The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-06
Ne WS and Other Items.

Married women are not permitted to teach
school in Buffalo.
Another Polish count has left little bill
unpaid at Cape May.
GrasshopperS have invaded central Illinois,
but have done no damage as yet.
DIR. Helmbold has been released from the in
sane asylum at Philadelphia.
The composltors on the Cleveland Leader
have struck. owing to reduction in their
wages.
The Mercantile Bank of Norfolk, Va, has
suspended. 1t is claimed the assets will cover
the liabilities
An incurable disease, of a contagious ma
ture, is carrying off many fine horses in Kan
sas.
Senator Jones' income from single source,
his Kentville mine, last month, is said to have
been S165,OO0 Pin money, about enough for
Mrs Jones the rest of the year.
1t is reported in Madrid that General Cam
pos is asking the generals commanding the
Army of the North to join him in a pronuncia-
mento restoring ex-Queen Isabella to the
throne.
Gardiner and Gennett's party of Hsyden's
expedition was attacked by band of Sierra
Lasol Utes on the 18th of August and lost all
their baggage. No member of the party was
injured.
Victor Hugo. replying to an invitation to
visit Philadelphia during the Centenary festi-
val, states that he is uncertain whether he will
be able to avail himself of the invitation. II,
however, his engagements permit, he will visit
Philadelphia during the Exposition.
1t is said that evidence is daily growing
stronger that England is determined to make
the Margery murder pretext for seizing and
annexing Burmah. Large bodies of British
Indian troops are concentrating on the from.
tier.
A number of American-built cars now being
shipped for Russia are for the st. Petersburg
Tramway Company and are sent on trial. This
company is also making trial of cars manufac.
tured in England and Belgium. The final con.
tract will be for about 500 cars.
The Memphis Appeal says that the ''one
great question which above all others will sgi-
tate the people of Tennessee next year will be
the dog law. TIE funding bill, state credit
the senatorial contest and the election of door.
keepers will be mere side issues, not engaging
the great minds of crossroads politicians"
Rapid progress is making in the centennial
buildings in Philadelphia. The framework Of
the structure is up. and the main building
(the Memorial Hall) and the machinery de.
partments are enclosed. From Georges Hill
in Fairmount Park the visitor can obtain q
bird's'eye view of the entire grounds and Judge
at glance of the magnitude of the undertsk.
ing.
GIibord, the attempt to bury whose remains
in consecrated ground, is creating so much dis
turbance, died six years ago. He was Catho-
lie but member of the Canadian Institute,
society which had been placed under the ban
by che bishop. AT his death the priest, Rous-
selot, refused to bury him in consecrated
ground, when the widow applied to the courts,
and after several years of litigation the Privy
Council issued peremptory order to bury the
remains in the consecrated ground. Whether
the order can be enforced or not remains to be
seen.
A remarkably intelligent and energetic fam
lily, of the name of Tupper, has its homo as
Des Moines, Iowa. The mother, Mrs. Helen
S. Upper, is the author of a work of recognize
ed authority on bee culture, and her sister is an
eloquent preacher. Her daughter, Catharine.
Is studying medicine, having taken full
course at an Agricultural College, where she
supported herself by her own work, and anoth-
'er daughter, Madge, who is but sixteen years
old, is famous poultry raiser and an ofdcsr1of
the State Poultry Association, and has made
money enough in her occupation to defraY her
expenses through full collegiate course.