The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-17
News and Other Items.

Germany's military expenses for the year are
estimated at 100000
| One drug house at Fort Wayne, Ind, recent
| ly sold $1,000 worth of quinine in one week.
The hard-sheI Baptists of Owensville, Ind,
have expelled all members of the church who
have joined the oranges.
The south fork Of Platte river in Nebraska is
| completely dry, the third time in twenty-seven
years.
The Navy Department Saturday received
it first official despatch by cable from Rio
Janeiro.
A Halifax despatch says that the American
schooner Sallie, Capt. C. Pike, has arrived
there from the Banks, having caught only
three quintals of fish in month.
Prof. Goodwin Smith as President Of the
Ontario Teachers Association, delivered the
opening address at their annual convention at
Toronto, on Tuesday afternoon.
The election in Ohio on tle adoption of the
new Constitution takes place on Tuesday.
There is said to be no general interest in the
matter, and the vote will probably be light.
Miss Carotta Crabtree, batter known by her
professional name of sLotta," is consulting
with committee Of the citizens of San Fran
cisco in relation to 81 900 drinking fountain
which she proposes presenting to that city,
Inc Chariestou courier states that in tyyantv-
one counties of South Carolina, one bun1red
and twenty subordinate tax unions have been
formed for the purpose Of resisting taxation.
Five county unions have been formed.
The Governor of New Hampshire has an
pointed the Hon. E. L. Cushman of Charles.
town as Chief Justice IN place of Mr. Bell who
declined to serve. The other vacant places on
the remodelled bench have also been filed. Of
the new appointees only one is a Republican.
1t is reported that some people at Port Henry
n. Y, use nitro-glycerine for catching fish. 1t
kills everything within fifty feet, and fromiff-
ty to seventy-five pounds of fish are taken at an
explosion. People who take fish in that wav.
however, deserve to be blown up themselves.
The st. Louis Republican (Dem.) afirms
that the defeat of imitation was the defeat of
the West, and expresses regret that this defeat
''on pretended demand for rag money dis
credits Western statesm anship and cripples all
its efforts for better causes"
The Congressional Committee, now on an
excursion on board of the United Steamer Des.
patch, arrived at Newport on Friday evening
The same party will visit Boston to witness ex-
periments of Norman WARDS heavy guns A
special officer has been sent to Boston to make |
scientific observations.
A wonderful mirage was observed near |
Buckfeld, Prince William county, Va, re- |
Gently. The whole city of Washington, forty |
miles distant, with the Potomac flowing by it,
became visible in clouds. The enchanting
scene lasted bat few moments when the capt.
tai gradually sunk into the river and disap-
peared
Congressman Phelps of New jersey, in his
speech accepting his nomination, drew pa
thetic picture of the hardships endured in time
Of disaster, by the representative of 25 600 vot.
ers in an ndas'rirl distiet, when he was ex-
pected to furnish work for all Sin navy yard,
custom house and post ofice;' when few died
and none resigned in the custom house, and
every mailbag is already divided between
one-armed soldier and a one-legged sailor"