The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-19
News and Other Items.

A farmer near South Bend, Ind, has over
200 swarms of bees, and sells near ton of
honey per year.
The water is now higher in the lakes of
northern New England than has ever before
been known in August
The Philadelphia North American comes out
alphabetically for the reelection of United
States Senator John Scott.
1t is said that the type metal monument to
be erected over the grave of Horace Greeley,
will be in position before the end of the year.
Two sets of translators, one company head
ed by Rev. S. r. Brown, aud the other by DR..
Nathan Brown. are engaged in translating the
scriptures into the Japanese language.
The order of Patriotic Sons of America is
growing in strength in Pennsylvania. There
are now $50 camps, with a membership of 25,-
600.
During hurricane in Kansas county treas
urer became so terrified that he acknowledged
adefalcation of $l5OO. After the wind had
subsidized he denied It.
A "three card monte expert is reported to
have offered the directors Of the Union Pacific
railroad bonus of $4,000 per annum for the
exclusive right to play his little game in their
sleeping-cars.
j. III. johnson, the champion swimmer of
England, will contend with f. Trautz OF Long
Branch, for $1,000 next Thursday, The steam
boat Granite State has been engaged to make
an excursion to the scene of the trial.
The Lamoile News-Dealer doesn't believe
there is any Farmers party in Vermont, or any
I a.: e. rortn f the
Democrats, who haven't any hope OF getting
into office save by the formation of new
party.
The Viceroy of Egypt proposes creating an
| International tribunal in his domnions, which
shall be composed of distinguished jurists from
European states. He intends giving each mem
Der an annual stipend of $4,000 and a sum Of
$4,000 for travelling expenses
Baron Anselm de Rothschild, who died re-
Gently at his country seat near Vienna, possess
ed wealth estimated at mere than $200,000,0O0
BY his express desire his funeral was celebrated
without any pomp The hearse was drawn by
two horses and followed by few servants.
| A New York clerk, detected last week in
| stealing goods from his employers, pleaded
| guilty in the police court and asked that hi
might be sent to state prison as quick as posi-
BILE. "Be quick for Gods sake he said, s'Wo
men have been the ruin Of me-
| Samuel A. King, the aronaut, will make an
ascension from Cleveland some time within 9
month"; in a mammoth baloon'which has beer
| constructed under his personal supervision. 1t
| is capable of carrying fifteen persons at once,
is fiftysx feet in diameter and will hold 81 900
| cubic feet of gas.
| Prof. Taylor, Microscopic of the Agricultur'
| al Department, who recently visited Massachu
| sets and New Jersey, to investigate the cram
| berry rot, has made suggestions as to the pre-
| paration of the soil and other matters, and be-
| lieyes that the rot can be driven out and wholly
| prevented hereafter.
Five years ago there were not 800 Protestants
| in the Republic of Mexico. There are now
| more than 100 churches, with 10000 members
| while twenty-seven schools and academies are
under Protestant direction. The capital alone
supports eleven Protes tant churches, severa
missions aud seven day schools.
| A San Francisco Snowman has been fined fol
| exhibiting an idiotic dwarf which he had hired
| of his guardian for that purpose for ten dollars
| month An additional charge Of cruelty was
| dismissed upon the defendants showing thai
| the boy was treated as we'll as any beast in the
| show, which satisfied the technical requirement
| of the law.
The first case in Germany under the new law
| giving Catholic congregations the power to
| elect pastor in the place of the one turned
| out by the government, occurred at Grasdori
| in the province Of Hanover. On the day ap-
| pointed by the government for the election thu
parshioners appeared in great numbers and
unanimously declared that they would neither
elect nor sustain any other pastor than tho one
appointed by their bishop. The people, of
course, remain without pastor.