The Portland daily press., 1874-07-01
News and Other Items.

Detroit has ''hired girl ring
Gov Hartranft of Pennsylvania is said to be
suffering from dog bite.
Providence is discussing the propriety of
erecting new first class hotel 1t needs one.
Eighty-two cities of Germany now boast of
cremation societies. M IN
Tom Scott says he himself lost three millions
of dollars by the panic. ei0 au.
Alas! the peach crop in Delaware and Mary
land will be complete failure this season. So
says the Philadelphia Press.
The wife of Col. John c. Moore, Concord,
N. H., newspaper man, has lately fallen heir
to some $4,000
Danger turks in everything apparently, for
row we are informed of an explosion of ice
cream in Reading, Pa.
The catch of mackerel on the Cape Breton
Coast is in excess of any for the last twenty
years. sd
Edward Everett Hale has been chosen presi-
dent of the Board of trustees of Antioch, Ohio,
college, and ex-Gov. Cox of Ohio, has been
chosen president of the college,
The Pious Pioneers in an organization of
small boyserecently established in Philadelphia.
The juveniles have no fear of early death and
promise to be good.
pretentious Minnesota girl, who was Meth
er rich nor finely housed, dropped her beau
Just inside the Pates Of a splendid place on the
road, and then waiting till he was out of sight
escorted herself to her own insignificant domi-
Gil. Sharp!
Mr.. Stillman B. Allen thinks it would be a
good plan so to amend the constitution as to
give ex:presidents seats in the Senate for life.
Not from any particular state, of course, but
from the country at large.
In three weeks more the fashionable exodus
to Europe will be virtually over for after July
very few go abroad, comparatively for pleas
ure. While the exodns has bven large, it will
not reach that of last year by several thous-
ands.
Detroit Free Press A Virginia sheriff asked
murderer it he wanted to make speech on
the gallows, and the man replied: sGuess
not; it looks like rain. and don't want to get
wet; 60 on with the hanging" 1857
Miss Chapln, relative of the Rev. E. 81.
Chapln of New York, has been preaching Uni
versalism in Oregon lately. and is now settled
Tor two months over seeding congregation
OF that creed in San Francisco l5i,laH
Pride takes an early start in San Francisco.
When lad breaks loose from his mothers ap-
ron strings and secures position at So per
week, the first thing does after that is to hire
Chlnaman to run errands for him.
The Rev. George f.. Pentecost of Boston,
claims the $500 reward offered by Mayor Hun
ter of Brooklyn, for the recovery of the boy
Freddy English, alleged to have been abducted
by the liquor dealers
The pocket-book which was taken from Mai
or John Andre, when he was captured with
Benedict Arnold's treasona ole papers in his
boots is now in possession of the Connecticut
Historical Society
line Michigan wool crop amounts to about
100000 pounds, of which 1000. 900 pounds are
already marketed. The price ranges from 40
to AZ cents per pound, and the total yield is
almost 100000 pounds short of last years.
Mrs. Van Colt, the revivalist, was, at last
accounts. in San Francisco, soon to come east.
She says that in one year she has spent 1865
hours in religious meetings, travelled 72os
miles, written $50 letters, conducted 1923 PRAYER
meetings, preached 339 times and converted
1913 people 777
new variety of coffee has been exhibited
Oh 'he MO Exchange. 1t differs from the ordi
nary KINDS IN cultivation, in that the berry is
more spherical, and yellow instead of red IT
was discovered at Botacuto in San Panic The
Jerry is stated to be one-third richer in the
'aiefine IMAM the common descriptions.