by jumping overheard from translantIc
steamship in the middle of gale and reaching
land after seven hours swim.
In sixty-six municipal elections in England,
out of every one thousand women who enjoyed
equal rights with men on the register, five hun
dren and sixteen went to the polls, which is
but forty-eight less than the proporticpate
number of men.
There is postoffice in Schoharie county, n.
Y, which consists of a cigar box nailed to
rail fence at Clay Hill station. This box is
marked U. S. on one side and Clay Hill on the
other. The mail is left by stages and distribut-
ed by the farmers who pass.
DR.. Sedgwick Saunders, the London public
analyst, who has been employed recently in
examining the condition of the city's sew
ers, is now suffering from.severe assesses in
the throat and other symptoms of blood pois-
oning due to the poison inhaled in his ofiicial
duty. ...-
The former residence Of Maximilian in Mex
leo is in ruins. The modest establishment was
orce brick cottage, overgrown with vines and
densey surrounded with guava and coffee
trees. The grounds were left nearly as wild
as nature made them, with only enough of the
interlaced branches cut away to let in light
and air. Maximian and his consort lived
there only few weeks just previous to his
death.
The Archbshops of Canterbury aud York
and several of the English bishops have agreed
to appoint next st. Andrews Day, Monday,
Nov. 80, as day of intercession in behalf of
foreign missions; and the bishops abroad in
communion with the English Church have
been invited to unite in the observance. The
selection of that day is based on the report of a
committee of Convocation of Canterbury.
which was, so far, approved by the Convocat
of Canterbury, and is before the Convocatiou
of York.
Baby shows are believed to be an American
invention, but it was left to Austria to get up
noise show. Eighty persons. we are told, COM
peted for the prize offered for the most extraor-
dinary nasal prominence in form, size and
color The jury decided that only three out Of
the whole could be admitted to compete for
the prize, which was finally adjudged TO q
competitor from Vienna, possessed of what
is stated to be 'a gigantic nose, OF a deep vio-
let blue"