The Portland daily press., 1875-09-15
News and Other Items.

News anu UtHer ltcWSs
An aspiring lady in Utica, N. Y, is expend-
ing SIG, 900 to put spire $50 feet high on one
of the churches of that city.
The Democrats have fifty speakers stumping
Ohio, and the Republicans still larger num-
Der.
The Democrats of Wisconsin have sent out
lithographic portraits of the renominated state
officers as campaign documents.
Gov Leslie of Wisconsin, has been so lavish
in the use of the pardoning power as to release
527 convicts during the four years of his adj
ministration.
The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, who in
CURED his fathers displeasure by secret mar
riage, has been divorced from his wife and is
now happy in the imperial forgiveness.
At Thunder Bay, Canada, is published a
newspaper with the protracted title of Kamin-
istiouia Perambulator and Thunder Bay Pro-
totype.
Martin Harris, one of Joseph Smiths twelve
apostles of Mormonism, died recently in Utah
at an advanced age. He married the widow of
William Morgan, of anti-Masonic fame.
The manager of the Houston fTexas) Land
Association, an enterprise for obtaining money
for the erection of a monument to Gen. Hous-
ton, announces that the effort has been sue
cessful.
The project of letting the sea overflow part
of the Desert of Sahara, thus rendering un-
necessary the frightful land journey of 1000
miles from Morocco to Timbuctoo, is finding
numerous advocates
A double marriage took place in an Iowa
corn field few days ago, between couple of
young fellows who stalked from home with
their girls ostensibly to go to the circus. They
were in love UP to the ears.
An Englishman was lately arrested for
Stealing gas" by attaching rubber tube to
pipe in the cellar of an unoccupied house next
door to his own. He had drawn off 100000
feet in five years.
The Windsor Mail of New Brunswick, gives
four columns to On account of house which
mysteriously takes fire in daylight without any
apparent cause. In one day the blaze is said
TO have appeared on the roof 80 different times
while the people of the vicinity were looking
on in establishment and awe.
Barnum has outdone himself. He has tight
rope performance, and by way iof increasing
the sensational element he announces that he
keeps priest or the establishment for the pur-
pose of administering the last offices of the
church in case of an accident. At least, so
says the Paris Figaro, which is quite as much
given to romancing as Barnum is.
A fragment of the monument of Mrs. Com
missary Blair, the first white woman born on
the American continent, has been presented to
the Tennessee Historical Society, at Nashville.
Her husband was preacher Of the English
Church, an active philauthropist, and great
friend of learning. He was the founder of
William andi Mary College, in Williamsburg.
Va, and was for fifty years its President.
A new industry is made public by Wester-
velt's confession. He says that Mosher was in
the habit of buying broken furniture at auction
in Philadelphia, taking it home, repairing it,
and then sending it back to auction again. By
this little transaction he always profited of
course, and equally of course, his was honest
work, and the things were made 'just as good
as new"
Emigration is diminishing from Scotland as
well as from England and Ireland. In the sew
en- months ending the 31st ultimo the number
of emigrants who set sail from the ports on the
Clyde was 1920. as against II, 800 in the same
period of 1874. The falling off is mainly in
the Canadian and United States traffic, the
sailings to New Zealand and Australia being
very similar to those of last year.
Won't some kind friend please say 10 Charles
Reade that Americans know some things? He
says american publishers keep copying ma
chimes, and the rejected manuscript often bears
the marks Of the machine; and the subject
matter is, in due course, practically used" A
bigger SANDER on American publishers was
never perpetrated.
Mrs. Simpson, the wife of a cashier at Brad
ford, in Yorkshire, has been sentenced by the
Borough Magistrates to a months imprison-
ment for cruelty to her step children. On one
occasion one of the children, girl nine or ten
years of age, being afraid to go home, had gone
to the cemetery and slept on her mothers
grave.
The Earl of Dunmores shorthorns were sold
by auction recently at Dunmore Park, Eng.
The highest price realized for one animal was
1890 guineas. The total proceeds of the sale of
thirty-nine animals were 16, 465 guineas for fe-
males and $50 guineas for males Buyers
were present from the United States, Canada
and Australia.