The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-07-19
News and Other Items.

news ana Other Items.
Theodore Tilton has been engaged TO lecture,
next winter, at st. Paul and Minneapolis,
Warren, Pa, has baby four months old that
weighs 121 pounds.
Considerable excitement exists in MICHIGAN
on account of the discovery of gold in Grand
Rapids township.
There were two deaths from yellow fever at
Key West, Saturday, but no new cases were
| reported. -r,
The Sultan of Zanzibar declines to be recon-
ciled to his sister, after she had gone all the
way to London to meet him-all because of her
mesalliance with German clerk.
Since the 20 per cent. reduction in the price
of labor was announced about 200 Frenchmen
have left Ottawa Most of them went to
Michigan,
Advices from the lumber limits on the NADIA
waska River, Canada, state that millions of
feet of lumber have been destroyed by forest
| fires.
Queen Victoria has placed at the disposal Of
| Mrs. Kingsley, widow of the late Canon Kings
| ley, the first suite of apartments that may be-
come vacant in Hampton Court palace.
And now Beecher is engaged for a dozen lec-
lures, in places west of Mississippi, between
st. Louis and st. Paul, at the pleasing figure of
$500 lecture and expenses paid
The Roman Catholic clergy Of Lawrence.
Mass. have issued a card condemning the riot
| of Monday, and expressing the hope that the
| ringleaders may be made to feel the enormity
| of their crime.
More witnesses are being subpenaed in the
Mountain Meadow massacre case. 1t is thought
Lee will not tell the whole truth. If his state
ment is not accepted he will be put upon trial
| Monday.
Waddy Thompson, who has figured 80 sx-
tensvely in several habeas corpus cases, ar
rived at Memphis, Saturday afternoon, in
charge of Sheriff Anderson. He will be
brought before the Criminal Court for trial ON
Monday. c--s.... .t ----..----
A well armed and equipped body of Uncapa.
| pa Sioux is on the war path in the Black Hills
with determination to clear tho country.
They had two encounters with the white min
ers, and killed seven in one party and three In
another.
1t is stated that ex-senator Carpenter has
been retained by the Municipality Of New
York to prosecute William M. Tweed in tho
civil suit for S6,O00,0O0 damages, which will
probably be tried in the latter part of the pres
ent month.
Dean Stanley, at a recent newspaper press
dinner in London, told how st. Jerome never
went to public meeting or into pulpit with
out having ten reporters in his suite, and that
1t was even said that st. Augustine always had
sixteen with him.
Ostrom, the stroke of the victorious Cornell,
is carpenter by trade, and has supported
himself at the college by working, at times, at
the bench, helping about the farm, and taking
care of one of the buildings He is fine.
plucky fellow.
The Oldest living college graduate in this
country is Judge Elbert Herring of New York,
who celebrated his ninety-ninth birthday on
the Sth inst. He graduated at Princeton In
1875, two years before the venerable Horace
Binney of Philadelphia, now past ninety-five,
took his degree at Harvard.
number of wealthy women of New York
propose to raise $25,00O for q colossal bust of
Washington Irving, for the Central park. 1t
will be placed upon handsome granite pe-
destal, with four bronze figures in inches,
among them Rip Van Wrinkle and an old
Knickerbocker.
A Jersey City beggar, who has been playing
the role of deaf mute for the last six months,
was taken to q hospital in fit, the other day,
but was brought to his senses by bucket Of
cold water, whereupon the dumb man amazed
the attendants by sitting up and cursing them
roundy.
The cheers of the college boys at Saratoga
were unique and varied. The "'Rah, 'rah,
rah' of the Harvards is familiar enough, but
there was some novelty in the "Hooray! hoo
ray! hooray! hi-hi hi hi-hiv' of Princeton the
"C-o-l-u-m-b-i-A" of Columbia, and the "Caw-
-caw-caw-caw-coRNELLr' with which Yale
saluted the victorious crew.
The Wade Hampton Legion of ex-Confeder-
ates are to have reunion at Charleston, s. c.
on the 2lst inst, the anniversary of the frs
battle of Bull Run. Gen. Hampton will
preside, and Gen. T. NJ. Logan will deliver an
Grafton. The purpose OF tho gathering Is said
to be to collect the necessary records for com.
plete history of the Legion, and to raise funds
tor monument to its dead.
Jeanne Deveze, a French servant girl, while
In condition of religious hallucination, recent
ly, threw herself on her masters furnace, and
was roasted to death. She desired, as she
oftentimes said, to initiate the legend of Saint,
Colombo, who threw herself on furnace when
in the act of making bread, and whose soul
evolved in the form Of dove and alighted on
the spire of church at Rome. The sad affair
took place in village near the Baguieres.
Baltimore is excited over the marrisge in
that city of scion of English nobility to a
colored woman. The Baltimore papers set the
bridegroom down as direct descendant of the
Plantaganet family Of England, and say that,
few years ago, when public indignation was at
its height against the Prince of Wales, he
would, had the indignation assumed a more
tangible form, have been In the direct line for
| ascending to the British throne.
Mr.. Thuck Parmly, father of George d.
Parmy, who rowed No. in the Princeton
University crew, says his son did not have any
| epieptic fit during the race at Saratoga. He
| tainted from exhaustion, caused by the intense
| pain of felon on his finger and consequent
| loss of sleep. The nervous twtchings which
| he exhibited at first led to the belief that the
seizure was epileptic in character, but DIR. Ag-
new, DR.. Ely and DIR. Willard Parker have
decided that no symptoms of epilepsy we're
manifested.
Newport, R. l., has grievance. A well-to-
do resident requests the yachtmen not to fire
salutes when they enter or leave the harbor. be-
cause member of his family has the Mysteries.
The yachtmen don't like this, and so just run
in, fill up their lockers and sail away. The
stable keepers and other people lose their
patronage, aud hence there is general growl.
One person claims to be out Of pocket over one
thousand dollars by the course of a citizen who
is represented to be amply able to remove the
invalid member of his family beyond the sound
of cannon.