The Portland daily press., 1874-10-16
News and Other Items.

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The Duchess Of Edinburgh has been deliver
ed Of a son. q" ulu Iidfa alii ilrtr
The Empress of Russia is in England at
buckingham palace. i- Htl9 n.f.f1lis. .1 ..--
/ Under two calls for $50 bonds, issued in
June, the treasury has received So, ,226, 500. -,
Rev. DR.. Deems says choir singers should be
as moral as clergymen. ,.,F i--s.,,,.- - ~.
A return to the old-time bonnets is said to
have been decreed at Paris.
A cat at Millerton, N. Y, eats cucumbers.
melons and other garden vegetables
The Yale Alumni win have their annual Bos-
ton dinner on the 26th, at the Parker House.
The Berlin government is considering prop
osition for the creation provincial assembly
for Alsace and Lorraine. fat. ..1r bod.
/ Three children of Mis-. Graham of New
Castle, Ind, have fallen heirs to about 100000
by the death of an uncle in Europe. . -r
The story of A. S. Heep, that was killed by
| rattlesnake in California has got into the pat
ent outsides. f.ii.t-,. 4 .-. .tt
| The New York state cheese factories have
made $4,000 boxes of that material this sea.
son, being a gain of Per cent. over last year,
1t is reported that an English steamer recent
| ly landed seven pieces of artillery and 5000
rifles on the coast of Spain for the Carlists. 1sH
very stringent local option law is before
the Oregon Legislature with probability of
passage. iaina-7ez ~ O.. 1oso-1s.
1t is stated that Sir Charles Dixie proposes to
cremate the body of his wife. taking it to Ger
many for the purpose. ea .f .-..
Mr.. d. G. Reed, the English NJ p who de-
signed the two German iron-clads, the Kaiser
and the Deutschland, is said to have received
| the sum of S300,OOo for the work.
Jim Fisk has come up from his part of spirit
land, and informs New Workers that he has
plans on foot to turn money into the right chan
| nes.
From five to fifty tons of briar wood is rc-
eeived in Baltimore every week, from points ON
the Potomac, York, james and Rappahannock
rivers, and most of it is shipped to Philadel-
phia and New York. 1t is worth S26 ton. W
Charlotte Cushman delivered an address and
read several selections on Saturday at the Cush-
man schoolhouse in Boston, which is built on
| the spot where she was born in 1916. and is
named in her honor. s.
One of Mr.. w. E. Fors.er's objects in visit
| ing this country is the erection of some sort of
monument over the. grave ef his ffathee.. Z
| minister of the Society of Friends, who died in
| Tennessee many years ago. .- ~
Five of the remaining light draft guuboats
now at League Island are to be broken sup, the
government believing that more can be realized
| in this way than by selling the vessels at auc-
| tion.
The international subscription fund for the
| erection of monument to the memory Of the
late Baron Liebig, the distinguished chemist,
has reached $25,000-about two thirds of the
required amount. .Q1r
Apropos of the fact that the Princess Louise
did not attend when her husband, the Marquis
| OF Lorne, lectured on the Spanish Armada the
London Hornet says: ''The Princess has al
| ways been remarkable for good seuse." 81.
Rev. W. j. Tucker, Congregationalist miu-
| lister OF Manchester, N. H., must be remark
| able man, for he prefers to rem ain where he is
at $25OO year than to go to New York at s10,-
| OOO
| We hear complaints about thieves stealing
wood and chickens. This morning man in
the Fourth Ward found his chicken coop as
empty as the head of the editor of the Guada-
| loupe Times.-Sdn Antonio Herald
The Charleston, s. c., board of health an
nounces that two fatal cases of yellow fever
have occurred in six weeks. There are no new
| cases and no fears are felt of its spreading.
| There have been no deaths from the disease
| sine e the 9Th inst. .s.,.
| The city of Baltimore has just placed large
bell in the lantern of the dome above the City
| Hall. The bell is named 'Sam," weighs 6292S
| pounds, is hung 227 feet above the ground, is A
feet 10 inches high, and feet 10 inches wide at
the rim, and is the biggest thing of the kind in
| the city.
There has been an unprecedented raid of to-
bacco buyers into the Connecticut valley during
| the past two weeks. The farmers through the
| valley, while they have raised less quantity of
the weed this year than formerly, have tended
| it better.
| The Duke of Cambridge has the gout and is
going 10 resign his command of the British ar
my. Queen Victoria once remarked to Lord
| Pamerston that "as q warrior, Cam is not
success" Nobody has ever had the courage to
deny it. His Grace's strong point is a capacity
| for sherry wine.
| The practice of sending substitutes is said 10
be growing up in connection with pilgrmages
to Roman Catholic shrines. The idea must
have come either from the prevalence of the
substitute system during our civil war; or else
from the Mohammsdaus, whose religion allows
the employment of substitutes for such pur-
| pose. t r. ..-.f
Henri Rochefort, who is at present in Geneva,
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in order to go and see the Rothschild Villa at
Preguy. On the return the driver not knowing
whom he had for fare, took notion to length
en- the drive by passing through French territ1-
| ry. After the line had been passed he remark
ed to his passenger, whom he knew to be
Frenchman, "now, sir, you are in your own
country" Rochefort was probably not delight
ed.
Prince Frederick William, eldest son of the
Crown Prince of Prussia, and heir to the Ger
man throne, has now been duly entered as a
scholar of the Second Form at the Public
Grammar School at Cassel Initiating the
practice usually observed in this country. his
parents took him to the head master OF the es-
tabshment. and, like ordinary citizens, had
him examined in their presence. Before ieay-
ing the director, as the august monarch OF a
German gymnasium is called, the Crown Prince
stipulated that his son was not to be addressed
as Royal Highness," but to be Known only
under the name of Prince William, and treated
in all respects as the other boys are.