The Portland daily press., 1875-09-14
News and Other Items.

damages from the owner OF dog which had
destroyed flock of valuable sheep.
The tobacco crop in Tennessee is very prom
ising, the acreage being largely above an aver
age.
Two things in this world that should not be
trifed with-a woman's opinion and the busi-
ness end of wasp.
A twelve-year old boy in a wild state and
unable to talk was recently captured by some
hunters in northern Texas.
Italy has taken the gymnastic fever. and
athletic sports are rapidly growing in popular
favor.
A Niagara Falls paper wants to swamp the
government by getting 1t to buy the falls for a
park.
A thousand flashes of lightning were count
ed in one hour during the great storm at Gene
va, Switzerland on the 7th of July.
Gov. Leslie of Kentucky, is reported to have
given the title of Colonel and position on his
staff, to his nephew, aged six months.
The insurgents in Herzegovina are said to be
animated by on old prophesy that rising at
this time would secure to them their freedom.
A California gentleman has deposited a 800
gold note in bank in San Diego, and an
nounces that it shall be the property Of any
| spiritualist who can tell him the number of 1t.
Peter Cooper designed the first locomotive
| that was ever turned out on this continent, and
was the first to roll wrought iron beams for
| fra proof buildings.
The Lynchburg Virginian expresses the opin-
ion that 'the better class of the people of Bos-
| ton, Mass, are as courtly and elegant in de-
pertinent as any to be found in the world
A very capable lightning-slinger and goo
fellow generally" is the graceful compliment
paid telegraph operator by the Newburg
Journal.
When Canada girl loves, she loves like
hand-engine going to fire. In a breach of
promise suit the other day, it was shown that
young lady wrote to her lover eight times per
day.
The North Carolina law makers propose the
| re-estabhshment of the whipping post for the
relief of the penitentiary, which is now becem-
ing so full as to make its support great bur-
| den to the state.
M. Thiers's organ, the Bien Public, says to
the German Catholics who desire to make a
| pilgrimage to Lourdes: ain Heavens name,
pray as much as you like and how you like, but
| in the name of politics pray elsewhere than
l here"
Honesty is said to be''a peculiar trait of the
Servians. OF the eighty prisoners in the Jail
| at Belgrade there is not one who has been sem
fenced for theft. Nearly all are under sem
| tence for homicide, and the rest for other deeds
| of violence.
Cotton receipts at all United States porss for
the year ending August 31st amounted to g.
473,64 bales, and estimating overland and
Southern consumption at $4,000 bales, the to-
tai crop of 1874-75 may be set down as $685.
| 634 bales.
Indiana is not given to good reading il inter-
| nal evidence is worth anything A paper out
there says that a Lagrange man has Bible 226
l years old, and it is good for couple of hund-
i red years more wear-such as 1t Is likely to get
| in that locality.
One of the few Englishmen who have ever
betrayed any tendency to sociability was re-
Gently fined e1 Is for risking his life by scram-
bling along the foot board of railway train in
motion for the purpose of having chat with
1 an acquaintance in compartment near his
| own.
1t is alleged that Moulton refuses to allow
/ Mr.. Beecher's charge of slander to be mol
/ pros'd. Gen. Butler is made to say that when
men, to serve their own interests, take the risk
of getting client of mine indicted on false
charges, they must take the legal responsibility
of their action
| The poor sick children of New York city
Saturday enjoyed another excursion on the
river and bay, the expenses being paid by
members of the bar. Among those present
were Mrs. Julia ]. Hayes and H. ]. Jscquith,
/ Secretary of the Poor Children's Executive
/ Committee of Boston.
A Boston newspaper, which says it is
equipped in all its Department." whatever
| that may mean, recently gave report of Mr..
| Beecher's address. The speaker had occasion
/ to quote the expression, cit smells to heaven"
| The reporter. r.made it read, 'it smells to the
l oven."
Mayor Wickham of New York proposes q
still further reduction of the wages of the city
/ laborers to $1.25 per day, and the onward
| ness of Tammany Hall is profoundly stirred
| The thousand Italians who are entitled to vote
at the next election, are ready to work for that
| compensation.
1t is said by one Of the shrewdest and most
/ experienced of newspaper correspondents that
/ Mr.. A. T. Stewart has made more money this
/! season than was ever made by one establish
| ment at an American watering place. he will
| expend 100000 on the Grand Hotel before its
| reopenipg next year.
Wilmington, N, c., reports q sea serpent,
| ninety feet long and as big as barrel, in its
| vicinity. He ran on.one of the shoals and
i party Of brave men ran to attack him, but he
raised his head and!lopened his mouth wide
enough to swallow them one at a time, and
they retreated discreetly.
1t is reported by the Atlanta Herald that
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, the ex-Confederate
commander, has accepted the position Of Com
mander.in-Chief of the Egyptian army; that
he will receive bonus of one hundred thous-
and dollars and an annual salary of twenty-five
thousand dollars and that he now accepts the
| post after having repeatedly refused 1t.
Sir John Hawkshaw recently presented some
elaborate statistics in respect to railway acci-
dents, and stated that there is only one passen-
ger injured in every 4,O000 900 miles travelled, or
that, on an average, a person may travel
100000 miles each year for forty years, and the
chances were slightly in favor of his not re-
ceiving the least injury.
Pinchback, the quadroon Louisiana politician.
tells of Baltimorean,. mistaking him for a
4
lunsheon, offering to share his bunk in the
sleeping coach, and at the end of the journey
extending pressing invitation to spend few
Ssl q biz t rSsRfs 4SsSsd 9 81 esaas revealed 5s
mistake.
''The Dogs of St. Bernard is the title of a
new drama now running in Paris Turco, a
dog, is the star performer, Turc,'s chief feat
consists in ambling down not very steep
incline, holding in his mouth the sawdust-
stuffed effigy of an infant supposed to be res
cued from the snowy perils of Mount st
Bernard. This scene was but tolerably well
performed, for Turco manifested occasional
forgetfulness of his duties and now and then
shook and worried his charge as though it had
been rat.
The recent crash in San Francisco leads
correspondent to remark that the whole scale
of living there sis pitched too high, while that
/ of work is pitched too low There are too