The Portland daily press., 1875-10-09
News and Other Items.

The whole amount of the Peabody education
al fund available for appropriation for educa-
tional institutions is $500.
Bill King will probably escape trial on &C
count of law lapsing which was meant to car
nv his case over to another Congress.
An extraordinary check on breadstuffs pro-
ducton has developed itself in North Carolina,
at Newbern, where it is stated a number of the
wheat fields remained uureaped ON account of
rattlesIakes.
The people of Keokuk, Iowa, were badly sold
the other day by the report that Gen. Grant
was coming up the river. The whole town
rushed to the levee. The crowd was immense
Gen. Grant came, but he was on canvass and
in frame. Only picture
The Navy Department unoffioia.ly announces
that rot only has it received no inquiry from
the Institute Canadian relative to the most
efficient explosive for Guibord's grave, but that,
even if it had, no attention would have been
paid to the communication
In Springfield there is store that makes a
practice of having q sort Of bulletin hung out
with funny cartoon. On Monday there was
picture full length of Tlton, easily recognized
and over il, "This man had suit that cost him
$4,000, and lasted only six months. We will
sell one for ST. so that will last twelve months Z"
The Baptist Weekly han 1es DR.. Fulton with
out gloves. In an article entitled "Rufflianism
and Unveracity," it says the doctor is guilty of
unguarded and seurrious language; that his
reputation for veracity has suffered; that the
weekly paper he conducted was a vehicle of Vi
tuperation, etc.
There was d little quarrel in Mr. Holy's
family in New York, Tuesday, and Mrs. Holy,
to escape from her husband, plunged into the
cellar. Landing, she discovered three burglars
hidden there and came to the conclusion that
but for her husbands beating her she might
have been murdered.
Prof. James Law, of Cornell University, has
made application for the body of American
Girl, the noted trotter. in order that the skele-
ton may be placed In the museum of that in
tstitutiop, and preserved as a specimen of the
bony structure of typical American trotting
horse.
Cardinal Manning recently addressed meet
ing of Roman Catholics in London, held on the
site Of the new cathedral, which it is stated
will cost 81 $780, OO and be 100 years in build
ing. The Cardinal remarked that Noah was
100 years in building the ark, and that, he
thought, should prevent the founders and build
ers of the new cathedral from giving way to
dependency.
Some rogues cut the straps by which Fore
paugh's two largest elephants were tied at Ben
nington, the other night, and the beasts ate up
half an acre of potatoes and frightened a wo-
man half to death by rattling her window
blinds in the attempt to get some apples on the
window sill. 1t was SO dark she could not see
foot from the window, and when she opened
the window huge trunk was writhing about
after the apples. The poor woman fell over
backward, screaming, sob, what snakep'
DR.. Ellsworth, a we'll known surgeon of Hart
ford, Conn.,, has just treated remarkable case.
A patient was suffering from the Judgment of a
tough piece of meat at point in the 9sopha.
gus, where it made breathing very difficult and
seemed likely to produce dangerous infam-
nation. DR.. Ellsworth obtained from the
stomachs of several dogs supply of gastric
juice, with which he succeeded, in the course Of
day. in entirely dissolving the meat and re-
lieving the sufferer
A scene at Plymouth church, Brooklyn n, last
Sunday: Mr.. Beecher, calling attention to the
Plymouth organ concerts-"Pleasure is not ir-
religious. Good machinery is put together SO
that it will run smoothly and noiselessly. There
are people who believe that when God puts to-
gather Christian he ought to squeak at every
joint. The admission to these concerts is ten
cents, and -" mo, sir" Brother Horatio ..
King Interrupted; "15 cents, or ten tickets fol
Is" '"rhat amounts to the same thing" ans
wered Mr.. Beechrr. 'No, it n't,-youl
arithmetic is bad,' said Brother King