The Portland daily press., 1875-07-03
News and Other Items.

Miss Charlotte Cushman is quite ill at her
residence in Newport.
The rock on which Boyton landed on the
English shore has been named after him.
About 100 tons of rock fell from under
meath the American Falls at Niagara on Mon
day.
A Western paper remarks that while Massa-
chusetts was celebrating Bunker Hill the Ohio
Democrats were nominating Hunker Bill.
The importation of fire crackers this year
will amount to 300, 900 boxes, an increase of
100000 boxes over last years importation.
A lady of New York has secured a patent
for new coal cart, which is provided with a
flexible spout to discharge its contents direct
ly into the coal-hole, and not upon the side
walk.
An excited mother threw her baby, three
months old, out of an upper story window at
Philadelphia the other day, the building having
taken fire, and somebody caught it on the fly
before it had received any injury.
The striking shovelers of Buffalo have met
with complete success in their movement, their
demand for an increase of wages having been
complied with. We believe this is the first
successful strike since the panic
A speaker az the Hampton (Va.) college an
niversary created considerable enthusiasm the
other day, by calling on the blacks to colonize
Africa, and to carry the Christianity of Amer
lea among the heather black races of Africa.
A member of the Italian Parliament declares
that some of the communes in Sicily subsidize
the brigands in order to secure immunity from
their depredations The crime of brigandage,
which has its in the social life of the peo
pie, is one of the most difficult things the Ital-
ian government has to deal with.
Mr.. James Shay of Philadelphia was a poor
engineer in Michigan few days ago, and now
he is millionaire. His father, who was kill
ed in the war, LETT very valuable property,
which was at once tied up in litigation. The
son, with the pluck that is always sure to bring
luck, instead of sitting down and signing for
the money, learned the trade of machinist and
engineer, and was working faithfully when the
suit was decided in his favor.
The Smyrna correspondent of the Levant
Herald, writing on the 25th ultimo, says:
Some particulars have at last come to hand
regarding the late earthquakes in the district
of Ishikli. 1t appears that hardly fifty houses
are left standing in the whole district At
Zivrl. a village of some 1000 inhabitants, and
noted for industry, not a house escaped, and
nearly 500 bodies were dug out Of the ruins. In
the town of Ishikli several hundred persons
persisted, and out of above a thousand build
ings only fifteen houses and two mosques are
left.
Mr.. Beecher wrote recently to lecture COM
mlttee in Brattleboro, explaining why he could
not go there to deliver a lecture they had been
waiting to hear since last fall. He said asking
him to go there was like "sending for a man
shut up in foreign dungeon, and wondering
that he does not Gomez For six months [ have
been sitting iuthe court almost daily, nor do L
know when the detention will end. And even
were it to close tomorrow / am in no case to
go forth lecturing. That is for the present
out of the question. One thing is certain,
have not been six months in court here because
l liked it and wanted to get rid of a lecture at
Brattleboro.''
A few days ago. on his SEVENTEEN birthday,
Samuel Holcraft of Dickinson, Iowa, decided
to ride for the first time in his life on a rail-
road. He had lived within eight miles of a
station on the Burlington line, but had never
before felt like taking the risk He sent to the
superintendent of the division, asking which
was the safest train, and was mischievously
advised to take one that ran the fastest of any.
On the appointed day Mr.. Hocraft was escort
ed to the station by band of music and pro-
cession of villagers in grotesque costumes. His
excursion was unattended by accident, although
the nervous excitement made him ill after
wards