The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-13
News and Other Items.

Australia exported sis, 900 in gold last
year. m s.F s..
A terrible waterspout hurst over the city of
Santiago, Chill, on the 1st of March, causing
great damage
General Tracy isa creditor of the bankrupt
Brooklyn Union Association to the amount of
$4,000. I..
1t is reported that Schuyler Colfax's lectures
will have financial value to him of $4,000 this
season.
The Montana Herald says Senator Sharon
has yet two unmarried daughters. And he
gives his daughters s.. 100000 apiece when they
get married.
The monument which the Union Pacific
Railroad Company propose to erect to Oakes
Ames is to be in the form of an enduring arch
to span the road at Shearman, the summit Of
of the line. ..0.
The London Standard says it is to the credit
of American women that they do not attend
the Beecher trial. The Arcadian wishes that
somebody would kindly settle the sex of the
creatures who do attend in feminine attire.
A young lady hurriedly entered the post-office
the other morning, and breathlessly asked for
the letter she had dropped into the box half an
hour BEFORE The letter was written to her
dear friend Julia, describing the last socIable,
and she had for once forgotten to write In
haste on the corner Of the envelope.-Norris
toaoR Herald
According to the St. Louis Republican, Eli
Perkins was placed in horrible dilemma. A
highwayman gave him the alternative of hand
ing out his brains ar his money. And though
he hadn't a cent about him, Eli could not give
satisfaction.
Vast quantities of dead grasshoppers are
found on the masses of snow lying on the sides
of the Blue Mountains of Colorado, where bears
seek them for food. tits thought they become
chilled in attempting to fly over the range, and
falling upon the snow perish.
Doctor Hubbard of Bridgeport, the Repubi-
can nominee for Congress in the Fourth district
of Connecticut, was at the time of his nomina-
tion on Monday, in professional attendance
as a physician on the family of William HI.
Barnum, his competitor, at the home of the
latter at Salisbury, sixty miles distant from
Bridgeport.
The latest intelligence from the Rev. r. L.
Collier is to the effect that his health is far
more precarious than 1t was several months
ago He has been compelled to go to the South
of France on account thereof, and to quit all
ministerials work. His return to Chicago
which was anticipated this spring, it is feared is
postponed indefinitely.
One Sunday Mr.. Shearman called on Mr.
Beecher to talk over some points in the case
Mr.. b. declined to have anything to do with
the matter. 1t was Sunday. he said, and he
wanted to rest. The lawyer reminded him that
the case was coming on, and as defendant he
must attend to it. He also told him of the ''ox
aud the ass that was drawn out of the pit on
the Sabbath day, to which the Pastor OF Ely
mouth church, Struggling up bis shoulders
replied, ''Shearman, look at me- Did you
ever know a bigger ass fall into deeper pit!
Judge Treat in the U. S. district court at st
Ionis. has rendered a decision in the Buell.
case. He held that what is commonly known
as the Poland press-gag law does not apply to
the Buell. case, and that recourse must be had
in the law of 1889. OF the indictment under
which Buell. was arrested, the judge said that
the person framing it had evidently intended il
to cover the case, but in this failed, il being
clearly insufficient, and under it Buell. was
guilty of no offence under which the court
could take cognizance. An appeal is to be
taken, and it will come before the United
States Circuit Court during the March term.