The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-09-18
News and Other Items.

| General Frank P. Blair is dangerously ILL.,
| Blackberries are retailing in Brattleboro' at
| two cents quart.
| P. T. Barnum and bride have gone to the
| White Mountains.
The Burlington Sentinel appeals to the Demo-
| Gratis to read more. Bad advice unless you
want to lose them.-St. Adams Messenger.
| The King of Dahomey has a necklace COM
posed of two hundred and fifty human ears,
and that necklace is his great pride.
The Thames is reported to be drying up The
outflow has been much increased by the new
embankment, which is thought to be the cause.
| The Maid of Orleans is to be canonized. To
bring about this result was, it is said, one of
the principal objects of the recent visit of the
Bishop of Orleans to Rome.
The Democrats have claimed II representa-
tives elect to the Vermont Legislature. The
actual number is 4S, to 1873 Republicans. Not
much to boast of.
Experiments recently made in England indi-
cate that wagons are most easily drawn, on all
kinds of roads, when the fore and hind wheels
are of the same size, and when the pole lies
lower than the axle.
1t is proposed by number of admirers of
bu6 DlSuOp VI lLluCOlu W luItuer HIS aQUl-Cre-
nation views by forming a Christian burial
society for the reform of the funeral under
taking business.
At Beaver, Utah, James Hedges and Thoma as
Golden had dispute about mining suit, whe n
Golden shot Hedges. Hedges then fred three
shots at Golden, two Of them taking effect.
Golden died Wednesday night and Hedges now
lies in critical condition.
General Badger, who was seriously wounded
in the recent fight at New Orleans, is a Boston
boy, and was formerly member of the
''National Guard of the old militia organiza-
ton, the conf any being then under command
of Captain Harlow. General Badger served
with distinction in the recent war.
The crusade was revived by the ladies
OF Steubenvie, Ohio, on Sunday night
They visited beer saloon whose proprietor
was doing a large business, and were invited
by him to take free drink. They declined,
and wore hnstlAd ant in a lively manner, They
prayed for the keeper ON the sidewalk
1t is said that careful inquiry places the mum.
Der of casualties in Mondays fight at New
Orleans at 80 killed and 100 severely wounded.
The losses are about equally divided The
Metropoltans, up to the moment of the cap
ture of their guns, fired grape while the in
surgents used principally Belgian muskets and
Winchester rifles
At Lincoln, Neb., a number of Mennonites
were eating bread and cheese in store, when
one of their number pulled out his watch and
remarked in German ''that it was twelve
O'clock" Immediately they stopped eating
and fell on their knees, where they remained
about five minutes, until their cass-leader had
finished his prayer.
The removal of ice from the st. Lawrence
river by the use of nitro-glycerne is proposed
The method suggested is to plant the explosive
all over the river bottom, having wires con-
nected with the charges by which all would be
exploded simultaneously by galvanic battery.
The charges would be planted before the ice
formed, in order to avoid the necessity for
making holes. -
The Universaist convention in New York
elected the following officers Tuesday :-Presi-
dent, Gen. Olney Lawrence of Rhode Island;
Vice-PresideDt, Solomon Drullard of Buffalo;
Assistant Secretaries, Rev. Washington Hooper
and Rev. Charles Fluhrer The treasurer's
report shows the receipts to be 800, 525.57; ex-
pendtures, SIS, S53.51 balance ST. 672 06; present
Indebtedness of the convention, 1875, 700. In
the evening Rev. DR.. Miner preached in
Brooklyn, Rev. DR. Sawyer in Blocker street,
New York, and Mrs. Phoebe Hanford was
installed in Jersey City, Rev. B. I. Bowles
preaching sermon.