The Portland daily press., 1874-10-30
News and Other Items.

Thanksgiving is generally observed in the
Dominion to-day.
The Pope is said not have stepped outside the
vatican grounds for the past four years.
In consequence of the long drouth, Mr.. Tulli-
want, wretched Illinois farmer will have
only $50, 900 bushels of corn this year.
A determined effort is making by the Facul-
ty and students of Tufts College to retain DIR.
Miner in his position as President of that insti-
tuition.
Mr.. James T. Fields is said to have been in
vited to three chairs as professor of English
literature and rhetoric in as many colleges with
in short time.
The question who shall pay the bills for en-
tertaining Horace Greeley on his visit to Gin
cinnati in the fall of 1872 is before IL Ohio
courts.
The New York Express says: "The suit of
Tilton vs. Rev. H. w. Beecher is placed on the
November calendar of the City Court, Brook
lyn, and from what the counsel say there will
be no postponement"
A French paper in Montreal contends that it
is the duty of the French Canadian members
of the Dominion government to insist on a par
don for Lepine and amnesty for Riel, and fail
ing to secure such action to resign.
II is thought that the Hoosac Tunnel will be
completed about January 1st. The contract
for arching the tunnel has been awarded to b.
N. Parren, of Greenfield, and it will take about
a year to finish it.
A Connecticut manufacturer is drawing Ger
man silver wire only 1-400 of an inch in dame
ter, or about the thickness of an ordinary hair;
which is light and hairy business for any one
with a talent for drawing
A insane man in East Longmeadow, Mass,
named George Hall, burned his own barn last
night, with fifty tons of hay belonging to
Mr.. Campbell. who carried on the place. Hall
says: II set it on fire, but it made bigger
blaze than supposed it would"
A California farmer received by mall three
years ago, about spoonful of oats, which he
planted, and the next year he planted the pro-
duce of it. This year he repeated the process,
and has just harvested. from an acre and a half
of land, 200 bushels of oats
A planter at Sacramento, CAL, will, this sea-
son, make thirty tons of cabbages into sauer-
kraut, and will make 1000 cans of preserved
fruit 5000 gallons of catsup, 100000 pounds of
assorted pickles, five tons of picked onions,
and 900 pounds of horse-radish; so says a Cali
ifornia paper.
Professor Seward, who reduced the music of
the Fisk Jubilee Singers to writing purposes
taking charge of the musical department of
Fisk University during the coming year. The
Jubilee Singers will be reorganized under his
direction for further campaign, the purpose
of which will be to secure an endowment for
the University.
An editor of one of the Chicago papers re-
Gently got drunk and into the calaboose He
was there seen by one of his own local report
ers, who wrote him up for fraud, not recog-
hizing him as the real editor, the chief, however,
vowing vengeance as soon as he was released.
Next morning, after being fined and released,
he, however, thought better of it, and pretended
to have been with o sick friend and heard with
much astonishment that drunken man in the
calaboose had pretended to be himself.
The bones of ten dead Cinnamon were re-
ceved a few days since from Utah and deposit.
ed in San Francisco receiving tomb. At in
tervals large number of the boxes containing
them are shipped to China, as Celestial always
stipulates that his bones shall be deposited
finally in his native land. Men are sent from
San Francisco at the proper time after their
deceaSe, who scrape what flesh remains from
the bones and pack them in cases of the length
of the longest bone. Fourteen boxes were re.
ceived the previous week.
The Bessemer steamer system has been ap-
piled by Mr.. Henra Giffard to hanging rail-
road car which has been tested with success on
the line OF the Northern Railway in France.
Seated in this car, which hangs on elastic
springs, the traveller experiences the sensation
OF reposing in hammock, free from the vibra.
ton and bumpings of the ordinary car. At
times the car undulates as does boat on a
calm sea- The movement is described as a
very gentle one, and the traveller is enabled TO
read without fatigue and write with ease. The
principle of this car applied to ambulances
doubtless would be great boon to the wounded
who may be conveyed in them.