The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-12-31
News and Other items.


News and Other items.
DIR. j. G. Fulton has vacated the editorial
chair of 1.-THE Lookout that he may have
more time for his pastoral duties. He will be
succeeded by Dr. Hiscox.
The sensation in Newark last Sunday was
Weston, and a sensational preacher there
chose for his text, 'Aud Enoch walked with
God.''
o egon journalists advertise their friends
thus: "Col. 10 Meek has shouldered his jaw
bone, and will tell the people more than they
ever dreamt of about mining"
Poland used to be ''the Hon. Judge Poland"
Then they got him to "Judge Poland" then to
Poland" and now his neighbors speak of him
as ''Oid Pole, who got so badly waxed."
Winnie Ream threatens to marry the "small-
talk man e the Louisville Courier-Journa
Aud then he'heegin feebly to appreciate what
he has afflicted others, and kindly quit.
Messrs. w. ID. Wathburn & Co., the great
Minnesota lumber frm,vhich recently suspend
ed, will pay all their creditIs in full, besides
having some $4,000 upon WITCH to commence
anew.
Theodore Thomas mas discovered that when
his orchestra plays church selection in one
key, while the organist accidentally plays t in
another, the amount of applause and praise be
slowed by the audience is not in any way less
enthusiastic.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Jennie
-ouuu says sue WISHES twcfyo children.
She probably never said anything of the sort,
but if she did, she ought to have said it exclu-
sively tc Mr. June - louisville Courer-Jour-
nal.
There is a great excitement in Fall River,
Mass, over proposed reduction in the wages
of the mill operatives. They threaten gener-
al strike, and also that they will withdraw all
heir savings from the banks in order to force
the manufacturers to abandon the proposed re-
duction.
The publishers of the Boston Transcript have
engaged Mr.. William A. Hovey as responsible
editor of that paper, to fill the vacancy in its
staff occasioned by the death of the late Dan
iel N. Haskell. For the past few years Mr.
Hovey has been the principal editor of The
Commercial Bulletin.
The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalst says of
Semmes, of Alabama notoriety: eve learn
that the officers Of the royal army and navy of
Great Britain presented him, since the war,
with magnificent sword, which cost ten thou
aand dollars, in token of his gallantry and he
roism."
China is not exempt from the modern vice of
official peculation The project of Tien-Tsin,
which is the port of Picking. at the head of
navigation on the Peiho, and distant eighty-sx
miles from the capital, has just retired, after
four years plundering, with a fortune of $780,
900. His salary was $1,000 per annum.
Rev. George w. Williams, a colored Baptist
clergyman of Boston, announces through the
papers that he is candidate for the Chaplaia-
cy of the Massachusetts House of Representa-
tves. He prints recommendations from James
Redpath, William LloydsGarrison and Wendell
Phillips.
A North Carolina paper says that two negro
girls, in want of new bonnets, placed obstruc-
tions upon the Wilmington & Weldon railroad,
near Warsaw, the other day, as they say, ''for
the purpose Of killing some ladies on the train
that they might secure the bonnets." They
have been tried before justice of the peace
and sent to Dublin Jail.
Some interesting figures about the New York
hotels have been got together by a Tribune re.
porter, who has collected a variety of statistics
from L. of the los hotels of that city. The
amount Of supplies consumed at the Is hotels
is quite enormous as these specimen figures il
Illustrates: $1,000 pounds of fresh meat per
week, including $4,000 Of beef 600, 600 pounds
of fish year, 1900, 900 oysters, 100000 eggs,
10000 barrels of flour, 10000 pounds of coffee,
$4,000 pounds of ea,and nearly 100000 pounds
of sugar; "a million and half quarts of milk
and 10000 of cream; 100000 pounds of butter
1900 tons of ice aud 60, 900, 900 cubic feet of
gas.
An important fact has been established in the
tea trade since the panic, namely, that Japans
are rapidly taking the place of Oolongs. When
Japans were first introduced into this country
not SO many years ago-a sak could be found
for them only in the seaport cities and the
country adjacent. Now, very large and con-
stantly increasing proportion of the imports is
shipped to Chicago, Cincinnati and other west
ern cities. From table of the exports of tea
from China and Japan to the United States
during the past two seasons, it appears that the
shipments Of blacks have increased only from
5000, 900 to 100000 pounds, while those of
Japans have increased from 100000 to H.
100000 pounds, and those of greens from s.,
100000 to 100000 pounds.
The sittings of the German Rechstag afford
a great deal of interest whenever Prince Bis
marck thinks proper to make himself heard,
which he does only on weishty points, audi
not on trif1es. He draws crowd on such &C.
casions AS an orator he drives straight to the
point, and Immediately controls the attention
of his audience. Friends and enemies are sub
jugated by his eloquence, most usually abrupt,
frank and touching little upon evesything. The
prince excels in mixing together philosophical
sentences, threatening insinuations, unexpected
familiarities, political views, even confessions,
so as to make of the whole a tissue under
which powerful mind always appears. but,
truly, mind wholly free from preiudces,
forms and principles. When delivering his
parliamentary oratons he looms forth very
much like the spoilt child of fortune, hurried
on by the tension Of on inhexible will to be-
lieve no ones idea worth pinch of snuff ex
cept his own. No one can examine the coun-
tenance of the statesman OF the day without
discovering his character traced thereupon with
as much prominence as in the speeches, that
are dashed to the four quarters Of the globe.