The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-10
News and Other Items.

News and Other Items.
Ignatius Donnelly has adjourned his couven-
ton in Minnesota to Sept. %.
Mr.. G. G. Fulton, of the Baltimore Ameri-
can, is named as the Republican or proposed
fusion candidate for Governor in Maryland.
The most active line of business in parts of
New England now is the sale of door bolts and
revolvers made lively by the operations of
tramps.
Mme Nilsson has been compelled to decline
the liberal offer of 100000 for one hundred
nights, made her by Mr.. Strakosh of New
York, on account of indispositlon. She is now
in Paris.
Minnesota will have this year the best and
largest crop of potatoes for many years. The
crop of Western New York, Notwithstanding
the ravages of the beetle, will be fully up to
the average.
There seems to be no lack of local interest in
the Ohio campaign The Cincinnati Gazette
received recently an order for 100000 suple-
ments, containing the speeches of General
Hayes and Senator Sherman, delivered in Ma
rion, o.
4u6 NdsQtllic oahuOh soy ooAoootiCoiy tudt
in some parts of Tennessee the scarcity of mon
ey has driven the people to the use of yellow
legged chickens, wheat, and even bar and pig
iron for circulating medium.
The Thompson gun recently completed at
the South Boston Iron Company's works, i
one of the largest ever built in the world. It's
weight is S2,2S0 pounds, while the famous
Krupp Gun exhibited at Vienna only weighed
$4,000 pounds.
Says the Hartford Times: The real extents
of the drouth in this part of the country is not
probably even yet fully appreciated by the pub
lie. The truth is, there has been most of the
time scan supply Of rain hereabouts ever
since the October rain floods of 1869.
Miss Charlotte Cushman celebrated the 59th
anniversary of her birthday on the 23d ult., by
giving party at her residence at Newport R.
1. The famous actress is suffering from dis
ease, which promises to prevent her re-appear-
ance before the public
An English swimmer, who is appropriately
named Matthew Webb, will make an attempt
about the middle of the present month to
swim across the channel from Dover to Calais;
and while in practice recently he swan eigh.
teen miles without being greatly inconven-
fenced.
A remarkable dandy has just died in San
Francisco. His name was A. J. Stevenson.
Although very old he used dyes and cosmetics
80 deity that he looked to be only middle aged.
He was wealthy and a bachelor, and his aim
in life seemed to be to wear the best clothes
tina: could be bought.
An apparatus has recently been devised in
France by which plates of glass may be safely
and rapidly pierced by means of the electric
spark. By the aid of this machine NM. Ter
QUEEN and Taurien were enabled to pierce half
inch plate glass at points near to one another
without cracking.
There would appear to be no immediate
probability of decrease of the Chinese popu.
lation of California, since the Mongolians con-
tinue to arrive at San Francisco at the rate of
$500 month, lured by the prospect of "Meli-
can" money, and not deferred by the social at
mosphere of California
The whole lumber of locomoti yes in the
world is estimated at fifty thousand, of which
nearly fifteen thousand are in the United States
and nearly eleven thousand in Great Britain.
The aggregate horse power is estimated at ten
millions, and all the engines in use, locomo-
tive, marine and stationary, are supposed to
foot up to thirteen millions horse power.
Since Jefferson Davis declined the presiden-
cy of the Texas college he has been invited to
become Chancellor of, the Georgia University;
and the Wilmington Star suggests that he be
rendered the presidency of the University OF
North Carolina, saying ''that he is, perhaps,
the one man who can give the University at
the start guaranteed career of brilliant sue.
cess GU basis of prosperity"
A petrified head of an Indian was recently
discovered by an Indiana young lady. 1t
weighs 8 pounds measures inches from the
tip of the nose to the base of the skull, Gil
inches from the jaw to the top Of the skull and
q inches from the mouth to the eye. One-half
of the face looks very natural, but the other
has apparently been injured while turning to
It's present state of petrifaction.
Mr.. Laughlin Freeman, Waterford, Ire
land, merchant and shipowner,, who, before
sending to sea brigantine so rotten that the
decayed parts could be taken out in handfulls,
wrote to the Cardiff insurance firm, II would
be inclined to renew the former insurance at
eight guineas if thought there would be no
danger of Plimsoll. This between ourselves,
private" has been sentenced to pay fine of
$500 and be imprisoned three months.
The Rev. Father Remy, missionary, has
just arrived in England from Thibet. The Pail
Mall Gazette says that be made number of
conversions there under rather peculiar circum-
stances He was condemned to be quartered,
and his legs and arms were attached to four
horses. But either the abbe's limbs were un.
commonly strong or else the horses were I'M
commonly weak, for he resisted all their eff
forts Struck with admiration for his heroic
conduct, his prosecutors embraced the martyr
and his religion, certainly a signal triumph for
muscular Christianity.
The Salt Lake Tribune has recently come
into possession of some interesting old manu-
script documents left by DR.. Isaac Galland, who
died several years ago in Iowa. He originally
owned the land, on which Nauvoo was built.
and, sharing the belief of the late General
Robert E. Lee. that the greatest inland city of
America, would be situated at or near the
rapids of the Mississippi, he procured the set
Element of Joseph Smiths body of Mormons
on part of his land. To further his ends he
Joined the Mormon church; but he was never
destined to see his dream realized, and he died
very poor. The posthumous documents in the
hands of the Tribune are full of arguments in
favor of the authenticity of the Book of Nor.
mon, and curious speculations into the mean
ing of Greek and Hebrew names found there
in.
MINOR TELEGRAMs.
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