The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-10-30
News and Other Items.

MIS-. LlnCOln, WHO Is now III OpTluSHeiu,
takes short walks upon the street and seems to
be somewhat improved.
The annual meeting of the board of bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal church will be held
in Boston next week.
At the sale of Mr.. Alexander Collie's effects
1.-THE absconding bankrupt, his dining room
chairs brought $50 each, their prime cost bein e
G20O. They were ebony, lnlaid.
When young Mr.. Gladstone was married a
brother gave him an old silver kettle, sister
an old brass candlestick, and serv ant some
old spoons
Charles G. Fisher, son of the ex-district at
torney, has been indicted for extracting papers
from the files of the Supreme court of the dis
trict of Columbia.
At the Baltimore municipal election Thurs
day, the Democratic majority was reduced
$1,000, fact regarded as settling the state cleo
ton next month in favor of the reform ticket.
There was a curious scene in the U. S. Su-
preme Court upon the delivery of an opinion
Thursday. Eight justices coucurred and one,
Justice Bradley, dissented with the remark
81 dissent and do not see how any one with
common sense could do otherwise
Mr.. John Mackey. who is the head of the
famous California firm of Flood & O'Brien,
and who receives three-ffths of the profits,
was ten years ago a mining laborer in Virginia
City. His income at present is $85O,000 Per
month, or more than $4,000, 900 per annum.
A Frenchman named Patrian, who styles
himself contractor for public lighting" has a
factory and warehouse for the making and SELL
ing of oxygen, which is kept stored in metallic
reservoirs under heavy pressure, and deliver
ed to customers for such purposes as the
lighting of theatres and dining-halls, blow-pipe
use, inhalation and ventilation, and air baths.
At the Hampton county Congregational con-
ference in Springfield on Tuesday, resolution
demanding strict observance of the Sabbath
at the centennial exhibition was called up by
the Rev. Mr. Hawley of Westfeld, who said
that letter just received from his son, Gen.
J, R. Hawley, declared that the centennial
buildings would not be opened on Sunday.
The new Constitution of Alabama provides
that all banks organized in that state must
have specie basis, and all their notes must be
redeemed in silver or gold. Suspension of spe-
Gle payments is forbidden, and bank charters
are granted only for twenty years. The loaning
of the state or municipal credit to individu ais
or corporations is prohibited.
Contributions of ancient articles to be used at
the centennial reception of the Brooklyn, L l.,
maternity, are being received from different
parts of the country. One of the relics is a
bean pot which is said to have been brought
over in the Mayfower; another is a large
porcelain punch-bow which was presented to
Colonel Benjamin. Ayre by General Washing
ton for meritorious services as aide-de camp at
the battle of Princeton.
A fresh batch of $50 recruits for Mormondom
came over on the steamer Dakota, which ar
rived at New York Wednesday, and were at
once started westward BY the agents of Brig.
ham Yong. The party consists of English,
Scotch, Welsh, Germans and Scandinavians
and are remarkably well-to-do and respecta-
BILE looking set of people. The money for their
passage had been sent over principally by their
friends in Salt Lake City. They will make
over $4,000 Mormons who have been forwarded
out to Utah from the port of New York in the
last twelve years.
The attorney general is entirely satisfied
the Supreme Court will decide the interest
case against the Union Pacific Railroad, in
which event the company will be compelled to
leave all the money due for transportation In
the treasury. But the government will then
proceed 70 enforce the payment of the whole
amount OF interest on the second mortgage
bonds. This will be blow to the road, if it
comes, but it is said that Jay Gould will at
tempt to hold up the stock in any event.
Whether he can stand up against decision of
the Supreme Court is a question which excites
much interest in New York. Many holders of
the stock and bonds are beginning to inquire
anxiously for opinions concerning the result in
such case.