The Portland daily press., 1874-11-18
News and Other items.

Ex-Secretary of the Treasury. Mccullough,
is in Washington.
Apples are worth 40 cents apiece in Mon
tana.
Bristol. R. J., has shipped $1,000 bushels of
carrots to New York already. They are mostly
used for horses and soup.
AT the Holly Tree Inn reading rooms in
Troy, N. Y, they keep the place open on Sun
days in the evening. The experiment has
proved very successful.
A vein of the purest lead was opened within
the limits of Newburyport, Monday, at ''the
Laurels." There was much excitement over
specimens on exhibition at the post Office.
Miss Adelaide Nelson told reporter of the
Washington Republican, recently, that she had
been engaged by Mr.. Sirakosch for one hun
dred nights at $500 night, acting wherever he
directs. She also said she was studying the
characters of Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth,
having already spent six years on the latter.
The Helen Kendrick johnson who wrote
Roddys Romance is the wife of Rossiter John
son. AS she put not Miss nor Mrs. before her
name in the book, some persons not acquainted
with her have been calling her Miss Helen
johnson, pleasant young writer related to
Professor Rossiter johnson.
Miss Cushman has given her four farewell
performances in New York, the first in 1874,
thirty years ago, the next in 1852, the third in
1868, and the last this month-and she is only
IS years old. "But still her lips refuse to say
farewell" and she will reappear at the reading
desk.
Catholic priest visited saloon in town
in Morris county N. j., last week, and, having
admonished the assembled crowd, horse
whipped them. Having thus cleared the place,
he went to the cellar, broke in the head of
every barrel containing liquor, and, remount-
ing his horse, rode homeward.
The San Francisco Chronicle says that the
Cinnamon are getting scattered over various
portions of the city. They take long leases of
vacant lots, pay high prices, and erect old sta
ble-lke shant:es on the lots with dead lights for
windows. The Mongolian dodgers in these
black holes are slowed away in bunk holes
holes around the walls like mummes in cata.
combs.
The modest monument which stands over
Count Rumford's remains, in one of the envi-
rons of Paris, was badly damaged in the bonn
bardment of that city. Attention having been
called to its condition, the American Academy
of arts and sciences of Boston, and the corpo-
ration of Harvard University, both of which
were legatees of part of Rumford's property,
have undertaken to restore the monument at
their joint expense.
The story that some great foreign power had
bought 3,5OO,0OO pounds of saltpetre, in New
York, Friday, greatly alarmed the people
Each European nation was credited with il,
tba,i oil "a
was denied altogether. The explanation Of
fered is that the japanese commissioners tried
to beat down a New York merchant on his
price for gunpowder, and he told them to go to
England if they weren't satisfied. Whereat
they went
An Englishman named George Worley, who
died last October, at Mazatlan, Mexico, where
he kept q notorious den, confessed to the
American Consul, just before his death, that
he had committed fourteen murders. The
first was that of the mate of the American
ship Cultivator, at Liverpool, in 1854. The
rest were committed in this country and Cana
da; four near Toronto one at Oswego, three at
Chicago, two at New York, and three at the
South. He died from wounds received at the
hands of Spanish gambler, and leavesS $4,000
to $4,000 to sister in Sheffield, England.
The New York Mail says that at the funeral
of young lady in that city, recently, the coffin
was placed on platform in the paror, draped
with black velvet and jet. TIE flowers ex-
hlbited cost nearly three thousand, and cho-
rus was sung by hired vocalists. Cn either
side of the coffin stood four young girls dressed
in white, each holding wreath OF flowers.
While the minister prayed bell was to!led in
the hall way, and chant was INDUCED in by
the hired vocalists