The Portland daily press., 1875-08-26
News and Other Items.

Ned O'Baldwin is very sick in New York.
Robert HI. johnson, a small cotton dealer, in
New York, has failed.
Carl Schurz is in Switzerland, and SO is
Grace Greenwood.
The Empress of Austria is called the fairest
of royal ladies.
William A Perry, clothier of Newark, has
failed. Liabilities $4,000.
The Pennsylvania Central conductors wear
pocketless uniform, and now when they are in
suited they have to fight-for they can't pocket
it.
The humorous Sun declares that Eli Perkins
is an American huporist; while the humorous
Baltimore Gazette pronounces him a barnacle,
a bane and a sponge.
Messrs Dunham, clothiers of New York,
who failed last week, have made an assignment
to Mr. Quigley for their creditors. Liabilities
over $4,000.
Mr. Barnum's agents are looking about in
New York for site upon which to build an
other ppodrome, one smaller scale than on
Fourth avenue. A portion of the company 90
to Europe in November
A Pensacola letter of the 21st instant states
| that JEFF Brown aid Morris Morse were taken
out of Jail by hundred men, carried to q vacant
lot, hanged on two trees and riddled with bull
let's. They had outraged a woman
Mr.. Gladstone, thanking German author
for the dedication of his work, writes as fol-
lows: Germany now holds the first place on
behalf of the world in asserting the necessity
oi limiting spiritual powers to spiritual
things"
The Grass Valley Union wishes the question
decided whether the noun politics is singular or
| plural? Without claiming to decide the gra-
matical question we assert that politics is very
singular this season. .-Marysvile Appeal.
Hon. Daniel Blaisdell died his residence in
Hanover Thursday evening. He was promi.
| nent lawyer, for many years treasurer of Dart
| mouth collegs and president of the Dartmouth
National bane, holding both these positions at
| the time of his death.
By collision on Ocean Avenue, Newport,
| Thursday afternoon the wife of DR.. Gautier Of
New York was thrown out and had her thigh
fractured. She is said to be in critical con-
dition. Her coachman had his shoulder
broken.
Horror piles itself up in the Chicago Tri
| bune head lines in this form: "The Sheeted
Ku-Kux Sqeuak and Gibber on their Roaming
| Steeds-Brave Men Willing to Grapple with
| the Hydra and Chimera." "Hyera and Chi
| mera' is good"
During the performance of Barnum's hippo
drome at Msline, Ill, the otaer day, one man
fell while riding, and was crushed so that he
| died in few hours. Another performar was
| on the same day so severely injured that it Is
thought he cannot survive.
The roughs who endeavored to break open
small hotel at ROckawsy Sunday night, were
fred on, and one is believed to have been fatally
wounded. The same gaLg attempted to rob
two gentlemen, but the latter, though fred at
and beaten with slung shots. drove off the
roughs. The police of the town dare not arrest
any roughs as they threaten to kill the officers
"I've been through that wicket, Charley"
II don't think you have, sweetmeats." "In.
deed, have" "No; you havn't." 81 did"
lyon didn't" and then a mailet sails over the
| fence, AID pull-back twitches furiously over
the green-sward aud disappears into the house.
and everything is as quiet without as though
| peace was the sovereign power on earth.
| A well known alderman gave display OF
his great literary ability at the Mansion House
bauquet. He was asked by lady the mean
| ing of the initials S. p @ r. on the standards
borne by the soldiers in one of the pictures on
the wall. His auswer;-'I believe they stand
for Small Profits and Quick Returns" What
wonld the "Seuatus Populusque Romans have
thought of such barbaric intelligence?
A notable person has just arrived at Pars
His style and title is Duke of Marmaade. He
is friend of the semi-barbarous potentate
| Souloque, who was born slave in 1889, helped
to expe the French from Hayt in 1903, rose
through grades of the local army, till in
| 1919 he declared himself Emperor; and, after
displaying gross incspacity aud misconduct,
was driven from Hayti 10 1859, and took refuge
in the country of his old foes-France The
of Marmalade is, ike his late sovereign. a ne
| gro, and is very tall and stout. He is % years
4 old, and, having ,scraped together considera-
BILE fortune, has gone to Paris to spend it. his
names strikes one as rather comcial; but the
| New York Herald remarks that the Duke OF
Marmalade is not more outre than King Coffee.