The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-10-25

Inc Ames Flow Company is temporarily en-
oarrassed. Its liabilities are S21S, ,s47 and as
sets S542 89l. AT meeting of creditors last
week it was thought that a reasonable exten-
sion would enable the company to nav in full
and go on.
David s. Thomas, P. T. Barnum's press
agent, made an ascension at New Haven. Sat.
urday, at 1 p. m.. in the balloon ''Barnum''
No. 4, formerly used by Donaldson. The bal
loon took northwesterly direction, and was
last heard of passing over Waterbury
President Chapin OF the Boston and Albany
railroad has notified the Postofice department
that from the first of November next until
spring be will withdraw the train from Boston
that makes connection with the mail train az
Albany. Should he Go this all the New Eng
land States will be deprived of the advantages
of the fast mail train.
The government of Prince Edward Island en-
courages agriculture by the support of a model
farm, upon which it keeps the best of stock for
breeding purposes. 1t has Just added to the
stock two thoroughbred stallions one trotting
stallion, and two thoroughbred mares, pur-
chased in Kentucky. High prices were D lid
for the animals.
The discovery of q subterranean forest lust
below the surface of the bed of the Thames
river is attracting good dea! of attention in
England. The oak, the alder and the willow
ore the principal trees found. These retain
their vegetable character, but other signs show
that the forest belongs to the period of the elk
and the red deer in the south of England.
The announcement that Russia would par
ticipate in the Philadelphia centennial is con-
firmed by dispatch from United States Min
lister Baker at st. Petersburg The Gear has
appointed a commission, of which State Coun-
cilor Belsky is the commissioner-general, and
q general invitation to exhibitors has been pub
lished, and all the departments of the govern
ment have been ordered to cooperate.
The 'Irving Monument Fund.-" an associa-
tion OF ladies organized to raise fund to erect
in Central Park a monument to Washington
Irving, are talking of changing the plan from
colossal bust, as originally contracted for, to
fulllength statue. Macdonald, the sculptor,
has nearly completed, in clay, the colossal bust
of Irving, which was originally ordered, at a
cost of $4,000, and has made designs for
full-length statue, to cost with the pedestal
from $780, TO $38,000. In case the contract
should be changed to statue the bust will be
completed in imitation bronze, aud exhibited
at the centennial in 1876 by the association, but
all payments toward the bust will be credited
on the new contract.
A writer in the Richmond Whig gives some
interesting "reminiscences of "StonewalP' Jack
son while at West Point. The following will
illustrate the iDfexible determination of the
man: He had right rough time u the scade-
my al first; for his want of previous training
placed him at a disadvantage, aud it was all be
could do to pass his first examination. Wewere
studying algebra and may be analytical geom-
etry that nter, and jackson was very low in
bis class stan ding. All lights were put out at
taps; but just before the signal he would pile
his CRATE up with the as hracite coal, and, iying
prone before it Oh the floor. would work away
It his lessons by The glare of the fire, which
scorcbed his very brain, till late hour in the
night
As Mr. Peter Cudip was doing in his sit
ting room the other day, he was suddenly
aroused by fearful crash of glass at the back
of the house aud a tremendous pull at the front
door bell. Answering it in person and a rage.
he discovered small bov, who would have
been much smaller had he been washed, and
grasping the bell-pull and aboat fathom of
wire in his hand Round the corner could be
seen the heads of about seven other boys, pre-
pared to return TO run as occasion might
dictate. The small boy said: "Pease, mister,
they had three men on bases, and four to tie,
and the striker he hit a hot one to third, and
the third muffed it, and she's in yo1r green
house, Lemme go'n get her, cause this is the
decidin' game" and, while Mr.. Cudlip was
speecbless, he slipped past and out into the
back premises. After trampiog over, through
and about all of Mr.. Cudlips horticultural
products, the boy returned, and remarking,
''She's in the next yard, Gully" departed
gratefully.