The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-10-31
News and Other Items.

bernard Blghn, the oarsmau, is candidate
for the New York Assembly
The South American cattle trade has fallen
off 80 per cent. this year
A New York family which six years ago kent
boarding house now boards at an uptown
hotel at cost of $500 per week.
A heavy thunder and lightning storm passed
over Brooklyn and portion of Long Island
early yesterday morning.
Paris, it is reported, is to have Russian
newspaper, published under supervision of the
Russian ambassador. t-a.I..
The parents and friends of the little Ros
boy have already expended over one hundred
thousand dollars in their fruitless search for
him.
Mrs. scott-siddons is going on farewell
tour through India, China, Japan, and the
United States, and it will take her two years t.,
bid everybody adieu.
Italy and Switzerland submitted boundary
dispute to the arbitration of Mr.. Marsh, Unit
ed States Minister to Rome, and he has decided
it in favor of Italy. 1t involves the possession
of the Alp Cavalrola in the vatteline.
The warm weather has Matched out the grass
hopper eggs at the West, and the fields swarm
with the young insects The farmers exult in
the thought that winter will soon kill them and
they will be free from the pest next season.
AT the Paris morgue there was exposed this
month the body of a young woman, aged about
twenty, so wonderously beautiful that the au-
She was seen to throw hersen into the river.
The question of the annexation of Chelsea
and Winthrop to Boston, Mass, is to be decid-
ed at the coming election. Thus Boston is like
lY to take another growth as it did last year
when other towns were annexed.
They have found the tomb of Druid, with
the Druid in it, on the Mountain of Saint Odile,
in Alsace, and ancient monuments on the noun
tain hitherto thought to be parts of Roman
fortifcation, are now thought to appertain to
former Druidical place of worship.
The Empress of Austria is imperial in her
bounty. She gave young commander of the
British Royal Navy massive diamond ring,
with her initial and crest incribed on it, as
reward for the manner in which he attended to
her personal comfort
Senator Morrilps back pay which he placed
to the credit of the Vermont State Treasury, is
causing the Legislature some trouble. The lat
est proposition is that it be appropriated to the
the center of the state.
An unpleasant feature of the Virginia agri-
cultural districts is The dilapdated condition OF
the farm houses and outbuildngs. With few
exceptions, everything seems to be going to de-
cay, especially on the small farms More than
two-thirds of the people, it is asserted owe
more than they can pay.
Five prominent lawyers of Chicago have pre-
sented to Rev. DR.. Swing copy of the New
Testament the pages of which are decorated by
Illuminated borders copied from the old mas
ters of that art, while twenty-three of the
greatest painters of the Christian era are rep
resented by elaborate engravings.
The East Church in Aberdeen, Scotland.
which was destroyed by fire on the 9th inst
was one of the finest granite buildings in the
world. Its old wooden steeple had been one of
the land marks of the city for centuries, and
in the peal of bells lost was one the tone Of
which has been familiar to people of the vicin-
ity since the fourteenth century.
DIR. F. III. Hubbard of San Francisco, has
offered two prizes of $50 and $50 respectively
to the seniors of Dartmouth College for the
best and and second best essays on topics pre-
scribed by him. The subjects for this year are.
intellectual Culture and Professional Re-
ward" and "The Rights of Independent Crit
cism.'
The Montgomery (va.) Messenger says
There is a negro boy in Newport who will drink
kerosene oil by the quantity whenever he can
getit. He Graves Tito such an extent that ths
family are compelled to hide not only the can
which contains it, but even the lamps. He has
The effect of it is similar to mean wbskey; it
produces wild intoxcstion.
The consumption of cotton in Europe has
been nearly stationary for the past two years.
During the past year American cotton consti-
tuted more than half the whole amount con-
sumed in England, while on the Continent In
dian cotton was used slightly in excess OF the
American. OF the total amount consumed IN
Europe the past year, 5,1S9,O00 bales, America
contributed 2,5Os,OOO bales, and India ,5S2 ,O00