The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-09-21
News and Other Items.

Miss Kate Field will make her first theatre
cal appearance as Peg Wellington.
A mine in Colorado was recently sold to a
Holland company for SO, 100000.
Twelve locomotives were part of the cargo
of the steamer Tagus, which sailed from Jer-
sey City for Russia, the other day.
-Four hundred Springfield people can read
their names in that black list of people who
don't pay their bills
Mr.. John w. Forney of the Philadelphia
Press, denies that he is living in Europe at the
expense of the Centennial.
Of the Sc applicants for admission to the new
state normal school of Massachusetts,, SO are
young ladies,
tract of three acres at Badega bay, CAL,
has produced in one season sixty tons of cab
bages, which brought in San francisco $4,000
in gold.
A countryman leaning against fre-alarm
box at Harrisburg, Pa, during a recent thunder
storm, was knocked senselesss by the electric
fluid.
"a few days ago, Lewis Fletcher of Newton
county, contributed an arm to threshing
machine" is the way they mention it out
West.
An Iowa centenarian, 1O2 years old, recently
made the overland trip to California, where he
went to see brother five years younger than
himself. The father of these men lived to be
100 years and five months old.
A Virginia City New man is going to train
party of young Piute braves as base ball
players. bring them East and give exhibitions.
As the Piutes are fond of such sport, they are
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At the beginning of the present year, the
Order of Jesuits numbered 9,104 members Of
these 1908 live in France, 1,527 in Italy, 1850
in England and English colonies. 1858 are on
missions, and 2,7O6 in the United States.
Lieut.. Col. Fred Grant, son of the President,
who is attached to Gen. Shersdan's staff in
Chicago, will be married on October Goth, to
Miss Ida Honore, daughter of H. H. Honore of
that city. and sister of Mrs. Potter Palmer, the
wife of the Chicago millionaire. The wedding
will take place at the residence Of Mr.. Palmer
The annual session of the r. w. Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows of the United States,
will be held this year at Atlanta, Ga, and will
convene on Monday next, and probably con-
tinue in session one week. 1t is expected that
every state and territory will be represented.
We read of rigid colored moralist, said
to be preacher in South Carolina. He always
sold his vote for $40, and he would take no
more. He summed up the matter by saying:
'Ds ting of gittin' 800 for vote is all wrong;
$40 is as much as it's worf.'
The Atlantic Express on the Hudson River
and New York Central Railroad arrived in
New York at eight o'clock on Friday morning,
Sept. 13, with sixteen of Wagner's elegant
sleeping cars and eight passenger cars, all full
1t was the largest sleeping car train on rec
ord.
In digging in the Virginia City company's
silver mine in Nevada, recently, tree trunk,
four feet through, was found. 1t was COM
pletely carbonized. In another mine in Nevada
lately, at the 400 feet level, stream of hot
water was struck that it requires a oae-foot
diameter pump to control.
VIM. e. Parson, formerly professor at the
Harvard University. left San Francisco for
Japan, in the China, to assume a position in
the Imperial college. Another passenger on
this steamship was E. Gilbert, an English en-
gineer, who will enter the department of public
works there.
John Roach it is said, has contracted to build
tnree more steamships Tor the Pacific Mail line
somewhat smaller than the Picking, for 81 $780,
900. The Boston Advertiser also says Mr..
Roach kofferS to build line of steamers for
Boston, as cheap as they can be built in any
part of the world, and agrees to take one-fourth
of the stock.
A large number of letters have recently been
received from grain men in various parts Of
Minnesota, and nearly every one of them con-
tain contradiction of the early estimates in
regard to the extent of the wheat crop. 1t is
alleged that the general yield will fall very far
below the published estimates of gentlemen
who have given the matter attention. The
crop in the near vicinity of st. Paul is reported
heavier than anywhere else in the state, and
the threshing machines are already dispellng
the expectations of the total crop of $4,000, 900
bushels in Minnesota for the year 1874