The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-11-23
News and Other Items.

There will be general reunion of Connecti-
cut volunteers in Hartford next year.
Americans can now hold real estate in Tur.
key.
They are talking about forty dollars on
thous and as the rate of taxation in New York
next year.
The editors of the La Prenza, La Baudera and
El Espanol in Madrid have been arrested aud
sent to prison for violation of the press laws
Rev, j. T. Byrne of Whtby, Ont, agent for
streets of Albany Saturday.
Lord Lyttcn has, it is stated, has been ap-
pointed British ambassador at Constantinople
in the room of Sir Henry George Elliot
George Francis Train has presented Omaha,
Neb, with 400 acres of land for a public park,
on condition that the city assume the indebted.
ness amounting to $50, 600, the land being wort
four times that amount.
Hon. John D. White, member Of Congress
elect from Kentucky, will be the youngest rep
resentative in the next Congress, b wing barely
attained his 26th year. His father was at one
me Speaker of the House.
There are $4,000 people in Damascus sick
with the fever, while brigands are plundering
suo SoiAouuuibS Sounehy cV euab aSitCutulc -
impossible, and in Damacus Mohammedan
family, having gone over to Christianity, have
been carried over to the jail aud left there.
1t is proposed to have an International chess
tournament at Philadelphia when the Centen-
nial is celebrated, and Phiadelphians have
written 10 Europe to know what amount in
prizes would probably tempt the strongest play
ers in the Old World. ta.
The Williams family are oed to take
fully as large place in the new Congress as
the Washburns did in time past. Alabama
Delaware, Indiana, New York and Wisconsin
send one each, and Michigan sends two-total
seven.
A Mormon agent now in New York says he
is expecting 800 Mormons from Great Britain
in . short time, most of them from northern
England. They will 60 to Utah immediately
on their arrival He represents that there will !
be larger Mormon emigration than ever from
Europe during the next twelve months.
Col. Harlow. the Illinois Secretary of State,
occupies the house at Springfield formerly
owned by Abraham Lincoln, and is trying to
preserve it and the premises much as they were
during Lincoln's life, but relic hunters have
carried off nearly all the picket fence.
Rev. Washington GLADDEN. is to leave the edi-
toral corps of the New York Independent.
Like Others who have gone before him, he
can't stand publisher Bowen's way of mixing
money and religion-Advertising aud edito,i-
ais ..5.
And now "Jenny June" Croly informs US
that Clara Morris has been for some time mar
red to wealthy young Englishman named
Marriott; that the opera diva, Emma Albani,
is welded, and not merely engaged, TO young
Mr. Gye, one of the London impresario. VIII
came across the ocean with her; aud that-most
surprising of all-Annie Louise Cary has be-
come the wife of Max Strakosch.
A private meeting of several Orthodox citi-
zens Of New York was held last Friday even
ing to adopt some plan of action for the preser-
walton of the sanctity of the Sabbath. The
opening of theatres and opera houses Sunday
was bitterly denounced as undermining morals
and Christianity. Such a course, il was said,
had tendency to insure harvest of atheism,
to which, one preacher asserted, the whole
country was rapidly drifting. Another speaker
affirmed that nearly all the secular press was
openly or covertly infdel, aud rejoiced in any
injury inflicted on the cause of religion
In a recent letter to the Boston Journal Bur
leigh says: "The Adelphia Academy is
prominent literary institution in New York
Homer B. Sprague, the principal. is an eminent
educator. He is a member of Rev. Mr. Bud
ington's church. but hewas fast friend Of Mr..
Beecher, and said so. On this account Mr.
Budington resigned his position as president
and left the board of trustees. He also took his
son from the academy. A yearly course of
lectures has been maintained. This year, az
usual, a course was laid out, and Mr.. Beecher's
name put on the list The trustees struck his
name off. Then Mr. Sprague resigned, and the
end is not yet"
New York importing and dry goods houses
generally complain that their trade is seriously
injured by what they call ll'genteel smuggling;"
that thousands of men and women Of wealth
and position go abroad every year and bring
back, as private wardrobe, untold quantities Of
kid gloves, laces. costly shawls, silk and velvet
gowns, mantles aud cloaks, made up. By
avoiding duty and greatly lessening the reve
nues of the country, they say great many Ia
dies who used to buy of them now go TO Europe
nearly every seas, n and purchase in London,
Paris and elsewhere. They estimate this kind
of smuggling at fully S14O,0Oo,000 annually.
and ascribe much of the dulness OF trade there
to that cause.