The Portland daily press., 1875-08-13
News and Other Items,

NEWS anu Vtuer 1tcmSs
A monomaniac in Michigan has fallen in love
with the Queen Of England. 3ah1
The President has signed the commission of
Adam Badeau, Minister to Brussels. sD."- T
Mr.. Devlin of Montreal, has apologized to
Judge Mckay and been released 'g
Queen Isabella is said to!contemplate recon
Citation with Don Carlos who has offered her
villa at Tarnz and free circulation within his
domin ions. '-i'i' '.a
The 115O Mormon recruits lately passing
through Chicago are described as ''dirty, rag
ged. and mostly middle-aged men and homely
women" ''''.'F' -" ~ 'f-
The Princess Louise, wife of the Marquis Of
Lorne, is executing bust of her sister-in.law,
the Countess Of Percy, to be placed in AIN
wick Castle, Northumberland. hi
Mr.. Franklin Sim mons, the sculptor is to
receive $15 900 from the city of Providence for
the bronze figures Of the proposed Roger VIII
liams monument in that city. .iii.i .a'
Mention is made of a young clergyman at the
West who was easily flustered, and being so on
one occasion he preached from the text: sand
Immediately the cock wept, and Peter went
ont and crew bitterly" T.,
Gen. Tom Thumb is making trip along the
New England coast in handsome yacht which
he owns He landed at New Bedford last Sun
day and attracted considerable attention in the
streets. E.tg
Efforts have again been made to induce Mr..
John Bright to come to this country and lee
ture. He was offered blank check to fill up
any sum he pleased, if he would come, but he
declined. a..
The Salt Lake City Tribune in very bitter
article foreshadowing the disagreement of the
jury in the Mountain Meadow massacre case,
calls on the general government to try Brigham
Young, Smith and Lee before a commission of
justices. .esr. ,........,...-... ..-.- az
The Philadelphia Telegraph published an
/. open letter from Mr.. Welsh to President Grant
on what he terms the libellous attack Of Score.
tary Delano on Walker, the clerk of the board
of the Indian Commission. He thinks the Ii
bel was the work of Assistant Cowen. .v
In a store window at Oswego there has just
been placed on exhibition musket of the
Queen Anne pattern which was captured by
. Aaron Burr while serving under Benedict Ar
mold at the attempted storming of Quebec on
the night of December 31st, 1876. The gun
weighs % pounds.
4 Two meetings of the executive committee of
the Western Union Telegraph was held Tues
day. 1t is believed that the negotiations for
consolidation with the Atlantic & Prciic Co.
were considered, but President Orion says, 81
- am not prepared just now to make any state
ment in regard to the matter
In the garden of the late Andrew Johnson's
residence is magnificent willow, grown from
twig taken from the willow which bends over
the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte on st. Hele-
ma, and sent to the ex-President. A twig from
this noted tree will be planted over Mr.. john
sons grave on Johnson's Hill.
Speaking of Gen. G. A. Evans, who was
/. lately relieved of a number of pins which had
been knocked into him by minnie ball during
/, the war, the Chronicle and Sentinel of Column
bia, 8. G. adds: SIT a credit to him to say
that he made his famous memorial address,
which breathed love and forgiveness, while
those hostile pins were in his body. man
that can forgive his enemy with handful of
pins working about his body is Christian
VIM. Woodward, an aged citizen of Middle
town, Conn, recalls the fact that the late Sena-
tor johnson worked for him as journeyman
tailor at Petersbugh, Va, about forty years
ago. Mr.. Woodward describes the ex-Presdent
who had just finished his apprenticeship, as
very popular among his comrades by whom he
was called "Little Andy" and corroborates his
reported habit of keeping book by his side
while at work that he might learn to read.
ia The next Congress has more than the usual
number of new men. There are only four
members who have served in seven Congresses,
or14 years, and only4 who have served in
2 Congresses, or 10 years. In the former cate
CORY we count Gen. Banks, who resigned from
% the 18th Congress after one months service.
: Here Is the list: Fourteen years.. y. Cox,
w. ). Holman, w. d. Kelley, N. z. Banks.
Twelve years-Fernando Wood, s. j. Randall,
j. A. Garfield, J. G. Blaine Cox, Kelley and
Holman served during the war. Cox entered
one Congress before Holman. and two Con-
crosses before Kelley. Wood, Garfield and
Randall entered in the last session OF the war
the 38th Congress, although Mr.. Wood had
/. been member in 1S41, of the 9th Congress.
Only one member antedates him, Mr. William
2 Pitt Lynde of Wisconsin, who entered Congress
in 1870. Gen. Banks entered in 1852. Mr..
+ Kerr of Indiana, entered the next Congress
after the war, the 39th. and served eight years.
Mr.. Kelley as the longest in continuous ser
vice, therefore Is father of the house. Cox and
Holman each had a hiatus in their service Of
fourteen years, and therefore Kelley outranks
them.