The Portland daily press., 1875-01-11
News and Other items.

A. T. Stewart g. Co. have headed the New
York subscription to the centennial with the
sum of $4,000.
The Republican caucus in the Legislature of
Nevada have nominated Sharon for United
States Senator unanimously. Forty-six votes
are pledged; thirty-eight are necessary to elect.
On the night of the Both ult., single train
took $500, 900 in silver bars from Virginia City
to Reno, Nevada. The bullion weighed nearly
ten tons and is said to be the largest shipment
ever made from Virginia City.
Senator Chandler of Michigan, is now sure
of reelection, as the Republican Legis-
lative caucus Thursday night renominated
him by vote of 80 to 5. The election takes
place the 10Th. ...
One of the panel in the Beecher-Tilton trial
stated that he didn't know any more about the
case than child unborn. He only read the
headings of articles. Another said he talked
the case over with his father-in-law in order to
get the old gentleman excited
Mayor Coluin of Chicago is decidedly in
favor of the can-can. He states that it is a
legitimate amusement of the public, with
which the authorities have no right to inter
fere 1t is really too bad that Chicago cannot
boast of perpetuity of waiter girls as well as
can can girls. o@
A statement of the affairs of the insolvent
firm of Henry Clews & Co., of New York,
shows liabilities to the amount of $4,971 ,297. 25,
and assets of the nominal value of S4, SIS, 031,
IS. A large part of the assets, however, are in
the stocks and bonds of southern railroads of
questionable value.
The first sale of the surplus stock of rice
bought by the British government for the suf
ferers by the famine in India, was recently held
in Bombay About 12,SOO,0O0 pounds were
sold at a loss to the government OF over 80 per
cent. The price realized was about $40 per
ton. About g, 900 tons remained . be dis
posed of.
President Gilman of the California Unver-
sity, will, during his visit to the East, Wy to in
duce Congress to appropriate the japanese in
dempity fund to the establishment of al ORR
entail college in connection with his university.
He has been offered the presidency of the
John Hopkins University, Baltimore, but holds
the matter under advisement.
The finance bill has not yet been signed By
the President. Several prominent bankers il
New York and Philadelphia have written t.
their friends in Congress requesting them tt
call upon the President and urge him to vet'
the measure. While it does not contain al
that the President desires, lie heartily approves
of nearly every provision in the bill, anu vii
stand by Secretary Bristow in his efforts te
carry 1t out.
The sum obtained from the sale of Plymouth
pews is three tines the amount the house cos
originally. The round sum is the interest on a
million. The great rise over last year love
$12O05) greatly distresses people of the hum
bier class. The leading men started off il
their bids 5000 over last year. The increase
ran all along the line The rule is tbass en- IN
man bids off pew, adds the gEseramo among tbe
rent and then averages adb ia Thursday nights
sltters. On "e Hanf Of humber worshipe,s ask
the cnurc ldl, for low priced seats. "We have
ings This year," was the constant reply As
men have less money than usual, the thing
chafes.
The intercollegiate literary contest in New
York, Thursday, was participated in by Will
liams, Lafayette aud Princeton colleges aud
the universities of New York and Cornell only,
but the exercises were quite interesting There
was large audience present, and the prizes
were delivered by the venerable William Cullen
Bryant. The prizes in oratory were won by
John C. Tomlinson of the University of New
YORK and Walter D. Edmunds Of Villa ms.
The prize essayists were Allen Marquand of
Princeton and George H. Fitch of Cornell.
The judges of oratory were Bryant, Reid of the
Tribune, George William Curtis; of the essay
lists, Col. T. w. Higginson, James I. Fields
and Richaid Grant White