The Portland daily press., 1875-07-15
News and Other Items.


the distrbutiouof the leading staples to the
interior trade hs. Neuuu esrlAss SAa.s. M
Gus seasoOs.
About 80 religious exiles from Germany ar
rived at New York last week; II are priests, 60
Students of theology, and Is nuns. They were
received by large number of Germans, and
go West in few days to seek their fortune.
Paul Boynton began life-ssving in the surf
ten years ago, and since that time has rescued
no less than 81 persons. He has been known
when swimming to remain in the water eight
hours without support.
Robert Dale Owen was removed Saturday to
different asylum in Indiana. He imagines he
is enormously rich and talks of endowing col
leges right and left, and also thinks he can
move through space without any regard of
time.
Gen. Garfield is reported seriously i'll at
Washington, where he went some three weeks
ago Immediately after his return from Califor-
mia. During the period named he has been
unable to leave his bed for more than few
minutes at time, but is slowly convalescing.
At the New Hampshire and New England
fair at Manchester in September there will be
an exhibition of dogs, including all the i'm
proved varieties, for which several hundred
dollars in premiums are offered. There are
dogs in New Hampshire valued at $500, one of
which is mortgaged for $3.50.
The Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette states that q
party have bought near the Ossipee Mountains
in New Hampshire, seven miles of land by
some two miles in width, for the purpose of
mining for coal. The land has been examined
by ar expert in coal mining, who pronounces
all the indications similar to the coal mines of
Pennsylvania. Operations will be commenced
at once.
1t is said that Mime. MacMahon, who is a
high ultramontane, wished very much to at
tend the late Roman Catholic ceremony at
Montmartre, where the government was en-
tirely unrepresented. But the wish was over
ruled by her husband, the ministry also threat
ening to make cabinet question of it. To
console her religious disappointment, the lady
started on trip to Paray Ie Monisl.
The Baptists of Boston are to hold camp
meetings and have leased two acres at High
land Grove for ninety-nine years. The erection
of seats to accommodate two thousand
persons has already been commenced.
The meeting is to be under the supervision of
Rev. DIR. Lorimer of Boston, who went to the
NiACya Ou iucouoJ " ouPOiiheOhu PAcPoAa-
tions, and he is expected to hold services on
Sunday next.
The English Committee on a Byron memo-
rial, headed by Mr.. Dsraeli, has decided to
place marble slab in place of tie present tab
let over the poets grave in the little church at
Hucknell Torard. The Greek government is to
be asked to furnish block of Prntelic marble
for the slab. There is also talk of doing the
memory of Byron the long delayed Justice of
erecting a statue of him in some public place
in London.
Baltimore physicians say there hasn't been
SO much sickness among children in that city
for thirty years as there is this season. the most
prevalent diseases being cholera infantum and
dysentery, from the former of which 9S chill
dren under two years of age died last week-in
nine cases out of ten the children of poor par
ents and mainly colored who neglect to call
physician till it is too late. Too much green
fruit and vegetables and over-drinking of ice
water are the trouble.
Gen. Sherman, alluding to the late General
Blair on Friday last, said that he had always
| regarded him as one of the truest patriots, most
honest and honorable men and most courageous
| soldiers this country ever produced. He added:
| ''To his boldness, promptitude aud firmness
more than anything else the country is indebt-
ed for the preservation of St. Louis as strateg-
ic point, and for the salvation Of Missouri from
| secession. His virtues will live forever, be-
cause they reflected good upon others, while
| his faults will be buried with him because they
harmed no one but himself
The latest estimate of the Columbian earth
quake is $4,000 lives and S10,000,000, the de-
struction of the city of Cucuta alone being
reckoned at $7,0OO,OOO. All the better and
more substantially built houses were of course
most destructive in their fall, so that the veal
thy class were the especial victims of the dis
aster, affordiug tempting booty to the criminal
classes, freed from all restraint. The Chicago
! Tribune foots up the destruction of human lif
| by famines, earthquakes, floods and other dis
asters as smountirg to 96,500 already within
the present year.