The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
News and Other Items,

The libel suit of Edna Dean Proctor against
the Daily Graphic has been discontinued by
negotiation.
Assistant Pastor Halliday. who owns farm
out on Long Island, has had bad luck with his
hogs, the cholera having got among them and
carried off 10 of the 49,
Each house in London is supplied with a
tank of regulated size, and each morning
man comes along and turns on the water from
the street main until this tank has time to fill,
and then turns it off again until the next day
Mrs. Tilton's brother, Joseph 81. Richards,
formerly publisher of the Independent and Ma
ton, is going to start new mouthly about the
size and shape of the Nation, to be called the
American Age, with the bible and school ques-
ions for prominent features
Mr.. james T. Fields visited Pomeroy the
by murderer, in his Jail recently, and learned
from him that he had been a great reader of
Observation-Disclosures stories. He had read sixty
dime novels, all about scalping and other
bloody performances, and he had no doubt
these books had put the horrible thoughts into
mind which led to his murderous acts.
The inhabitants of Vera Cruz, Mexico, were
attacked few days ago by a cough, which
proved to be contagious, and even extended to
animals. About the same time thousands of
dead fish were thrown on the beach by the
waves. The two facts are supposed to have
som connection, as both have occurred togeth-
er on several former occasions No serious
nsequences have resulted.
Three car loads of slk-worm eggs, valued at
S6,O0O,0OO, arrived in New York Wednesday, in
six days from San Francisco, and only 80 days
from Hong Kong, and are being shipped to
Europe by steamer This is the quickest time
ever made by freight from San Francisco, the
consignment arriving in advance of the way
bills or bills of lading. The eggs are all in per-
feet order, and have every prospect of arriving
a. their destination in safety.
Washington society is absorbed by the high
rank and scenic display of the Russian Minis
l ters establishment. The Minister and his
wife 60 about on visits of ceremony accompa-
MED by chasseur who wears a sword and q
| cap with long dropping white feather. This
| chasseur sits oo the box of the carriage along
side the coachman. and dsmounts when the
carriage stops, and with drawn sword uplifted
assists Her Royal Highness and His Royal
Highness to alight, and conducts them to the
| House, and then stands military fashion until
they appear.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has lately re-
yersed decree of the lower court giving one
Mckinley $4,000 for expulsion from 'sladies'
car on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad,
the higher court holding that, in an action
against corporation for the wilful acts of a
servant done in the course of its employment
aad in the discharge of his duty, the corpora
ton is liable for only the actual damage to the
injured party. That for all exemplary damages
growing out of such wilful assault the servant
alone is liable.
The huge land grant swindle in connection
with the Mexican grants of the Central Pacific
road recently brought to the surface and mpli-
eating it is alleged, a late prominent senator
of the Northwest, and late high official in the
land office, is not the only fraud of the kind
working on the Pacific coast. 1t is also Just
developed that an equally gigantic swindle is
being perpetrsted in connection with the loca.
ton of the soldiers lien scrip upon the public
land by which soldiers who served 80 days or
over in the recent war aud were honorably dis
charged were entitled personally to locate
homesteads. Scrip has been located In nearly
all the land districts of the state, and to the
amount of over 100000 acres, nearly or quite
all of which. it is stated excellent authority,
is forged. Investigations are about to be inau-
gurated by the Legislature, and it is intimated
will implicate prominent politicians, both in
| California and Washington.